wolfshadowheart

Should discussion posts be labeled other?

It’s how long archeology has said we have had permanent settlements.

In reality it’s likely far earlier than that, we only just found a settlement from 11,000 BCE in Turkey, Gobekli Tepe which was likely a sanctuary/shrine, as well as other towns in the surrounding area likely having started before even then.

Big archeology pushed back to say that that’s not 100% certain and that humans were still nomadic, despite all the evidence showing otherwise. It was finally just recognized officially a couple months ago.

That’s too bad, I’ve always liked Tails. Was lucky that it ran on a mid 2012 MacBook Pro, but the non-working hardware list is pretty large. Some people prefer Qubes and Whonix anyway

I was just reading a couple weeks ago about a smaller web project. Lemme see if I can find it

Edit: here it is, https://kbin.social/m/selfhosting@slrpnk.net/t/476826/What-is-the-Small-Web

I personally run Tails OS as a daily driver. Not only does it keep others safe, but it keeps me from tracking my own online presence.

I did attempt it a bit but I was having issues. Definitely the way I’m trying to go though!

I’m wondering how it goes with online game for instance (wouldn’t it be a no-go for many casual users?

I’ve wondered the same honestly. I’m able to connect to servers, never been an issue, but if I want to host my own game server it’s only available locally and no ports are ever exposed (understandably, since they don’t exist lol). Been a real hassle that’s for sure!

I’d be interested in a networking section. My biggest hurdle in self-hosting is that my ISP uses CG/NAT, so no port forwarding. This has made even simple applications difficult to set up. It seems the easiest workaround is to set them up through a domain, which I’ve tried and had no luck with. A mix of not my forte and there being few straightforward guides.

You can buy Gwenyth Paltrow’s goop jade egg and you’ll receive it, that doesn’t mean it’s not a scam.

What’s promising about it? I looked through the website but didn’t see much other than that I could install it or buy a computer from them.

I’d be interested solely if I meant I had to do less networking lol

It was honestly hilarious how bad it was and how much it could slow the system down in some situations. I’d be curious to see just how much of it was a byproduct of HDD’s - that is to say, just how slow is it even in solid state drives!

But after the 2.5 years it takes to build the Windows index wouldn’t it be the same - just searching through a built index?

Somewhat surprisingly the fediverse has been much kinder for Linux learners than my experience everywhere else online the last decade :)

Previously by color/occupation.

Red Desktop, Music Workstation.

Been thinking themes more recently though. WolvesDen for my server, thinking of expanding on that some.

Inconspicuous garden speaker & subwoofer set, 3D laser and some outdoor lighting if you don’t already have a nice space to hang out at. It’s nice having a little table and a couple chairs but making it easy to hang out in can make a big difference.

Could pick up a hobby doing some kind of sculptures whether it’s metal or a skatesticle course, could build a local forge.

If you want some greenery outside of walking spaces (or in) that’s low maintenance then just seeding clover and wildflowers can actually be easy as long as it’s not too hot and gets watered every other day or so. They sprout pretty quick too.

I think those are my 3, monoprice is decent for some speakers and if you like the lighting otherwise Amazon or bhphoto

Seems like the only option for something that can be on a multipurpose PC.

Set up your folders, get your devices synced, and it pretty much sorts itself from there.

I’ve had minor temporary issues with Syncthing, nothing that hasn’t been fixed quickly (and have yet to had them happen again).

Great for music and photos between PC and phone and for transfers between music production PC and gaming PC. Better than Dropbox and GDrive for most purposes (lacking support for online link sharing, which isn’t very important)

Both examples you gave are either early access or have lots of content updates still in the works. Skyrim modding broke like crazy when the DLC’s released. Then they got fixed in time, Skyrim wasn’t updated in years and it’s been stable.

Then Skyrim SE released and that split the modding community again and the effects of that are still around today. Mostly not an issue anymore thankfully, but there was a period of time where you had to pick which version for which mods. Back to stable again.

Cyberpunk, Bannerlord, Blade and Sorcery - each update breaks all their mods until the modders fix them. That’s just the nature of games that are being worked on after release.

Each Bannerlord update breaks mods. It’s going to keep happening. Either the game is better off for it or devs use it as a crutch and is slows it down. Bannerlord seems like it’s a bit crutched, but still moving along. It’s interesting seeing what mods slowly make their way into base game.

Each B&S update breaks mods, but for the most part it’s just minor json changes that need to be made. Devs aren’t using modders as a crutch and the community is better for it.

Each 2077 update has broken mods, but I don’t think any of the major ones that change the game have been severely affected by it. The most annoying part is, like with Bannerlord, once you finally get your mods playing nice there’s a pushed update lol.

Personally I don’t see why modders would pack up after P.L. when the patch dust settles. The game is done, they finally can be free of restraint and go as wild as they want without having to worry about more changes and patches mucking everything up. I’m not sure if these modders really care that the assets wont be useable for a 2077 Two because it’s not the same game? Like, I don’t think Fallout and Skyrim modders lamented the addition of other games.

If anything, having an incomplete game has been what has harmed the mod scene the most. Many modders I enjoy get a version out, update it once and ghost.

If games actually released in a finished state, that would be totally fine. They are not, and now mods get lost.

