Yeah, here's hoping.

Writing about the VA area; I think they're mostly gone; I remember in the 90's they were everywhere all summer and now you see two or three every blue moon.

On a happier note I have noticed them in wilder regions like deep in the woods near a creek in almost normal numbers at dusk (and a lot more present out in rural areas I've driven through at night). So maybe if whatever's stressing their population to death subsides somehow at some point they'll bounce back at some indeterminate point in the future. That's about as optimistic as I can get about this sort of thing though.

(edit: just noticed this is 22 days old, my bad)

I've been around from the old peak oil scene's days back in the 2000's (2005? 2006?) when I was in my early twenties? It doesn't make me lonely, even though becoming aware of it all did cause me to lose most of my friends (they're still trying to party it up, I think, successfully), and almost nobody's really turned up to replace them since then. Loneliness doesn't bother me like it used to, but ignorance and apathy and the toxic positivity that says to wish it all away and get yours while you can is really irritating.

I don't talk about it to anyone anymore offline, because that strikes me as a painfully pointless way to make my lot even worse than it's already been made.

I am here as a Reddit refugee. I've noticed a lot of the communities here that interest me haven't hit any sort of critical mass for participation sadly...but I check in most days anyway.

Basically visual arts software and some writing software. Additionally I have a free version of Ableton Live Lite 11 (so one music-making application as well) that came with my keyboard.

I mostly do photography, writing, and other visual arts type work on my two computers. I use quite a few photography and painting applications (Photoshop, ArtRage, Rebelle, Lightroom, Inspirit, and a few others; I'm also looking at BlackInk), as well as Scrivener and MS Office when I'm writing. I don't know if any of those run well or at all in Linux or in Wine, etc. Also I stopped flirting with learning programming and there wasn't much point maintaining a Linux machine after that. I think Linux is better than Windows all around, and I hate Windows, but it's just because I use certain apps and from what I've heard and seen the Linux apps just aren't as good.

TLDR, creative software that won't run on Linux (to my knowledge, anyway).