Btw, I'm..

About your Crossfit addiction. The trifecta.

I'm a keto vegan CrossFit guy who uses arch. You wouldn't get it
- Keto vegan?
- Do you drive a jeep?

One must understand that the operating system that you use does NOT come up in normal everyday conversation. Nobody cares. If you mention this you're going to be looked at as the biggest dweeb in a 100 mile radius. Every pussy will dry up in the immediate vicinity. You will be forever shunned in social circles, and will likely never live it down.

So of course you mention Arch first!

I would have thought so. But you'd be surprised how often it can crop up. Somebody wears an old hat or shirt with a logo, or someone complains about a change at work or whatever.

It won't be often, but I've run into OS discussions maybe three times this year, and I'm fairly antisocial.

9/10 it's going to be someone bitching about win 11, and someone else saying "hey, south uses Linux something-or-other, go ask him." And then the conversation happens.

That other one time is usually tangential, where I'm talking about writing and the conversation moves to the programs used, which leads to questions about why I use libreoffice, and the fact that I use it on mint as part of explaining my setup.

Now, I don't use arch, nor do I usually bring it up outside of a few friends that have abandoned windows. But I have run into a few arch users here and there.
- What's that? I couldn't hear you over the sound of my wife's pussy drying up and she was just sitting next to me while I read that!
- Most people i talk to are also tech savvy but i haven't convinced them of linux yet so it comes up often
- It was just a joke :)
Every pussy will dry up in the immediate vicinity.

Does that include my own pussy too? That would be tragic 😔
- Would also like to know. I use Arch everyday and have never noticed any dryness 🤷🏻‍♀️ I talk to my spouse about Arch (he also uses Arch BTW) and can't say as I have experienced any changes at all. Almost as though my pussy has no fucks to give about what distro I use.
- No, for women, every man in the immediate radius will start sending you unsolicited dick pics. So I'm not sure if anything will actually change there...
Except when you mention you use NixOS to your crush who uses gentoo (true story)
- You know, I've always wanted to go through the Linux-From-Scratch tutorial...
i don't even have to mention it. I bought the pullover "i use [arch logo] btw" so people come up to me and insult me

I don't volunteer either piece of information, but sooner or later someone is going to overhear me ordering vegan food or see me opening my lunch and the dreaded conversation will have to happen. I wish people would just let me make my own food choices in private without making a big thing about it.

But they feel attacked. They want to continue living in blissful ignorance of how animals are treated or how bad it is for the environment. Same as windows users who don't want to be reminded what corporate cucks they are. Some even go so far as to become utter bootlickers (see also Elon Musk fanboys)
- I usually ask when someone eats any exotic cereals or processed (tofu, seitan) to 1 have something to talk about (I very much enjoy tofu and all uncommon cereals) 2 know their dietary restrictions to avoid offering them meat or taking care of that whenever there's an outing. You know, small talk.
What sucks is that you have to keep it for yourself, otherwise people will think negatively of you. Because for some reason caring about animals or the climate is cringe or something idk, like it's something to almost be embarrassed about. Which is doubly strange when animal abuse is often considered very bad by those very same people.

But I guess for many caring about other people in general is cringe as well, as long as they are sufficiently emotionally distanced, so ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ I just wish it wasn't, and that caring for others was the baseline more than anything else.
Yeah, the stereotype drives me nuts. Like, yes, food is a big part of day-to-day life and sometimes I need to explain when asked why I'm not eating if there's nothing for me at, say, a company event. I try to avoid it as much as possible and just say I'm not hungry.

Behold: I'm the archvegan!

So Arch first?
Got it!
I want that on a t-shirt! And I'm definitely going to steal it for my slack tagline.

Tell them your an Archvegan. That sounds cool.

Oh no.. The Arch Vegan is here! Run!

What kind of powers do they get?
- They block your bytes on FAT.

I'm currently using Gentoo. That means I should also grow my own food...

I'm Arch. Vegan btw

Same, but I use Garuda because I'm apparently a 14-year-old at heart.

What's the arch user equivalent of getting asked if a fish is an animal?

What's the vegan equivalent of getting asked if you use PC or Mac?

