Linux help and actual pros and cons
Recently found dadrock band Geese. So good. And their lead guy, Cameron Winter, also just released a stunning solo album.
another 11th hour reversal
dumbest timeline
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I mean yeah you're right, that's what it should mean. But that's not what they mean by it. They want to "run the government like a business." That means cutting costs and distributing the cheapest product possible in order to maximize profit. It doesn't make sense, but it doesn't have to for their base to gobble it up.
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Government efficiency is really just the worst possible version of a product or service that the market will continue to accept.
And even that isn't what they're going for. They're just smashing the government to privatize everything. If a service doesnt get privatized, well you're shit outta luck
Ooo shit yeah I actually like this take, I didn't think about the dating app implications. Like in the sense of highly ironic dating app pics, doing this and hamming it up to the max could actually be hilarious
I think you might be misunderstanding me. I don't mean to say women aren't attracted by silliness. I mean to say that a person who tries to be a certain way (can be silly, serious, whatever) because they think it will attract a mate is less attractive, especially compared with than a person who is just a certain way because that's how they are.
Being your true self is more attractive than trying to be act in a way that you think will attract someone, yknow?
But I agree with you (although I'm a man), silly is attractive. But being silly with the express intent of impressing potential romantic partners? Way less attractive
oop my bad, I wrote out my comment and then deleted my main point. I think you hit the nail on the head, my only differing opinion is that I think at this point, it's really difficult to change the underlying reason that he's doing it. At least for me, I wouldnt be able to just "turn off" the original intent of attracting women.
If I went ahead with the plan trying to tell myself, "Well originally it was about getting dates and impressing women, but now its just about having fun," I feel like I'd still be subconsciously doing it for the female gaze. That's why I say the jig is up -- if I were him, I'd bag the idea and wait for next purely silly fun idea
Edit: Little anecdote to illustrate where I'm coming from. When I was in middle school and early high school, I really wanted to be that guy that played guitar. All the girls would love me. I started learning open chords and practicing simple songs, and I managed to learn a few over a couple months. I could never sing and play, just play a couple licks and tunes. But I soon lost interest because I wasn't becoming the guy that played guitar, and girls didnt care that I was the guy that was simply learning to play the guitar.
Fast forward to college/covid, I've lost interest in being the guy that plays guitar. That dude is cringe anyways. But it would be cool to learn how to sing and play guitar at the same time. That sounds like fun, to be able to really play some music. So I picked up a guitar and I was total shit. Couldn't do anything I used to be able to. Eh, whatever, the next time I pick it up, I'll be a tiny bit more comfortable. And I was. I'd accepted I would probably never be a good player. Who cares if I'm good? I just like the feeling of getting a little more fluid. Oh shit! I can play and sing! As long as I play super slowly. Sweet. I start to express myself bit by bit, a little more and a little more, adjusting the tempo, the volume, my vocal delivery. Ooo, that feels good. Huh, look at that! Barre chords are easy now. Hmm...I bet I could go back to that song I couldnt play a while ago and play it now. Oh shit! I can play it! Siiiick. Dang, that was a big bong rip...hmmm what should I do to enjoy this high... looks at the guitar on my wall oh fuck yeah....
And that's how I became the guy that played guitar, who I wanted to be when I was young. I mean I'm still not good. Definitely wouldn't play for an audience. But goddamn if its not the most valuable thing I ever learned to do. I can express myself in a whole new way. I look back and think, if I had approached it from the desire to be at the destination, I would've lost any motivation I had. It couldnt be about becoming good at guitar, or becoming a guitar player, or becoming a guy who played guitar. I needed to approach it from the pure desire to just fuck around on guitar. Try the thing today that I couldnt do yesterday. Oh shit! I can do it! Hell yeah. For me, I never want to do something if I don't enjoy doing it. Fortunately for me, I enjoy fucking up and figuring out why and then doing it better the next day. I like learning, and don't mind being shit at something. No one is good at something the first time.
So that's why I think OP shouldnt go do the photoshoot, because if it isnt for the pure enjoyment of the thing, if the intent is, I guess, polluted, by him wanting to seem like a certain type of person, he's more likely to have a bad time.
I think this is the reason he shouldn't do it. If the whole reason to do it is to attract women, that is pretty unattractive. It would be funny if they just did it for the "fuck it, why not be silly?" aspect of it, but I feel like if the original reason is to attract women, then the jig is up and it is forced and weird.
"Let's be silly" is cool and attractive. "Let's be silly so we can attract women" is cringe and off-putting.
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If the upholding of your "rights" is dependent on which administration is in power, you don't have rights.
Sure dude but in this case your comment comes off as if you were a huge elitist asshole. I mean, maybe you're not. It's just that your comment sounds as if it could be written by one. As if you're just better than the OP because you can understand the complicated, intricate, dynamic mechanics of a game and OP is just not... whatever... enough to "get it", and that they should just go play this simpler, one-dimensional, easy game, that they don't even have to pay attention to.
