Counter argument, every year is the year of the linux desktop because its a good meme to share our enthusiasm for the platform.

Also any year that someone switches their main desktop to linux is the year of the linux desktop for them personally.

It doesn’t have to mean anything beyond it, there is no failure condition or something to chase.

Navidrome❤️

It is so undervalued for how amazing streaming your own music collection is.

Spoken like someone who doesn’t visit public spaces.

To answer the question directly:

Yes, so common its a textbook level stereotype.

But i am willing to argue what it really is, because as i have come to realise a definite line between child and adult hood does not actually exist.

As people grow older social life becomes more complex and how hou are perceived plays a big role. People are thought that acting grown up is good and are belittled for acting childish.

Teens eventually distance themselves from their childhood as an attempt to seem more mature to their peers. Even if they secretly really stil love that thing.

Autists often lack the luxury to do this, your same aged peers have seen through your young mask time and time before, they know your different you are already an outsider.

Because you don’t have a high social standing that you can lose on a whim it matters less if people continue to see you “being weird” and you found you really like those things… in a world where there are many things you don’t.

But its not that autism directly makes you like things we deem childish, its that we are more honest about what we like, and society is following us here. Just have a look at all the Pokémon and Hogwarts stuff for adults. Spongebobmemes.

Adults who play is decreasingly no longer a taboo and the stereotype will fall.

But there is also the related stereotype of having friends outside your age group. Basically for those people it’s easier to mask.

Younger kids see a cool older kid that isn’t belittling them for being kids and even plays with them. You’re the coolest person in the world for them if you do that.

Older people just see a young inexperienced someone all the way while being experienced enough to be less judgmental and more practical socially. They have no need or desire to be rude at you because you are not competing for a social standing like teens are in school.

The problem with this is actually not AI its the lack of respect on the human part.

If you don’t want to have a conversation there are much friendlier ways to express this.

I am an introvert but have often employed the trick of asking about something you already know just to break the ice. (And stay within a comfortable topic)

Does anyone know a source to self host this localy? Seems like an amazing project.

ADD and autism are one stone trow removed from each other most people that have one have a little of both.

From a neurodivergent perspective they are all the same bigger spectrum that includes dyslexia, cdc, ocd…

I think its very likely your mom is overworked partly because she is also juggling her own challenges between it all.

You didn’t mention a lot of details about your dad but same kinds stick togetger so i am highly suspecting there is no one in your family that isn’t or wasn’t a “special kid”

NTA

You said you feel like this is your fault, but really how would it be. You are just a kid trying to make sense of your life and survive.

And so is your sister.

Your mother sounds overworked and ridden with self doubt. But what i am missing here is some general knowledge about autism.

It seems your treated as different, “the special one” but autistic reality is that were all just different combinations of individual brain modules.

Do those modules mostly work like most other people, you’re neurotypical. Do they work differently you’re neurodivergent.

But you don’t develop autistic brain-functions out of nowhere. Parts are almost certainly inherited. You might have a mix that enhances some aspects but i can guarantee you’re are in a family of neurodivergent. Unofficially but helpful you may privately consider your family members to be “different kind of autistic” rather then “normal” incl your mom.

Your mom panicking about your sister is a big tell, she seemed spooked. It is possible your sister is going trough depression, which may be a side effect of underlying neurodivergence which she might need help for.

Your parents would need to break the stigma and treat both you and your sister as equals who can grow themselves with each their own proficiencies and challenges and needs.

This probably means trusting you with some more independence, and allowing your sister to express that she needs extra care. A possible angle to suggest something is a dokter once told Me “What works for autistic people often works for everyone” you don’t have to discuss wether or not they are autistic (people get really upset if you do that) but you can affirm that she needs some of the care that they give you, while you want the space to grow to not need it anymore.

Good luck!

Our upbringing leaves huge impressions on us that help us shape who we become, but a prison implies a freedom you are kept away from.

