I am grateful that you and others took the time to respond. I fear that even these really simple answers are still beyond my understanding. It’s good to know there are people that build pcs on commission, i guess i probably knew that was an option.

Anyway, it’s all beyond me knowledge and finance wise at the moment, but I will save your response. I want to de-google and de-microsoft for the same reason I de-reddited. Not cuz it really matters to my life, but because idk i think it matters to the world and even if I’m just one small drop in the bucket, enough of us are a tidal wave.

Hope you’re having a peaceful day xx

ETA: I foster cats and grow weed too, let’s go get ice cream be best friends

Nicole never messaged me and I miss the ol’ switcharoo and beetlejuicing and r/catsstandingup :,(

I left reddit during the api drama last year (more than a year?). I did it on principle. The content on lemmy is not comparable to the niche communities on reddit. Yeah, Steve Huffman is a little pissbaby or whatever the current meme is. But lemmy doesn’t have the art communities or the weird goofy shit that reddit did, and as a chronically online loser, my life is a little emptier without it. And I know how stupid and unimportant that is, which is why I’m here and not there.

Plus the porn on lemmy is just like… so disappointing and sparse.

Unrelated- I’m ready to switch to Linux, but do I really have to learn what a distro is and how to build my own PC? Can’t I just buy a Linux PC ready to go? Please?

Samsies

The movie was forgettable and not that special. Going to the IMAX with my uncle and three cousins and watching our first ever (and only ever) 3d movie together and squealing the whole 3 hour car ride home about how much fun we had as a family is one of my best memories.