dual booting from Windows

Well, you see, that right there is your main problem. Today dual booting with Windows is highly discouraged. Windows is simply not meant for that and will actively fight you the whole time. Dual booting several Linux distros, on the other hand, simply trivial.

Now, if your data was a disaster on Windows (all dispersed across C:, no backups, not organized) then there’s nothing linux can do about that for you. But, linux does offer other cool storage options like btrfs which permits deduplication, snapshots, automated backups, and other features out of the box.

For a total beginner, I’m gonna spell it out for you out of the gate. Linux has never been the hard part of linux. The biggest hurdle of linux—the one thing beginners waste the most time on, old timers always insist you should learn, and won’t actually give you much value in return—is package management. Package management is an unnecessary but unavoidable part of traditional linux usage. For everything else, linux just works more or less the way almost all other computing devices commonly behave. Better in some regards, different in others, but always sensible and familiar.

Now, there’s a way to bypass this hurdle and just go straight to the fun part of using your computer. Use an immutable distro. I recommend Aurora as a good general purpose OS. But anything from the universal blue project is good. Bluefin for a different style of desktop environment, Bazzite for gaming. There are some nags here and there, and you can learn about the whole terminal commands and package management over time at your own pace, or maybe not at all, but you’ll always have a functioning system. Software is installed from an online store via containers. There’s little to no management as your data is always separate from the OS.

If you’ve ever used an android phone, then you’ve already used an immutable system. This is just better and more open for the desktop and laptops over Linux. But they’re the same principles. Let the experts cook and you focus on using your computer.

Lynch had a problem with visually representing the voice control that Bene Gesserit use. I think the new Dune did a good job with the sound processing to convey that. But I guess back then he thought audiences wouldn’t catch that the victims of the voice weren’t just following commands but were in fact unable to disobey the commands. On the book the Bene Gesserit actually taught the Fremen some of the weirding way, which is indeed kungfu in space. On Villeneuve’s Dune they also dropped that part of the plot and instead leaned more heavily on the access to atomic weapons and the military use of worm riding.

I think it is ironic that most of Villeneuve’s Dune Soundtrack by Hans Zimmer has a ton of heavily processed electric guitar.

Yeah, that’s absolutely valid. But you run into the same problems again, what the hell is an ostree? Would ask the average gamer. Even some newer changes to bootc will make rpm-ostree unnecessary in the future. Flatpaks are not mandatory even. You could run bluefin or bazzite entirely on appimages.

At least the term cloud native is standardized by the cloud native computing foundation, it has a long story, it’s already known or familiar to a lot of people. And the most important, I think, it is technology agnostic. Even if docker dies and another tech takes its role, or if kubernets are replaced with something else, or even is rpm-ostren is no longer used, cloud native still means the same thing. As for bad smells, that’s just language, words can mean many things at once, we just live with it.

Weren’t those accessories just wrist straps?

I’m sorry, but it is a software engineering term. Maybe not from the area you are familiar with, but cloud native was the raging buzzword…about 10 years ago on the server side. Now it’s just a standard way to develop software and it’s part of the common parlance. It is the philosophical background, if you will, of snaps, flatpaks, kubernetes, docker, pods. I mean, the entire business model of AWS and dozens of cloud providers, data centers, mass hosting solutions, saas, etc. is based on the cloud native idea. You use the term and everyone in the room knows exactly which principles and development pipeline you’ll use.

Just like all language, it is just a shortcut to convey a complex meaning. Like, I don’t know what distro QE stands for. But that’s not my area of expertise. I bet there’s a good reason it is abbreviated and that you use it on your résumé. It might convey something to a recruiter or not, about what your general expertise and skills could be. Same here, it’s just a term that describes the important and distinctive part of the project. Because for everything else there’s nothing out of the ordinary on bazzite, not even the gaming stuff. The makers don’t even like to call it a distro because they use other people’s distros. What’s unique is the delivery pipeline and the config, and that sounds even worse, marketing wise. I’ll share you some interviews later.

This is an interview with Jorge, who was around here on the thread earlier answering questions.

And here’s an interview on the fedora podcast with bazzite makers.

It looked like they were mimicking cars to me, not mice. Not saying that it wouldn’t be a cool concept if it has an optical sensor. But they didn’t show any visual feedback to imply they were controlling any kind of cursor. If that was the implication, it’s obvious it was a rushed marketing piece.

I think that’s still the DS. The Switch got close, but didn’t beat it, and now that attention is on the Switch2, it probably won’t.

Which mouse thing? they seem to be exactly all the same inputs the Switch 1 already had.

