Do you honestly think Jow Forums has anything to teach you?

I've learned a fuckton of shit from various boards, both extremely useful and forgettable useless facts.

It taught me how not to act in public

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I've learned a fair few things over the years but that really isn't why I come here. I come here to relax and shitpost about mostly inconsequential technical curiosities and video games. I don't think there's anything wrong with that, and I don't consider my time wasted.

Jow Forums taught me the mods are shit

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I already have, mostly video games, comics, and fitness stuff

I've learned a handful of things, and seeing as I never came here to learn, it's pretty good.

yes i went from using windows 7 to debian with tinywm

this

I've learned TONS from this website, it's been invaluable to me.

More than that, it makes me feel like I have friends.

Yeh, it's teaching me about VPNs. I can't use NordVPN here supposedly. That's fucked. How does it know to block a private address?

It’s taught me that Linux is not a viable desktop operating system.

Same here buddy

I've learned a lot personally.

some human contact is better than no human contact

Damn right. The main reason I come here is to trick my brain into thinking I'm actually socializing.

I just come here to steal memes and have funny hahas. My actual life is fine

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During my 14 years in this place I have learned a thing or two. Ordo ab chao.

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This, but unironically.

this

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SHUT THE FUCK UP REDDITOR BOOMER SHILL FAGGOT NIGGER SJW TRANNY COCK SUCKING GAY CUNT

yeah, i learn a lot by browsing and taking part /dpt/. definitively the greatest programming community on the web and the best subreddit of Jow Forums.

Do you honestly think this is the right board for discussing this?

NOT TECHNOLOGY! SAGE

Yes. I learnt all of my social skills here. Also I've learnt many technology companies are regularly both at an end temporally, and also in financial jeopardy.

Jow Forums made me buy a fucking Thinkpad T400
>tfw fell for a stupid Stallman meme

fuck off Jack

it taught me OP is a faggot, clearly he hasn't reached that pinnacle of knowledge yet though

Like 95% of Jow Forums then

I don't know about you but user are intelligent and They have life experience they will train you and help you alot . but always make fun of your O.s. I am macfag
best boards
Jow Forums,/t/./s4s/

You have quality taste, comfyposter.

>Do you honestly think Jow Forums has anything to teach you?
yeah quite a lot to be perfectly honest.

Yes, I've learned a lot from Jow Forums.

lol this but for /tv/, haven't seen a movie in two months I think but still browsing for some reason (muh dopamine circuits)

Except that facebook newsfeed and Jow Forums catalog mechanisms, although slightly different, act on the same areas in your brain and play with the same tricks to make you lurk more. Chan-tards may have more critical sense than facebook normies, but I guess it has also to do with the undeniable bias that is that most of the people here are somewhat autists (in the medical sense).
Don't also forget that spending too much time on this website not only will waste your time not doing anything productive, but also progressively make you an autistic retarded piece of shit like me if you aren't already.
t. neurobiologist

/tv/ can be quite fun too
/mu/ are pretentious faggots although I discovered some nice stuff thanks to them
Jow Forums when I'm depressed so I realize my life is fine

I've learned a lot from Jow Forums, /ic/, /ck/ and Jow Forums, and I think I still have a lot to learn from 4chins

i've been for 12 years, since I was 13, and i honestly truly believe i'd be a much unhappier person if I hadn't found this place (although possibly a "better" one)

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Unironically yes. I've learned from:
Jow Forums
Jow Forums
/ck/
/mu/
/out/ (to a lesser degree)

I'm pretty sure every board has something to teach, even if it's just teaching your penis.

I recently started browsing Jow Forums again for the first time since like 2011-ish.
I feel like I see less and less inforgraphics, guides, wiki's, etc...
Memes have become shittier.
/b/ was always shit but is now a mere shell of what it used to be.
Stormfags everywhere.
The difference between 2018 en 2008 anons is staggering.

the art of shitpost

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no but i'm addicted

i started calling this PC the pathology box

I started browsing around 2008-2009, quit in 2012/2013 and re-started lurking seriously this year. Things changed but probably for the best. /b/ was always shit and you're right, the spirit is gone now but honestly it was perfect for my teenage retarded years.
Now I browse /tv/ and Jow Forums mostly. Feels more like a community than /b/ today's shitfest.

It taught me how to love.

I rmwant to get out

Boards like /tv/ & Jow Forums had a lot more community in the past though imo.
I just feel like every board had become an ever increasing shitposting contest.

I remember seeing a link in Jow Forums - I think it was in here, Jow Forums - linking to other chan where there were educational videos or some sort of thing. Now I can't find it and it's driving me crazy

/b/ is kind of sad to visit now, it's literally just porn

please send help

I feel like it got even worse after this year's April fool's thing.
It might just be me, though.

Lainchan?

I'm here since 2006. /b/ then /v/, eventually Jow Forums, tiny bit of Jow Forums (it's shit), then Jow Forums for a while, now Jow Forums and some /diy/.

Not mentioned: /gif/, but I don't go there to post.

Most would call me a complete normalfag. I don't watch anime. I make good money at a big tech company, just bought a house, getting married this year.

Jow Forums is my home and I fucking love you you ridiculous autists. This board needs to be less consumerist whore general, then I can drop the HN eunuchs for good. I'll try to make better threads. The /hmg/ guys are starting it too.

