rottingleaf

As an ADHD person (among other things), I don’t think I can be replaced with an LLM either.

I disagree, that round plastic glossy thing could look nice. A bit like SW-themed website design in Star Wars: AotC times.

But that’s if the actual GUIs would not cause nausea.

And if they wouldn’t try to make it look expensive.

Actually what I liked in Apple designs in my childhood - they looked modern, friendly and kinda not too pretentious, in other words, cheap.

The majority of their customers apparently have the opposite criteria.

Why would a German take offense at this? A Jewish person - maybe.

BTW, being that, I don’t. I actually studied the Holocaust. In my opinion none of the fundamental reasons of the Holocaust have been addressed by modern societies. The thing itself and the need for prevention of such have been distorted and used to support those fundamental reasons, and to help new genocides, and to make propaganda stronger. Mechanisms justified by need to fight Nazis are being used by Nazis to fight me.

First time I see something like this net upvoted. Mood improved.

There’s often no in any way complete source code after 25 years.

Media degrade, get forgotten hell knows where, get occasionally destroyed.

There’s no such thing as untrackable.

The feeling of being a completely honest and lawful citizen was really nice at some point, buying games in Steam, GOG or just bookstores, too bad it was mostly gaslighting and they were not going to be honest with us.

Impostors, in other words.

You can use VMs even more ambitiously. If your wi-fi is not supported by FreeBSD - there’s a wifibox port, basically it runs a minimal Linux with PCI passthrough.

And of course if I need Windows, it won’t be bare metal.

Oh no, please no, hell no, fuck no

I’ve recently seen a nice description of that - “peasant mindset”.

People who are not ready and willing to peacefully discuss reality with literally anyone, and most of all marginal and weird viewpoints, like sovcits and antivaxxers, because those are more interesting, - have that “peasant mindset”.

(I’ve found something like that in my head too this morning, so sharing the thought.)

Aggression is a sign of fear, and fear is something we feel when we are not ready to change our mind if we get some good arguments, or when we get bad, insufficient arguments, but are pressed to change our mind anyway.

Why can we not be ready for that, feel powerless before that possibility of deciding to think differently 5 minutes from now?

Because there’s something that we follow like a peasant follows their master. It’s the assumed identity, the family, the group, the party, the state, the nation. Such a decision, and a decision to discuss reality preceding that, is an act of defiance toward those. It’s a conflict, and we as humans sometimes try to avoid conflicts. It’s like discussing orders. Only there’s not a single soul above us who is entitled to order us how we vote or how we think.

Every decision worth making is destructive, everything new comes in the place of something old and something that could be, there’s nothing to fear.

Changing one’s mind by a conscious decision after careful consideration is a sign of having personal dignity. Not changing one’s mind in the same situation is too a sign of having personal dignity.

Keeping your head down and trying to eat anyone not in line is not.

(too long again)