Yeah, it was it. Why was it starting by default though? I don’t recall fiddlying with pipewire at all…

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Be safe, and good luck.

Thank you good stranger!

@HelixDab2@lemm.ee I don’t see your reply from my instance for some reason so I’ll reply this way.

Try to get asylum in a less awful country.

Easier said than done unfortunately.

BTW, just want to point out that the implicit assumption here is that OP is queer, and wants to fund a support group. But it’s also possible that OP is homophobic, and wants to find queer people in order to publicly out them.

This is a fair concern although I doubt bigots would ask here instead of e.g. Reddit.

Most people are on a local FB-like social media that’s extremely toxic. Also requires a phone number for registration… but I will think on it.

Someone actually recomended datapps to me to find queers so thank you for this warning. Though I would skip them anyway because they’re such a privacy nightmare.

what made you get out of that situation

A lot of help and support from people around me. Without them I would never be able to finish my college. And then overcoming my social awkwardness with a patient and caring person. Also gaining economic independence was huge for me.

I was kinda like your friend. There’s probably some obstacle that prevents her from working on herself. It’s easy with depression/anxiety to just blame yourself while ignoring obvious external reason.

Reminds me of this

Experience doesn’t matter because if you’re inexperienced you have to go outside your Comfort zone, if you’re experienced you got there because you like going outside your comfort zone and you will constantly stay in that state.

I was experimenting a lot during my early Linux months but then I found what works for me and settled with it. I don’t leave my comfort zone much anymore.

there is far less malware on Linux

That’s a common misconception. Linux is the most popular OS for servers. There are a lot of malware for Linux, probably even more than for Windows.