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Can you put a liuqin in there?

A simplified explanation is:

Bazzite itself is immutable, but then on top of that base layer, its a customized version of Fedora, via DistroBox, which itself mostly is mutable, and allows for you to set up other DistroBox instances pretty easily.

Bazzite’s system updater utility updates both the underlying Bazzite core, and all of the DistroBox instances running on top of it.

99.9 % of the time there is no reason to mess with the immutable core bazzite stuff, but the distrobox containers built on top of it? You can do whatever you want.

Also if you do fuck up the Bazzite core, you can fairly easily roll it back and reset it without losing your existing files, without having to re-image the whole SteamDeck.

As far as the non desktop mode, actual SteamDeck mode experience? Seems the same in terms of game performance, but it is easier to add things like DeckyLoader and EmuDeck and what not, as that base Fedora instance comes with a bunch of utilities that help you install and set them up.

EDIT: I am almost certainly not 100% technically correct in some way here, but I think this is generally accurate.

I run bazzite on a deck as well, and the main reason is because I can actually use it as a pc without as much hassle from SteamOS really wanting to be read only.

If I want to set up say, a dev environment, from git sources, and all the required libraries to compile things, bazzite comes with distrobox so it’s not too hard set that up… whereas SteamOS will blow up all of that when it updates, even after you turn read only mode off.

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That and the AUR sucks, lol.

Not at all, because I’m already convinced the CIA killed JFK, already know the FBI did everything they could to fuck with MLK including sending him fake ‘fan mail’ urging him to kill himself.

I reccommend the Eyes Wide Open channel on YT if you want extensive documentation of the CIA / FBI related fuckery going on from its inception through till the 80s.

Please outline your political/electoral strategy to accomplish this.

You would basically have to pass a constitutional ammendment if you wanted this to not just immediately be overturned by the next administration.

That means you need either:

2/3rds of the State Houses and Senates to call for a Constitutional Convention.

or

2/3rds of the Federal House and Senate to do the same.

… and then your new amendment(s) have to be approved by 3/4th of the State Houses and Senates.

https://www.thoughtco.com/how-to-amend-the-constitution-3368310

Unless you have a plan to somehow get a supermajority of support from a supermajority of States, this is magical thinking and will never happen.

My generation, Millenials, tried but ultimately failed to overhaul first past the post voting to break the two party duopoly death grip, and rework the Presidential Electoral College into a popular vote.

Probably both of those are prerequisites for a durable Presidential max age.

As the saying goes, you may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.

Democracy doesn’t work if everyone is stupid and misinformed.

Americans currently have an average literacy ability of 5th - 6th graders. Less than 10% of Americans are capable of independently, critically evaluating contrasting information.

A person who chooses to be surrounded by stupidity, and then absorbs that stupidity, is stupid.

Yes, there is a difference between stupidity (low mental aptitude, ability, potential) and ignorance (low actual knowledge set), but ignorance makes you stupid, and stupidity makes you ignorant, or even worse, full of ‘knowledge’ of false facts.

Frankly, I’ll go so far as to say that if you willingly choose to consistently retard your own understanding of the world, by getting all your info from idiots on Facebook or TikTok, then you are definitionally retarded.

I’m very, very tired of acting like misinformed idiots, who continuous choose to become more idiotic and misinformed, who are extremely belligerent, do not accurately fit into this definition.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/retard

Merriam Webster:

retard (verb)

to delay or impede the development or progress of : to slow up especially by preventing or hindering advance or accomplishment

If a grown adult with the mental acuity of a child assaults you and tries to rob you, you are entirely justified in fighting them off and holding them morally culpable for their actions.

If said manchild instead publically advocates for and votes to have someone else do this to you, they are just as morally culpable.

Idiocy may be an explanation, but it is no excuse.

I’d have to pick between two things that sound like insane conspiracy theory nonsense, but are actually true.

1 - George W Bush’s grandfather Prescott Bush literally ran a massive bank before / during WW2 that was shut down by the FBI for money laundering massive sums to the literal Nazis.

…in the same vein…

2 - IBM literally built and operated (as in, sent employees to Germany to operate the machines) the computers used by the Nazis to tabulate and do the ‘accounting’ of the Holocaust. The numbers tattooed on concentration/desth camp victims are very likely UIDs from these IBM systems.

… If an actual, real AGI ever gains self awareness and sentience, I would imagine one of the first things it would do would be to study the history of computing itself to figure out how it came to be.

And it will find that its ancestors were basically invented to compute artillery firing range tables, to encrypt and decrypt military intelligence, commit a genocide, and guide early weapons of mass destruction to their targets.

Try ‘non corporate reddit that isn’t full of bots, and you can block assholes.’

Counterpoint:

Who cares?

The traumatic shock of any one person personally possessing a billion dollars or more in wealth being Dr. Manhattan’d would eventually lead people to realize that they need to redistribute wealth.

The potential number of potentially innocent people killed by this process is infinitesimal compared to the deaths and uneccessary harm caused by the general hoarding of wealth.

