√𝛂𝛋𝛆

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Cake day: July 5th, 2025
  • √𝛂𝛋𝛆@piefed.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•How do you know if you love a person for who they are and not for their money?English
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    6 hours ago

    To be honest, this kind of area gets slightly more defined by around 25, but becomes more easily understood between 30-40yo. From that perspective, it doesn’t really matter. You are a product of your environment and your opportunities. Appreciate all that you have and make the best decisions in the moment. Live with no regrets. You will not regret the person that wants to spend money and do things with you.

    Try not to let other people consume you or overpower your self growth and development. Thinking within this framework, you define who you are; your ethics, values, and morals. Maintaining and growing who you are is the big difference maker. Your opportunities or challenges should not change your values.

    Like I have been physically disabled for over 11 years. I have had to reinvent who I am. In that experience I learned that curiosity is the real secret to survival. It is the one thing you can use in any situation to motivate yourself to keep going. Even if you were diagnosed with ALS and were in a situation like Stephen Hawking was in, curiosity is a refuge for the mind to explore. I could motivate myself through curiosity even if I was in solitary confinement. If you gave me a hundred million dollars, I could afford a lot more things to be curious about, but fundamentally, my values would not change. I would still care about my neighbors, digital or otherwise. I would still motivate myself primarily by curiosity.

    Your biggest struggles in life are what give you the most insight and empathy. If you live your life on a silver platter, you may need to find your own struggles instead of your struggles finding you. Neither is better or worse than the other. Likely, you are in need of growth; of finding your next struggle. You are valid to go in search of that next epic of growth. You do not need to push away someone that cares just so that your struggles find you. As you get older, friends quickly dwindle, likewise with opportunities. Take advantage of every opportunity you have at your age, they are more fleeting than it may seem.

  • √𝛂𝛋𝛆@piefed.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•You're going on a road trip! What's the first place you wanna hit up and why? English
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    18 hours ago

    Computer history museum. – the archive of our age and what shaped it thus far.

    I’d like to go to the La Brea tar pits because that holds massive meaning for Earth’s living history.

    I'd like to spend a full day at Barber Motorsports Park again if I was ever in Birmingham again.

    I love the age when people cast engines and machined parts in their middle class neighborhood back yards and alleys; when all motorcycles still had bicycle pedals and were just modified bicycle frames. The way the motorcycle started as nothing more than a velodrome pace bike to replace the 4+ man tandems for leading out certain track events is on clear display in their museum. I wish I lived in an age like that, where people could be far more creative without space and shitty people constraints. I have no place to do metal casting even if I could somehow handle the physical stress of it. I would love to do green sand casting.

  • √𝛂𝛋𝛆@piefed.worldOPtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Is there a problem with US physics and academia?English
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    3 days ago

    It generated lots of discussion on 4 Chan.

    I do not follow the political clown show’s dichotomy. I know Sabine Hossenfelder has shown emails from people at Fermi lab indicating otherwise after they complained about her outing junk science.

    I basically only watch people with advanced degrees making edutainment type content. So I don’t know the wider scope.

    Edit: I changed it to “US” in the title. I am probably going to delete the whole thing though. I despise downvoting children. They deserve their idiotic echo chambers.

  • √𝛂𝛋𝛆@piefed.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*English
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    5 days ago

    I have experienced this. It is not a hypothetical. I was physically disabled while riding a bicycle to work. I had my business tanked by these shits. I had my commercial driver’s licence ruined. I’ve been all but killed by this issue. There is far more nuance here. Don’t be an ass.

    It is not even my fault. She was a cheater.

  • √𝛂𝛋𝛆@piefed.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*English
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    5 days ago

    Social stigma causes the damage. None of that is valid or real from a high level abstractive perspective, but gaining such a perspective is a product of middle age. Most social stigma is born from ignorance, backwardness, and dogma. These are also protection mechanisms inherent to youth.

    A bit of unsolicited advice, child services is no one’s friend. The agents are paid on commission. The system is not balanced or fair. If you have custody, you can push to settle and set amounts lower. If you do not stay involved or become indifferent towards the child’s father, child services will likely destroy his life. The suicide rate is not well tracked but is generally known to be much higher. The entire system is built around a bygone era when anyone could simply show up and get a well paid factory job with a sufficient income to own a home and live a life as a primary breadwinner with a stay at home partner. No one alive today without inherited wealth can earn an income to survive with a 30%-40% margin removed. At a young age, such an extreme expense prevents a person from ever getting established on a solid career path. It cuts off many potential career paths that lack stability. Becoming unemployed will ruin a person dealing with child services. Most of the best paying jobs are unstable. Child Services is incentivised to exploit this in a way that ruins lives. You may have the power to change this if you care and can see the big picture.

  • √𝛂𝛋𝛆@piefed.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•how many communities have you been banned from?English
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    9 days ago

    My main account got banned from something like 8 because one admin person went nuts. I went through my log and was like, WTF, I never even commented there.

    I got two temporary bans from people that had no credible logic skills or objective thinking. One of those was a Lemmy dev. And that is why I’m on piefed now.

    There are some crazies, but I think we all need to normalize just being nice digital neighbors. Life is too short and negative. If you don’t like something, just ignore it. Don’t engage or escalate or down vote. None of us are that important, and being negative makes things worse for all, including, if not especially yourself.

  • √𝛂𝛋𝛆@piefed.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Help with fresh install [SOLVED]English
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    18 days ago
    All distros have niche purposes, but most components are compatible.

    As an abstract concept, Linux From Scratch is like ultimate god mode. That walks you through everything in extraordinarily overwhelming fashion to build a operating system from scratch.

    Gentoo is like LFS on easy mode with a package manager to help you stay on top of a working system. It is still like maybe demigod mode. The main thing with Gentoo is that you have access to compiling everything from source, so you can integrate any changes you would like to make to packages within the package manager.

    If you understand a UNIX operating system on a LFS/Gentoo level, Arch is like both of these, but with binary packages.

    Debian is primarily for a more complete base system with stability where they make long term support kernels. Debian is primarily for creating custom tools on servers and for reverse engineering hardware. Most hardware drivers come from Debian.

    Red Hat is the goto for commercial server stuff. Many Kernel maintainers and developers work for Red Hat. Fedora is up stream of Red Hat and has most of the tools from Red Hat. The book The Linux Bible is the goto book for learning IT and networking and is written around Fedora/Red Hat.

    So the reason for the bla bla bla is because understanding the purposes of each of the distros will guide you to essential documentation. This is the key to intermediate level Linux; when you understand where to look for information across all distros.

    • LFS will walk you through any components in tutorial detail if you can find the entry point and ground your understanding.
    • Gentoo is likely to have similar tutorial guides and information that has easier entry points.
    • Arch is like the giant warehouse of components. Arch has the wiki which is the principal documentation on the components themselves. What Arch is not, is tutorial. The wiki is an encyclopedia. Use it as such.
    • Debian has the bootstrapping stuff and documentation to port onto new hardware or explore.
    • Red Hat/Fedora have the information and tools for the kernel and networking. If you want to mess with something like the CPU scheduler or configuring numa architectures, these are the places to look for documentation.

    These are general loose guidelines. For your monitor resolution issue, I would start with Gentoo and Arch. I had a similar issue when I tried Arch back around 8-9 years ago, but I do not recall the details and it has probably changed considerably since the X11 to Wayland transition.