moonlight

That’s a good idea, and it could make a one way trip worth it if it meant becoming super powerful. I’d also focus on medical technology, and maybe computing.

Although I’m a bit unsure of whether I could really create enough broad social change just from that. My goal would be liberation for people of all races, genders, and sexual orientations, the dismantling of capitalism and power structures, etc.

The other option would be to do far back enough so that I could be some sort of god king, which would be a lot more work technologically, but might be easier to create a religion that would canonize my instructions.

True, I wouldn’t want to get Galileo’d, and I would definitely want to stay away from Salem, haha. I think ~1750 would probably be a good time. Someone like Euler would take it seriously.

I haven’t really thought through the details.

It would probably take decades to prepare, and to figure out what the best approach would be.

It also depends on how much I could bring back.

If it’s just me and what I can carry, I think I would just bring a few things to demonstrate the tech. Maybe a high power flashlight and solar charger. The important part would be a detailed guide on how to re-enginer everything we have today, as well as the science behind it. Really, I think scientific knowledge would be the most impactful.

If this was a huge operation with near infinite resources, I would send back a giant self sustaining compound with a general purpose factory. I think it would probably be possible to sustain a roughly 60s level of technology indefinitely on a small scale until the rest of the world caught up

Depends on the rules.

Round trip to a ‘read only’ version of the past? I’d like to see the dinosaurs.

Round trip that can make changes? Probably a few hundred or even thousand years ago, so I could give them modern technology, information about climate change, try to educate people on social issues, etc. I’d create detailed instructions and try to make a religion out of it. There’s no guarantee it would work, but I’d hopefully return to a solarpunk utopia. Honestly not sure if I would try this, as it would basically overwrite everything I’ve ever known.

One way trip? I’d probably pass, unless I can de-age. I would definitely want to go back to being a child with all my current knowledge.

Doesn’t Linux already have a bunch of forks? I’m using the CachyOS kernel, for example

I’m not sure if I would really say it’s that uplifting, but if you like puzzle and card games, you’ll love Inscryption

Celeste!

It’s about overcoming internal struggles to achieve something. (something I’m still fighting with in real life, bad place mentally here too.)

Listening to the soundtrack always makes me feel a bit better though.

It’s cute, fun, and challenging (although never difficult in a frustrating way)

Yeah I used to have an old Windows MR headset until it stopped working (and I switched to linux)

It was a lot of fun, and I do miss beat saber.

But I’m not going to spend a thousand dollars on an outdated index, or put facebook spyware on my face. If Valve or some other company comes out with something modern without proprietary bs, I’d buy it in a heartbeat.

While it’s definitely not possible with current tech, I don’t see why it wouldn’t theoretically be possible. It would be an insanely complex, multi stage process, though.

I’m afraid I’ll live my whole life in fear like I’m doing now, that I’ll never experience love, that one day I’ll wake up old and alone, in misery and just waiting to die but too afraid end it.

Well, I currently have my browser set to fake my user agent as windows on my linux desktop. So it’s not overestimated in every case. I suspect it’s a bit higher than the true percentage, but not by very much.

I’ve been kinda curious about Artix. I wouldn’t say I hate systemd, but I’ve been minorly annoyed by it and might want something more minimal.

What is the software situation like? The AUR probably doesn’t work reliably, right?