At some point it because a binary thing.

You don’t need to just be good at something.

You need to be good at something AND do something else. AND be likeable. AND be pretty. AND have good contacts. AND …

And if any of those other things aren’t the case, you don’t become the super star.

Sometimes, it’s being at the right place at the right time. Some things can be solved with money, or being the friend or child of a celebrity, and others can’t.

Forget you have a car parked in your garage and it will get dirty over time.

Exactly and then from time to time your clear out and clean the garage. Hence the original post.

Bold of you to assume people have perfect knowledge of what they installed and what they use and how much.

If not, how do you find stuff you care about?

You go to explore, or your home instance feed and follow people and hashtags.

If you have interests, definitely try finding them in the hashtags.

And is reblogging the equivalent to upvoting?

There are no “upvotes”. The idea is that you’re in your little bubble with a handful of followers, and so is basically everyone else. When you find something neat, you boost it, to share it with your followers. If your followers also like, they can boost it as well, and that way, it can spread in a viral way and reach everyone. Or not, if it’s not that interesting and fizzles out.

There are no upvotes because there is no home page. It’s entirely right now. You pick it up, you scroll for a bit, you do something and then you put it down.

I recommend the “federated” feed, to see what I mean. Normally, your home feed is filtered to what you have followed. “Federated” is everything you device can see. All of it. Right now. Slowed down a bit so you can read something, but it’s a cool “stream of consciousness” thing.

Do they have memes there or what’s the range of content?

Everything you want. It really depends on what you filter for.

How does it compare to bluesky?

I don’t know in terms of tone, but the technical difference is that bluesky is only theoretically “independent”, with mastodon, you can have people in basements hosting servers and running communities.

Something you didn’t ask, but that I think is a major feature is filters. You can filter groups of keywords from your feed. So if you want to be informed, but you don’t really care about the specifics of [Team Rockets] Deeds, because they do something every day, you can set a filter for “Team Rocket”, “Jessie”, “James” and it will be hidden, but not completely, you can set it to appear as “team rocket did something again”. You can then still click on it, if you want, but it’s less in your face, if you don’t want to.

Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness

Is actually every easy to understand. NS is the basic fluid dynamics equation, it describes how fluids move.

Never mind the actual equation, you can think of it as “speed” depending on “pressure” and “inertia”. We can use it in parts, in CFD, which is splitting the problem into very small pieces and calculating the pieces and then adding them up bit by bit. But that is super expensive to calculate, not as precise as we would like and difficult to understand.

We would really prefer an “analytical” equation like position = speed * time. The process to get there is usually the integral operation. That’s what the problem is all about.

The problem with the equation we have, is that “pressure” and “inertia” variables are so mixed up in the equation, that we can’t do that integral operation on the equation we have. You end up with something that’s like

y/x = (y/(x-y)) + x

and

x/y = (x/(y-x)) + y

Idk if that explains anything if I put it like that… You can just look at the whole thing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Prize_Problems#Navier–Stokes_existence_and_smoothness

Both sides of that equation describe the same thing, one with forces and pressures, one with measures of speed and time. But BOTH sides contain both space and time parts.

The pieces are interlocked in a way, where we can’t isolate variables, can’t get an integral.

Understanding NS itself isn’t that hard either, but I couldn’t do it just from wikipedia, if you have a bit of help guiding you through it, it’s not that complicated.

The problem is finding / proving that an integral exists and is smooth.

As for how hard it is and how useful it would be, the 1$ million are a joke. The solution is worth billions and billions.

And the problem is old.

The equations were developed over several decades of progressively building the theories, from 1822 (Navier) to 1842–1850 (Stokes).

The question is mostly about what kind of gaming.

Most single player experiences are no longer a problem because of steam proton, but multiplayer anti cheat and other AAA DRM is sometimes a windows only thing.

Coding is just superior on linux. It’s the platform built by coders to make their own life easier for 30 years.

You should dual boot, try it out for a few games and see how the dev process translates and get your feet wet.

Setting up a VM is probably a lot more effort than just installing it.

What then?

Yeah it’ll just be over.

Meaning, people would try to barter, which is really bad because it forces extremely bad trades, because it’s so hard to establish a good value for things.

