ziggurat

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[–] ziggurat 3 points 1 day ago

Relatively speaking, Hitler was one of the worst people to ever live! And the richest man alive today idolizes him.

Imagine if Mansa Musa and Hitler teamed up! The world needs to not experience that!

[–] ziggurat 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I guess you could say the same about Hitler, since he didn't personally kill any jews. If killing jews isn't a requirement then there is definetly evidence that musk is a neo-nazi

[–] ziggurat 17 points 1 week ago

It doesn't do anything. The only reason to consider installing it is that this is cryptographically signed by another developer, so if Google tries to install safety core again, it will fail because googled signature is different. It also has a super high version number, so that Google hopefully will not think to try to install the software.

[–] ziggurat 11 points 1 week ago (6 children)

As for NATO membership in particular, all NATO members need to accept new members...

But the EU has a similar clause to help with military invasions, so the US support isn't strictly needed for security.

[–] ziggurat 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh cool!

Seeing your affinity for nix, I'd go with nixos, either it is on the raspberry or a laptop, and then boot into sway, then have it open the terminal on boot, kitty, or another similar terminal.

Id probably hyper focus on making the perfect nixos config, I'm unsure if I would want to have it part of my main flake or a separate flake

[–] ziggurat 2 points 1 week ago
[–] ziggurat 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Did you make that TUI? Why? What does the TUI do? I've written TUIs using that framework before (assuming it is dialog) and the file browser I don't like, so I always end up making my own file pickers for it.

What I would do if I needed a typewriter like device, to not be detracted by, pooh shiny thing.

I would want a bigger screen, the pi400 looks like a great choice, I agree that a mechanical keyboard would be better but what is more important, having everything in one unit, or having better parts?

What about just using an older laptop, if you have one. Install Linux, any flavor, I see you are comfortable with raspbian, so Debian, Ubuntu, mint etc should make you feel right at home. Most any other option is also fine, like fedora, or arch Linux if you want a little bit torture, or nixos if you want more pleasure and torture.

Any hardware you ended up with, any distro you ended up with. Just delete all apps that are not for your one specific need. Including the web browser!

Any desktop environment should be okay, as long as you remove all apps not for let's say writing and file management. Optionally switch to a window manager, like i3wm, sway, or hyprland (hyprland is the first thing I've recommended thus far I haven't used extensively), to make it feel more like a focused machine!

Optionally, if your text editor is terminal based (like mine, I use vim or neovim), if it helps you focus even more, just disable the display manager (the login program) so you log right into the tty. The main drawback over using a window manager like sway and a nice terminal emulator like kitty or Ghostty, is that you can't view images or all nice effects in let's say neovim. But this might be a plus in the end. If you don't need emojis.

A bonus tip! If you continue with your setup like you do right now, or if you chose a window manager, or just straight tty. Use udisks / udiskie to auto mount USB drives, similar to how KDE or gnome does it.

Also for file manager i now use yazi, it's in the terminal, will work in tty or a terminal in a desktop or window manager. There are just a couple of things I miss from my old file manager I used before called ranger, but yazi is much faster and light weight.

Also maybe use ssh to copy over your files? If you want to have network access, maybe network access is a bad idea

[–] ziggurat 1 points 1 week ago

Wife has started to expect oversharing, she corrects me when it's just us two, and then I am not sharing enough. When going into social situations, she reminds me of thinking about what is okay to share before I share.

I need to fidget when I have to sit and listen to things. It can seam like I don't care about the topic, but if I am using all my focus on not fidgeting I sometimes can't focus on what the other person is saying.

[–] ziggurat 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Don't get into keyboards, I have multiple keyboards, most expensive one I spent $300 to build, the one I am using now is $150, and I have a few others in that price range, and one that is half built

I almost picked up a $60 keyboard impulse buy for my wife today. Then I thought that she is using the $300 one, but she wishes the key caps were pink, maybe $60 is reasonable just for the key caps? No stop it

Similar things like fighting sticks, I don't want to talk about it

For paid hobbies, 3d printing isn't that awful, as long as you learn 3d modeling while your at it. It's a bit of a cost, after that the consumables isn't horrible, and I can leave it for a while and come back a few times per year, and it can mix with other hobbies.

I enjoy programming! It's free, and I can hyper focus on a programming project, and if I move on I can move on to another programming project.

I usually try to get at least a few YouTube videos in before going to bed after programming. Because if I hyper focus on programming and then go to bed, I will wake up in the middle of the night with a solution to a problem I had. While that is great fun, I have enough issues getting enough sleep as it is, don't need to wake up at 3AM and having to get over to the computer to write down an algorithm or something, then test it, then post about it online because I am so happy and proud and can't get back to sleep

My brother will get into expensive stuff, and then he can't finish what he starts, and his hp proliant server is still collecting dust in his spare bedroom.

My father would have projects that he needed to take up additional mortgages for, like buying a fish selling truck (why not ice cream ffs), or a boat, or shit. Or buying farming equipment even though he has a lawn sized lawn and not a field sized lawn, or a boat or shit.

[–] ziggurat 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Checkout c/adhd

[–] ziggurat 1 points 1 week ago

Sad to see that people thing this is the working class fault and not the rich class fault. Just like everything from recycling plastic global warming, and child marriage

[–] ziggurat 2 points 1 week ago

I did say democrats, not far left. And I did compare them to a far right group, not the reasonable non GOP Republicans

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by ziggurat to c/baldurs_gate_3
 

I hope this fluff post will be allowed if I actually share some facts about DnD and etymology

Balders Gate is named after the Norse god Baldr/Balder/Baldur

Baldur in DnD is named after a legendary explorer Baldurian from Faerûn, name obviously inspired by the norse god's name.

The word Gate means street in Norwegian, as well in Swedish/Danish/Icelandish but its spelled differently in those languages

The word Gate in English is a cognate with the word Gate in Norwegian, meaning they stem from the same root word, incidentally they are also spelled the same way today, which is not a requirement to be a cognate, Gate in English is also a cognate with the word for street in other nordic languages even though they spell it differently.

Swedish still spell it the same as in Old Norse, Gata, which at the that point meant path, road, or way, which is how it is used in current day nordic languages, but you can see how the English word Gate is now used for an entrance with a door of some kind. Other English definitions for the word gate, like a manner of walking or even a path, among others also stem from the same root word.

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