If we had no upbringing whatsoever (how would that look like?) would we have more potential?

Even if we could engineer the perfect adult body to be born as, would we retain our reality of unique individual lives or would we all become the same flavour of person?, limiting the range of what humans combined can experience (highs and lows).

I’d argue the restrictive prison is individual life itself, you can never become someone else that exists or experience things as different species. You can only really experience your own perspective of lived experiences.

The people around you are modifiers they may enable you, hinder you but others are never and never have been in charge of your person, regardless of how much they/parents may pretend to be.

Wrong community but i want to give this a fair assessment because of how many don’t want to unity against the rich thinking they are it and would have to live with less.

This scenario is not ruling class.

Summarised its wealthy business owner that owns plural properties.

This can be considered high end middle class. And is a good example of how little most people really have. The Middle class that most people believe they belong to is basically just business owners nowadays, almost everyone who is “employee” and not owner is lower class.

The actual rich, 1% upper class which will look at this family and person as dirt.

The 1% upper class does not just stay in a 5 star hotel as if it was note worthy expense. Their accommodations are simply arranged and provided.

They’d laugh at “owns a resort” because thats just a single asset to put on their portfolio of ownerships.

They don’t consider whether or not something is egypt because they are free to fly wherever they want.

The rich will swallow this wealthy person and family whole if their greed finds them.

Somewhere down the line.

The product became a lure.

The customer became the product.

The economy became its own customer.

To be more technical correct, all ideals go out of the window the moment a shareholder pushes a little.

Apple has been one of the wealthiest countries for years, they don’t need money, they can’t be doing this just for money.

They are doing it, to get more money yes, but only in order to make the angle of a line go up so they can sell a comfortable illusion to the people keeping them in charge of the available unimaginable mass of wealth already there.

As someone who loves science.

I am so glad i decided to pursue video game development as higher education rather then a scientific field.

Granted the illusions in games are gone, every game is now a dull collection of mechanics and The gap between what modern games are snd how i know they could be is depressingly vast.

But at least i can still enjoy hour long deep dives into quantum mechanics and golden ratio. Definitely a good tradeoff.

And cyberpunk is not supposed to be an inspiration.

I would love to see a documentary about this at some point.

I feel like Disney is generally known to fit the “big evil corporation” stereotype, but surely this wasn’t always the case.

When did perception change? What where the first big fuckups?

For tv shows and movies:

Older content is rapidly disappearing/getting less accessible. Especially non english content. Shout out to do your part in legally archiving digital media from public libraries.

At the same time new media is pushed build on Existing mega franchises, everything is the same format with the same formula with no higher goal then the profit-margin.

online: is a different story because google owns it. They decide how youtube presents content to users, what do’s and don’ts get punished or get you recommended more.

Again no goal higher then the profit margin,1 ad for a 30 minute video is not as efficient as 1 every so many shorts. And because shorts are more random and your just consuming the flos its harder to tell the ads apart.

Because shorts are optimised on phone, google also rules how 50% of people use their phone it pushes more people to this more exploitative and less ad blockade device.

Good content still exists, its just a lot harder to find because promoting it is less profitable.

Their is a word for this kind of things falling apart to chase profit. Its enshitification.

Plot twist:

His wife is invited to the same party.

He did not tell her about the sweater beforehand.

Their kink is public sex.

They got found doing the dirty in the kitchen and THAT is why they are no longer invited to parties.

This administrations brand is to sell government work (or non work) for personal favours and there literally accepting “exposure” as payment to signal how normalised they made it.

If you are a big enough name they don’t care how petty the bribe is. As long as it shows the world that they are open for this kind off business.

Every bribe, no matter how small is pure profit if you never owned what you’re selling.

I have done research into what product i should buy three times and i am still not sure enough to answer this. That says enough about how confusing the modern tech market is.

They are definitly proprietary and a competitor to LDAC from sony. Finding something that supports both sennheiser and sony headsets without being overpriced is a nightmare.