We 100% rely on consistently working electricity and network connectivity for digital currency to work.

Which is why we should never get 100% rid of cash, even if we transition to mostly cashless, people should keep an emergency stash of hard currency. The same way people should keep an emergency food and water supply, in case of power outages like the one in spain. We can secure our infrastructure against many things, but not 100% secure against everything. Keeping a few bottles of clean water, a little bit of essentially never perishing food and a little cash and a few candles really isn’t too much to ask.

Sure, it’s a matter taste and I too like a good UI.

Both can exist, that’s a another beauty of linux.

A bad person? No, absolutely not.

The problem, if there is any, would be general health and fitness, preventing you from doing some things. But that’s you, doesn’t mean your child can’t do them. E.g. idk skateborarding. That being said, in many cases it’s an attitude problem, if you exercise regularly and stay healthy and are really putting in that work that you know is good for you but maybe put off, you can make it work.

Forget the perceptions, you can’t change how other people see you.

Congratulations on becoming a parent!

Also, updates.

“hey computer! Update!”

“Sure thing, here is a list of 57 packages I will update, y/n?”

“y”

“ok… done!”

👌

It depends a lot in which context the “discussion” is taking place.

• at a dinner table it’s more about small talk and performing… “social grooming” as you would observe it in ape societies.
• at official events, people either have a job or an established opinion, they are in a stressful environment that does not actually allow them to make rational evaluations
• in school / academia / media, the particular response and opinion will affect your grade, social standing and future career opportunities

In all of those situations, it should be obvious why the “dominant” position does need to give an inch, for social reasons.

Even in absolutely perfect conditions, calm environments, prepared discussion participants, “objective neutrality” towards the outcome, individuals will have different opinions on importance of topics or methods and will discard “details” or see them as irrefutable counter examples.

Basically, there are lot of (subconscious) things going on that prevent an “objective discussion” from happening. I’m sure you can find specific examples of what could be influencing people in specific circumstances once you look for them.

1. just pick any of the common recommendations. Mint. Ubuntu, Kubuntu… Just search for “which linux distro is right for me” and look at a few answers and pick one. Most of them work the same way.

2. you probably can’t use autocad or adobe products. kernel level anticheat is a problem, so games that need that are out.

3. Yes. …ish.

There are basically three levels, one where you only click everything and it’s basically an app / wizard as you know them.

The next level would be that it’s possible that you have manually edit a few text or config files to make things work the way you want to, or the best solution to your problem can be a command line thing. That’s very mostly “not programming”, the command line and manually editing config files can look scary, but most of the time it’s completely harmless. This happens, but it’s rare and it’s mostly simple stuff. The bigger and more used the distro is that you pick, the less you will run into this.

And then the third level would be “real programming” and basically nobody does that and nobody expects that.

4. yes, you can dual boot.

5. Just do it. If you’ve “built” a pc before, it’s the same deal. If you read the manual a tiny bit, it’s like lego. It looks way scarier than it is. And if you look up solutions it is extremely likely that you will find a well researched answer that does solve your problem.

How do I make sure not to become this kind of person?

Just focus on that and you’re good.

There are two ways to do “bad things” 1. you’re not aware of them being bad (because you never question yourself), 2. you are aware, but you excuse them somehow.

You have already cleared 1., all you need to do now, is to remain strict with yourself to never do excuse your own bad behavior.

And to be clear, I don’t mean to constantly blame yourself, I mean “finding excuses to do the bad thing anyway, because this time is an exception”. And it’s also fine to give up on this later if you find you can’t keep it up. It would be disappointing, but any effort in this direction is good, don’t let it dominate you.

Also, practice harmless small talk. If your colleague is talking drama, try to shift the discussion and bring up their pet or hobby or something.

then they pretend to be your friend and ask questions about your personal life which I deflect as good as I can.

I’m sure you can find some old boring topic that you find moderately interesting but can talk for hours on? Just use that. Comic book art, a particular species of flower you keep in a pot, 14th century mongolian music, idk.

You can do both: encrypt the transmission for security and record it in a tamper proof way for transparency.

