Aha! I did not know that.

It’s a fictional and real religion from a book called the illuminatus trilogy.

That card game isn’t called that anymore, but 20 years ago it was the standard name for a well-known card game.

I wonder how much is philosophy and how much is not wanting legal troubles. Those things aren’t contradicting of course.

I made a serious attempt at using ed(1) for a few weeks. Read the book by Michael Lucas and everything. In the end, I kind of do want to see the file I’m editing, etc. But, some features, or lack of features, stuck with me. Do I need a menu item to count words in the file? That’s why we have wc -w after all. This can be said about a lot of functionality built into editors. It made me really appreciate the idea of programs that do one thing, and can be combined. But yes, in the end it was too much for me, mostly because I’m not good enough with coreutils.

In sweden red is the color of left wing parties, and blue is the right wing parties.

I’m not sure it drove Navidson insane, but maybe it presented him a sane choice (staying safe with his wife) and an insane choice (risking everything to find out what is inside). And a certain type of person just can’t let it be, even at the cost of everything. Maybe this was inside him all the time, and then the house happened.

I had a lot of issues on silverblue using vscodium as a flatpak, I think I will try installing it in a distrobox instead.

if you program using vscodium, do you install a separate vscodium in every distrobox?

It’s revenge for Älvsborgs lösen.

IKEA names are rarely just the word for the thing, maybe it could be called “SNUBBLA”, “NEKA”, or “MALMÖ”?

Hm, ok, so the official definition is: “It is characterized by loosely coupled systems that interoperate in a manner that is secure, resilient, manageable, sustainable, and observable.”

Nethack works well on Linux too.

What exactly does “cloud native” mean? I’ve used Silverblue and I get the immutability etc, but what is the definition of "cloud native?

How do you feel about books by Alexandre Dumas? They are from long before AI. But… Dumas had a collaborator called Maquet, who came up with plots and did a big part of the writing. He was an ok writer, but not as good as Dumas. So their collaboration was like this: Dumas paid Maquet to produce quantities of ok stories for him. Then Dumas edited them to add his brilliant language and ideas, and Dumas got to take all the credit and glory.

Thank you for writing that, I do appreciate long posts. I have thought about where my confusion comes from.
Earlier I have found it difficult to understand what appears to me to be two incompatible claims. One that says that gender is completely a social construct, and one that says that being trans is something inherent in a person, i.e being the case regardless of external expectations and beliefs. People may say “I am trans”, in a way that goes beyond “I would like to wear a dress but people expect me not to.” Do you know what I mean?

200 years ago, punk and metal didn’t exist, so the possibility to have your wish to be punk denied is something specific to the era where punk exist as a concept. Am I on the right way here? What I mean is… doesn’t that imply that being transgender is not inherent in a person, but a personal wish that can only exist in a time when gender exist?

How did you decide that you are done?

Honest question, in a post gender-coded society, would there be no gender dysphoria?

I agree that that is what it should be, but my experience has been that I’ve heard a lot of man=bad messages. Maybe it’s the bubble I’ve been in, but it’s hard for me to shake that off. I try to be a good person, but I don’t know what it means to be a good man. Any personality trait that is good for a man to have, I also think is good for a woman to have, so it’s not specifically a good man trait.