Here’s my advice: On Windows, hardware either works or it needs a driver or it’s broken.

On Mac, it either works or it doesn’t.

On Linux, it either works or it doesn’t, but maybe if you find tge right obscure repo or project, you could get it to work with some heloful tutorials, or some other helpful tutorials from this other site because the first one was out of date. …but you might have to compile bimaries, because the binaries that exist for download might not work for your system because they’re from a previous version…

…so, skip all that and just treat Linux like Mac. The hardware works or it doesn’t.

In all likelihood, it’ll work. But, specially since you’re starting out, if you use NVidia, use a distro that explicitly supports that. I hear bazzite is good.

Yeah… …I really love some of the core Swedish ideals, and it’s sad to see this happening. I really hope that Sweden is able to generate an effective response to the incoming ideologies without sacrificing their own ideals.

When people get too soft, times get hard (bullies win when people are too soft). A genuine balance needs to be struck, which requires a lot of personal processing by many people, as well as time for the resultant answers to spread through the culture. Sweden may need to limit immigration in the mean time to give time for that to occur.

this was always the argument in the US when taking with people regarding all the cool things Sweden instituted - “but they are culturally contiguous, and that’s what makes it work.”

…in a melting pot, you have to account for the existence of all these extreme viewpoints, and have some kind of response. Those things that aren’t accounted for simply spill out into the populous, and become everyone’s problem.

Thanks for this, it’s nice to see a correct answer. I’m tired of people who claim to love Star Trek but don’t even know the lore.

solid

Sort through the emotional issues. I know this is probably typical advice, but seriously. Even though it takes a while, and looks impossible, process those feelings. It’s not impossible, because it’s a learned skill. . When you start off, making progress is dreadfully slow. but as you learn how, doing it becomes easier.

You don’t have to sacrifice who you were to become someone you’d want to be. Who you were will always be a part of you, anyways. But as you grow, it ceases to be the dominant voice - just, something to consider.

KDE connect and/or Synching/Syncthing-fork.

I don’t think you’re ready for self-hosting, but getting these installed and sorted out will help you move along that path, plus it will meet your needs in the mean time.

Bit, as others have suggested, get familiar with networking a bit.

You might want to get a raspberry pi or cheap SBC with a good amount of memory and disk space, and fuck around for a bit, trying some things.

I think people naturally extend their unresolved issues and the concomitant behaviors into the macro scale, and that it is precisely by resolving the personal issues on a smaller scale that you gain greater power over your own life. As you do, your methods and behaviors spread, because people learn well by example, particularly when that example “wins” and comes from a natural place of acceptance.

As people resolve their piece of the pie, they run into others who have, likewise, resolved their piece of the pie. …and, together, they do greater things, because they are capable of it, not tangled an a huge ball of personal issues, and why not too something or contribute to something you want to see done in the world?

The massive issues we have a a society are precisely because we have too much emotionally charged information, and haven’t processed that information - and because the blind spots you have in your own personal life and with your own personal issues become your cultures, your nation’s, and the world’s problems as you gain power.

Sorting through your issues, and resolving your blind spots means your power increases. And, as you do, then the scope of what you, personally can change grows - in part, because you are also more effective at working with others and rejecting (or similarly handling) problematic authority as you do.

The basic question is: Where does the motivation of your reaction (or action) come from?

If you have an emotional goal to prevent the thing from having existed, you are doomed from the start.

If you have accepted fully that it is the way it is, and that what you need to do is add a valid response to the situation, rather than preventing the existence of the situation, you’re probably on the right track.

That is, you can’t block a punch, or respond in kind, if you haven’t accepted that you’re in a fight. Instead, you’ll just have your ass handed to you.

When people say “how could this happen?!” they aren’t usually asking questions at all, even if it’s a situation they would benefit well from asking questions in. They usually mean “this shouldn’t have happened.” …and, they are wrong.

It’s not that it should happen, or shouldn’t happen. Those are irrelevant. It’s that it’s happening (or happened), and the probability of naturally generating a valid response increases massively once you accept that.

Once you accept the situation fully, you’ll be able to look at it clearly, and have a greater chance of recognizing it, and recognizing it before others even realize that it’s happening - or, before others realize they are telegraphing their actions before they strike. As such, you have a better capacity to respond appropriately.

The largest problem humans have, in my opinion, is fighting ghosts and impossible battles - which leaves them open to being taken advantage of or repeating painful cycles. Radical acceptance addresses some of that, if treated as a means to think clearly, rather than as a religion to adhere to.

You think that preventing exposure to problematic concept prevents infection. you’re right, in the short term. But in the long term, you destroy collective immunity to the concept.

Let it live, fight it when you have to, but don’t think you can eradicate it. It’s to be learned from, not simply destroyed. Otherwise, the experience is wasted, only to be repeated by the next generation.

No, it won’t solve the problems you think it will. You are misidentifying the problem as being religion. …but the problem is human, and psychological in nature - and, because you can’t see that, you’re just as susceptible to it as any other sot out there, drunk on the idea that you’ve got this one weird trick that solves the issue, and doesn’t involve you sorting your own shit out.

yep. But nuance isn’t visceral enough to grab their attention, so they get owned by those who are nuanced enough to wield the generalized binary concepts.

Literally, a mind virus they can’t recognize - likely crafted intentionally by someone at some point. But even if not, the irony is that this kind of wholesale buy-in to binary concepts is exactly what causes the behaviors they despise in religion.

you’re just voicing another ideology that wants to exterminate others. Religion is your whipping boy, and you’re lying to yourself if you think that getting rid of religion fixes the problem.

no, they in no way implied that bad people shouldn’t be stopped.

was gonna suggest similar.

exactly.

but everybody got their rocks off catharsis and the feeling was expressed - even though the reason for the feeling was never addressed.

doubt

I mean sure you can use the chaos to try and get cover for something specific. But generally, people rioting are on-tilt and looking for easy targets that look like their oppressors. Then, everybody gets catharsis and the riot disappears.

It’s just lazy. but, better than nothing, i guess.

rioting is not the answer. if you are going to take action, be careful and deliberate.

tragedy of the Commons, with external pressure to boot.

I like to think about ethics. I still pirate some random stuff here and there, but one thing I like to do is make sure I’m getting some money to the creators of what I’m enjoying, skipping the middle man as much as can be.

this is mostly only relevant with music, but if I can buy an album or song directly from the artist, that’s awesome. it not, i try to five what service benefits them most.