I don’t think there is a huge need at the moment. Things will probably develop naturally. E.g. if some communities find they would like one, they would start one, with rules, blocks, membership, financing that fits their needs.

Alright. I hope that I’m wrong too, after all.

The first thing to consider is: can you afford the luxury of picking something you like?

In an ideal world we get the job we want, we have fun doing it, nice colleagues, etc… This may not be true for you. You can pick a job you don’t particularly like, if the job market seems good, use that to just afford living and go from there. That makes it somewhat easy, because you’re no longer picking something that’s “nice” you’re optimizing working conditions: working times, union coverage, how long the education takes, vs. how much it pays. Maybe you find that working in a sewage plant or being a plumber isn’t nice, but way better than doing a public facing customer service job. Or working your ass off in academia, 60 hours a week, with the reward of a wet handshake, a mention in a paper that’s cited 5 times that your supervisor uses to boost their standing but not yours and a two year timer on job stability.

I can’t picture myself in 5/10 years from now and can’t even imagine what type of job I’d love, bc everything seems out fo reach and impossible, just like it felt when I was 20.

I’m afraid of wasting time bc of my age

Besides the job, what do you even want? And that question is hard and some people don’t find the answer for decades, so don’t stress over it. Sometimes it takes a decade of life experience to come to an “obvious” conclusion. The trick is that the ten years aren’t “wasted”, they are *necessary" to give you the context to understand what you want.

We are generally limited in the time we have, but it’s only really urgent in three aspects: if you are terminally ill, you are becoming old or disabled and physically can’t do certain things and family planning. If you know you want kids, make a plan for 10 years into the future. That’s important because the requirements around kids are completely different than without. I don’t think traveling with toddlers is smart, kids are expensive, they will eat your time and attention. If you want to get something bigger done, consider doing it before having kids, or your kids making you choose them instead of your “dream”. Which can be bad, because you never ever want to think that you could have done X if only you didn’t have kids. That’s a regret that poisons a lot of things.

Anyway, YOU still have plenty of time. At least 10 years, probably 20, until you even have to start worrying about anything.

Do you care for art, people, technology, animals? Sitting on a couch? Sports? Cooking? Baking? Culture? Anything?

If nothing particular jumps at you, it’s totally fine to browse e.g. movies, technology, memes, comics, music, literature, or to travel until you find something that strikes you. Like, do you even know what’s out there? How are you supposed to pick something you like if you haven’t seen anything?

Society throws a lot of things at you that you are supposed to care about and supposed to do, but you have to actually explore and decide if those things are actually for you, or if you just believe or do them because everyone you know does them or talks about them.

I recommend writing a diary or taking notes on this. Revisiting your old thoughts can be difficult and it’s easier to organize your thoughts on paper.

Personally, I finished a technical education, worked in a few projects and even finished a few things I didn’t like to test out what I didn’t like and want to avoid. E.g. I worked in a city I didn’t live in, commuted 3 hours one way every other weekend, lived in conditions I didn’t like… It wasn’t nice in the moment, but now I know what to avoid.

Final note: statistics say you are not alone. The opposite in fact, lots of young people go through the same issues. So maybe that’s comforting, idk.

The problem is that of those 20/30% only 10% will actually get out on the streets so you are left with around 2% of the general population. And that ain’t much

So you do agree?

Getting mass protests organized is a tremendous effort. If you have 80-90% support for something, getting 30-40% on the street is a huge accomplishment. If only 30% support the idea in the first place, there is no chance.

The “mass protest” has to be at a scale, where it’s basically a general strike where society shuts down because people are protesting.

That it doesn’t work right now doesn’t mean they should stop trying.

but a very loud and significant minority

This is meaningless in a country that chooses to ignore public voices. Authoritarian regimes can stay stable with 10-15% support of the population, ignoring protests and complaints.

There are protests, they are just way too small.

Trump hast at least 40% of the population behind him, and a good 20-30% don’t care. Still.

You can’t organize “mass protests” with 20-30% of the population.

I mean, you can, but they are literally a loud minority.

He does content? He can be a bit aggressive about his topics, that can rub people the wrong way.

I don’t think he did anything offensively, legally or morally wrong.

I know just he exists, I don’t follow his content.