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 No.309794[Reply]

Another Evil under the Sun Edition. You of many.

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 No.309968

Social bonding is about affirming you're on the same side, this means liking and hating the same thing. This causes polarization of opinions to be natural. For example, video game discourse on the internet. When someone like something they gloss over all of its flaws and likewise when they hate something they nitpick everything and downplays strengths. If you go the side that like a game and said that you like x but hate y, you need to be really careful about framing your opinion to make it sound like you're still on their side or they'll attack and try to kick you off. Same for the opposite side. If you persists in an opinion of liking x and hating y, you'll be alienated from the two main sides and are now strictly limited to the tribe that like x and hate y which is going to be a much smaller tribe. Small because you have to find the exact combination of likes and dislikes and reasoning for those preferences, as well as because a lot of people with nuanced beliefs prefer to get absorbed into the bigger main sides. One way that autistic, more scientific minded people likes to do is to champion objectivity which means eliminating all emotional bias. Another is to champion liberalism which means tolerating differing opinions. Both the problem with both of these ideas is that they hinder emotional investment in something so you ended caring less about a subject and the already reduced validation from other people also becomes less rewarding. Not to mention it takes more effort to be objective and accepting diversity means diluting sense of belonging. Therefore they're not good solutions either. Where am I going with this? I don't know just complaining about how sincerity is punished or something.

 No.309969

>>309967
What makes you believe that continuing to live will spare you from the depravity of those powers ruling the universe?

 No.309976

>>309968
I think that the ability to learn and in consequence the degree of mastering any subject or skill is directly linked to two main factors that might complement or contradict each other in different constellations: 1. your personal immediate affinity, genuine interest, true subjective conviction of the subject that you have without the need to express it to anyone else. 2. The success, competitive superiority, the amount of positive and accumulated social interactions and connections that the subject enables you to have. These two factors also decide your evaluation of a thing where you need to decide what's more important. Your unaltered honest personal opinion or the chase for social reward. In the best case these two are completely identical, that's when you can convince people the most (like cult leaders actually believing in what they are doing till the point of killing others and one self for it) of your relation to the thing and potentially gain the most reward. In the worst case you absolutely despise something but communicate that you like it, normally this won't go well for a long time because either it will be revealed that you actually hate the thing or it becomes very exhausting and it has a toll on your mental health. I think in most cases there are variant mixing ratios of these two factors.

 No.310002

>>309910
im 25 and although i sometimes tend to think being in your mid/late twenties is 'old' i always have to pull myself out of that because its just insane capitalistic fast-speed society telling you to give up on your dreams because you just have to blow up at 16 or youre forever doomed. the psyop of life is that its not a race its a journey of the self and this idea that growth ends at a certain age is dangerous

i really wish all the best for everyone reading this. please have the strength to take action. perpetual change regardless of direction or speed is the essence of life. realize you and only you are in control of your decisions and start taking steps towards what you seek, of course a specific result is not promised, but what is promised is that different decisions lead to change and i feel like this is what most people who feel stuck need to experience: the unexpected outcomes that come from changing your habits and mindsets and trying different things; life is uncertain and thats the fun of it, you can meet someone new next week and that might lead you to such a different, wonderful path you never even thought of, but first you need to change… you need to go out, for example, - and it will be uncomfortable, of course, but you need to do it anyway and stay consistent.

things wont happen to you if you stay sad and static guys. talk to your coworker, do the initiative. take care of yourself, download hinge, try to be out there, try different things, try changing and if you need someone to talk let me know.

 No.310003

Failed normals are worse to some extent than common normals. They're like the latter but with some nerve.


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 No.224780[Reply]

Should I take the Catholic pill?

They seem to genuinely respect Wizards and have a tradition of hermits. Their priests are a celibate ruling class.

I didn't grow up around Christians but it seems like the difference between them and other Christians is that they're the original church together with the lesser known Orthodox Church.

I don't get all the rules they have though. You shall attend Mass on Sundays and holy days of obligation and rest from servile labor. You shall confess your sins at least once a year. You shall receive the sacrament of the Eucharist at least during the Easter season. You shall observe the days of fasting and abstinence established by the Church. You shall help to provide for the needs of the Church, each according to his or her own ability.

I'm overwhelmed. I get why people just go with the DIY protestant approach but it seems like if the Catholics are one of the original churches Jesus said was legit then it's a safer bet.

Look I don't get how there can be a miracle like resurrection either and frankly all the Abrahamic religious miracles seem really underwhelming compared to the wild stories of Hindu gods. But so many people believe in Christianity from a Pascal's wager perspective it seems like I might as well consider it.

