Paragone
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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I'm a braindamage survivor.
You need to communicate your values, and why they are your values.
You need to communicate who you are, via the most-significant-moments/events you experienced: the most-significant-for-you meanings, see?
As for you disappearing, the Soul/CellOfGod/ChildOfGod/Continuum ( whatever you want to call it ) that causes the molecules in your body to continue-living ( yes, there is a physics-level cause for the anti-entropy behaviour expressed as living-organisms, and it isn't there, when those same molecules are doing the disintegrating-corpse thing, obviously )
That cause is unkillable.
It keeps getting caught in conceptions/lives, through endless-stream-of-Universes's perpetual recycling/churning of ALL energies ( including meaning! ) contained within it.
It isn't the-individual-life that is the center,
it is the Soul/CellOfGod/ParticleOfBrahman that is.
IT experienced some of ITs growing-up, in/through your-life.
With you, your Soul got a gift, fersure.
My life's been hell, & I'm glad:
nothing like aversion-therapy to force a Soul/CellOfGod to grow-up, eh?
The Soul that had "me"-personality won't ever make that mistake, again.
: )
If you've still got any ability to read, or to have someone read to you, please have someone get Elisabeth Haich's "Initiation" into you:
it is likely that only part of the book will be important for you, but that part will likely be IMPORTANT.
The world her Soul 1st inhabited was something like 10,000y ago ( it hasn't rained much there, since then ).
My Soul's spent most of its time inhabiting insect-lives, or particularly-stupid-fish-with-bad-eyesight.
It's been centuries since it had been in a human-category life ( the Catholicism I was pressed into, by mom, got nuked when I discovered those strange-memories were memories of my Soul's having lived in other kinds of lives.
Not only did it nuke all the Abrahamic religions, but it forced me to accept that ALL lives are lives because they have a Soul underlying them, and there isn't anything "special" about the life of a human, except for our Potential & our Opportunity, which most take for granted, including me, in my younger days ).
Anyways, you can't unexist, from Eternity.
You'll always have-been, see?
The Soul/CellOfGod who had you has YOU in it, indestructibly.
I'm earning removal of me-personality now ( should be days ), so the nervous-system currently having "me" can get that "me" ripped-out & can replace it with a better personality ( it's a Buddhist technique, apparently nobody remembers it, in the modern version of Buddhism, for some reason ), so you can stack multiple personalities/someones into a single incarnation, to get-through multiple-lives of lessons/growing-up crammed into a single incarnation/life.
It works, but it takes work to force one's own identity-death, or removal of the instance-of-ego underlying one's personality...
There are 3 kinds of mind that death-itself has difficulty "gripping" on:
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Wisdom-realizing-that-all-phenomena-are-empty-of-self-inherent-existence
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immeasurable-compassion for all sentiences ( but tempered by wisdom )
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Faithing, which is the simultaneous surrendering-to higher-power, relying-on higher-power, and gratitude-to higher-power.
Faithing on one's own CellOfGod/Soul is perfectly find/workable.
It has BuddhaNature/GodNature, so all you have to do is orient to that aspect of its nature, and then faithing is powerful/valid, see?
Guru-yoga, is faithing.
"a faith", ie noun, .. isn't what the original texts said, btw.
Anyways, I hope something in this helps, gives you leverage.
Either way, our Souls will meet again, after "us", sooner-or-later...
Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen, Hoomin!
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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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Read Hofstede's "Exploring Culture", and consider that a person in a high-collectivity culture, which also is a high-power-distance culture, may well answer the survey with what "face" requires them to say, instead of answering with what they, themselves, feel.
If you aren't correcting for that, you're doing propaganda, not science.
Different cultures REQUIRE different subjectivities be taken-into-account.
I think it would be more valid to dig into specific dimensions of happiness, & make some of those objective ( cortisol-blood-levels, for measuring stress, e.g. )
WHEN you ask people in individualistic cultures a question, and THEN you ask people in collectivist cultures the SAME question, they are not answering the same question, they are answering the social-pressure question, instead.
It makes complete mincemeat of cross-cultural measuring of "objective" things.
Try reading Lanier's "Foreign to Familiar" book, & understand just HOW different warm-vs-nordic cultures are, in instinct/reactions,
then it should be more obvious how such surveys are disinformation, not information.
Then it ISNT a
"Global Happiness Index"
, rather it is a
"Global URBAN Happiness Index",
and such profound mislabeling of things is disinformation, not journalism.
Which, itself, is so systematic & profound, nowadays, that there isn't much hope for integrity to win, in our world, now, anyways.
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've been told that to start a fight in Francophones, just demand to know whether grapefruit ( pamplemousse, iirc ), is male or female...
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The book "The Alphabet Versus The Goddess" by Leonard Shlain, makes the point that women's-rights simply don't progress as quickly, in countries which have gendered languages...
So, Anglo cultures pushed women's-rights, whereas Latin cultures .. won't, don't, drag their heels, etc...
That book is now a couple ?decades? old?
It's still true.
Conditioning an entire population's System-1 ( Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking Fast & Slow", the System-1 is the default-instinct & the trained-now-automatic-expertise system, it also is the system that is both addiction & prejudice ) into gendering everything, automatically, may well prevent equal-validity from ever having place...
Mind you, I now want to see which Nordic/Scandi languages are gendered, & which Middle-East languages are gendered, to see if that holds in those parts of the world, not just in the Americas...
... digging ...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_in_Danish_and_Swedish
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_gender
( that isn't a quick read... may come back to it some day... )
Bingo!
"The grammatical gender of nouns is one of two: a noun may be masculine or it may be feminine, and there is no neutral option. Moreover, masculinity is the default grammatical gender in Arabic and a word does not have to have anything special in order to reflect this. Femininity, on the other hand, is not default and a noun would have to have something special to reflect this gender in Arabic."
from
https://www.learnarabiconline.com/gender/
So, there is ZERO hope of equal-validity in Arabic culture, because the language programs Arabic people's System-1 into 2 exclusive validity-categories, with male being inherently more-valid, by established language-habit.
What about Hebrew?
No wonder women can't get equal-validity in Jewish culture...
( I read a Jewess's writing ~ Nobody EVERY celebrated the birth of a Jewish girl: only boys are celebrated ~ .. which explains the damage in the stereotypical "Jewish mother", a woman whose validity has been contempted by all in her culture, until the damage is her most defining feature... )
So, it looks like equal-rights/equal-validity for women is .. baseless, in some/many cultures...
Interesting, but depressing.
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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.
Go read McMoneagle's book of predictions: it is awefully wrong.
Remote Viewing is a modified kind of dreaming:
Remote Viewers are in dreams, and their ( very primitive brain, it seems ) ESP is patching-in pieces of what it perceives, but .. it is patching those things into a dream, so the result is .. rather groundless, with fragments of truth in it.
I trust the hard photos from NASA & ESA more than I trust McMoneable's dreams..
Yes, the youtube vid of him being interviewed about his helping Japan find sites that archaeology says did have to do with an early royal of theirs ( an Empress? ) is convincing, but I've not fact-checked it.
It may well be spot-on: ancient Japanese history isn't my interest.
If he was predicting people living on Mars, the same Mars that sometimes comes up to warm-enough to melt water, but has dry-ice on the ground, in the winters at the poles, and planet-scale dust-storms, and CO2 lasering in its atmosphere, and an atmosphere that is 1/1000th as thick ( from the aviation perspective ) as ours, with nearly-no oxygen loose in it...
I'm sticking with the machines that map & photograph the things.