Satania is shit
Git gud at chinese cartoon

Everything can teach when you have an open mind. Even after years.

Learned basic principals of discussing here. Also greentext is so fucking useful for internet debates.

This.
/thread

Now i feel stupid, it is. thanks very much.

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Yeah quite a lot, I've picked up a ton of valuable shit from here. Not sure if it was worth the metric fuckton of degenerate fetishes though.

some user once put it perfectly:

lurking Jow Forums is like digging for gold. you have to go through a shitload of mud, shit and piss, but eventually you'll find a pure nugget.

What can you possibly learn from Jow Forums that is worth the effort learning?

Are you implying I come here to learn and not to waste my life away?

That he's gay.

Linux is a kernel, buddy.

>/v/ taught me to hate video games
>/co/ and /tv/ got me away from the hollywood jew
>Jow Forums gambled my money away
>Jow Forums got me to drop out of CS and become a neet
>/h/ convinced me 2d>3d
what else is there to learn?

Same thing with me, same model ThinkPad

>/v/ for dopamine hits
you're truly a lost soul, and I pity you

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There are people here who understand operating systems, most of them are confusing my mind, but the software
knowledge here reminds me the autism class that I was in 12 years ago

I've learnt to laugh and to love again

this site is literally designed to work against deep conversations
>character limits inhibit thought out explanations and encourage mindless meme reactions
>debunking lies often takes multiple posts, while a complete non sequitur or C-list-comedian-tier "rebuttal" with repeating digits gets tons of " BTFO/finished/on suicide watch" responses
>anonymity allows frankness but also desensitizes insults, thus requiring ever-edgier shit to get peoples' attention
you cannot have meaningful conversations on this site, the format inhibits it
as much as everyone loves to hate on reddit (and rightfully so), at least you can actually discuss things in depth without every other word being nigger, faggot, kek, op, or some combination thereof

It's taught me that Linux is a kernel, and that GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU+Linux, is not a viable desktop operating system.

I think you mean GNU + Linux

>Jow Forums
got me into Linux & security which has literally changed my life
>/ck/
showed me its actually pretty easy to make decent meals, and have been eating much better since.
>Jow Forums
decent routines/diets without having to surf 10 different sites.
>Jow Forums
haven't browsed there regularly in years, but every time there is a major event I find myself back there
>/an/
pitbulls legitimately are dangerous and need to be monitored more than other breeds
>/x/
mostly larping but I have definitely found some relevant answers there

no. meaningful conversation occurs less often. that's it.

Sure thing

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yep, I never realized that google and facebook were going under until i started posting here
how has terry been doing recently?

Every board has wisdom you could master.

ascend above posts

look at this as a website, not as single posts. get stylus if you're 2 retard

No, but I have a lot to teach retarded anons.

Same. I’ve been coming on this site everyday for years just to socialize. Jow Forums in particular is my homeboard, but I do visit other boards once in a while for a change of scenery. It’s weird how these other boards are almost like different websites. They have their own memes and culture unrecognizable to anyone who doesn’t lurk.

yeah, i learned how to fuck thanks to /gif/
i'm still a virgin, but when i do eventually get laid, i'm sure jerking to extreme scat bdsm for 3 hrs a day will finally pay off

yes, what having an honest conversation with others is like

Jow Forums is probably the only place on Jow Forums that has any information really worth knowing.

fuck that place. I went through life never caring about my height until I went to that board.

If anything, Jow Forums is the ultimate proof that anonymizing a userbase makes having meaningful exchanges virtually impossible.

I get more meaningful exchanges here than anywhere else online.

wew lad, you've got quite a low bar
if you stay in /dpt/ sure, but this board is all about shitting on others because their keyboard/mouse/CPU/OS/laptop isnt autism-approved

Hear, hear.

I have learned how often I'm not alone in feeling certain ways like a sort of connection without having actually irl connections. But in a sense that's the internet in general but still there's some freedom in being able to express them even without having a real username. Not that anything I've said was malicious or anything, but to be able to talk about personal issues and stuff.

Jow Forums Jow Forums taught me the existence of lib gen
Pushed me to start programming again
Had some nice discussions with some of you hear

But on the other hand I'm still a 36 year old virgin loser that can go out on dates with girls and have a hug or kiss on the cheek but I just don't know what to do after that and get ghosted
I'm still lonely and sad and my work and in general life doesn't make it easier
My confidence and self esteem is in an all time low despite having some successes (work, learning, going out to the movies and date, drink with girls) and the future looks bleak
Honestly I may not make it though the summer, either perish from a hear attack (have many symptoms lately) or jump in front of the metro (or not because I'm too much of a pussy and think of the cleanup crew)

A useless existence that made tge the world worse and uglier as a whole

Came here during HWNDU and never looked back.
Was a cancerous Jow Forums /b/ /gif/ poster and learnt a lot from Jow Forums, grew some thick skin (thanks to 'poo' bantz) but eventually left because it became repetitive.

Now, I browse Jow Forums /fa/ /trv/ Jow Forums Jow Forums and take my time to post.
Jow Forums has really changed my life.
I don't know how do I say but I love all you anons you have helped me sail through life.