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  • Nyanix@lemmy.catoMemes@lemmy.mlAlready feels like this sometimes
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    2 months ago

    ngl, I don’t comment nearly as often anymore out of concern for anything I say to be misconstrued, argued, or wanting verification like this meme. Ya’ll, I’ve got a job and a life, I can’t/don’t want to sit here and fight people. The worst gets assumed of anything and it gets difficult to have productive, much less positive discourse online.



  • Nyanix@lemmy.catoAsklemmy@lemmy.mllinux or windows?
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    2 months ago

    I fully expected someone to respond like this, but here’s the thing…
    My wife and I moved over to Manjaro when it was the hot new thing and we were new to Linux. She stays on LTS and only updates a couple times a year - and thusly have had no issues at all with it. I’m not about to demand that she let me re-image her computer and undo all of her customizations just because the internet hates Manjaro.

    Simple fact is that she’s on Linux and I’m proud of her for being willing to take that step.
    I named several other distros including the very ones that you man-splaned to me, don’t get hung up on the one ;)












  • I work for one of the largest healthcare providers in the US. I pay $450/mo for health insurance. This is not including vision, dental, or money I set aside for FSA (a pre-tax savings account restricted for use for paying for healthcare) and for and HRA (similar to FSA, but intended for when you’re older, and our company partially matches our contributions). The FSA has been refusing to pay for legitimate doctor visits that insurance has sanctioned. I pay out of pocket for a lot of procedures that the insurance ducks, such as laser eye surgery, vasectomy or even for birth control pills prior to the vasectomy.

    The laser eye surgery was ~$5,000 out of pocket, the vasectomy was ~$2,000.

    I had a visit to the ER - I was driven by my partner to avoid ambulance costs, and with insurance, had to pay $450 only for the doctors to stay they couldn’t figure out what was wrong and I end back up there later that week for another $450.

    I was in a car crash a few years ago and my medical costs (again, with insurance) came out to ~$250,000.

    This is while making $85,000/yr working as a Senior IT Engineer, and paying $2,700/mo for rent.

    Generally speaking, with insurance, we’re probably paying about twice as much for any given situation, but insurance itself is also expensive and likes to dodge paying for as much as possible.