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Installing arch with the arch install script is the hardest step, but it’s quite managable if you’ve got decent computer literacy, but no linux knowledge (and it becomes a trivial step if you use an arch based distro that uses calamares).

And once you’re up and running, it’s easy.

As I said, that’s how I started with linux a few years back, and I came in to it with no linux knowledge. I moved from Arch to CachyOS at some point, but Arch was easy enough. I can speak to this scenario from first hand experience!

I started with arch and moved to cachy a few years back. You don’t need Linux experience, just computer literacy.

When I first heard about them, I thought they sounded useful. I’m a photographer, and one of the challenges is not always having a camera handy when you need it, so the idea of a readily available camera for taking photos of birds, sunsets, landscapes etc, and the ability to use them as ear phones etc sounded kinda neat. I spoke to some vision impaired folk at my local parkrun who use them to help identify what they’re looking at, or read things they can’t read etc. This was in the early days, when I was still a bit naive about where they would go. To me, they sounded like nifty technology.

And then Meta cranked up the creepy spy factor, and people started doing really creepy things with them.

It shouldn’t have surprised me, but it did…

I have bradycardia too. Mine is exercise induced. I used to be a sub elite runner, and my heart grew larger/stronger from running a lot. As a result of that, it pumps more blood per beat, and thus, beats slower for the same effect.

To me, bradycardia doesn’t feel like anything, because it’s not noticeably different from when I didn’t have it.

Bradycardia is not always that

I feel like I recognise maybe 80% of the posters I see…