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  • See this right here is your maybe stealth ‘Mimi is a bit off’ indicator.

    She’s wearing a full sized sweater, but also carries around another full size sweater, in her purse, not for a camping trip, but for a presumably routine commute via metro.

    How… does that make sense?

    … I feel like Agent K shooting only the cut out of the school girl with PhD level books in hand, lol.


  • Conservatism is still conservatism.

    There must be a well defined, stratified, social hierarchy, and this system also must be morality itself.

    This is what all conservatives believe and hold most dear… it does not matter that they are often too stupid to consciously realize this about themselves.

    Their swollen amygdalas are terrified of uncertainty and the unknown, and a world that doesn’t follow a fairly simple set of rigid, universal rules is essentially an apocalypse to them.

    All that has changed in the last ~250 years is that democracy became normalized by way of violent revolts demanding it, or the powers that were acquiesing to reforms and limitations of their own power… so as to avoid a violent revolt.

    This allowed capitalism to arise… initially it appeared to, or at least rhetorically presented itself as offering a more democratic approach to conducting an economy… but it has enough fundamental flaws that it guarantees the recreation of a stratified hierarchichal society.

    Now, capitalism has fully captured most of the governments and much of the population of the West… and the Western Conservative is a-ok with this: Capitalism offers its own social castes, rules, morality system, and has the coherent power to be able to enforce these.

    Democracy is just… a vestigial element of society, to a modern Conservative. Ancient, outmoded, optional. So long as the hierachy exists, and can perpetuate itself, of what use is allowing a potential for disruption?



  • No.

    Secure Boot is basically a ‘lock’, on the UEFI.

    UEFI - Shim is basically a ‘lockpick’.

    UEFI is the first step in your computer booting, turning on.

    So, if Secure Boot is supposed to be a ‘lock’, that limits who can access the UEFI … but it turns out that there are many, old, UEFI - Shims, that defeat that ‘lock’… then Secure Boot is not a good ‘lock’.

    I don’t mean to be rude but it seems like there might be a bit of language confusion going on here… In English, a ‘shim’ is a kind of crude/simple tool that can be used to break or bypass some actual physical locks.

    So ‘UEFI-Shim’ basically means ‘a thing that breaks into your UEFI’.



  • I know Bazzite is the deck build for HTPC, and is in testing right now for the next updates.

    Eh… not quite sure what exactly you are trying to say, but:

    Bazzite has multiple variants, and they have a webpage that points you at the correct one.

    https://bazzite.gg/#image-picker

    There is also the FAQ:

    https://docs.bazzite.gg/General/FAQ/

    What Bazzite image do I use?

    Bazzite’s website offers a streamlined way of selecting the correct image which will be chosen based on hardware, desktop environment, and to include Steam Gaming Mode if the hardware supports it.

    Bazzite offers multiple images, but most images will be following one of these three variants:

    Variant 1: Bazzite images that do not have Steam Gaming Mode and receive automatic updates daily with gaming packages pre-installed.
    
    Variant 2: Bazzite images that automatically boot into Steam Gaming Mode (like SteamOS) and are intended for controller-oriented setups.
    
    Variant 3: Bazzite images that are intended for software development.
    

    … anyway, as others have said, there are actually a lot of differences between Bazzite and SteamOS.

    Honestly just read all of the FAQ page.












  • Genuine question:

    Would you have a reccomendation for a comparable alternative?

    Like, I have experience with a good deal of scripting languages, sql variants… am currently trying to do Morton coding/interleaving for octrees in Godot.

    I have the framework working in GDScript… theoretically, if its not performant enough, i could either attempt to transition it to C++ / GDExtension… or, potentially, I could do a ‘Rustdot’ type thing, apparently its possible to… do that.

    So, while I am only really aware of Rust as a potential alternative to C++, in my specific context… would you have a broader opinion of lower level languages? I just actually don’t know much about them.


  • Yeah… ‘punk’ is an actual lifestyle, maybe you could say an ideology, or parts of an ideology, or a framework for ideology.

    When you just wear it as a costume, you’re not only missing the point, you’re disposing of the meaning the style is supposed to signify… you’re gentrifying a concept, and very likely commodifying it.

    Now of course I don’t expect every young person, young adult to … grasp all of that… would be very stupid to ‘well ackshually’ some kid just trying to express themselves as unique, in some way.

    But maybe, hopefully, some of em will read this, and it’ll spur them to look into the actual history, the actual ideas… realize that how you live is incredibly more important than what you look like, while doing so.