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Yes, my thought exactly.. In my experience it is always how you behave when arguing. If you "blame" the other will become defensive and nothing is accomplished. If you generalize and and talk in a helpful supportive way they will see their fault themselves and correct the fault. I usually get most on my side. We openly discuss and I genuinely look for faults in my own arguments too.

Yes! Exactly this... Attention... We become so dependent on always being distracted so that we can not function without it. I remember there where a similar discussion about TV back in the days.. but the level it is on now is unprecedented. I think society will adjust to this behavior as it has always done before. How damning or not is yet to be decided. It does not necessarily has to be a bad thing... but being dependent on something usually is.

I think most of us older than 25 understands this. We have seen the development and the war on attention. I guess the term Dopamine Fracking is not bad. I don't think we should be too alarmist though... we are kids of our time.. in that we will arrange the society around us. In essence we are not that different from the Romans. We just have a lot more toys.

Unregulated capitalism is bad. We all know that. I think the automation will ultimately be that thing that brings us past that. Via UBI or something similar... but that is far from now.

This is almost the same as going from making fire with a stick to using a lighter.. sure it is simplified but still not wrong. Humans while still doing grunt work can still make mistakes as does the machine.. the machine will eventually discover it. The same can not be said of the human because of the work needed to do so might be too much. In the end we might not learn as much.. but it will not matter and thus is really not an issue.

I think people are forgetting that handwriting is also a technology. It is kinda a similar shift from using a stick to make fire and a lighter. The more work you put into something the more cognition you are using... so I am not sure those studies are of that much value.. We will not need to write in the future.. we will have AI for that. People are always looking for convenience and it will win in the end.

Tesla (or Elon) decided to fight the labour union.. people do not like that much. So when there are alternatives people do that.

This made me think of Pauling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Pauling) who was a famous scientist and big proponent of high-dosage C-vitamin. He claimed it could cure everything from a cold to heart disease and cancer. Later studies did though not find any benefit of high-dosage C-vitamin and that potentially had a higher risk of prostate cancer. Pauling died of prostate cancer.

Edit: This may also be of interest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthomolecular_psychiatry

I am not sure this is necessarily a git issue as it is mostly a GitHub issue. just look at the Aur of Arch Linux which works perfectly.

This is kinda huge as a lot of services depend on 2g and 3g and which will now stop working. I think mainly on stuff like built-in remote systems for cars etc..

Noted ;)

In December 2025, 2G and 3G networks will be shut down in Sweden.

I am all for removing old junk but not that it should be replaced with newer junk.

This I am afraid does not feel as the right thing to do. I think the KISS-principle is a good standard to follow and while terminals have to do more than one thing, it should not do everything. Complexity leads to instability. Terminals has to be nimble and not clumsy behemoths like web browsers.

Comparing with Tesla is bad as there is a political aspect why people, especially in EU, do not want to buy it after 2024. Which means the statistics might falter. Also when I look at other sources the data say different. I mean if I look at data from the biggest reseller in Sweden KVD you have EV's that has ~80% of the original worth after three years.

No, I don't think it would have. Israels objective is to occupy everything as it is and have been using illegal settlements to achieve. This prolonged war and genocide of Palestinians is just an excuse to further that goal.

The oppression is the biggest reason Hamas can grow. If that stopped I think with time Hamas would weaken and disappear. Like IRA in Northen Ireland eventually did.

It is sad how history repeats itself.. how the country who should have been on the forefront of preventing genocide is actually the one who does it. Israel is even using similar reasoning for continuing the fight. Similar how the Nazis in Norway was furious over the resistance there.

I think a lot would have been won if the illegal settlements stopped and the apartheid like system ended. Hamas (and any other resistance) lives on the resentment created from that.

It think if Israel went back to the border of -67 and then did not try to expand its territories. It would with time resolve.

One of the great things with Mastodon is that in case of your instance shutting down you can just move to another one. I have moved from Mastodon -> Firefish -> Mastodon without issue. In the case of Firefish the instance shut down... So I do not follow your point.

I think I learned this from Arch Linux and their focus on the KISS principle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle). This is also something that goes beyond the computing sphere. It is really a good principle for life in general.

I guess I am still in that phase then, after 25y+ of Linux. Not that I rice constantly but that I configure my desktop exactly how I like it and then let it stay. Usually the ricing/configuring comes when I buy new hardware.. so not that often. Or when a major change like Wayland comes around which is what made switch from Arch/X11/Bspwm to Arch/Wayland/Hyperland. I have tried but can not use vanilla for long... I just have to adapt the system to me. I feel constrained if I have to adapt to the system.

Being able to move where the jobs are... aren't really a bad thing. It helps all participants. The only downside is that you might have a bit of a brain drain. Which is not necessarily bad. Those with brains goes to another country where they can work and then being able to send money back home. Poor countries in Europe did this in the big emigration and populated America. Those countries are among the richest in the world now. Both America and Europe benefited by it.

They might not be able to find jobs in their home country which could be a burden on the country. If they move and start working in another country. They might get a job that is harder to recruit to and not only just fill that spot but also pay taxes.

Most studies I have seen claim that the more exposure one have to people of other cultures, the more acceptance it will have. So it is actually the opposite. The more immigrants, the more acceptance there should be.

I have the below for cases when I have to make a quick screencast. It needs ffmpeg and I am not sure how well the yt flag works as I don't really use Youtube any longer. Anyway.. first I do 'ffsc sc' and if I want that video to be smaller I do 'ffsc yt <path_to_file>'.

