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Being a parent is awesome if you want to be one and it aligns with your personality. Our existences are largely shaped by our relationships (I say this as an introverted AuDHD nerd) and being a parent is probably the most significant and transformative relationship in the lives of people who are parents.
However, I know that I have always been a kid person and also always wanted to be a parent. And then my wife and I couldn't have kids for the longest time, went through some more years of pain with adoptions falling through, and then finally had our own biological kid. And not only is he somehow perfect in a better way than we could have designed ourselves, but his neurospices seem to mimic mine so it's like I have a superpower for relating to him and interpreting his issues.
I assume that qualifies me pretty high on the scale of Lemmy users who are very much into being a parent. I'll wear that rank proudly.
With those decades of experience and the satisfaction of how it is currently going, plus all the stuff I learned navigating my mental issues alongside it, I am quite confident saying that having kids is NOT for everybody, and it will NOT fix your problems.
Raising kids is probably a potentially good experience for most people, sure, but in supportive circumstances.
Unfortunately, society pressures people to conform to the norm, and the huge "you are supposed to start a family now" step usually comes right after you were pushed to go into tons of student debt, marry the first person you dated for longer than a year, then top up the debt to get an overpriced house and vehicle or two.
It's been a very long time since "I saw it on the internet so it must be true" was a novel joke.
So then some tech bros wanted to create "AI" so they fed a language based machine learning model the entire fucking internet and anybody ever expected anything of value?
It convincingly simulates a pedantic internet jackass with unlimited drugs and time on their hands. But that content is freely available at a slightly more human pace. Nobody is paying for more of it except the very same tech companies using every psychological trick in the book to drive engagement, even if it harms users.
The stuff under the AI umbrella will be useful for some things, and probably pretty valuable in some industries. New tools often are. But propping up however many trillions or tens of trillions of perceived value in the economy?
hopes that society will become more accepting of AI, or what Nadella describes as "cognitive amplifier tools."
Ok well this is a simple train of cause and effect that even Mr Nadella should be able to understand.
Make an actual tool that is so damn good and so universally useful that early adopters who pay attention would consider calling it a "cognitive amplifier."
Keep in mind that I have seen the term "second brain" used for note taking apps, usually easy to use and sync between devices. (I'm using AnyType free)
That is how poorly the "market" views your "tech demo with a price tag" product! It loses the brain title to a small collection of conveniently stored text files. Congratulations.
We need both.
Technology is awesome and I have a tech job and a house full of computers and all that. But it's important that we don't fall into the trap of "if we just got rid of the capitalists, then we could be on our screens all day in peace and health."
If you cooperate with the primitive parts of your brain that evolved to take cues from the natural world, it can often improve things across the board.
I don't have any issues with KDE, and I admire their work beyond the DE/UI. Kdenlive is my chosen video editor, for instance. I believe it's the flatpak version too, so it no doubt loads a bunch of stuff into ram.
I'm not sure what you mean by "restricting" with the DE since I have a terminal at my fingertips at all times. I assume you mean some design decisions or lack of some customization options that KDE has?
But the weird selection of apps has me lost. It comes with stuff installed that you might expect, like firefox and libre office. It uses mostly the Ubuntu repositories so you can apt or apt-get install most things you're looking for. And since it's linux you can add repositories and all that fun stuff.
I also don't know what you mean by filtering flathub.
I'd expect that most brand new users install Ubuntu or Linux Mint because of how often they are recommended.
Linux Mint is basically Ubuntu with Canonical/Snaps removed and some added polish. The default DE is laid out like windows before 11 ("start" button in lower left) which seems to make sense for new users.
I'm a knowledgable enough user, being a developer on embedded linux products, and I also stuck with Mint long term. It's still a Linux system that I actually control. The fact that it was very user friendly and full featured it off the box doesn't take away from that. It just meant that it wasn't the learning experience you'd get with something like Arch.
There's a lot of wisdom in this even though it's oversimplified.
For me, the smaller I make my world the happier I seem to be. I spend most of my non-job and non-sleep time hanging with my family, working on my house, and doing what are essentially farm chores to take care of all our pets.
Working with your hands and engaging all your senses with real stimulus from the natural world is a huge part of it, even as somebody who has been terminally online since the 90s.
Oh I agree with everything you're saying here. I use the night mode on my phone AND in Linux Mint!
I've done RGB light bulbs in the past to set them to more orange/red colors at night, but now i've switched to 2700K bulbs with high CRI/TM-30 ratings that I can just dim way down and selectively turn off.
Absolutely insane.
Given how long their conversation was, I wonder if some of those stats and "scores" were actually inputs from the person that the LLM just spit back out weeks or months later.
Not that it has to be. It's not exactly difficult to see how these LLMs could start talking like some kind of conspiracy theory forum post when the user is already talking like that.
Money.
Greed.
Humans (including the rich ones) looking for fulfillment in all the wrong places.
The naming is one thing I legitimately like about the whole Linux/GNU/FOSS world.
Things are still named by nerds/enthusiasts who have some spark of joy and fun left in their hearts. Could you imagine a sanitized corporate software product released today with a name that directly refers to the established product it is meant to displace?
For example, things like GNU's Not Unix or my favorite remotely accessible text/terminal based email client I used around the turn of the century, PINE Is Not Elm.
Then you get fun second-order software names like GIMP, too.
It's all so preferable to the commercial software branding world where even though the visual presentation is extremely samey (everybody switching to the same popular boring fonts and removing logos/artwork), the actual brands are often made up silly words that are easy to get the domain name and the social handles for.
Be sure to follow BONTO! on all your favorite trillion dollar propaganda and surveillance platforms!
Haha yeah, I think SpiceDealer's comment inadvertently supports the notion it's meant to dispel.
But to be fair, the media world has been using the word "digital" to mean "electronic delivery" for a long time.
Here's my hot take to offer:
The Krunch 106.66 from Saints Row 2 is the best radio station in any city sandbox GTA-style game.
I like metal and there are a couple bands I started listening to because of that radio station.
I completely understand the sentiment!
I am still into some tech and "new computer" type stuff. I am about to install a bigger/faster drive in my PC and set up my Home Assistant server. That PC is already my Jellyfin server. I am also in the middle of building a brand new PC for my kid, which will also run Mint, lol.
But I spend time only on the things that I've learned really matter to me, and not on all the things you're "supposed to" mess with in your home lab that you obviously have.
You know the meme (or meme category) where it's a resume or linkedin profile where the recent work history goes something like Senior Network Architect, then Goose Farmer?
I may literally have a 3D printer still in the box, and PC & networking parts all over the house, but my daily routine is embedded linux C/C++ sr developer by day and animal tender on the evenings and weekends, lol.
Does anybody here have moderate to severe ADHD and can honestly say you do not have anxiety and depression? Not necessarily medicated, but I'd expect it to be a lot more common in this crowd. Our crowd.
I was thinking the autism dino would say something like "ok you still have to do everything somehow, but you cannot ask for help"
Wilhoit's law:
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
In looking up the exact text, apparently it is often attributed to the wrong Wilhoit, lol.
That sounds an awful lot like Wilhoit's law, which I find myself referring to quite often lately.
Wilhoit's law:
edit: So the US is the rich conservative of the world stage. Super. I love seeing the news every day and wondering if any more of these maga morons are going to finally have their "are we the baddies?" moment. /s