At least it'll make me feel like I'm less LARPing some fantasy wizard and instead I'll seem like a faithful religious hermit which gets more respect points
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 No.229652

Orthodoxmaxxing is better. Plus their priests literally look like wizards

 No.229654

>>224780
I did and went consistently for several years but eventually started having an issue being around people again. trying to get into going back and go to confession and everything.

>I don't get all the rules they have though.
Those things you listed are called the precepts of the Church they were instituted in 1215 as a general trend in centralization that was going on, it was not the case for most of Catholic history where for most of it was highly variable depending on where you were.

The main thrust of Catholicism is that God became man, was Crucified so that we can enter into an eternal life with God, and established a Church to provide sure means of reaching it. As something that is 2000 years old it has built up a ton of stuff around that and not all of it is as inherent to it as it seems, there is a very practical component to it. Things like confession, the eucharist, matrimony and priests are aimed at bringing people to God such that they can enter into that.

>>224788
I grew up secular and as someone foreign to religious stuff it's not exactly clear what they "believe" until you practice it, even then reducing religion to a set of ideas/propositions is a fairly modern novelty. The crucial thing is they are claiming God is incarnate on their altar and they have good means of coming into relation with him all the other theology is stuff on top of that.

>>227870
Confession up until around 800 was in groups and public and in front of everyone. I don't enjoy confession and would even get like physical tremors doing it but afterwords you are in a much better place even just at a psychological level.
However it isn't fundamentally about appealing to your preferences. The point of Christianity is we can enter into a special relationship with God through baptism, and that through sin we can reject that gift. Confession is a way of providing a confident means of repairing that, but it probably doesn't make sense if you don't believe in baptism either. The embarrassment also at a practical level is a good way to dissuade yourself from doing stuff you shouldn't anyway because you won't want to conPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

 No.229657

>>224780
i admire people that are devout, regardless of religion, but there's no way at 35 i can suddenly believe in a god or higher power.

Buddhism is the only thing that i can rationally get into

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>>224780
Everything good with Christianism and Buddhism and etc until you start to read about original Primitive christianism and original pre-sectariam buddhism and you start to ask questions like "What the fuck they're doing now and why they keep doings these bullshits added up later against original beliefs or practices?"
>Also
But if you just do it for community… ok, nice. But remember that the problems still are there, noy the fake tradition, but asshole or annoying people like every place.

I like Thelema, they have some funny rituals and can give you in same way some edgy-cult serious experiences. You dont even need to join a cult or community group to live to the philosophy or religion, just do it and read.
I got some interesting psychological-body related experiences doing ritual like Resh, lrp, middle pillar, yoga, pranayama, mantrayoga and some buddhist practices.
It started to gave me interest in soft exercises, i feel healthy and energized but still i dont know much about diet. I eat less trash and have more control of my sexual urges maybe related to ritual-exercise work.

 No.229662

>>229661
>Thelema
If you have some interest, this video is kinda good to start with some books and practices (all of the original books or texts now are free on internet or archive or even easy pirated)
>Also
If you want a youtube channel ignore Da'at Darling, that succubi has a asshole behaviour. If you want that much a succubi thelemic channel check Maevius lynn she gave good tips based in self experiences and records, if you want a book guide or curriculum check the book "Living Thelema" by David Shoemaker (but compare with original texts by Aleister Crowley if you want a more old school ritualized things)
You dont need to believe in any dogma thing, i do it for the fun.


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 No.62291[Reply]

The older I get, the narrower my taste in games becomes. It isn't for lack of trying, either. I constantly download new shit, but nothing ever sticks. I've come to the conclusion that there is an incredibly small handful of games actually worth playing and almost all of them are made by Nintendo, Blizzard, id Software or Capcom. If I had to name a few in no particular order:
>Diablo 2
>StarCraft
>WarCraft 3
>Ocarina of Time
>Resident Evil 4
>DOOM
>Quake 3
All of these games are 10/10 solid gold classics with endless gameplay and lively communities. Playing anything else just feels like buying store brand, what are your eternally playable games?
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 No.63645

basically most open source games feel like forever games. personally I find myself always going back to
>cataclysm: dark days ahead
>zero-k
>space station 13 (and 14)
>openMW and daggerfall unity
>ToME
I can't shill these games hard enough

 No.63646

>Oblivion, fallout 4, stalker coc\anomaly, minecraft

I've been modding these games for years now

 No.63647

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MahjongSoul! The grind doesn't stop until i'm the best player in the world

 No.63652

>>63647
I'm still stcuk at Adept because I can't get out of the push monkey mentality, when I smell a good hand I completely stop thinking about defense

