Spend a half-month considering, deeply, which path you would most-value having taken at the end of your life.
Due to an unconscious psychological-limitation, imagine your funeral at 1.5x your current age ( we apparently have a kind of "horizon" in our ability to understand our meaning beyond that ),
and imagine each significant variant, or compromise, and see how each makes you, in that future-condition/context feel.
Your answer is within you, same as for everyone.
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SO LONG AS IT IS ACTUAL MERITOCRACY,
and not just privilege's gaslighting about it ( via making-certain that the poorest have inferior-nutrition, inferior-air-quality, worse-pollution, inferior-education, inferior-healthcare, etc ),
then yes, I hold it is The Proper Way.
However, it REQUIRES a truly-level playing-field, and not a 2-tiered "level" playing-field.
The Scandinavian system of ONLY public-schooling, so there is only 1 tier of education-quality, is a required component.
Student nutrition needs to be guaranteed.
Healthcare needs to work properly, for all.
Livingwage needs to be for all full-time work, and companies that try to hire only part-time for the real-work, have to have the profit-benefit of such hamstringing-of-many-lives cut from them all, permanently.
Fairness requries careful systematic, & openly-honest enforcement, because the DarkHexad: narcissism/machiavellianism/sociopathy-psychopathy/nihilism/sadism/systemic-dishonesty ALWAYS seeks to enforce abusive-exploitation, and it is underhandedly aggressive, and natural in our human nature.
Not mitigating it == accommodating it.
Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen, eh?
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Fish, arthropods, etc, had eggs millions of years before chickens.
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IF you want Steam, THEN please consider every variant in the official Ubuntu family.
Steam-support told me in their system, iirc in early 2023, that they ONLY support the Ubuntu family ( directly ).
As Linus Torvalds noted, it isn't possible to release software that is going to work on all distros.
Even glibc has been broken by one, in that talk of his, and it wasn't a niche distro, either, iirc.
Pick which subset you CAN afford to support, and do not add to that subset until you're rolling in money, from your linux-customerbase.
( slight sarcasm on the last line, but business is business: destroying-resources costs, and if there is no benefit, it isn't sane to continue doing it. )
Decide which capabilities/functions/apps you NEED, and then don't even consider distros that break your required-set on you.
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If it works for you, stick with it.
Works is a feature, not a bug.
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Don't put-up with Israel's gaslighting.
I used to support Israel.
As an Englishman, whose identity I don't remember pointed-out, years ago:
IF the Jews of the region have a moral-right to their own homeland, THEN so do the Palestinians.
EITHER BOTH OR NEITHER-DO.
Once someone has proven they are only narcissistic-machiavellian-sociopath/psychopath, through their nihilistic obliteration of other's lives, and much more, and throught their sadism,
they have ZERO claim on God, on "scripture", or on "validity" or on Truth.
The old rabbis ( find some interviewed on youtube! ) who call-out Israel & I stand together in contempting their lies.
KNOW gaslighters for what they are, & deal-with-them as such.
Rabies is rabies.
IF the patient can be got sane/healthy, then help 'em do that, but if not...
then don't let 'em infect you with their rabies.
( & that goes also for Hamas's terror-strike, too: both sides have crossed the line into worshipping nihilism/mass-murder, while claiming God, sadly )
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and if you consider that "economic barrier to entry" can make any bigger company, who is able to scoop a startup's code & sell the use of it, can extinguish the startup who created the code ...
then, yes, there are definitely situations where protection-against-competitors, some of whom have DEEP pockets, could be an actual requirement, for opensourcing one's code.
"Coopetition" Bill Gates coined, where you "cooperate" with your competitors, but, being Microsoft, you do it so you can snuff them, soon.
I can definitely see why a company would want to be able to allow limited use of their code, globally, but to legally-prohibit using it to destroy them.
I haven't read the article, but yes, wars do have time-limits:
Once a war becomes domestically impossible to participate in, Vietnam as 1 proof, then the-course-of-war changes.
Economic-collapse means that Biden's hosed in 2024, and the Republicans are Russian allies, not NATO allies.
Yes wars have time-limits.
Simply wait & see: by the end of 2025, NATO will be gutted, Trump will have been crowned GEOTUS ( a term they already use for him ), and Trump will ( passively, at least ) back Russia.
Sickening, but it looks like that's the fact of the unfolding global/geopolitical near-future.
IF by "security" one means bugs have been prevented from living in it, there is one coded in Haskell, it may be named XMonad or something...
