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  • I try to follow a set of rules which define how i should live my life written in my own words, which essentially restate the golden rule/10 commandments/fundamental tenets/etc. I read them as myself, as if I'm giving advice to myself. Pronouns can be tricky. I don't follow them perfectly and often will tweak the wording, hoping to avoid misinterpretation.

    I call them my veritaclaritives. (veritas + clarus = loud and clear truth; probably bad latin)

    • Always look out for #1
    • Always be prepared for a #2 (e.g. romance, friendships, shit)
    • Only desire what you require
    • It's only theft if they need it more than you (emphasis on NEED)
    • Create more than you consume
    • Help people up, more and before you put anyone down
    • Treat everyone as a friend until they prove otherwise (emphasis on both THEY and PROVE; the golden rule)
    • Make amends with your friends, before an unexpected end (r.i.p. Nivec)
    • Keep your friends close, be your own worst enemy
    • If thoughts of any enemy anger you, you've already lost (note plural)
    • Destroy enemies until they are unable to do you harm
    • All enemies can be defeated through unconditional love.
  • Ford, Jeep, Chevy.

    I have an unrelated theory that places with "pleasant" or "friendship" in their name, are former sites of some horrible historic event.

  • I don't really think I'm important enough for doxxing to matter. I've even posted my social security number in a chat room before, just for a laugh. Also my banking and paypal logins.

    One time after I did that, I met a nice person who privately messaged me. They were just like me, same mothers maiden name, same name for our first pet, even went to the same first concert! what are the odds?

    Anyways so like a week later some hacker stole my identity. I couldn't believe it. The crazy part though is that my credit score actually went UP. About a month later the hacker actually called me and tried to make me take my identity back but I knew better than that. No backsies. Heh, sucker. Have fun with your new wife, moron.

    Honestly, I was happy to have someone to talk to for a bit. It was nice.

  • I’m sitting in the dark

    Do you spend a lot of time in the dark? How much natural sunlight do you get?

    I ask because I have felt like what you describe. Vitamin D deficiency might be a contributing factor. Supplements might help but the best thing is to spend time outside for 3 hours per week minimum, preferably in a natural setting away from gas powered vehicles.

    doing nothing right now.

    Start doing something. Anything. Move your body. It can be as simple as walking for 30 minutes a day. You can get your sunlight while you do it. It's fine if it is cloudy, it is not as good if you are indoors, even if there are windows. Exercise will get your blood moving. The hormones which regulate your mood might be malfunction or waste could be getting built up in your brain and causing depression. Get your heartrate up, let the blood carry waste out.

    My college degree(computer engineering) got me nowhere.

    Does your degree have legs? Is it supposed to carry you around? No, of course not. I think. I don't actually have a degree. If I had one, I would be taking it to places. Especially places that have a use for it. Are there no jobs where a computer engineering degree is needed near you? These days even small businesses need an IT person. If there are none, start your own. I do not know what starting a business entails in Cambodia but it may be simpler than you realize. Start a computer repair shop. Offer to recover data for regular people, like photos from old hard drives and flash drives or sd cards with testdisk. Do it cheap, give discounts and start with a warning that you might not be able to recover anything or fix their computer and that you are a last resort, when no where else can help or they can't afford a professional place, so you don't have to worry about failing. Make a name for yourself.

    Besides that, my country is a toilet now and rapidly becoming worse

    It's not too late for a career change. If your country is in the toilet, become a plumber. If it is rapidly becoming worse, find a way to slow it down, work to turn it around in any way you can think of. Become a politician and overthrow the goverment or die trying. At least you might die a hero instead of ending it yourself and being quickly forgotten.

    I’ve looked on Indeed

    Indeed is trash. Find anything else. Even Fiverr.com or Legiit.com are probably better.

    Last advice: Pick a goal. Even something stupid. Work towards it. Do not expect to acheive the goal. It is only the carrot on a stick to lure you to anywhere that is not the place you are now. You might be led to where you are supposed to be along the way.

  • i think qgis might have the ability to do everything you require, however the learning curve is somewhat steep.

    it allows you to import data from various maps, including openstreetmap, NASA and many more.

    i believe there are free/open source topographic layers that can be imported or ways to add specific data.

    it can draw layers, lines and shapes on top of each other with varying translucency and colors.

    it can show non-mercator map projections such as stereographic, othrographic or even more obscure ones like the waterman butterfly or some of the ones from the list at the bottom of this page: http://www.quadibloc.com/maps/mapint.htm

    if you are doing this for a fantasy world map and not earth, it might add even more difficulty but i've read people on forums claim they could do it, using another program with qgis and on windows only. i don't recall much else since the windows requirement was a block for me. it's probably possible to create the shapefile from scratch.

    it has the ability to customize aspects of maps and mapped datum in many more ways that i am incapable of properly explaining, describing, using or understanding. i also have cognitive/developmental disorders, so it might be easier for others, however for me, it's a map creation program i get lost trying to use.

