Bloatware doesn’t necessarily mean it’s useless, but if even a reasonable percent of people don’t want or need it or shouldn’t be preinstalled. That’s bloatware.

Talk about mountains of projection …

I think 10-12 years, I’m not sure, I’ve had a couple accounts over the years.

I do end up back now and then, so many searches lead back to Reddit. But I’m not scrolling anymore.

I’m not sure if my life has improved per se, but it has finally broken my, probably, unhealthy Reddit addiction for the first time in probably 5-10 years. And no I’m not actually using Lemmy all that much as a replacement.

So that’s been good.

How can I make Debian as much like Ubuntu as possible? :) arch, btw

Obviously a lot of people here disagree. But I think for most people the answer is unequivocally yes.

I guess if you think the bare minimum for friendship is someone you say “Hi” to at the water cooler every once in a while then no, you can have lots of friends aside from your partner. But for many people your friendship/relationship with your partner consumes most of your time (outside of work). Add on to that kids, and that’s a wrap.

For most people that replaces the majority of the strong friendships that might have had when they were younger. Sure maybe they still have a couple of friends, hence the “less”.

Actually now that I wrote that I realize the answer is no. People consolidate their friendships partly due to maturity, but also in large part because they find friendship/companionship in their partner. People don’t get partners because they have less friends, they have less friends in part because they get a partner.