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Your local herpetology guy.

Feel free to AMA about picking a pet/reptiles in general, I have a lot of recommendations for that!

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  • i’m studying to be a herpetologist, some corrections here:

    1. pythons do not have reticulated teeth, that doesn’t make sense, you probably thought this because a reticulated python is one of the largest snakes that exist, reticulated means gridlike
    2. they can absolutely release their jaws, experienced keepers keep some alcohol around, they’ll release instantly at the smell of it, usually (lpt)
    3. Not that they don’t form attachments the way some mammals do but snakes and alligators are very VERY distantly related and their asociality has nothing to do with eachother, emerald tree skinks for example do seem to form a mammalian style bond as do tegus, this is not an all reptiles are one way and all mammals are the other, the same thing would happen with a tiger, or a bear.
    4. Snakes do not unhinge their jaws, they have an unfused bottom jaw that lets them walk things down their throat

    i dunno what you expect from a hungry carnivore, even dogs do this, and are honestly way more dangerous than we like to pretend.










  • A lot of people are going to recommend you mint, I honestly think mint is an outdated suggestion for beginners, I think immutability is extremely important for someone who is just starting out, as well as starting on KDE since it’s by far the most developed DE that isn’t gnome and their… design decisions are unfortunate for people coming from windows.

    I don’t think we should be recommending mint to beginners anymore, if mint makes an immutable, up to date KDE distro, that’ll change, but until then, I think bazzite is objectively a better starting place for beginners.

    The mere fact that bazzite and other immutables generate a new system for you on update and let you switch between and rollback automatically is enough for me to say it’s better, but it also has more up to date software, and tons of guides (fedora is one of the most popular distros, and bazzite is essentially identical except with some QoL upgrades).

    How common is the story of “I was new to linux and completely broke it”? that’s not a good user experience for someone who’s just starting, it’s intimidating, scary, and I just don’t think it’s the best in the modern era. There’s something to be said about learning from these mistakes, but bazzite essentially makes these mistakes impossible.

    Furthermore because of the way bazzite works, package management is completely graphical and requires essentially no intervention on the users part, flathub and immutability pair excellently for this reason.

    Cinnamon (the default mint environment) doesn’t and won’t support HDR, the security/performance improvements from wayland, mixed refresh rate displays, mixed DPI displays, fractional scaling, and many other things for a very very long time if at all. I don’t understand the usecase for cinnamon tbh, xfce is great if you need performance but don’t want to make major sacrifices, lxqt is great if you need A LOT of performance, cinnamon isn’t particularly performant and just a strictly worse version of kde in my eyes from the perspective of a beginner, anyway.

    I have 15 years of linux experience and am willing to infinitely troubleshoot if you add me on matrix.