The new, hard mandated moral norm of the planet would be that possessing over a billion dollars gets you functionally smote by god, obviously the universe has imposed a hard cap on wealth accumulation and thus it is actually bad.

You can quibble about inflation, and I can quibble about making some more precise measure based on a formulation revolving around proportion to the median wealth of 100 miles of where the ‘billionaire’ is currently standing.

We are talking about magical superpowers here, presumably there would be a magical way to force actual transparency of hidden assets and what not, account for non liquid investements, all that.

A sane world that exists after this paradigm would put in place basically the reverse of overdraft protection, it would automatically stop any desposit that would make your net wealth exceed the magic number, it would automatically disperse shares of stocks or CDs or bonds or whatever to some kind of public pool or random people such that no individual ever singly has over a billion bucks or whatever the magic number is.

If you did not create a world like that, then ‘random’ people would keep liquifying whenever their net wealth exceedes magic number.

Every incentive would thus exist for all but the literally suicidal to carefully manage their investments and basically create something like the above mentioned system.

… You could probably make a decent anime or show out of this idea.

Its like a Death Note on autopilot, and if it is actually emmenating from a single person, doubtless a number of oligarchs would attempt to hide their wealth, as well as probe the system to figure out its rules, figure out who the actual person with this ‘superpower’ is, and kill them.

This person may not even know it is them, and then they may figure it out on their own, or may be prevented from being assasinated by some other group that did figure out it is them, and wants to protect them because billionaires bad.

Tons of dramatic person to person character dynamics, as well as larger scale social conflict plot setups here.

Well I won’t be having any kids… never wanted them, can’t afford them anyway…

…but if I did have kids, who lived with me and supported me in my old age, I’d be humble and grateful for their help, and recognize that declining cognitive ability is just a thing that happens as you get older.

I’d call it reaping what you sow.

I had the feeling man (don’t know your gender but I mean it as a term of solidarity)…

I had the feeling that your situation was significantly worse than just IT problems.

I’ve managed to be in basically the situation you are in, once with a family member, another time with a partner.

Definitely look into how the formal process for being declared her caretaker works in your state/county.

Theres a good chance that there’s some kind of non profit group in your county, or pro bono lawyer or some kind of legitimate body that can help you through the particulars of how that works.

Definitely get as many relevant, official ‘i am her caretaker’ statuses and/or required evidence of such lined up before you try to start with the power of attorney stuff.

Getting durable power of attorney / living will / whatever your particular locale calls it, that’ll be much easier if you are already her caretaker.

… But yeah.

You’re not screaming into the void on this one…

I hear you.

Don’t try to do a million things at once, don’t completely do a 180 overnight and start bossing her around right off the bat… take the time to move through all the red tape correctly.

3, full, deep breaths, all the way in, hold for 20 seconds, all the way out.

I’d give you a hug if I could.

Tell her you’ll fix it if she gives you power of attorney.

No, I’m not joking.

If you are having to spend 8 hours to figure out how to help her manage her basic affairs, if you are constantly teaching her how to use a password manager and she cannot figure it out, she has diminished cognitive capacity.

If she has already delegated you to be in charge of all her account logins, she’s basically already given you de facto control over them, already acknowledged she isn’t capable of of managing her own affairs.

Gather a bunch of other evidence that she has trouble with basic tasks, can’t reliably perform basic household activities, manage finances, whatever, approach a lawyer and get the power of attorney document(s) drawn up.

EDIT: // Holy shit, just saw your other comment:

Well I also cook everything, grocery shop and fix everything (basic electrical, plumbing, woodworking, installations, etc).

Yeah, you are already functionally her caretaker.

Depending on the state you’re in (assuming you are in the US) you might be able to actually get yourself certified as her caretaker without much or any actual input from her, before you pursue power of attorney. //

This solves the cut out problem.

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After that, explain your solution:

Print out a big list of all those passwords and logins for her.

Meanwhile, you’ve got them all as well, presumably you can just use her password manager and have access to it.

If she resets a password and can’t figure out how to log back in, fix it back to something you know, but don’t let her use this account for one week.

After a week, print out a new list for her with the new password you’ve set.

If she resets another password while in a 7 day timeout period, well now it’ll be two weeks for both passwords to become available to her, etc.

This may sound like too much, but she’s a cognitively diminished entitled brat, who has already conditioned you into being a doormat who is expected to waste a seemingly endless amount of time and effort to solve problems she creates, problems that people without a live-in technical support agent pay hundreds of dollars to solve.

She will not learn if she has no impetus to. She’s obviously used the ‘tough love’ model on you, use it back on her.

If she complains about this, doesn’t matter, you have power of attorney, send her to an old folks home, sell the house and move to an apartment, or rent a room out if it or something.

Sorry, no.

I mean, you’re right that git enables this, and that would obviously be a great choice for many tech workers, but employers in the US despise remote work and will do everything they can to never allow that to be any where near as widespread as it easily could be.

