theneverfox

No, I also made the switch and honestly it's pretty much worked out of the box for me. I've got the integrated graphics with a discrete card too - I was worried initially, but it seems to handle it fine

I've had some sound issues, and a few games run worse or need some tweaking to run, but after dual booting for a while I'm considering wiping windows for extra storage

There's inconveniences, but with windows getting worse and Linux getting better I'm feeling pretty good about the deal

I started by adjusting my expectations for myself

It's impossible for me to become carbon neutral at this point in time - I might be able to survive in the woods, but without buying the land I'd eventually get arrested, and my homestead torn down.

So it's a matter of harm reduction, or balancing the scales in the right direction. So I made a goal - I want to build a solarpunk community out in the mountains somewhere. I also want to spread good ideas, while reducing bad ones

I will never achieve either if I'm not in a good physical and mental state. So I forgive myself for indulging when I need to

Do what you can when you can. If you die and cut your footprint to zero, you won't save the world... So at least attempt something that could help

But most of all, my guiding mantra is "if everyone in the world was like me, it would be a utopia". Be the kind of person who could be part of the world you dream of

No, they're not people. They're royalty

So the CEO gets less than half their salary for the year?

Sounds like a great deal for the company. Until, you know, the whole thing collapses because they laid off the workers who kept the whole thing running

Ah, but that's the beauty of it. Why are they here? If it's to troll, don't give them what they want. If it's for social interaction... Why are they venturing out of their echo chamber?

Every interaction with a community pulls you slightly closer to the group consensus. You can fight it to some extent, but we're wired to fit in with the tribe

Social rejection is wired similar to pain in our brains - it's far more salient, far more memorable and impactful, than normal interactions.

The highest form of this is rejection by the community - it hurts most when everyone's attention is on you and they all reject you. Even a single person quietly reaching out afterwards is like a lifeline - it stands out to you. It takes hundreds or thousands of "normal" interactions to counteract one extreme negative one

A supportive community back home doesn't counteract the impacts from an away game. Don't go to their turf, let them come to ours. Do not feed them - we have better content, they'll lose members to us, and if we do it right they'll shrink until their echo chambers can no longer sustain themselves

I just pass the create table statements after the instructions. It does pretty good up to 2 or 3 tables, but it will start to make mistakes when things get complicated

On the plus side, it'll generate tedious code very well - double checking it is less draining than writing it yourself. Especially because I make more typos than it does - I often use it to get a starting point, then write the business logic myself

What do you mean? It works the same way, the opinion of the community will pull you closer to the group consensus. Too much exposure will have horrible things you don't really believe spilling out of your mouth

Don't go there, don't spread word about it, don't feed it in any way. It's like flood water - pull others out of it if you can, but minimize your exposure

As to shutting them down if you have the ability? Shutting down a cesspool is good - it fragments the echo chamber, and some members won't make the migration. The only question is if I trust the one making that decision to remain impartial

Therapy is also about fit. It takes something like 5 tries to get a good match - both the kid and the parent need to be on board, or the whole thing will end up as a bad experience for everyone involved

On one hand, I kinda get it. Corporations do things, and if they get killed over small oversights there will be very real effects for many people

On the other hand, holy fuck, look around. Everything is going to shit, the planet is literally dying and we're not even living it up anymore

be sick Warn others I'm sick They make a show of not avoiding me Come up with even more reasons to approach me like some twisted bravery test

Why are people like this? Just leave me alone, I don't want to spread illness and I don't have the energy to deal with you today

How about the opposite? A decentralized system, avoiding concentrating power in any one place, and focusing on building platforms for coordination to act on larger scales

No, the community needs to cyber bully them off the platform. They need to feel rejection for their words, not censorship. Censorship lets them frame themselves as the victim as they seek out a smaller echo chamber on the fringes. They need to learn their words will turn the community against them

We still have to live with them. We can't ignore them or silence them - we have to correct them