People do solicit donations, as on just about every public forum. I really wouldn’t call it a problem on lemmy at this point, but a rule against it except in communities where it’s encouraged wouldn’t be a terrible idea. Somebody who is interested in doing it could start a Please Help community specifically for these requests, requiring some form of verification. Seems like running it could turn into a lot of work tho.

Mutual aid is a common term for people in a group helping each other. It doesn’t imply reciprocal transactions. But by all means, let’s ignore the topic and pick apart the exact wording.

To me it means letting people know that Mint is free and comes with Libre Office, also free.

Steve Allen on his TV show in the 60s used to occasionally get into bathtubs full of weird stuff. The one I remember offhand was oatmeal.

To me a beer bath would be about as appealing as a toothpaste enema - and there’s probably a spa where you can get those too - but to each their own.

Seems like a criminal waste of beer. Unless that’s Bud Light.

Reminds me of the 70s when suddenly everything was “Eco-Friendly”.

Y tho

You wouldn’t download a C drive.

That’s the beauty of it - you can!

side note: My all-time favorite linux utility is “fuck”. When you make a mistake and get a command line error, you type the word fuck and it looks at what you previously typed and the error message, and tries to figure out your mistake and what you should have typed instead. Then it types that in for you. If it’s correct all you have to do is hit Enter. Or you can edit first, but it’s usually right. Amazing tool, and doesn’t even use AI, just a list of common errors. It’s been around for years and years. Its mere existence really captures the whole culture of linux IMO.

aka The Magic Word.