AnimalsDream

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[–] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 4 points 6 days ago

I lean in favor of rebirth, but via naturalistic processes rather than projections of our own moral wants. I don't need a supernatural explanation to recognize that whatever is most irreducibly "me" was born at least once. Why would I assume it would only be once?

If we follow from that premise, we can also chart a kind of probabilistic, umm, not karma but something not far off: If we're reborn after death, how do we determine what kind of life our next one is going to be? Pretty obvious actually, just look at what kind of life everyone has already. If, for example, only 1% of humans have an especially good life, it looks like there's a a really slim chance any one of us is going to be the one who gets to have that kind of life.

By contrast, 99% of humans are living in increasingly bad conditions, lower wages, higher prices and virtually every economic card stacked against us, as well as *gestures broadly*. It's remarkably more likely that anyone would be reborn as a 99 percenter.

But why should we assume that we would only ever be reborn as a human? The total human population right now is 8.2 billion. There are estimated to be about 20 quadrillion ants in the world. And more than 44 billion animals have been bred into existence and slaughtered for food this year alone. Are you more likely to be reborn a human, an ant, or someone else's property?

There's a consequence here if rebirth is the law of the land. It would mean that death is not an escape after all. The only way to give yourself your best chance of a better next life would be to put in effort to make the world better for everyone. There is no way out, only through.

[–] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago

If the hardware can ever be shrunk enough to make even a semi-pocketable x86 handheld, I would be happy if Valve were ever to release a "Steam Deck Mini" or something.

Or maybe their new efforts with ARM support point toward a future of a much more portable Steam-on-Linux-on-ARM device.

[–] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It would be more accurate to say it's like requiring you to make the source code for ZSNES available if you were distributing copies of ZSNES.

[–] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What, where do you get that? Any publicly conveyed copies of gpl-licensed software must make their source code available, and be published under the same license. This is true regardless of modifications.

[–] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

Came in to say this. Linux on ARM is getting so close to daily driver ready.

[–] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 14 points 2 weeks ago

I know it would have the same issues as the Unreal Engine - all the training, engine building, and systems integration it'd take to get a game released, but I think it'd be cool if Bethesda were to make an Elder Scrolls game on their ID Tech engine. That codebase is pretty celebrated.

[–] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 month ago

Would you care to elaborate on what you feel like when you try living on plants? What do you tend to eat? How long does it take before you start feeling like shit?

Judging by your last comment about it "not hitting the same" my initial thought is that the issue might not even be nutritional, possibly more psychological/subjective.

[–] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Mint is literally a slightly modified Ubuntu.

[–] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago

I don't, to be perfectly honest the builtin controls are the only part I don't like. Too heavy, too bulky, terrible dpad, and for me it's so uncomfortable to use the LR bumpers that I almost always remap them to the back paddles.

[–] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Or just use flatpak or Appimage.

[–] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Is the Snap backend available and open-source? If not, then it's antithetical to software freedom because Canonical is trying to close their users into a walled garden in the ways that Apple and Google are with their app stores.

There are plenty of software packaging systems that work just as well or better than Snap, and promote software freedom (Flatpak, Appimage, or even just traditional package managers). By using and promoting Snap over these, you are working against the growth of digital rights.

[–] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 month ago

It's impossible to have a fully free system?

https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html

But more to your point, it's a false dichotomy. Even before the latest changes to the Debian install media, for years it was maybe unintuitive but still easy enough to just choose the "nonfree" install iso. That one would automatically include all the proprietary bits that are necessary for a fully functional Linux system.

But now those nonfree parts are in the Debian install by default, so there really is just nothing that you get from Ubuntu that can't just as easily work in Debian - especially since everyone is moving toward flatpaks, and appimages anyway.

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