( .. digging .. )
Yep:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xmonad
from there:
"Due to the small number of lines of code of the Xmonad application, the use of the purely functional programming language Haskell, and recorded use of a rigorous testing procedure it is sometimes used as a baseline application in other research projects. This has included re-implementation of xmonad using the Coq proof assistant,[31] a determination xmonad is an imperative program,[32] and studies of package management relating to the NixOS linux distribution.[33]"
Dig: 2000-ish lines of code.
The problem is the end of civil-rights: WHEN the only internet left is the internet that IS for-profit propaganda, auto-deleting all non-compliant human thought, discussion, intelligence, objectivity, etc,
THEN humanity is just managed "steers" whose lives are being consumed by corporations which graze on us.
Since another dimension of ratchet is the concentration-of-wealth, you can see that working-destitution is being enforced on more & more of humankind, and real wealth being limited to fewer & fewer...
What happens when the working-poor try fighting for a fair share of the economy?
Rigged legislation, rigged "police" ( I used to believe in the police ), anti-education Florida-style for the public, etc...
AI tilts the playing-field, and it does-so for the monied special-interest-groups.
They don't have humanitarianism at heart.
Neither do the politically motivated.
Neither do for-profit-psychopaths ( corporations are psychopaths ).
Living in a Decorator Prison is all humanity can hope for, now: inmates, .. except for the fewer & fewer oligarchs & the financial-class.
'tisn't looking good.
Without Divine Intervention, which is statistically improbable an event, these are The End Times, but not for the reason that the religious claim.
I'm an old guy, whose been in Linux, off'n'on since 1997 or 1996, and not a professional.
Keep that in mind.
I now always recommend a pair of NVMe's,
with swap on both,
with root mdadm mirrored RAID1 on both ( I've read that BTRFS "RAID1", when 1 mirror is missing on boot, simply won't permit you to boot, unless you get jiggy with the damn thing, telling it arbitrary stuff, to get it to allow that )
with /home mdadm mirrored RAID1
and use the extra space for whatever.
Use SATA for your backups.
I recommend using the fastest NVMe's you can get, but biggest is more-important.
Samsung .. what are they, EVO drives? go up to 2TB, iirc, and are reasonably cheap ( for people who can afford such things )...
This gives Linux's mdadm RAID1 speed ( it does RAID0 for reads, RAID1 for writes ), AND it gives greater reliability.
I've been stung by incorrect partition space allocation sooo many times, that now I'd stick everything on as few partitions as is sane, but as OpenBSD recommends, some filesystems on separate partitions breaks some attack-methods ( partly by breaking hardlinks ).
The difference that access-speed & bandwidth do, for your OS, and especially swap, is stunning, so if you've got the funds, consider the Samsung PRO NVMe's, instead of their EVO's, but definitely get quality & quick NVMe's, RAID1 'em up, and enjoy.
PS: I always do a prototype-install, now:
whole-device ( except swap, EFI, boot ), 1 partition, install everything I'm likely to want, of that OS, take a look at the filesystem use, for different parts of the root fs-tree, and then begin deciding what partition-sizes to be considering, using a 1.5x or 2x factor for expansion-space... ( different distros with /usr and /opt, especially ).
Then I repartition into the intended structure, & install in...
And, of course, I now expect to have to re-partition 1/2y later, as the things I've later found, & added, alter the ratios...
Obviously, if this weren't just some random guy at home, LLVM would make much more sense, because then partitions could be resized/redistributed on-the-fly.
But for now, for a machine I only-sometimes use, it's good enough.
Maybe this seems useful information?
I hope so...
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If it's changing, you might want to get a brain-scan, immediately.
No, it isn't normal ( not for me, anyhow ), to the guy who said it is normal.
It's not an ear thing, it is an auditory-processing thing, so it's your brain that's doing it.
The question is why it is doing it.
Perhaps it's just fuzzy wiring, as most such cases likely are.
( synaesthesia is a case of weird wiring, and I've got that, but not in the normal way, not senses blurring into each-other, but rather my non-visual cognition being a kind of "blur" to those senses, so they mesh oddly )
But if it begins changing in either intensity or character, get a scan.
( I'm a braindamage survivor, and it takes decades to adapt to braindamage: prevention/avoidance is better than hating one's life for decades, while being bullied by all who reject that it could still validly be a problem, and hold that one ought either force oneself into being an "acceptable" drugged psychiatric-zombie, and not "pretend" to be getting better, or one ought be able to be acceptable-pretence, just like Valid People(TM) are. )
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