@indubitablyodin well said. Belief in inevitable change to a future perfected state is just religious thinking under a different name. It's irrational and enervating.
In order to understand the transformation of societies from one stable state to another through a chaotic transition I would look to complexity theory and in particular the idea of fitness landscapes and the "phase change" transitions between local minima.
The implications of neofeudalist thought are very dark -
@indubitablyodin - feudalism itself turns out to be a flawed, kind of bullshit folk history concept anyway, but in its own terms, feudalism requires an external threat for the lords and their armies to protect the peasants from in exchange for fealty and work. In the neofeudalist model that threat is climate refugees. Without climate refugee "barbarian hordes" their model makes no sense. So they're actually incentivized towards climate driven social collapse. What a bunch of dicks.
I really hate that MS Word is basically the only app to use for business-level word processing... unless I want to use Google Docs. Like... yikes. I've tried LibreOffice and Word Perfect, but the biggest issue is that they don't actually handle MS documents that well. And these other apps tend to have a UX experience from the early 2000s.
@indubitablyodin I'd like to note that a stable UX is a good thing once you pass roughly 50 years of age! Loss of mental agility means many older people can't adapt to changing UIs, especially when the change is radical eg MS's brain-dead tab bar replacing and hiding the menu-driven UI.
Most businesses don't need document retention for > 5 years, but some (law, medicine) have human-lifespan-equivalent stability needs, and I'd like to be able to still read my parents' writing now they're dead.
Anyone here have a Framework 13 laptop? I'm considering getting a Ryzen 7 base model and adding my own RAM/HD.
Right now, I have an awesome little Zepheryus g14, but it doesn't have good battery life and it's a fair few years old. I'll keep running it as my home computer but I think I need a backup on hand, as well as something I can travel with.
Be interested in hearing any current owners' thoughts.
Really impressed with how far AnyType has come in the last year. As I predicted in my article from the Alpha version, it didn't take long at all for this app to match Notion for everything I needed to organize important aspects of my life.
It still has a bit of a learning curve and some sticky areas, but it's fully functional, secure, and streamlined enough to pick up with just a few hours of practice setting up a course schedule for my classes in the Summer/Fall.
@sharan That is one of the biggest flaws of a LOT of really cool software. The UX is so often TERRIBLE from a non-techie perspective (or even a techie one, lol). Anytype's actually improved since their alpha version, so I'm hoping they keep headed in that direction. More accessibility, fewer bugs, clearer language, and a better introductory tutorial.
In short, what the "1 GB limit" actually is, is just this: You can transfer unlimited data between your devices while they are on the same network. If you wanted to have live syncing away from home, you'd need one of the following:
A paid plan.
A self-hosted "node" (a transfer point linked to the Internet where the data can be transferred through).
A VPN like Nord with something called "Meshnet" which makes your devices think they're all on the same network.
Now, if only Anytype's PR people would actually hire me, I could explain all of this to everyone, lol.
Currently searching for any higher education positions that are 100% remote and entry-level! Don't care too much about pay, just looking to get resume experience.
Library Science
English
Creative Writing
Any Humanities (especially politics, anarchism studies, film studies, 19th-20th century philosophy), Asian philosophy, Jungian psychology.
Tried watching "For All Mankind" but it's just...so...relentlessly...depressing. A large part of this is just facts of the era it's set in. but the tone of the show's drama is wedged into this very claustrophobic experience of that setting; we're never delivered a reprieve, the family drama is miserable, people are dying, the government is horrifying (I mean, that's fully realistic) - there's just no let up.
"Four days before the tragic event, James Crumbley bought his son a gun, and his mother took him to a shooting range to practice โ posting a cheerful message about the outing on Instagram."
Yeah, that's guilty. I hope they every single book thrown at them. God.