Making a fool of myself on purpose and laughing along. Karaoke bars, stand-up comedy open mic nights, improv theater.

It helps you see that people can’t really see behind each other’s “mask” all that well. All confidence is made up, so play along and it just sort of materializes.

Another way to do that is to try and become fluent in a new language. You build a different persona for each language you use, so might as well become confident in the new one on purpose.

BackTrack 5 because I was too poor to pay for my own Wi-Fi back then, so I had to become creative heheh

Bald Eagle for national bird, but honorary mention for the red-tailed hawk, which is the sound people mistakenly associate it with

Oh man, UT2004 was my fave arena death match back in the day, so much fun. Hope they release more!

Greece here, we invite people to our homes all the time, even if we don’t know them very well.

Mainly Kali for my needs, completely hassle-free on VMware but any ARM version should work.

Want me to try a particular distro as a test?

I dunno if that counts, but I was given a Macbook Air M2 from work that I didn’t need and I’ve been happily running macOs on it for simple daily use.

Whenever the situation requires Linux I fire up one of 3 distros I have as a VM and they work like a charm. I pass-through one of the USB ports to the VM and it’s basically an M1 with Linux at that point in terms of performance (well not really, but it’s very smooth, no complaints).

Might wanna go that route instead, just run macOs natively and your favorite distro as a VM.

One way to do it is for each company to develop their own flavor to ship with their laptop, in much the same way phone manufacturers just modify Android and ship it.

As an example, check out System76 and their laptops featuring their Pop!_OS distro, which is very user friendly and stable in my experience.

Hello my friends, my name is Amram Eimnan and today we learn how to defeat missiles

Am sysadmin, can confirm I don’t wanna learn it.

Am Greek. Used to think it said Φisneφ.