If not connected to the internet, no problems.

If connected to the internet, there will probably not be any problems for a little while. A couple months, maybe a year— but at some point, someone will inevitably find a security flaw that impacts the way you use the computer. Maybe a flaw that allows an advertisement you find on a website to infect you. But maybe a flaw that will enable anyone hunting for computers online to exploit, in which case just being connected to the net will be enough to get infected.

At this point, your computer will simultaneously be part of someone’s bot net, mining for cryptocurrency on someone else’s behalf, rented out for processing farms, and so on and so forth. You might also get hit with advertising Trojans and scriptkiddie shit, but it’s far more likely that the stuff they’ll infect you with will just syphon your processing power for their own purposes.

Found and fully fund an activist think tank aimed exclusively at moving the Overton window left.

I wanted to love bastion so much, but I’ve found I hate twin-stick— or rather, keyboard to move mouse to target in a third person action game controls too much and it just gets in the way. For third person, I just want keyboard only, and target where I’m facing.

The semi-emotionless, or at least restrained emotional delivery of the lines always hit me really hard. They never screamed, never cried, but the matter of fact way they said Kharak was burning, and how you needed to hunt down the perpetrators… it was chilling. The emotion was somehow bleached out of the voices, yet so, so, so powerfully deep and present nonetheless… I don’t know how they managed it, but it was incredible.

‘sup fellow ptsd person. My psychologist explained that ptsd comes from an extended period of time where you believe, actually believe not and just muse about abstractly, that you are going to die or an equivalent level of terror. I have little doubt you could get ptsd from it. It’s the end of your life as you know it, even if not literally the end of your life.

If you haven’t/aren’t already, I strongly suggest finding a therapist trained and specializing expressly in ptsd management. I had some therapists that were a bit more generally trained, and they… did not really help. The specialist untangled multiple of my triggers, and let me live my life again— there’s still some left, but I had to move away and I haven’t found another specialist left. If only ptsd was the sort of thing that went away over time (it doesn’t). And definitely, definitely run (don’t walk) away from anyone suggesting anything remotely resembling talk therapy. Talking about your ptsd can literally make it worse, and reprogramming triggers can be as complicated and delicate as defusing a bomb.

For those not aware, avoid lemmy.ml because it’s a tankie run and enforced echo chamber, where Russia, China, and North Korea can do no wrong, and saying otherwise is banned as “hate speech”.