At my organization (tens of thousands of machines) IT has been racking their brains because W11 is such a pain to manage at scale in comparison to W10. It’s been causing more work, so much that the upgrade was postponed to next year and are considering paying for the extended support. W11 really is just that shitty. Managing the upgrades alone feels like arcane magic.

Regular physical activity and spending some time outdoors is more beneficial than injecting weird shit, who knew?

You can’t fight bad habits with supplements.

I’m not attacking your experience. Good for you, keep enjoying it. I’m just saying that it is not universally good for everyone, it would do us all good to avoid erasing other’s experiences or invalidating their emotions.

I also didn’t say it is creepy to see what your friends post. I’m saying that it is creepy that Facebook gets to see everything you do in your personal life. Remember that meta trains AI on what you post. At least with messaging you can use end to end encryption if you want to.

Maybe it’s just me, but that always struck me as a theater of connection, not actual connection. I know all my friends kids, even those who live abroad. Not because of an internet social network, but because we actually talk to each other on the regular, and share pictures and video calls, directly, personally. Not informally and creepily through a capricious algorithm. My good wishes to my friends and family on special occasions go directly to them, we don’t need a middle man to choose when and where they are going to see those things, and I don’t need to perform connection for people I barely talk to. Remember that the flip side of the coin is that social networks cause isolation by making all interactions feel impersonal and distant. Facebook literally caused a loneliness crisis amongst young people, who felt compelled to compete for attention and approval, distorting their expectations, altering their sense of self-worth, exposing them to abuse. Internet social networks have a very dark side.

From kids perspectives it is different. For young people anyone over 25 is old, solidly adult, not “with it”, washed, etc. Contrasts that with almost 70% of tiktok users are under 24, with over 50% of creators in the 18 to 24 range. That’s solidly a young people social network. Facebook is in comparison made of old people. Most young people who engage with Meta do so through Instagram, and have a Facebook account because IG nags them to create one. But they aren’t going there or spending any significant amount of time engaging with Facebook itself. Facebook follows the global age distribution more closely, but users and active users engaging are entirely different things.

I wouldn’t call it a delusion. But I understand where you’re coming from. Certainly if someone doesn’t want to change anything about themselves then therapy won’t change them by force, it’s just not something an ethical practice would ever do. However, on psychology we start from the premise that changing oneself is the first step at changing one’s circumstances. Things don’t get better by wishful thinking or spontaneously, change requires actions, and thoughts precede actions. Expecting different results from the same behaviors and thought patterns is, itself, a delusion.

It is proprietary, only the Authenticated Transfer protocol is open. Thus far saying it is decentralized is a controversial topic, depends on the definition of dencentralization. A regular user can only hope to host a Personal Data Server, without any real or consequential power over the network, though. Relays are not practical to be hosted by anyone but huge companies. And even then, the content and data is still under absolute power of Bluesky.

For example, if a Mastodon server decides to censor something and you don’t agree with said decision, you can change servers and still access the content and participate on the Activity Pub stream. But, if BlueSky decides to censor you or someone else, you are out of luck. Even if you host you own server, the canonical repository of the network activity is under absolute power of BlueSky.

You could host your own AT network, but it is not clear how or even if it will be able to interact with other AT networks or the canonical BlueSky network.

Here’s some sources:

https://gigazine.net/gsc_news/en/20241128-bluesky-decentralization

https://next.ink/158967/bluesky-est-il-decentralise/

https://tormentnexus.substack.com/p/is-bluesky-really-decentralized-its

CBT is categorically not about suppressing feelings. That’s a reductionist view of the approach. It is about analyzing why are you having those feelings and what, in you life’s history and everyday habits, has made them the prevalent feeling, behavior or thought on certain given circumstances so you can get back into control of what you do with those. This is from an acknowledgement that your conscious self might not always align with your emotional self. It is perfectly fine to feel sad when sad things happen. But some people find it troubling that they always react with sadness or anger whenever anything happens, even happy and positive things. Well, searching why that is and what can be done to change it is a positive thing. Specially if this sadness and anger are causing trouble in your everyday life (lashing out at close persons or engaging in self-destructive behavior). You can’t get rid of the emotions, but you can acknowledge them and alter what you do with those emotions and eventually change how you spontaneously react to events in a more adaptive way.

It also differentiates it from Bluesky. It was just Twitter’s endeavor to spearhead decentralization, just like Threads. Jay Graber has Bluesky’s users by the balls and at their whims just like Musk has Twitter. Anything proprietary and for profit will always eventually enshittify. Threads was born already enshittified and Bluesky is on the early part of the curve.

None since I don’t have access to my self-hosted server at the moment due to personal circumstances, so I shut it down. I miss my server.