I switched to linux cause fuck windows. I switched to grapheneos cause fuck apple. I switched to proton cause fuck google. i dont eat meat cause i think animals ARE CUTE. i make less money than I could because I refuse to work for weapons manufacturers. Living up to my principles makes my life more inconvenient. period. thats it.

Not drinking alcohol when I’m alone or not in a good place mentally. And yes, this can be hard depending on the social circle.

Late to the party - but I had a prospective employer that delayed my second round interview like 3 times. When it finally got scheduled my first question was “If you don’t value my time as a prospective employee, how would you value my time as someone on the payroll?”

Lol, well isn’t this pertinent?

1. “People make mistakes. You must practice forgiveness in acknowledgement of this” + “An oath you make should be honoured, full stop” - staying with my exwife after I learned (in a really messy, unfortunate for all involved way) she was cheating.

2. A second instance of “an oath you make should be honoured, full stop” - persuing divorce from my ex-wife on the basis of the following statement: “If I hear so much as a whisper that cheating continues or restarts, we are irrevocably done, no matter what you say or how badly you feel”.

3. “Kindness, even to those who wrong you, is non-negotiable, so long as in acting with kindness you do not compromise yourself or your well-being” - my current state of affairs, though I’d be lying if this one hasn’t been reeeal challenging. Doing what I can to stick to the principle though, because I think it’s very important.

I once went out with a friend to the clubs while I was on vacation at his house in the big city. He had gotten a new job as a director and I was a minimum wage scrub.

He wanted to go to the restroom, so he gave me his coat and some money to store our things away. I find out they were charging an extraordinary rent for what many others offer for free. I refused thinking it was abusively outrageous and went back with our stuff thinking we could just store them elsewhere at a reasonable price.

He was pissed. He told me off and decided our night out was over. He railed at me, made me cry, and basically told me our friendship was over. In my mind, I was only trying to protect him. I left the next day.

He called me back a couple of times months later but I had already moved on. I want to think that he regretted it, but he’s in the big leagues now and probably thinks less of me.

I refuse to present a slide deck for job interviews. I’ve done it once before and it was obvious the hiring manager didn’t know what kind of person he wanted or I was. I ended up being miserable in that position for three months until I found a new job that didn’t bother with that crap. I’ve turned down two interviews for better jobs because they each wanted several rounds and a slide deck. I’m not willing to overextend myself for a group of indecisive people again. They can find out what kind of worker I am by simply communicating with me in two or three different interviews at most.

During my military service I constantly fought against idiotic traditions and doing things the stupid and inefficient way. I had read the regulations manual carefully to back me up and presented my cases respectfully with proper conduct.

I always started by quoting the relevant regulations, so they had to hear me out and could not officially punish me for my “disobedient queries”. This got many of the regular staff royally pissed off at me, some just found my resilience amusing and a few younger offiicers even showed occasional support for me. I knew very well that nothing big would change, but I actually did manage to get rid of a few small things that were just hassling disguised as training.

My service friends thought I was crazy for stirring things up in vain, but I took good care that I never got them in any trouble. The only “punishment” they could give me was that I was always given the assignments that were considered most unpleasant and I was regularly sent on long range recon excersizes with my men, so I would be out of sight for most of the time. I loved those long trips in the woods.

I also quit my first real and well paying job out of principle a week after we got a new manager. I had been there for 5 years and really liked the work, but after the new manager gave us a list of changes he wanted, it became clear to me that it was time to leave. It would have been entirely impossible to fulfill my duties properly with the allocated resources and time. I could have done the work badly, sure, but this would have led to the customer leaving us for other services. I did point this out to the new manager when I was cleaning my desk. “Just because you cannot do doesn’t mean that someone better couldn’t” was the only response. They promptly lost the customer and 3-4 others also quit the team in the same year.

With the help of an old friend I landed a new, little less paying job but with vastly better benefits. Been there since.

I run Linux on main. Started 2 months ago because it represents the kind of world I want to live in. I’ve stuck with it despite the fact that it feels like I’m computing on hard mode at times.

One time I tried to report a guy who attempted to mug me but I scared him off. The police refused to take a statement cuz as far as they were concerned he didn’t manage to do any harm, except for me it was an attempt. And I was worried that he could hurt someone more vulnerable than myself.

My wife, thinking I’m too careful with our child.

I think I’m (objectively) fairly balanced, maybe leaning towards careful, sure. But really I just want the baby to grow to the point of being able to walk without involuntary nose dives with both eyeballs still intact.

Yes, I think it’s too much for the baby to be allowed to run around with that actual kitchen tool in hand. Yes I know the baby loves it, but it’s essentially a metal rod. Constantly derails an otherwise good day to speak up, but here to on the baby’s behalf.

I got fired for filing a discrimination lawsuit against my employer for barring me from wearing the kilt I’d worn at least 2-3 times per week for two years. The banning was because they decided it was not “professional attire”, but all the yoga pants, miniskirts, and sleeveless dresses are just fine.

There’s a lot more to the story including a trip to mental health urgent care and the actual firing call happening while I was on FMLA.

I ratted out the VP of the Utah chapter of Pride at Work for being an aggravated sexual abuser. I was inconvenienced because he kicked me out and then my life imploded.

I highly suggest reading my posts from the beginning if you want to see how much my principles have inconvenienced me.

It’s been “fun.”

My parents were changing ISPs and we were told by the guys doing the connection that a cell phone number was necessary. We have been with this ISP a few times before and a cell was never required (we change when the other company has a sale).

I was the only one in the family with a cell at the time.

This happened a short time after I started degoogling so I had no problem saying no when someone asks me for personally identifiable information. I asked the tech “I just got home from work, what would you do if I wasn’t here?” and “Not everyone has a cell phone, you must have a procedure for those people” He seemed dumbfounded by my questions and refusal to hand over a cell number.

Bud kept insisting, I kept saying no. He caved and used Dad’s email address.

Boycotting american, chinese and other countrys. Being vegetarian

Software minimism.

Look, i did a mistake with chowning the whole /usr dir instead of /usr/bin, which broke polkit and as a result udisks2 > gvfs, which Thunar uses to mount.
But it thaught me that too much dependencies causes brittleware.

Which is why i wrote a simple script utilizing ssu mount for passwordless root mounting.