friendship at full attack power

linux isn't harder you were just taught to use windows (windows is actually way more complicated once you know both. source I do)

linux has graphical applications for settings and installing stuff and whatever, you don't need to input commands if you don't want to

inputting commands isn't "coding" you just copy and paste 4 words that mean "run as administrator and install [program]"

and if you really do use a program that doesn't have a linux version or wine looks too complicated, that's okay!! just instead of going "NEVER!!" and playing into the Microsoft propaganda, considering saying:

I wish more developers would make their programs compatible with linux

Linux looks really cool, I'm just stuck because of [program] at the moment

fuck you Nvidia for making this harder than it needs to be

Woah that girl is really pretty

I wish that were me 😵‍💫

Systems of power have always relied on isolating people and turning them against each other. The current system we live under absolutely does not look out for or protect children, so it's absolutely critical that there be adults in reach that a child can trust outside their immediate family or authority structures. And it's just as critical that kids know how to find and connect with these people.

An 8 year old considered me her best friend after I met her at a toys 'r us when her mom slapped her, and i confronted her mom about it. I was the only person she talked to about the parental abuse for a while until she felt confident enough to tell others. I gave her a copy of my house key in case she ever needed it. (she hasn't. Her dad's in prison now and her mom is . . . better enough that she's forgiven her)

I run TTRPGs and regularly make friends that way. Some of them are 80, some of them are 12, we all bond over being omnipotent magical frogs for a while.

I'm a known eccentric at my local nerd conventions. I've checked in on younguns' who I notice are seeming overwhelmed, or are sitting by themselves away from their friends, and sometimes they tell me all their life troubles and about their depression or anxiety or whatnot and I'm able to give them my perspective . . . which is helpful sometimes.

I run a YouTube channel reaching people how to make custom content for a specific videogame series, and most of the people I interact with there are teenagers, (they have the most free time to do such things).

I bike everywhere, and I'm often seen repairing my bike on the sidewalk outside my apartment, so the neighbourhood kids will often cluster around me getting me to fix or tweak their bikes for them.

I've known my friends' son since he was born, and I've tutored him in math from grade 1 to 3rd year university. He joined my fencing club for a while, he's been in and out of my boardgames groups.

My friend's daughter is the weirdest little gothic drama queen autistic 13 year old, and we hang out and watch anime together. I show her classics like cowboy Bebop and talk about the influences they've hard on anime since then, and she shows me recent stuff like Frieren and we get to discuss how awareness and familiarity of fantasy tropes has evolved to allow such storylines.

Like, there's nothing predatory about generation-gap friendships, (and the weird thing about them is only that it's less likely to happen so it sticks out), and ergo a best friendship isn't predatory either.

I can't imagine refusing to bond with or help someone over age. I can imagine not liking someone because they're a horrible brat, but that's age-independant. I don't generally enjoy being around kids, and they tend to remind me of my childhood traumas and trigger me by being kids. But like, that's not a them problem.

Tempted to actually put this on spotify so I can secretly stream it at work...