I’m on my last semester of IT and, barring Lockdown Browser, I’ve done it in Fedora. Dual boot for that gawd-awful Lockdown Browser. That said, Libre doesn’t play super nice with all the MS stuff I need to do, so it can be hair-pulling at times. But, well, MS can bite me. I wish that every PC that gets trashed because it’s not Windows 11 compatible got dumped on the front lawn of MS headquarters for them to deal with.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/cd407ae9-2199-4fc7-8a79-0c634d04510d.jpeg

This seems apt.

So, bad things happen, absolutely. Sometimes, they go in a run. I’ve had some epically shitty times in my life, and it just seems like they pile on. But… Things also change. I had an absolute nightmare job for 19 years. My Dad died. I got sick. I got laid off. I went back to school. It sucked, so bad! But then, I got an internship. It was awesome! I made friends. The reduced stress let me kick my illness. Now, I’m almost done school, and I have a really good chance of getting full time work at that internship. We’ll see. The point is, things go in cycles. It’s so cliche, but it’s true that it’s always darkest before dawn. Hang in, find your joy. It’ll change.

Me too. It’s the parasympathetic nervous system. You anticipate bleeding. Your body goes, “Bleeding is bad. Drop the blood pressure, that’ll stop the bleeding!” It worked! I see a needle in a medical setting, I’m out like a light. Dentists are fun.