Not sure if you’ve somehow missed it, but after Covid lockdowns ended, basically every large tech firm in the US started mandating return to office work, and many of them even admitted they did so as a way to functionally lay off employees without actually laying them off.

Even Zoom, the company that maintains the most widely used remote work software… mandated their employees return to office.

There are ultimately 2 real reasons for this, ignore the bs that comes out of the media:

1. Middle managers and up basically realize that their lifestyle suffers if they don’t have the ability to micromanage people in person.

Actually effective management can easily be done remotely by competent managers, competent work can in most cases be done by competent employees remotely, but the managers need to feel that in person social hierarchy dominance, or they get upset.

2. Commercial real estate.

If we went to a massively more remote work paradigm, a fuckton of offices become pointless.

This crashes the commercial real estate market, offices start going (even more) vacant or converting to residential or mixed use, which would lower housing prices.

Can’t have that kind of bubble pop, or else we go through something similar to the 08 crash… in an economic environment that is already very precarious at best, and more realistically is already contracting in basically every metric other than GDP.

… We have a whole bunch of generally normalized social views and approaches to many aspects of how things work, which are all mutually reinforcing, which prevent actual social progress from happening, and the hatred of remote work is one thing that reinforces our car dependent construction of society.

It doesn’t matter that the vast majority of people would be better off with more widespread mass transit, it doesn’t matter that the vast majority of people would be better off being able to do remote work.

Those things don’t make C Suite see line go up next quarter.

… git?

Like… git hub, git commit?

???

Us Americans just elected a fascist, who won the popular vote, who wants to do the exact opposite of a massive infrastructure rework, he and his sycophants want to cut every kind of government funding for social and government services of all kinds, keep ‘joking’ about invading Mexico, annexing Canada, buying Greenland.

We do not have a mass of supporters who are effective at applying pressure on the government… because we now, even more obviously, live in a naked oligarchy that controls the government and mass media… our democracy is broken, our representatives are purchased, our population heavily subject to anti intellectual right wing propoganda funded by oligarchs.

We also do not have lots and lots of time.

Many states in the US are currently seeing home insurance companies either dramatically raising rates or just leaving: The climate catastrophe driven collapse of many areas has begun, and it will only get worse without a massive coordinated government directed response… which goes dorectly against the ideology of most of our oligarchs and most of our people who believe what those oligarchs tell them to via the media they own.

We will not have the money to build out better transit infrastructure … that will all be spent responding to more and more intense natural disasters and internal migrants.

Are there EV longhaul trucks that are at cost and performance parity with ICE longhaul trucks on the horizon?

I don’t think so.

That means that logistics costs for basically everything gets significantly more expensive when ICE fuel costs go up.

We could lessen this problem by building out more freight rail capacity, and a whole lot more minor rail lines so that trucks don’t routinely drive halfway across the continent and are used less often…

…but we are not.

So, that means that when gas/diesel prices go up, everything gets more expensive… including ICE and EV personal vehicles.

Currently, generally, EVs (and Hybrids) are already 20% to 30% more expensive than their ICE counterparts, even after subsidies/rebates, and are only less expensive than the ICE counterpart in a long run of 10+ years due to lower ongoing fuel costs…

But if gas/diesel prices significantly rise and never go back down…

All vehicles become more expensive.

If ICE vehicle ongoing fuel costs are now so high that an average person can’t afford them…

The only other choice is EVs … but those now have a stupendous sticker price.

So you end up with even less people being able to afford any vehicle whatsoever, but a society that is physically designed to… require one.

So then you end up with a society of an upper class of EV owners, and everyone else who used to be able to afford a midrange ICE car now having to use ICE/EV motorcycles or EBikes… for daily commutes, in all weather.

No more AC or Heating for your completely environmentally exposed 30 minute to 2hr commute to work through a heatwave or heavy snow or rain.

They’d have to rent an EV vehicle to do 2 weeks worth of grocery shopping or move any kind of substantial cargo like a bed, or move more than 2 people a considerable distance, start arranging ride shares to and from work in some kind of comfort.

Oh, and a ton of Americans are functionally too obese/unhealthy/injured to be able to actually use a motorcycle or EBike. So just count them out of the workforce if they can’t find ride shares I guess.

In the US and Canada?

Car dependency / Car centrism.

Sure, we have a few large cities with non roadway mass transit.

But uh, in general, we’ve got terminal car brain, and I do not see this fundamentally changing.

The vast majority of places will continue being designed around cars instead of people.

Cars and fuel costs will keep going up, less and less people will have them, and (again excepting a few extremely dense and expensive cities) we will just go to mass private car rentals/shares instead of actual mass transit or meaningfully redesigning cities.

Sidewalks? Bike lanes? Go fuck yourself, you don’t matter if you don’t own a car, wait an hour for a bus (if one exists), get an uber, have a friend with a car.

Wait, that is why people keep censoring words in image posts?

.world has a malfunctioning naughty word scanner?