Depending on how cynical you are, you can always bring anything back to politics, and it’s hard to find something exclusively “conservative”, but I would say adult sports leagues like softball.

Important distinction between “working” and “having a job”. You do a job for someone else. You should always be working for yourself. Labor for ones own ends in enjoyable. Labor for someone else is a means to an end. Recognize it is something to balance and balance it the best you can for the life you want to have.

It’s wild how much colder it gets

If you have to ask, you can’t afford it

Correct 🤣

Thank you for reminding me of the name of the fork

“Is there anything I can help you with?” “I’m just window shopping”

Boutique. Designer. Choice. Select. Prime

What if you do the reverse?

Have passed proof of concept lets say

Well that escalated

Yea that’s basically what I did. I wouldn’t call it Distro Hopping with a capital D H.

That was the original plan, but I also wanted to install virtualbox and get a better feel of the UX top to bottom

How do you handle the inevitable “Why do I use this one and you use that one”. Other than sit down noob. You’ll earn it one day.

That’s a good point. I’m asking because I’m visiting my sister next week. I’ll be installing and demoing it myself, and she’s a windows power user, so I have flexibility. All that given, I wanted to set her up on something she’d “enjoy using”. Hence the distrohopping.

Scientific linux was my first distro!

Won’t make any difference if you are still on windows

Ha. You are thinking of running games locally? Cute.

Get something on your phones to record conversations. Don’t delete your voicemail

Gossip is unavoidable. Humans are social critters. Be nice, friendly, and helpful to others and that is what they will talk about.

Related. Avoid being one of those “there’s no point to small talk” people. There’s a very good point. It’s to figure out who’s an asshole. You can come across as too important for other people if you don’t chit chat about the weather. I’m not saying it’s the way it should be or that it makes sense. It’s just the way things are.

There’s also nothing wrong with talking about people when they aren’t present. What you shouldn’t do is spread rumors or create drama. Saying you heard someone is going sailing on vacation to someone else. That is completely innocuous. Saying they are married and going with their former spouse is creating drama.

To me, staying below the radar is one part playing by those rules, and another part just being kind of boring. Seldom do I hear gossip about myself nor do I have anything to say about anyone else other than small talk. Hope that helps