 No.63653

>>63652
>I'm still stcuk at Adept because I can't get out of the push monkey mentality
Many such cases
I'm saint 1 and aiming for celestial


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 No.63254[Reply]

Any of you guys wargame? I've tried getting into old school ASL recently and am finding the pure infantry combat of early starter kits pretty underwhelming without the artillery and armor expansions
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 No.70905

>>70666
>>70677
thank you very much, the leather effects were an accident and I dont think I could replicate it again. Also I think the wash is doing a lot of work, also thinning paints. I did spend about 10 hours painting at least, which im told is very slow and it's still needing about 5 hours work

 No.71082

How can I find more motivation to build and paint my models

 No.71085

i don't know what physical war games are like. i imagine them not unlike chess but on way bigger chessboards where terrain matters, with more types of units with more unique movement patterns, attack ranges, area of effect weapons and damage (instead of every attack from every unit kills every other unit).

i did play a lot of warcraft 3 when i was younger and i appreciate the gentle realtime aspect of it. there not being turns and the light limitation by the ability to act fast combined with small armies and rpg elements give it such a unique alive feeling. warcraft gives so many possibilities that i keep thinking there is stuff possible in the game that just has not been found yet.

starcraft is similar but faster, brutal realtime, with way bigger armies. starcraft 2 is difficult with way more units, more abilities and more complexity. starcraft 1 is difficult because of it's clunky mechanics. you can only select a few units at once and the units get in their own way, making the act of sending a lot of small units way harder then sending a few big units.

 No.71086

>>71085
I think the physical war games depends on the certain rulesets and how seriously people take them. From what I've heard there's often a couple books and a judge involved in serious matches. Seems very confusing. I just like to collect and paint - though struggle to find motivation. I will encounter one hiccup building a model and mess it up slightly, which kills my enthusiasm to build more. Especially for the more expensive stuff. If one regular 10 piece soldier gives me grief, how will I build those 100~200 piece flagship models? It's very overwhelming

 No.71091

>>71086
>I will encounter one hiccup building a model and mess it up slightly, which kills my enthusiasm to build more.

when you mess something up, you can correct it through lore. when you paint one eye too low, that's an unfortunate accident in the cybernetic surgery for the occular augmentation one particular soldier had the misfortune of suffering from.


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 No.227891[Reply]

Why don't you have a tulpa, anon?
You can cheat yourself out of loneliness by fostering a loving relationship with an imaginary friend.

Benefits of a tulpa,
>You can choose any shape or form for her.
>You will never feel alone.
>She will always show unconditional love.
>She will always follow you around.
>You can have sex without losing your virginity powers or contracting STDs.
>Costs absolutely nothing.
>Basically the 'ultimate' form of a waifu.
The only negative is the social stigma, which you can easily avoid by not revealing your powerlevel.

It was the best decision of my life. It feels so good to have someone take care of you, compliment you and physically comfort you.
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>>227891
i have aphantasia, does it still work? can i still have this?

 No.229588

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what food does your tulpa eat?

 No.229589

>>229587
well, you will never be able to see your tulpa, but maybe you can still interact with her? it would probably be like messages coming from the void.

idk, i wouldn't bother in that case. the best part of tulpamaxxing is being able to see, touch, smell, feel your tulpa. we're working with all senses, but you're just limited to one or maybe zero and it's just an "abstract sense" of something. just stick with waifus and AI chatbots, sorry.

 No.229653

>>227891
I have read some guides but all of them are shit and read like they have been written by redditors.

How to get started if the goal is to make a romantic/waifu tulpa?
Whats the actual things I have to repeat to get there?

 No.229660

>>229653
Guides are fake and gay, everything about tulpas is intuitive and self-evident.

Presence
>Imagine her doing something next to you (rubbing her hands, shuffling around on her feet, etc.)
Visual
>Impose an image of her in flesh space using your mind's eye.
Autonomy
>Turn off your brain and observe and accept whatever she does next. She'll act erratically at first, but the longer you do this, the more her behavior normalizes and becomes more consistent.
Tactile
>Imagine her hand touching a spot on your body and hold onto that feeling for as long as you can. When you lose focus, move her touch to an adjacent spot.

If you do any of this at least one hour per day, you'll quickly see results.

Hallucinations (persistent, voluntary ones, at least) are mostly LARP, though.


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 No.229546[Reply]

If I quit smoking and pretended to be dead, would it be a good idea to destroy the world, for example, with COVID-19 or World War II? If so, what would you wish for?

