the US healthcare system.

There is one?

https://pairdrop.net/

For a moment i was confused about the Wolf Enstein typo… now i feel old.

Give Tuta a look while you’re at it, it’s been serving me well.
Too bad they don’t have an .onion site like proton does.

At the moment i’m getting mount error(13): Permission denied at the new vm (where i was attempting to mount).
dmesg has

[ 9254.003440] CIFS: Attempting to mount \\10.10.10.10\dir\\dir2
[ 9254.181314] CIFS: Status code returned 0xc000006d STATUS_LOGON_FAILURE
[ 9254.181333] CIFS: VFS: \\10.10.10.10 Send error in SessSetup = -13
[ 9254.181367] CIFS: VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -13

Attempting to ls the share in the other vm where it was previously working yields Host is down.
(Everyone else can access the share just fine.)

instead of taking responsibility

This is why, they prefer to shift the blame in case it hits the fan. That’s all, that’s it.
They don’t care about code quality, maintainability or whatever.

From my searching around for something similar, these showed up the most: TinyCore, Puppy, Porteus, Absolute, antiX (there’s more).

SP3

As long as mutable distros remain an option

Precisely this, linux is about choice. It’s not like suddenly most distros would change init systems and make it near impossible to choose… oh, wait…
I prefer mutable and see immutable mostly as lazyness but if people wanna use’em go for it, i’m not pushing mutable down their throats.

The blog part: create an .onion or .i2p site. Or create a site elsewhere but always do any related tasks through Tor at the very least (including account creation and email usage).
Not so sure about the mailing list part.

Have you checked it the banks in your country offer virtual credit cards? Secure, albeit not private (but neither are Revolut or N26).

Aren’t there XMR-based gift cards?

1. to do things the way i feel is correct and complete
2. to do things the way management wants

iintrovert who learns to overcome their shyness

I tend to distinguish between the two.
Shy: someone who fears social interactions.
Introvert: someone who doesn’t need (as much) social interactions, but doesn’t fear them.

Masochism.

Edit after reading all that: i like computers in general and to program, been doing it since high-school. I just like it, maybe it’s the puzzle solving or that warm fuzzy feeling of finally solving a bug (and closing 3214 tabs in the browser). It’s also fun to see your software in use in real life by the “common people” (i work with POS software) and being able to point and say I did that. (without actually doing so for fear of stoning).

As for the social aspect: there is good software, you’re on lemmy, checkout other fediverse networks like mastodon or pixelfed, they’re all way friendlier than commercial socia… i’ll stop the pitch, i assume you know this by now. Most FOSS software tends to be “good” as well.

As for everything else i’m not a therapist and don’t know you so i won’t even try.

Some CD trays will auto-close though.

For yet another account i use a password manager and an email address i only use for crap. It’s a one time process.
If that’s too much for you then perhaps you’re not that interested in contributing to <project>?

I don’t get why devs refuse to work on things outside github.

Herd mentality, it affects devs too.

Lemmy’s text-oriented, i’m not gonna bother with a video… on youtube of all places. </rant>.

That’s M$ doing their EEE-dance as usual. Actions is pretty egregious, my company’s decided that All must be in the cloud™, even CI/CD, so Actions it is… Soon enough, bit by bit, a lot will depend on GitHub’s functionality and there you have it, full circle, it’ll be a pain to move elsewhere. Or do you still think all GitHub is is a git front-end?