Pirates of the Caribbean theme starts playing.

Well you’re supposed to feed her ego by just being there and doing exactly as she says of course!

I feel like this is a good approach. Honestly an invisible voting system might be better cause how many up or down votes something has prevents others from fully forming their own opinion.

I get where you’re coming from with the assumptions you made. It’s obvious to you, but it might not be to everyone. As they say in programming, “explicit is always better than implicit”. Relying on the reader to infer what you mean instead of just telling them explicitly will always risk misinterpretation.

And laughing at people because they don’t understand things is the fastest way for this to become like Reddit, which I really hope doesn’t happen.

In your defense, the commenter should have specified that it was Celsius.

So I see you’re running Gnome. You know, I’m actually on KDE myself.

I use Manjaro. I know not everyone likes it but it’s an easy way to get into Arch based distros and i really like the rolling updates instead of incremental. I still use Ubuntu for servers at the moment.

My go to is usually like “I just wanted to touch base on [topic]” if I want an update on something without seeming like I’m pressuring them.