I think the devil is in the details…

I have a couple who were close friends, they separated and initially we tried hard to support him as it seem he would have continued the marriage but she was the one moving away from it. Our thought process at the time was “she has something to look forward to, he seems to feel left behind”

We did not treat her badly or anything but did basically cater to his every need, providing as much support as we could.

Then, once the initial shock was over, he started attacking her in every possible way. And on top of that, he started shunning our every invite under the pretext “he didn’t want to accidentally run into her” which was complete BS as we did not regularly hung out with her.

Finally, she was so broke after years of court battles that she opened a go fund me campaign and we donated some money. Well well well, this friend who had all but shunned us suddenly calls me raging that I am helping her and by doing so undermining his righteous effort to take vengeance on her.

All of this to reiterate that the devil is in the details… were these friends actual friends of yours before the divorce? did you concern yourself with their needs back then? have you been an asshole to them before, during or after the divorce? There is a real chance these were not great people to begin with, but I find it hard to believe that all your true friends decided to just ghost you for no reason whatsoever

op said first edition, not signed

10% FPS gain, huge battery savings AND costing $130 less… that is massive

Improved in every category for the games tested, most results in 2 digit improvement while costing $130 less… that’s massive by almost any angle you can frame it…

that’s amazing! we currently keep ours indoors but i have plans for a catio

you’d need a very special backyard to fence a cat in

fun story: we were on vacation and discussing to get another cat when our cat sitter called to ask us why we did not tell her we had a new cat (she was worried she was not leaving enough food)

We had no idea what she was talking about… turns out kiki learnt to open a window my wife closed but did not lock and voila, Akira came through the window and chose to stay

This is her, the day she chose our home for herself

Her servants (us) are cleaning it after her latest horse shoe flight

Akira

Kiki

Vin

when you code an actual AI like Jarvis, it’s ok to vibe code with it for the rest of your days

This group and examples like this heve convinced me I probably, certainly, have adhd

Climate Town

Logseq

Amen, halleluya, peanut butter

it’s terrible

There isn’t any… you must provide the meaning to your life on your own

Enjoy it

I don’t disagree with the premise. I may disagree encrypted hard drive by default a sensible choice

such a “hack” would only work in a poorly written tv show

an unencrypted drive is like being able to look into a bank though a window, not ideal but things of value could/should/would still be in a safe or somewhere else completely

Almost no Linux distro has disk encryption turned on by default (PopOS being the major exception).

it’s usually an option in the guided disk partition

If an unencrypted computer is now unacceptable on Android, then it should be on Linux too. No excuses.

Linux is about choice, not whatever someone else thinks it’s acceptable

a bit harsh ig.

Likely, sorry about that

Maybe a better formed argument is that getting into a marriage legally is way too easy compared to the legal process of leaving one.

This is a completely different point than your original one though. And, while somewhat true, the countries that have strong marriage protections will not save you from a separation even if there is no marriage (more on this below)

The part about being in a hospital, only applies if the partner is not conscious

Or impaired in multiple other ways… but yes, the not conscious part if key because you could be in a medically induced comma to spare you the pain and someone may need to advocate for you in case a decision needs to be made. If you just had minor issues, there would be no problem but we are fending off the worst scenarios, no need for legal protection for minor stuff

Some other counties have another method for this where if you’ve simply lived together long enough those sorts of protections exist.

Correct and those same laws are the ones that basically have you automatically declared “common law” (or whatever preferred term) which makes a separation almost as hard as a divorce (coming back to point 2 above)

Is it a valid reason for legally formalizing your marriage? That’s up to you and your partner to decide.

At the end of the day, yes of course it is for the couple to decide… I just want to make it clear that you do not normally get the same level of protection by just having a will or a power of attorney (or it would be actually worse in those cases) and that people should consider this WAY more than “I don’t need a paper to say I love someone”, that is not what legal marriage is about