It's like you went to see an indie art-house film with your friend, and upon hearing that they didn't like it as much as you did, you say "that's okay, you're probably just not smart enough to get it. Maybe you should just watch Marvel movies from now on."
Just major, major asshole vibes. And I'm saying this as a KCD stan.
Every few years I get the customization bug and trick out my desktop. Then things start breaking down slowly. Then I get frustrated and reinstall vanilla gnome, swear off customization forever, and feel better.
For gaming its Plasma.
Knowing the default DE's idiosyncrasies also helps with work -- I'm never surprised when I reinstall/install a new machine. Same goes for aliases. No for me, knowing the commands themselves, however cumbersome or verbose, helps me better deal with freshly installed machines.
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I hear you, I don't think it was very standard for him and wasn't really rigorous in terms of research. Personally, I do buy what he's saying for the most part, but yeah like he said, I dont think there are any concrete studies on this. But, to me, research (or, I guess I should call it knowledge acquisition) is a little like training a muscle -- the longer you avoid it, the harder it is to get started. And if you never do it, the first time is painful. I mean, that first time, you have to find out how to find out, rather than just finding out (lol)
It reminds me of this book I read called The Internet of Us by Michael P Lynch. He talks about how dependent we are on the Internet to know things, and it's made us, ironically, less connected. We've forgotten how to find out information by other means. He sets up a couple little exercises for himself: to find out, without the Internet -- What is the capital of Bulgaria? Is a four-stroke engine more efficient than a two-stroke? What's the phone number of my representative? What is the best reviewed restaurant in Austin, TX? -- and it turns out pretty difficult for him. All throughout the book he talks about the philosophical implication of having knowledge at our fingertips, at the cost of, perhaps, losing the ability to acquire knowledge through other means.
You should check it out! https://archive.org/details/internetofusknow0000lync_w8o8
I found out about it from this philosotuber on YT, he kinda gives a better run down of the book than me around 20 seconds in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uctUh0Z2YTc
Idk, I mean the mass amount of options we have now are different from the TV days. It's easier than ever nowadays the find the online community that believes in lizard people. At least back then, there was some sense of shared reality through TV, even if it was subservient to corporate or government powers. Now, we don't live in the same reality as our neighbors.
And I kinda think you're misconstruing what he's saying about allowing your thoughts to be guided by the algorithm vs being active in choosing what media you consume. The radio is just an example of how you could find a lot of valuable information by guiding your own consumption. Algorithm wouldnt allow you to find info about that radio. It rewards you for being passive. I mean its meant to be addictive and capture your attention. I think his point is that the more people conflate their social media algorithms with the internet, the less able they become to do some basic research.
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It's weird she's talking to you as if she were your mom.
Directly targeting schools that allow protests
Sounds like a constitutional crisis to me, no?
There's a perspective that some technologically literate people have (not all of them, certainly) that enables them a clearer view of what is going on re: tech oligarchs. That is how much we rely on other people's computers. Most people don't think about what is going on when they browse a website or post something on social media, set up their own shop on squarespace, sell a product on Amazon, stream music or TV or movies or games.
Giant tech companies own it all. They own the computer you use to do all these things. They own the computers other smaller businesses use to run their companies. You invented a product and want to drive your cart to the market square? Pay a tax to King Bezos, the market square is Amazon. Did you make a game? Pay Gaben and you can sell it at his marketplace. Don't wanna use these marketplaces? Wanna set up your own shop? You still have to use Amazon's, or Microsoft's, or Google's computers.
These tech oligarchs are more like feudal lords -- enclosing lands (computers) and charging the peasants and merchants access to them.
I second this -- I think installing linux on another hard drive is best. It can be frustrating to jump straight into linux and realize a particular thing doesnt work, not knowing why, and realizing you can't play games at all before doing work to fix things. Saying this as a linux sysadmin.
For a long time I had a dual boot setup for this reason. I wasn't sure why Ubuntu always felt so sluggish gaming (especially Rocket League, which requires a very low amount of input lag)
Eventually I found two things that massively MASSIVELY improved my perception of the performance. First, the kernel I was running. Switching to the liquorix kernel with my NVIDIA card made a huge difference in my perceived input latency (please, if someone could correct my verbiage here. Input latency may not be technically correct.) Secondly but almost as important -- my desktop compositor. I switched to KDE Plasma so I could manually turn it off and make sure that it was off. I never was certain with Gnome, even though I am more comfortable in that environment. Smooth sailing since then. But it was important for me to be able to reboot into Windows if I wanted to play with friends without running into technical difficulties.
Now, I'm fully off of Windows for gaming and, well, everything. It's sick.