  • Sky Chase Zone - Sonic the Hedgehog 2

  • There isn't anything you need to know. It's the opposite actually. You can now forget about graphics drivers entirely if you want. Unless it's like, a job or hobby or something.

  • Questioning a bang.

    My quick and dirty interrobang with her revealed to me how empty inside I was, unlike the outhouse we were in.

  • I think I read this post wrong.

    I was thinking the sentence "We could be saving the world!" meant 'we' as in humans only.

    No need to be training AI. No need to do anything with AI at all. Humans simply start saving the world. Our Research Papers can train on Reddit. We cannot be training, we are saving the world. Let the Research Papers run a train on Reddit AI. Humanity Saves World.

    No cynical replies please.

  • You still can't do it. this is pointless. have a nice day.

  • You seem to have misunderstood what i said. You fail to address the actual concept i refer to and the attitude with which you do this is not productive. it's insulting, assumptive and hostile.

    are you sure you read my comment correctly? you spouted off about tangential issues in what appears to me, a sort of wild rage. you make an accusation and assumptions about me and how i act. you trash mozillas reaction to the outcry of their addition. you speculate a conspiracy theory about mozilla only trying to get away with stuff and hypothesize about them being ignorant and clueless.

    i get it, you have strong feelings about privacy. you now hate mozilla for thier treachery. this was the final straw that made you jump ship. i'm glad you quickly found a browser that works for you. thanks for the unsolicited endorsement of your personal solution. good to hear that it has absolutely no issues with extensions made for firefox. which librewolf was forked from... so why wouldn't they? is getting in a one way shouting match meant to convince people to convert to another browser?

    my statement was intended as invitation for someone to provide an argument as to how the actual addition to firefox is not privacy respecting, like the actual inner workings of it. not assumptions about its creators or their motives or the method of its introduction or how the nefarious villians behind such great injustice must be burned at the stake. not the far reaching ramifications it might lead to. what is it doing that makes one persons personal privacy specifically affected?

  • I use Mull on my phone. Haven't gotten around to playing with Librewolf but it is on my list of things to do.

    I don't consider the addition to be an anti-privacy feature however. I'd like to see someone change my mind about that.

  • They didn't, just like every other mainstream browser does. It was pretty lame. It was in the change notes but I don't know too many people that read those anymore. Their explanation of the system and the ease to turn it off placated me. I have the feature on and have had it on since the day it was released.

  • That's probably the better way of putting it. As far as mainstream browsers go.

  • Yeah, as I said it was pretty lame how they added it in. I will repeat that I think it's still not as bad as how other mainstream browsers add unwanted features but I'm out of the loop there and could be wrong.

    Strange, only once do I recall seeing a pop up from Firefox, which was letting me know another browser was trying to become my default browser which I did not do or want. So in that case it was useful, as it was Edge and I did not want Edge to be my default browser. That was years ago, back when I still used Windows. Not saying it doesn't happen of course, you have links I could check which I assume show it does, but I have not personally witnessed it happen in a long time.

  • Yes, how amusing indeed. Unless you meant to type 'assuming'? Either way, I'm more of a fanboy, not a shill. Shill's get paid. Fanboys just like their product.

  • All the naysayers in these comments read like shills and if they aren't, they really should read how the tracking in question works. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-preserving-attribution?as=u&utm_source=inproduct

    While it was kinda lame for Mozilla to add it with it already opted-in the way they did, they were still completely open about how it works from the start with a link right next to the feature in settings (the same link pasted above) and it's far less invasive than the other mainstream browsers.

    It can be turned off too, easily. It requires unchecking a checkbox. No jumping through 10 different menus trying to figure out how to turn it off, like a certain other browser does with its monstrous tracking and data collection machine.

    With ublock origin it's also moot, since ublock origin blocks all the ads anyways.

    Call me a fanboy if you want, I wont care. Firefox is still the superior browser in my opinion.

  • I'll throw in my vote for Manjaro because while it's not perfect, it hits all of OP's points nicely.

    • arch based
    • hard to break (but not impossible)
    • biased a little towards Gnome but runs KDE and XFCE great too
    • uses a curated rolling release

    The last point is the most important. Rolling release means it updates regularly, so your packages will be mostly up to date. Curated means they do testing in an unstable repository. If an update breaks something, those changes aren't pushed to stable.

    I ended up with it after trying other distros but having trouble with my nVidia card. Manjaro's MHWD tool installed their drivers easily (although slightly confusing with its unnecessary checkboxes) and more recently, I've upgraded to AMD and never had a single issue.

    It's not perfect but almost every issue I've had was located between the keyboard and the chair.

  • usually was about $10 worth of stuff when it was with a trusted friend, if i had a spare clean needle that was worth $5 on its own. If it was a stranger or dealer, it was sometimes as high as $20 worth, again minus $5 for each needle if I had them.