Sadly you’d probably just be playing a game of state leapfrog. My usefulness in-state is limited to a passing knowledge of social services that are unique to Washington. Most of my friends are young and either living at-home or in shared apartments/dorms, and I live in a 200sq/ft studio in the middle of ✨ nowhere ✨, so I’m pretty unhelpful housing-wise. Though Washington is probably one of the best places in the world especially if you’re trans and I will fight to the death for this claim.

As someone who’s basically lived one calamity to the next recently (even after daring think I had found some form of stability on several occasions), I wish you the best. Things have somehow stayed afloat for me, and I’m confident the same will be said for you.

I’m sorry you’re going through that. I wish I had feelers in Minnesota, but sadly I’m on the other side of the country. I really hope you can find something. Also, does Minnesota have low-income phone programs? I believe there’s something of the sort here in Washington, but idk whether it’s a commonplace thing elsewhere.

Plus it has a decent web framework in Blazor. I’m not a developer by trade, but I’ve enjoyed it in the context of small, personal projects.

I haven’t followed your whole story, but I last remember you managed to find some safe lodging in MN. Is that not still true?

I came out to my mom, which went about as well as it could’ve given she has a terminal case of way too much Fox News. She’s now taking it upon herself to more-or-less concern troll about my mental health which is funny. I’m still hoping it’ll turn out well with her, but I’m prepared for the worst. 🤷

Well, campus was quite a ways from my parents, but my uncle dropped by with a battery bank that let me keep using my phone for a bit. I mostly switched between watching shows over data and walking around campus with friends. It sucked at the time, but in hindsight it was nice actually getting off my ass and hanging out with people outside.

We had a similar thing happen at my boarding school a ways back. 3+ days without power and not allowed to leave campus. Not fun!

Yep, we’ve been dealing with the !!FUN!! of the new licensing changes at work. My boss strongly doubts Broadcom will just stop honoring the perpetual licenses, as they’ve claimed they might. Although I agreed with him, I ended up convincing him to just get the stupid subscription. The joys of enterprise software plans. :D

Yay for a UPS! I need to get around to buying one for my NAS, as the power in my area is touch-and-go when the weather gets rough. Also, you’re on ESXi for a homelab? Is there some kind of personal use license that you can get for it, or are you shelling out cash for a regular business license?

This post made me realize my interest in homelab stuff isn’t particularly interesting lol. As for niche stuff, I like old Minecraft trivia despite not really being in love with the modern game anymore.

What’s your favorite car, and why is it the Volvo 242? (I’m partial to the earlier ones from the mid-late 70’s, but the early 80’s turbos are cool as well.)

I finished my new^2 NAS last week (for the most part). Everything has been gracefully moved over, and now I just need to tear the entire thing apart again so I can dremel out a PCI slot so it’ll fit a graphics card. I’m great at planning ahead. :D

I haven’t noticed much of an uptick per se, at least in the posts I’ve seen browsing all. There was a recent uptick in low-effort America bad posting out of certain communities, but I haven’t seen much in the way of red fascist bs.

That… might actually be smart. I really can also just do a better job of checking, since I only have to walk like 30 second to see inside the garage area where people drop stuff off.

Trouble is I live in the middle of nowhere so it’s rare for me to find local listings for stuff. I do have a thrift store conveniently located right next to me, but they seldom have furniture. :(

Granted, they do still have furniture on occasion, I just need to do a better job of looking for it!

And here I am with half of my stuff still in totes after half a year of living in my current place 😅 In my defense proper furniture costs money and I’m stuck paying for electrolysis until August

Congrats on finally getting on meds. I’m glad they’re already getting you going. :D

I talked about this later on in the other thread, but I came out to my sister (probably the one member of my family who isn’t completely deranged), and she was super accepting! We met up again the day after for Easter at my mom’s, and she gave me a bag with a bunch of her old clothes and some extra makeup stuff. 🥹

Shoot, that’s hardly an exaggeration - I was only recently able to deprecate the last of our Server 2003 instances, which was running a program originally designed for 2000 Server!

I work IT at a hospital here in the US. The key issue is compatibility. Most of our vendor software flat-out does not support Linux at all, either on the client or server side. Shit, half of it barely even works on modern versions of Windows.