• NaibofTabr@infosec.pub
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    5 months ago

    Yes! then you can have other mental health problems to distract from your existing ones.

    For best results, try Gentoo.

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    5 months ago

    Can’t focus on mental problems if you’re too busy reinstalling arch.

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    In all fairness my mental health IS better since I’ve moved to Linux.

    Turns out constant ads, AI crap I can’t disable, the feeling of being spied on and other corporate tech-bro soul-sucking shenanigans is not great for one’s mental health.

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      Funny enough my mental health has been improved by watching Star Trek. Whenever I notice myself doomscrolling at home I’ve started watching it instead. It’s something I’d always meant to watch and I’m enjoying the concept of people trying to live up to higher ideals

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        More people should figure this out. Star Trek is essential to a healthy media diet.

        I also recommend a regular dose of stand-up comedy.

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      I think you just described why being on social media is bad for our mental health. Or most of the internet now really. I’ve never had ads or AI shit in the tens of thousands of Windows deployments I’ve had to push out at companies. I also don’t have them on my families personal machines.

      It’s a bad move by Microsoft to include that shit… But it isn’t them that got my mental health this way. They are just falling into the well if everyone is shanking public mental health and making money off it … I guess we have to as well otherwise our shareholders quite literally will sue us for not attempting to make them more money at every stage all of the time reguardless of the harm it could cause.

      Turns out capitalism might not be good for our mental health…

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      I feel you’re vastly overstating how bad Windows is, to be honest.

      Although I am still running 10.

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        Yeah fr I’ve been on windows 10 for years. It works fine. I don’t have ai or ads everywhere.

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    It encourages self-reliance and fosters a sense of control. Sure everything in our lives is increasingly forced on us by corporations run by out of touch narcissists, but there’s at least one way we still can have control of our own.

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    You jest but using Linux did actually alleviate some mental health problems

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      There’s a fine line between liking something, and obsessing over it to the point you’re evangelizing strangers against their wishes.

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    You don’t have tine worrying about mental health problems when you are installing linux from scratch btw!

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      I’m sorry you must of meant GNU/Linux. Linux is just the kernel, while gnu is the operating system. I hope you’re using more than just linux 👻

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        Pffh … Amateur assuming I’m using userspace tools while I input systemcalls directly.