Vegan Arch user btw

Also people who use pc as a synonyme for windows. fuck those guys and guydedts.

PS. Macs are also PCs as PC describes the hardware and the usecase unrelated to the producer and the installed os.
@Floey @coja 1) isn’t that what Manjaro is? 2) do you still eat cheese and eggs?
Do you think Manjaro is Arch/an Arch derivative?

But you still eat fish, right?

That I'm doing crossfit ;)

That they should really give CrossFit a try

Easy: I'm Vegan, and by the way I use Arch.

But which comes first, vegan or arch?
- I guess the meme is “by the way, I use arch.”
  
  So because of that I’d say it should be second.
- that depends on whether you’re a vegan arch user or an arch vegan user
- Clearly vegan, in this case.

That I use Sync for Lemmy of course.

That's how you get to be an Archdruid

Start with something neutral, like crossfit

Their pronouns. Vegan/Arch

Vegan/Arch/Atheist/Crossfit

Have you ever tried CrossFit?

Nothing, someone will make this joke before they ever get a chance.

My CrossFit addiction

Let me tell you about Homestuck ...

What is this shit

A gen X joke that should have died already.
It’s Philosoraptor!

¿Por qué no los dos?

I lead with my devout atheism.

That you do CrossFit, obviously.

I'm a vegan btw that uses Nix btw

hiii same, wanna be friends? 👉👈

They also bike to work.

I'm an omnivore and use Debian btw

I only eat peanut butter sandwiches on white bread and I use windows 11

"Actually", I just arch vegans.

And what happens if they're a pilot as well???

Varch

What if they're a vegan arch user from Yorkshire?

They'd pick that up fine when you say "Ah use t'arch by t'way, annumavegan". :)

So actually I went to MIT

And what is, if this vegan arch user rides a fixie?

Vegan when eating, Arch Linuxing when computing, communist when sharing, capitalist when investing, ...

The list knows no end. Why not just say what's appropriate for each particular circumstance?

Why not just say what's appropriate for each particular circumstance? Because its vegans and arch users.

Varchen.

Archvegan

my name proboably

What if you are using VIM and Arch ...

I'm using Vim on Arch but I'm vegetarian, not vegan. Anyway, that would be my order.

Vegan certified Arch.

Well hang on, with all the furries that use and contribute to Arch I'm not sure it would pass certification as not using animal byproducts

Non-vegan Arch user here. Fun meme.

With that out of the way, I tell whichever one best suits the context at hand. Most cases it's neither.

And the first thing you did is telling you use Arch. Well done, fellow Arch user. tips hat

>tfw when you use android, debian, ubuntu, fedora, gentoo while (also) being a vegan

Visit the tower of the Arch Vegen and he will tell you

"BTW, I'm Archie."

I mean both are great in concept, but man are some folks insufferable to talk to regarding both. Ubuntu, part time vegetarian...

What does part time vegetarian mean? Either you go full vegan or you belong in the trash and the reason why earth is dying. Dont take veganism lightly and respect us for we are your savior and the beacon of light for humanity.
- Bacon of light? Seems kinda odd but if it tastes good who am I to judge

I hope this place grows quite a bit so all these boomer memes and you boomers get fucking shat on every time you post, and no one has to see this horrible, dated form of "comedy" anymore because you'll be too scared to post anymore.

I can't tell. Do you use Arch or are you a vegan.

My guess is Arch. I'm confident it's not CrossFit
- "You must be poor if you think poor people shouldn't be poor." - very smart ~~Redditor~~ Lemmy user

I use Gentoo.

Obviously I'm vegan so it's not that wired I start a conversation with btw

Tell them about Arch, obviously, thats the important bit.

I don't know what you say, but as a debian omnivore most people don't notice either.

You know, because the computer just works, looks a little different, kinda like a mac on top, but free, and powerful and stable under the hood.

See I value practicality and reliability, and also ease of use.

This applies to meals as well.

Sure I'll go vegan if I can, get free range stuff when I can afford it, but I'm not made of money and infinite free time, as one would have to be to be a morally consistent vegan.

thats probably one one of the oldest arch meme.

I approve.