OhVenus_Baby @ OhVenus_Baby @lemmy.ml

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The chaos lol

This one post tells me enough about your mental state and life. Stop living in your head. Your head only takes you so far. Fail fast and grow, you just might make it further than you ever thought you could. Stop looking at outcomes and chessing it all out. Do.

The realist shit ever. Disconnect, unplug, walk away. Get grounded again. 15 years ago phones were just picking up. Focus on your real world in front of you life again. Stop thinking about the news, worrying about xyz. Let go and focus on the moment. Bird/animal watch.

Look at how others are psychologically dependant on tech instead of true connections. Then revel in your ability to understand and be content with not being attached as much and shifting your mind to living in reality outside of your mental rat race. Life goes on. Leave the mental gymnastics and step out of that path.

Edit: All these people saying hate, rage, spite, all the negative emotions really shows you the world consensus. None of the words their choosing are healthy. That's indicative of their mental and physical health. Positivity has taken a back seat because negativity sells, gets clicks, views, and is socially/structurally distorted.

Mint is step 1. Shit just works. Welcome to graduation.

Not entirely true. I have several chronic and severe health issues. ChatGPT provides nearly and surpassing medical advice (heavily needs re-verified) from multiple specialialty doctors. In my country doctors are horrible. This bridges the gap albeit again highly needing oversight to be safe. Certainly has merit though.

Look I know it's not Foss and I hate it with a passion. But I had to have good gps the other day. Google maps told me the police was up ahead and like 20 or so people said the police was still there 1 minutes ago. I was like damn. Now Google tells you where the police is 😂

I've thought a lot about this. By making the choices you do you already single handedly categorized yourself. We are under so much tech behind the scenes that any move you make puts you into an analytical box, spot how you do things here or there and you have a pattern of trade craft. With trade craft you can educatedly infer the rest with probability. Exactly how they caught Osama.

Edit: Even spoofing your moves in everyway your still going to be noticed. Hiding has long been gone. Cloaking is where we are somewhere between cloaking and multiple identities.

Told my older parents I use a custom ROM with a profile for work and a profile for personal and they asked me what I'm hiding, and why I'm so paranoid. I said.. it's not paranoia, it's organization. Color coding profiles allows my mind to switch gears from work to personal life like mental compartments. I am a boring person. I have nothing to be paranoid about. They didn't believe me. Oh well....

Edit: part of me thinks the whole mental state switching from work profile to personal is an ADHD aspect as well. Especially the color coding helps wonders.

Damn this take needs more love. You will get shouted down And downvoted to the lowest depths if you speak against anything that isn't graphene. I like the project, it has merit. It's far far from perfect in so many ways. I don't believe it's the white knight in shining armour we like to think it is. Good yes. Saving grace. Not by a long shot. It's got many fundamental flaws.

Be conscious of your needs, not obsessive. I think a lot of people are obsessive and I get it totally. But FOMO is powerful. Don't overwork your mind trying to be perfect that you never make moves. Life isn't static. If your uneducated enough to truly need the utmost best tech stacks with no real knowledge on how to implement and deploy. You likely don't need to be doing the shit your thinking of, or currently doing.

Who's Palantir? I sort if live under a rock. Yes I looked it up. I'm asking for the general scoop.

You have some decent hardening, just note x11 is turning legacy, wayland seems to be picking up for many reasons. I'm only slightly familiar with Debian as a whole. I'd look into firejail, app armour, firetools GUI for Firejail, flatseal, and good backup plans.

I discovered NIXos a few days ago and while it was a steep learning curve to set up! And I mean a learning curve and steep in all senses. It's quite possibly the smoothest, simplest distro I've ever used once you make it run. Instant rollbacks in grub. It boots in grub in order. Boot 23 works you tried tweaking boot 24 failed, you made it work boot 25. Got mad. Select boot 23 in grub and your back to square one. 10 seconds.

Due to the nature of it you can choose like any desktop type you'd like from xfce to cinnamon or names I never heard of even headless, and literally any of them gnome, KDE, you name it. I like simplicity. Low mental load. Immutable is a chef's kiss but configurable strikes my fancy.

I loathe getting scattered it symlinks, scripts, having files I forget about scattered all through my system, shit updates and breaks because I firejailed an app from 2 years ago. So much hassle. I like to boot and go. Keeping all if my configs in literally 2 nix files is fantastic, no more where did this go, or where did this write to. It will never change, update and break, it's like a master key that will forever work. Just don't lose your config and any hardware, any time, if you have your master file you can boot in like you was at your machine the time you left.

I still think about my first love, Linux mint so I installed cinnamon and now I feel I got the best of both worlds. I nearly gave up after a few days OK like 4 or 5 lol of attempting a custom install of NIX, full luks from boot to home, all my installed apps and configs, separated partitioning, containerized apps, I went all out. Idles at 1% CPU themed and applets, desklets, conky, etc. Created a couple copies of my NIX config file and I feel fairly safe. I built it all and tweaked then compiled it all finalized. Once you understand the concepts in their coding style, it'll click in your brain.

I went straight from Windows, to Mint for 2 years barely touching terminal. Now with a little internet research for commands. I can crawl through almost any issue. I've broken so much stuff. But atleast it wasn't a windows update borking/bricking my entire PC into a paperweight again. I chose to experiment. I've cussed myself so many times. But anything is better than going backwards.

I didn't know it existed. Whoops. I will definitely check it out over silver blue.

I have never played with Gentoo. I will take a look at it. I never really heard about it much.

Privacy is generally good opsec. This is just for daily use for all things laptop. If focus on security and privacy. But if your secure then nobody can get to your private files ect.

I've heard good things about work-station. I've really been distro shopping and that's the great thing about the Linux and open source community. Having all the options! That being said I think it's a big part of the lack of cohesive expansion too. Going too wide instead of deep. So projects don't last unless their big. Like Ubuntu or Debian etc

Qubes is good. Not super daily driver friendly. Lots of tweaks needed. I use a laptop like a phone replacement. Banking, apps, messaging, all sorts of usual phone tasks. Also Qubes is too resource heavy on a laptop, it drains the batteries in a couple hours on basic usage. Takes 16 gigs if RAM to run and 32gb to breathe really. Plus 30 ish percent CPU idle roughly on a 12th gen Intel i7.

It's too heavy to daily, perfect for desktop, just not laptop all day material.

LibreWolf for daily personal, Mullvad Browser most private check EFF tests coveryourtracks.com or TOR, Brave mobile tweaked.

Just gotta say from someone who's clean and food hygenic. Your stove looks good and clean! Nice to see.

This 100 percent on fluids and maintenance. Last thing you want is to be broke down. Especially with no cell service

Organic maps is an option that's not big corpo. Just saying. Works wonders! Also bring a power bank just in case, and a spare 100 dollar bill in case you get robbed or lose cards.