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For what I see as a helpdesk guy, most problems that are encountered origin from Windows being Windows, not tech knowleadge of some person.

Yeah but things just work by default more often on Windows than on Linux. "Linux being Linux" is also the most common cause of Linux problems.

Linux usually does give you the tools to fix problems more easily than Windows but that's where the tech savviness comes in.

Just bail out, it wasn't meant to be. I tried a similar thing with family a few times and they always went back to Windows.

Linux is unfortunately not for people that aren't at least a bit tech savvy. If you insist on them using Linux you're gonna be on call to fix their shit all the time.

Idk they creep me the fuck out with those legs and also they move way too fast.

I don't like VMs because I need to allocate memory upfront for it, and considering it's a Windows VM and depending on the dev work you're doing on it you might need to give it 10Gb+.

If it's at all possible for OP I'd recommend getting a separate physical workstation and then just remoting into it with your Linux machine, if you use VSCode the process is pretty much seamless, you use VSCode from your Linux machine normally while all the work is being done on the remote machine.

I very much do not give a shit whether Trump is rehabilitated or not, he's an existential danger to many groups of people, if somebody decides to put a bullet in his head I'm not gonna cry over it.

Thanks, I might consider it when my current Pixel kicks it, I'm not really into the fairtrade greenwashing bs but if it's legit durable and repairable I'll pay the price premium.

Do these things really deliver on their promise? Did anybody have one for multiple years? Is it really easily repairable? Is it more durable than your average smartphone?

Trump was rude and lacked ｄｅｃｏｒｕｍ so he made some wealthy suburbanites uncomfortable, and that is truly the worst crime you can commit in the USA.

ISIS, a violent deranged religious fundamentalist organization, is doing random violence for the sake of it, how can this be?

This community's reaction to this latest attack has been weird as fuck tbh.

You literally called one of the trailblazers of the entire field a "new age mystic". I don't really plan on taking you seriously anymore, thanks for all the kind words tho, take care.

Now stop being a redditbrained contradictory little shit and read my comment.

No, you wrote it all for nothing.

Damn you're a complete grating asshole, I'm not reading all of that shit but I do know at least this is wrong:

You're not going to find anyone actually employed in quantum theory or research espousing it.

Eugene Wigner, John von Neumann, Roger Penrose, Brian Josephson, Henry Stapp, Erwin Schrödinger (debatable, but he was questioning physicalism).

I do not have to provide you with definitions so that your stupid ideas make sense.

Damn you're a feisty one.

In fact you do have to provide definitions, an "observation" in the context of quantum mechanics does not have a consensus definition and the definition heavily relies on your particular interpretation of quantum mechanics. One of these interpretations also includes consciousness, and if you want to be completely certain this particular interpretation is false you need your own coherent definition of consciousness that doesn't call upon quantum mechanics. You don't have such a thing, nobody does.

You're locked in a belief system and you don't even realize it.

No, you dumb fuck,

Thanks comrade, very nice of you.

You have to define it

No, everybody has to define it actually since it clearly exists and nobody really knows what it is. If you believe with certainty it doesn't have anything to do with quantum collapse then you also must have a good idea what it actually is, and you just plain don't.

Personally I'm agnostic about the whole thing and I don't think any particular idea needs to be dismissed a priori because of entrenched beliefs.

So, by your definition, mystical stuff is just things we can't explain right now.

My entire fucking point is that nobody can explain it properly and you grasping so tightly onto only one of the possible explanations is you having a strong belief system, same as religious people, not you doing a heckin good science think.

Nothing I've seen seems to imply it's outside of our models.

It literally is tho. There is no mention of consciousness anywhere in either quantum mechanics or general relativity.

So either you give a real answer to their question of what you think consciousness is or you start listing the things you think are conscious until smarter minds can work out what connects the dots.

You haven't given a real answer either though and neither has anybody else in the history of science, which is what I'm trying to say, nobody has a coherent answer but you're pretending as if you do. You're literally just asserting your claims without backing anything up.

We can easily explain how a physical system produces consciousness.

We literally can't do that at all though, not even close.

Because that's literally a basic requirment of science.

How? Science is based on making models from empirical observations about the world and yourself, one of these empirical observations is the observation that your phenomenal consciousness actually exists, seemingly in opposition to the physical world, maybe we should perhaps include that fact in our models?

Also, you call it reductive. I don't think it's reductive.

It's literally how that category of metaphysical thought is called, it's an actual philosophical term.

How does it not fit in our quantitative descriptions?

I mean it just kinda fucking doesn't. Our physical model of reality is a bunch of mathematical models and there's no mathematical formula for consciousness yet.

I'd love for some mystical thing to exist, but literally every mystical thing people have believed for tens of thousands of years has been wrong.

But you're literally experiencing the "mystical thing" right now. The mystical part is the part where you don't really have a mathematical equation for it and yet it exists. Think of it like "dark matter" where you know it probably exists but you can't really model it properly.

I'm not sure where you're going with this really. Why do I need to analyze if every single thing in the universe is conscious or not? Physicalism also doesn't really have a general answer to the question "is this physical system conscious". Shouldn't you do the same work before declaring you know consciousness is fully physical?