Yes! “Concepts weren’t a thing.” This is for me the impossible thing to describe. In retrospect, I’m glad I had that experience, but I also say never again.

The caring you describe is part of the helping.

I had a similar experience on ketamine, and it’s been so frustrating, because I want to explain but no words can explain it. I can’t even say it was an experience I had because there was no concept of “I”. It wasn’t the case that I was “one with everything”, because there was no I. I’ve been looking for the right words to describe what it was like, but it’s just not possible to describe with words and concepts.

Isn’t a shopping list more like a data structure? A recipe would be an algorithm. I don’t know, I could be wrong.

If someone told me to use the fdisk app I’d be confused.

Distance between pole and equator is… 10 km?

That someone is you

Sometimes I think “if debian had a flashy website and a few tweaks for user friendliness, then it would be just as attractive as linux mint or ubuntu for new users”, and other times I think “isn’t this exactly what most debian based distros are already?” Would there be a benefit if those projects worked under the debian name, something like debian workstation pure blend, or debian corporate pure blend? I don’t know.

Thanks for explaining, that sound good. I hope we can also squeeze in Year of Linux on the Desktop as an added bonus.

What does this mean in practice?

Expanding on this, we could make it so that root must use ed(1) to edit files?

For JavaFX I ended up putting both JDK and JavaFX in my home dir and pointed vscodium to the right paths, I could get programs to compile but for some reason it would not let me open windows from inside, complaining that DISPLAY was not set or available iirc, even though I did set the env variable inside. Either way, I’m not ready for this container work-flow. Though I suspect that I could get used to better practices. Do you install git and your editor of choice separately in all dev containers? Like, how much of the tooling should be inside or on host?

About a year ago I started experimenting with the whole container-based workflow thing. I don’t know how much time I’ve spent on setting up various programming environments, and there’s always hurdles like getting a flatpak editor have access to java and actually be able to run javafx programs. And with distroboxes, what if my code needs access to a database that is started in a docker container on the host system, do I install docker inside the distrobox? I’ve had so many configuration issues. Every time I try I come back to debian stable and it feels like home.

Isn’t it more satisfying to just not buy a Tesla? That people choose not to.

Same, I just wanted to get out of the US market. It’s not even about how the stocks perform or about making money. Even if a good opportunity to buy presents itself in the future I will never buy US stocks as long as they are sinking deeper into fascism.

A common threat like climate change has not been very effective sadly.

Yes, but it must have been like 15 years ago or something. It didn’t help that the first versions of Gnome3 were unpolished and buggy. After that I started to appreciate version stability. I do like new and improved software, but I want it in predictable ways.

I do this with my girlfriend sometimes. Not sure how it started, but once in a while now one of us says “hey, wanna touch eyes?” and then we touch eyes. It’s actually not easy, you have to find the right angles.

I don’t mind changes, but I want to be able to decide when they happen. Maybe I’m just traumatized from the last time I used a rolling release distro and suddenly Gnome 3 landed and replaced Gnome 2. I did not like that.

She has a track record of going after big tech, which can be a bit surprising as she is a republican. People were surprised that Trump chose her. That’s what the whole origin of “Proton CEO is pro-Trump” is about. Trump chose someone who isn’t a friend of big tech, and the Proton CEO posted that it was a good choice. This article explains the whole thing step by step: https://medium.com/@ovenplayer/does-proton-really-support-trump-a-deeper-analysis-and-surprising-findings-aed4fee4305e