My nephew has snails. He smuggled them out of the schoolyard in his hoodie after the teachers caught him the first time and confiscated them. My sister found them and had to take them to a pet store to make sure they weren’t dangerous. Now they sit in a nice terrarium and it turns out the hardest part is keeping the humidity up.

And the “not my job” award goes to…

I propose we should send Musk to fetch it himself.

A friend was a design teacher and he taught me that design uses existing symbolism and iconography. But you can’t control what people will ultimately use your design for. The babadook for example, was a monster intended to cause fear in a horror movie. However, a clerical error by Netflix and an over imaginative tumblr user, turned it into a queer icon that is now widely recognized on internet culture. Of course you can sort of imbue intent and predict use of design to some extent, but humans have an arbitrary side that makes it hard to say something would be a better icon for an abstract concept.

You can’t design a better icon. That’s not how symbolism works. The most recognizable symbol for save is the one we are using now. As designing something new, by default, it would not be recognized by anyone but the designer since use defines meaning. Until it is used it won’t be recognized by anyone.

Edit: like, think of the play icon and its meaning in media control. It was born as an indicator of the direction a reel to reel tape player was moving. It still holds that meaning for digital streaming today despite the virtual extinction of tape players. Its use defines its meaning, detached from its origin and despite the obsolescence of its reference.

Almost none of our symbols make sense and are disconnected from their origin. That’s a good thing. Without detachment of the signs from their reference we can’t have abstract thought and language. The letter D comes from an icon for fish. But it went from indexical reference to icon, to symbol. And then we changed its shape over time to what it is today, and some people started using it for the alveolar plosive. The same has happened for every single symbol we recognize and use, alphabet or not. It’s all arbitrary and it doesn’t matter if we don’t use actual floppy disks anymore.

Oh dear lord, no. That’s absolutely wrong. Stop panicking and read.

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Two apps on the same device is still the same place. Same app but on different devices is different places.

Multi device. If you have more than one device with your vault configured and protected with MFA then the risk of locking yourself out of the account drops logarithmically with each additional device.

They have different threat models. If they don’t have a PC, they most likely don’t and never will have bitwarden. They’ll let apple or Samsung or Google handle their security for them. In the end, we all accept some level of risks across different threat dimensions. Some people are more lax and some people are more strict. It’s not the end of the world.

This is not the end of the world, some mighty overreaction on the comments. This is why diversity is the answer to security. Multi factor, multi mode, multi device. Something you know, something you have, something you are, etc.

If you have more than one device, like PCs, laptop, phone, in any combination, and you have your access config on all. Then there’s an infinitesimally small chance you’d lose access to your vault.

Apple tried to adapt Asimov’s Foundation with mixed results. I think something small and approachable like Player of Games or Consider Phlebas does for a nice action flick with philosophical underpinnings if taken by a good screewriter.

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.

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.

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.

Wait until I tell you about this weird concept, the zero…

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.