Sunsofold @ Sunsofold @lemmings.world

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If the big consideration is really sound, doing whatever is necessary to use larger, but slower (wide, high CFM per dB/RPM) and higher quality (fluid dynamic bearings) fans might serve the purpose regardless of other hardware. Some of them are rated to be <20dB, quieter than a whisper, and fluid bearings are supposed to be mostly impervious to the noise added by aging that hits a lot of fans.

I hope you can see it's not as simple as a single 'x factor.' There are many things that affect murder rates, and many of them have little to nothing to do with simple population count.

Many, many things in this world make people wonder 'How is this a thing?' I don't know of any where the answer isn't simply, 'Idiots exist.'

You ever hear about the US government funding experiments in mind control? One of the examples was a doctor who thought, since experiences are the key to who you are, if you could erase someone's memories and replace them with selected others, you could turn anyone into a 'good citizen.' Turns out wiping someone's brain can sort of be done, and will leave them without memories of the traumas of their past, but making them back into a whole person again isn't so easy, and simply implanting whatever memories you want seems impossible.

Speaker on ceiling: Anyone detected using an emulator will hear from our legal department for stealing the product we have but refuse to make available for sale.

Ubuntu's not bad, though watch for out of date info when you look things up. It's been around a long time.

One of the most useful things I've heard is that while there are a lot of little niche distros, it comes mostly down to three main types: Debian based, Fedora based, and Arch based. This crosses with the most popular desktop environments: KDE Plasma, LXQt, GNOME, XFCE. There are other options but it's easier to not have to learn two things at once.

The desktop environment is the front end 'look'n'feel' of the system. Look at some screenshots to get the look. Some are more easily customizable/prettier (KDE more windows-y, GNOME more Mac-y) and some are lighter on resources if that's a worry. (XFCE/LXQt)

The three main swaths of distros are more about the back end. Debian tends to be more stable, but not bleeding edge, so it might not handle hardware that just came out but is a bit less likely to break. Arch tends to be on the bleeding edge, with a lot of capabilities, but can give you some 'learning experiences' you might not be looking for. Fedora is in the middle.

Almost anything you can do on one, you can do on the others, so don't worry too much about exclusives. It's more about what comes as pre-installed conveniences/bloatware. (e.g. steam and lutris on gaming distros, networking tools as on Kaisen or Kali, or a kernel tweaked for lower latency audio in Ubuntu Studio meant for music production)

And the best part is you can try a whole bunch of them very easily if you have a spare good-sized thumb drive laying around. Ventoy is a tool for booting multiple systems from a single USB. Most major distros offer a 'live usb' file. Set up a ventoy USB drive. Download the ISOs for any distros that look cool, and then boot from the USB to try out any that interest you without even needing to do anything to your existing windows install.

Not quite it but interesting in its own way.

And to shit into that hand, first one must have a wish to do so. A wish is precisely as real as fascism or anarchism, and a necessary but not sufficient precursor to any of the above.

Interesting. Adding it to the list.

I couldn't remember the name, but Rebuild was the flash game. It had some elements I really liked.

And I have added Decision to my wishlist now. Gotta love some non-isometric top down shenanigans. Might hit the right spot if the other elements are good too.

Thanks for the suggestion. Crossposted.

The manosphere is the biggest, most visible thing 'for men' anyone searching is likely to find. I'm not saying every sex-discrimination based division is innately bad, just that it's best to be wary of individuals and organizations that try to claim that space. Many of them, and many of the most visible, are not really there for the benefit of the members. Heck, some of them start on one side of the line and then cross it at some point.

If the goal is to create a world where men feel they are emotionally supported, it would be better to seek a system/situation that enables men to be open with and supported by both men and women. It may be easier to start with a group that shares some identity marker, such as sex, but it creates a... misleading experience to have the supportive kindness in someone's life come from men, or some other identity group, and risk the experience of women, or other outsiders to that identity group, being all/mostly/noticeably unsupportive strangers. Not everyone has the maturity to understand there might be a dynamic at play distorting their perceptions. Nothing is innate to a 'men only' space that encourages that maturity, especially given the world's dynamics with sex and gender as already in place. Thus, one must be very careful.

I tried CDDA for the first time just recently. I get the feeling i'm going to need to learn a lot. Interesting that it has that element though.

I haven't tried Zomboid yet. I might have to move it up the priority list.

I can't necessarily make a nice day happen for you, I just hope your day goes well to the extent it can.

Haha, it was a well-wishing, short for 'I hope you have a nice day,' not a command. Have a nice day.

If enough people use a word to mean something different from what it used to mean, it literally does change the meaning, (e.g. radical meaning 'connected to a plant's roots,' the reason people say 'transwomen are real women.' etc.) but fair enough. Have a nice day.

I'd start by being wary of anything that says it's 'for men.' The male parts of reproductive medicine/endocrinology/etc. can be studied but real understanding in that area is college/post-grad level courses of material. Almost anything approachable will be over-simplified unless you really dive in. However, on the social side, (brains, emotions, support networks, etc) it's usually a bad sign when the source says anything is exclusive to men. Most philosophy, psychology, sociology, emotional intelligence training, etc. is not served by framing it based on sex, and a lot of stuff that is framed that way tends to be propagandistic in pretending this or that understanding of sex-based social norms (a.k.a. gender) is the one true way. Studying psychoanalysis can be good, and i can recommend the Quarantine Collective on youtube as a nice place to learn about philosophy and a little bit of psychoanalysis, often presenting a secure, non-misogynistic masculinity. For emotional intelligence, it's more about practice than study but Heidi Priebe has made some good explanations, though watch out for the woo in Jungian thinking. And while it might sound strange to some, finding a good (for you) teacher for vipassana and metta meditations can be very helpful in understanding yourself, regardless.

And would almost certainly do anything in its power (especially running away from the creature three times its height and aware of them enough to fight back and summoning lightning from their pointy stick) to avoid getting hurt, because there are no wolves afraid of being called chicken because those who keep fighting for stupid reasons die of sepsis?

I brought a nicely written certificate saying their Christmas present was that a donation had been made in their name. None of them could read. It didn't go over well.