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Just had a Dr. appointment this week that gives me some hope that a minor surgery will enable me to get back to a good activity routine. That hope has been motivating in its own right, calorie discipline has been extra hard when feeling mechanically defeated.
on par with some of the poorer US states
I think that's pretty accurate, a premier European city felt about on-par with a 3rd tier Rustbelt city, just with better baseline food at 3x the cost and window dressed with ornate (old) architecture.
Europe was basically an economic peer to America
Had assumed so until I worked with a bunch of Euros, the austere mindset of Brits and Germans especially was a big shock.
Then I visited. The understanding I had that Germany was an economic peer was dashed further when I couldn't get decent internet or a cell signal in the heart of a major city of the most wealthy EU country.
Turns out it was always a mirage. They were propped up the entire time by spending basically nothing on defense while hosting US assets, and a currency subsidized by US swap line "EuroDollar" banks and check-valve trade.
The mirage was probably the real asset, luring in tourists.
Apparently restaurant tables on the sidewalk and denser public transit does not an economy make.
Most recent "incident" in August, not filed till they were a shoe in a few weeks ago, perfect amount of time for the money laundrres to "convince" someone to file based on OSINT
Secured division and now the deep state is sabotaging the playoff run, no one had bet on the AFC running through New England
Follow the money
Those are channels it's aware of in its view of the graph, resync of the graph would like rebuilding an index
Zombies can slow down or make pathfinding less reliable
Yea radon is the other thing to test for with a well, first thing to do in a home inspection because a house with a good well is hard money
tap water was somehow inferior to bottle water
I think it depends where we're talking... not all tap is equal. Dallas tap seems fine, but Austin tap tastes like a malaria smoothie even at nicer hotels and restaurants with their own filters.
Taste is just one thing, otherwise it usually a trade-off between microplastics in bottled water vs chlorine+flouride and pharmacologics in some cities.
I couldn't reconcile living somewhere without my own deep-well. People didn't settle places without access to good water for most of human history, how few people even consider that today?
Aye the devil is always in the details. You'll probably need to build several iterations to figure out what's truly optimal. Thresholds are just one tool in the drawer.
Would be happy to take a look once you can share more.
Top line theme for you: baby steps...
booting Linux Mint and Arch Linux now (I use Arch btw).
Get used to mint as your daily driver, and what terminal/commands you need. Mint is an Ubuntu base, so will have a more robust guides/troubleshooting ecosystem and less confused LLM's when you need something.
Hyperland
Likewise you probably would be best served settling into KDE for awhile, since you're coming from Windows and not hacking the planet. Hyperland is really for power users and just going to overload you.
DHH got a lot of people on the Hyperland bandwagon only recently with Omarchy, and DHH is elite, so his setup is not going to be a noob-friendly setup.
It's not bad, but also not mainstream, so docs/llm help isn't going to go as far as something more established.
Beware the hipsters recommending it, often their self-esteem is derived purely from being for the "current thing"
trying to learn how to use a terminal?
Lots of "cheat sheets" out there, look at a bunch until a format hits home.
If you regularly need to CLI you can look into adding "aliases" to your bashrc, which are basically terminal shortcuts.
Don't get overloaded by learning tmux yet. Keep it simple.
x11 and Wayland
Wayland is newer than than x11, they power the GUI for your desktop.
Newer is important context here:
Don't use [xyz] it sucks
Have to go down that road in this case, it's required knowledge because you will encounter an issue and need to know the difference and why you may need to switch.
X11 is the OG, everything was originally developed for X11. That means many things are still broken under Wayland.
Wayland being the Shitcoin/Trans/Rust "successor" to x11 means that's what the NGO's and Megacorps are pushing, so its become the default across the the major distros and issues are becoming more rare. It works fine 90% of the time, but for that 10% you'll need this context.
You can switch your desktop instance from Wayland to X11 if you find there's several things you need to get working. You can also tell a specific app launcher to use x11, even while the rest of your desktop is otherwise defaulted to Wayland.
X11 is also important once you start running apps on remote systems over SSH. For example, running a browser or text editor on a headless VPS on your local desktop GUI.
In might not be the right way depending on the use-case, as it'd be over-kill and potentially have a coordination problem for ad-hoc chains of signatures where a user may only co-sign events randomly. In that setting a derivative of "boost" would probably be adequate.
It'd only be proper for regular group signatures, like for an entity or committee.
FROSTR uses these threshold sigs, could check out that project or maybe consult with @bitcoinplebdev
A threshold signature
Would require first a one-time attestation to membership, but all forward events would be verifiably linked to your key
This gets to the nature of the war we're actually in, since an invasion is practically impossible, "5GW": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth-generation_warfare
China published a blueprint on "Unrestricted Warfare": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unrestricted_Warfare
Shared this a few weeks ago from Obama's "Leave the World Behind": #1341371
TLDR you don't invade a country, you infiltrate and de-stabilize it, then let it tear itself apart and rule over the ashes.
Doesn't take more than a few dozen operators in pickup trucks with 50BMGs plinking at substations to take down the entire electric grid for an extended period. No unambiguous EMP or Cyber Attacks required. That, combined with infiltrated government, corporations, and psychological operations that have been ongoing for decades, means the only defense is a constant state of stand-off we're in... hense why everything feels high tension. You don't need an invasion force when you can with a go-signal convince half the population the other half is being manipulated by a foreign power.
Could get into even fuckier stuff like this:
It's what the globalists are doing to us now