> World War III
> COVID-19
> Zombie Apocalypse
> Alien Invasion
> Robot Wars
> Dinosaurs Return
> Parasitic Monsters

The choice is yours; I'll just run it, and the one with the most votes will be chosen.
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 No.229592

>>229546
big but unexplainable disease, like, you get sick but there is no virus or bacteria or contamination or anything. that would freak everyone out

or extremely quick desertification. have you read the time machine, when the guy goes too far into the future and the earth is just an uninhabitable desert and the only visible life forms are a bunch of small crustaceans? something like that, or the game "kenshi"

 No.229595

i hate science fiction

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>>229546
>If I quit smoking and pretended to be dead, would it be a good idea to destroy the world
>quit smoking
>pretend to be dead
>destroy the world

I'm sorry wiz, but what? What do any of these things have to do with each other? Why would you need to pretend you're dead in order to quit smoking, or to quit smoking to pretend that you're dead? Why would either of those things be required to destroy the world, or influence whether or not it's a 'good idea' to do so? I don't understand your thought process at all.

 No.229640

Id like to see dinosaurs return. Id love to know what they all sounded like clicking and chatting in unison in the forest. They'd probably drown out the sound of the birds and insects and it would be a chorus of clicks and chattering.

 No.229659

>>229592

I think nature's too cool to have to suffer just to freak out normies.
How about wasting disease suddenly infecting humans?


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 No.307023[Reply]

This is the classic "Suicide General", where we discuss methods and say farewell to our fellow wizards.

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 No.309758

Does anyone here have tinnitus? This might be what convinces me to end it. I can't even focus on my thoughts. It feels like I have lost an entire section of my brain. I can't sleep.

 No.309998

How likely am I to survive if I jump off a bridge 33 metres high? Could I at least lose consciousness on impact?

 No.309999

>>309998
Last time I jumped off a bridge, I died just fine. But it was 33.80 meters high, so your 33.00m bridge might be too short. Try it out and report back your findings.

 No.310000

>>308806
Don't bother with hanging, just build a charcoal gasifier and poison yourself with carbon monoxide. In a sealed room there is no chance you will survive.

 No.310001

>>309758
Yes have had it in my right ear for 5 years
I got wax removal done at the doctors recently and it went down by 75%
Feeling a lot less miserable
>>309758
>>309758


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 No.48726[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Recently I've been getting into photography. I've found that after doing so, I perceive moments in different ways. Things simultaneously seem more transient, yet more permanent. It's a sensation that's difficult to describe, except to say that I am more 'aware' of the moments around me. For obvious reasons I have avoided urban areas, but in terms of landscapes and natural shots, it is quite peaceful.

Any photography hobbyists here?
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 No.71049

>>71048
>I decided on the micro four thirds form factor simply because the super telephoto lenses are significantly smaller and cheaper due to the 2x crop factor from the smaller sensor.
>I still want a 12/13 mm wide angle lens for landscapes
You can get a speedbooster. It's an adapter to put larger sensor lenses on smaller sensor bodies, with a corrective element to scale the full field of view down without any vignetting. It also results in more light reaching the senor overal, which is where it gets its name. There are decades of full-frame Canon ultrawide primes on eBay that get boosted to something like f0.95.

I shoot video on MFT and I find that the MFT versions of new lenses are always a bit cheaper for some reason.

 No.71050

>>71049
Interesting, never heard of a speed booster before. I had been eyeing the 200mm f/2.8 to use with the 1.4 and 2x teleconverters as a potential upgrade path down the line. From what I'm reading it seems the speedbooster is pretty much like a teleconverter but in reverse. The more I learn about the MFT form factor the more I like it. It truly is versatile.

 No.71051

>>71050
>The more I learn about the MFT form factor the more I like it. It truly is versatile.
That's a common consensus. APSC sensors are bigger but their current issue is that cameras using them try to cram as many megapixels as possible over its real estate. The end result is smaller texel size which means each pixel is fueled by less light, culminating in a darker image with poorer dynamic range. My BMPCC4k is MFT but it only needs to spread a 4096x2160 image over that sensor so the images just glow straight off the camera.

The Rokinon 12mm is a good ultrawide I use and I hear good things about the (older) SLRMagic 8mm video lens. The former is a photograpy lens so it's sharp. What's nice about both of these lenses is that they're ultrawide but with glass that physically corrects the barrel distortion, so you don't get the severe fisheye effect.

I hope you see many cool birds and other wildlife in your tent adventures

 No.71062

>>71051
Thanks for suggesting the rokinon. Seems like exactly what I need. I shouldn't need autofocus for landscapes after all. Part of me wonders if it is actually worth it though when my phone is so good at landscapes already.

Thanks too for the well wishes. I reciprocate them and hope you enjoy videoing whatever you're trying to shoot.