## Make screencast or convert to yt

ffsc () {

vid_name="$HOME/Videos/Screencasts/screencast_$(date +'%y%m%d-%H%M%S')"

        case $1 in
                sc) ffmpeg -f x11grab -s 1920x1080 -i $DISPLAY -r 30 -f alsa -i default -preset ultrafast \
                    -c:v ffvhuff -c:a flac ${vid_name}.mkv
                    printf "${vid_name}.mkv" | xsel -i

                    echo
                    echo "- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -"
                    echo "Output file name: ${vid_name}.mkv"
                    echo "- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -"
                    echo

                    [ -e /tmp/ffsc.tmp ] && { rm /tmp/ffsc.tmp }
                    printf "${vid_name}.mkv" > /tmp/ffsc.tmp
                ;;
                yt) ffmpeg -i $2 -c:v libx264 -crf 18 -preset slow -pix_fmt rgb24 -c:a copy ${2/scr/yt_scr}
                    yt_name=$(cat /tmp/ffsc.tmp)
                    printf "${yt_name/scr/yt_scr}" | xsel -i

                    echo
                    echo "- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -"
                    echo "Output file name: ${yt_name/scr/yt_scr}"
                    echo "- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -"
                    echo
                ;;

                mini) ffmpeg -i $2 -strict -2 -s 1680x1050  -r 60 -c:v libx264 -b:v 164 -crf 22 -preset slow \
                      -pix_fmt yuv420p -c:a copy -an ${2/scr/mini_scr}
                      mini_name=${2/scr/mini_scr}
                      ffmpeg -i ${mini_name} -filter:v "setpts=0.5*PTS" -an ${mini_name/.mkv/.mp4}
                      rm ${mini_name}
                    printf "${mini_name/.mkv/.mp4}" | xsel -i

                    echo
                    echo "- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -"
                    echo "Output file name: ${mini_name/.mkv/.mp4}"
                    echo "- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -"
                    echo
                ;;
        esac

And another nice one I didn't see here..

# Python as a calculator

pc() { python -c "print($*)"; }

Ok... so you went to a festival without money? How would you have solved this without Swish? As you said there was no ATMs. Card readers are expensive and not really viable for most booths. They are also kind of a monopoly.

You don't have to use SWIFT... you can do Paypal, Western union etc.. too.

For Swedes.. Swish is god send. I lost my credit card once at a train and had no cash. I was at a hospital out of town with my son. I was able to Swish to a doctor and then get cash from him.

Me too.. but mostly just personal stuff. I use DarkTable and Gimp for that. I did this on a 13 year old machine running Linux. It is still running but I got my hands on a cheap NUC that I use nowadays. My machines are pretty much running 24/7 all year around..

My impression when it comes to Mac is that people don't want to pay ludicrous prices for repairs e.t.c.. anymore. Also that they can not upgrade because their current machine can't handle the new OS e.t.c..

Don't agree. Mentality is important but it will not automatically lead to success. Look at how well Windows Phone did. Microsoft put everything they had to make that product but ultimately failed.

Both Mac and Windows is successful because retail. People do not want to troubleshoot issues themselves.. They also want something they know. Apple is good at marketing and Windows is something we all know. Linux has just a bunch of small shops and does not have the same brand recognition. It takes much longer for Linux desktop to reach that level of trust. Especially when Microsoft uses their considerable capital to lobby against Linux adoption. Linux adoption is continually rising though.. It is at about 3% right now.

ActivityPub is like the Linux kernel. It is the foundation that other software can use. It took a long time but eventually the idealism behind Linux made it work. It became an important infrastructure that saved money and thus an edge. ActivityPub have the same possibility. It could become the infrastructure of social media.

Those missing features do exist on the Jolla1 so it should work on the Xperia soon enough.

Only issue I had is some apps not working.. but none important.

Wow! He actually recommended to use the browser password manager... Yes, I use FF and have since it came. I did try Chrome a couple of times but it was just a resource hog and ugly. With FF I could get it to look as I wanted and the extensions worked better.

So I agree with his decision but not his arguments or recommendations. They are just crap. The best way to protect your passwords is via a password manager that is not in plane text. Like Pass or Keepass. Pass is my fav as it is extremely portable.

Well, Britain and much of Europe was under an ice cap during the last ice age that ended 8000 years ago. The start of the last ice age was rather quick from a couple of months to a decade some say. It only needs a change of the gulf stream like a massive melt of Greenland and one could start like when Lake Agassiz leaked.

I can not talk about how things is done in other countries... but everyone who reads Psychology (and/or psychiatry) in grade school knows about Aaron Antonovsky and the "sense of coherance" theory. Everyone in health care who study assistant nurse and up knows about this theory.

So this is not something new or unknown about. It is not biology or social.. it is biology and social. Both play a part.

I live in a Scandinavian country and we are very aware that loneliness is an important cause for depression. The problem is.. you can't force people to be social. Family might be the problem. So drugs can be a solution until you find a more permanent solution.

You have countries while they had state monopoly over prescription drugs it was much cheaper than after deregulation. The reason for this was that medical companies was forced to reduce prices if they wanted to sell their drug in that country. They could chose from selling to a country and get a small profit.. or no profit at all. (Here the power lies with the customer)

The reason for high prices is IP. If you are in the choice of getting that expensive prescription drug that treat your hart disease or die.... you will pick the drug. No competition exist. (Here the power lies with the seller).

So to get reasonable prices you either have to remove IP or have a country wide monopoly. Else the free market rule.