The only reason this is true right now is that Skyrim has been out for a good decade and 2077 has barely been out for barely 3 and the pretty stellar mods that were/are out for it get broken every update.

In time when the game gets stable and modders don’t have to worry about it breaking every month I think we’ll start getting some deeper stuff. Right now some of my favorite mods are mostly adding things the game has that it loses over time - the metro to have passenger travel for example.

I don’t know if we’ll ever get the Skyrim level of map modding where you can grow your own weed farm but I definitely think there is strong potential there.

However in terms of broken games, I think Skyrim still wins. I still have the intro bug constantly, quests constantly fail to trigger, and while there are fun bugs there are really frustrating ones. I was able to 100% 2077 by my second save not too long after release and I only had about 3 major bugs through those - one quest I had to reload a save to complete which was the worst of them. 2077 actually gets more stable with mods lol.

* And that right there is your fallacy. Eating an animal isn’t inherently evil or bad, not any more so than raising chickens for their eggs and eventual meat. I’m sure it could be, but I would argue that first and foremost disrespecting the animal is. There’s nothing wrong with eating plants, but if you step on the lettuce and carrots you’re wasting food. It was raised just like the lamb was, and yet the lamb was turned into a beautiful lamb au vin, whereas the lettuce and carrots were turned to mush.

For what it’s worth, I only mostly disagree with you. I wouldn’t have written something so long because I disagree with you entirely, and I think I try to be fair about moderation and what is unreasonable in my points. I 100% agree that there are issues with meat in our society and that factory farming is disrespectful to the animal and it as a human construction is evil, particularly in the U.S. more so than other countries. But it’s also a necessity for people’s survival because we are poor. Meat in moderation is not any worse for you than vegetables in moderation, factory farming is bad for the environment but that doesn’t mean that all farming is, nor do innocent animals have to be “murdered” in order for someone to enjoy meat. There are more options than just animals now, we’re living in a crazy world.

So is driving. Vegetables are bad for you too, they quite literally have built defenses to prevent being eaten and we still eat them. To much and they’re actually legitimately bad for us. Plants also make connections and trees use mycelial networks to communicate and are able to tell apart individual trees, are able to hear distress calls and can respond and even send nutrients to that specific tree.

Animal consciousness is hardly known and people use that as a metric for plants when they’ve been around for much longer. Just because we don’t understand something and have yet to uncover how it works doesn’t mean it isn’t happening on a daily basis.

And yet you know what? I’m here today because I have survived life by consuming other plants and animals. I have lived my life doing good deeds and done my best to help those around me, working for non-profit performing arts and events. I rescued a dog whose owners were just going to abandon her in the woods with a bag of food, and she lives a happy life now giving me snuggles every morning. And if continuing that means I get to enjoy bacon and beef in a moderate omnivorous way, that’s what life and being human is. If I starve or deprive myself of the series of joys that help keep me positive and the cost of that is an animal that feeds multiple people like myself then that is a worthy sacrifice for the animal. The fact that vegans have such a high risk of nutrient deficiencies is pretty telling as to how we use multiple sources to collect what we need. Also the fact that like, a majority of the animals on the planet are omnivorous. Deer will eat chicks. Happily.

I don’t agree with factory farming. I don’t agree with wood harvesting (it’s pretty devastating to the ecosystems in Oregon that have had these forests for hundreds of years before settlers started clearings). I don’t agree with driving. And yet, I recognize that all of these are byproducts of what society has deemed as necessary. I don’t agree with factory farming, but hundreds of thousands more people would be starving without it - local farms just cannot take the meat demand nor the crop demand when meat inevitably falls and plant consumption rises. This is why it’s good to look into full spectrum reduction. People using local farms more, sometimes supplementing lab-grown and vegetarian options to reduce factory farming in hopes to minimize its need as much as possible. I don’t agree with wood harvesting, but hundreds of thousands of people would be without shelter, fire, and transportation maintenance (mostly for railways, already something that is greatly suffering). I don’t agree with driving, but I recognize that as a result of our work culture it is essentially a necessity again because without me getting to my job I do not survive. Personally, I don’t have my drivers license and mostly bus and walk. I think we should be looking into road grids, alternative tires, and pushing more for automated driving. The overall cost of energy can be supplemented and is less toxic than 200 million tires a year wearing rubber into the air. Bonus: automated grids also would reduce gas consumption. Of course, lobbyists exist and that’s why this is a pipe dream.

Hopefully you see my point in this. You can do everything in your power to control what you want, but we can only control how we help the people around us. Being condescending about the omnivorous human eating meat is a net negative to the world because you are only pushing people away from being in the reductive mindset, while simultaneously missing the mindset of who you’re trying to make a point to. People who eat meat either genuinely do not believe they have certain capacities and that makes it ok. Again, what you say is not effective to these people. The other people are people who do believe that animals have more capacities than we realize, and still make the choice for a variety of reasons. It could be food aversions and meat is their primary thing. It could be something related to what I’ve already explained. It could even be that there are people who have the capacity to eat something they love. Something that humans have historically done. Cattle made you rich, you wanted those cows alive and you love those cows. And yet, when it’s that cows time because you and your family are hungry and need to sell its meat. The only difference between an animal and a plant is that you’re the one humanizing only the animal - apparently plants don’t make the cut for your respect? Cause you are just as much of a murderer as the rest of us in that regard.*