 No.71090

>>71048
Update: The camera arrived and is in excellent condition. I did splurge for one rated as in excellent condition and I'm happy to say that was true. It looks brand new and has a shutter count in the 8k range. The lens also looks brand new. I took a couple of shots of flowers and they look pretty good. I'm going to try and shoot some birds tomorrow morning.


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post something from japan (whatever) that makes you feel comfy or nostalgia for a country you are not from (japan).
For me it's this video that remind me summer in japan and how it makes me daydream about living in japan and coming back home from school or work or whatever at dawn on my bicycle and taking a bath and then eating japanese food and then playing some video games and read some manga or whatever
max comfy
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Here's some Eiji Ohashi photography

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>>43261
looks cute


a vending machine for hikers, cool

 No.44441

>>43261
I WANT TO GET TONS OF SNACKS FROM THOSE MACHINES ABD GUZZLE IT ALL DOWN

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 No.68295[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Book discussion. Tell us what you're reading.
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>>64932
>>60032
>>54504
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 No.71059

>>71056
>Finished Miyamato Musashi's The Five Rings
What did you learn?

 No.71061

>>71059
My big takeaway was probably in the water book where he talks about having a commanding gaze. He reccomends keeping your eyes from wandering and trying to survey an entire area without using your eyes. Theres a lot of Buddhist philosophy weaved into the text that sounds interesting at first but is just a bunch of nothing burgers dressed up like poetry that was fun to read too. I definitely wouldn't reccomend this book for someone who isn't in a career that would benefit from seeing life as a series of conflicts. Id like to meet someone who did learn something from this book. For me, I rarely interact with people, and if I do I benefit mostly from just being pleasant towards them. I dont generally have a lot of conflict in my life right now, so there wasn't a lot in this book that was applicable to me.

 No.71068

>>71061
What about the stoics? Just cuz they came from the ruling class do you think that nothing they taught can help you?

 No.71073

>>71056
I remember reading this book together with the Hagakure when I was a teenager and going through that classic samurai phase. I guess I was hoping for some life advice, but instead I got a pretty straightforward manual on swordsmanship. There's some good (but basic) advice on things like footwork, etc. more than there is advice on life in that book.
And don't even get me started on the Hagakure. I was hoping it was going to be the Japanese equivalent of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (although I cam to dislike that book too) and instead I got a bunch of nonsense about the extremely contrived social etiquette of 17th century Japan written by a bureaucrat LARPing as a samurai.

 No.71088

>>71073
Be careful what you read


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 No.305084[Reply]

>even the extrovert normalfags with an excellent social and sexual life are on multiple drugs and getting therapy
I'm absolutely done for, dude. Even my life improves, I'll still just be a monkey to the rest of them. Fuck.
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 No.309700

>>305084
2020 made many people realize that they were unconsciously putting up with an insufferable amount of meaningless social interaction that they didn't actually need to deal with or do voluntarily

When they realized that being isolated, not interacting with people directly (and everything annoying that comes with that) they changed. they realized they were following a script they didn't have to and so they stopped. now socializing is just streaming and farming likes and engagement instead of meeting up in real life.

The thing is, my life didn't change whatsoever, so it didn't bother me. I had been an isolated loner without any social media presence prior to covid for 5 years. being "locked down" didn't change my life at all. the funny thing is normies will bitch endlessly about how everything isn't the same but they'll still participate and pine for the "before times" that are never coming back.

i like watching them squirm
"HoW iS EvErYoNe DoInG tHiS"

 No.309727

>>305279
>Looks like the Elite will finally have humans domesticated like cattle soon
I don't think so, they are buying into dumb scams like AI and identity politics. They can barely control and maintain the government, healthcare and educational systems themselves which they use to exercise power.

 No.309992

>>305084
covid buck broke large swaths of normies. my life didn't change at all. ive been completely isolated and alone since approx 2016.

ever since covid, it seems the powers that be just want things to get shittier and shittier. flock cameras, data centers, inflation, succubi killing their whole families.

its all contrived. i just stay away from people and stay on the periphery

 No.309993

The level of plutocrat apologia going on in this thread is pathetic. Very likely chatgpt gemerated as well. Sad!

 No.309997

>>309992
lol wasn't there a succubi in the UK who killed herself after like 4 days of lockdowns?? It has to be a mental illness to require such a constant amount of socializing


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 No.70652[Reply]

A slightly unusual hobby for a wizardly man, but I've always had an attraction to it.

What I like about it is the extremely large variety of tricks that can be learned. It's like the Path of Exile skill tree in the sense you can pick a direction and learn that way. You can build up your foundations, or you can go the straight and narrow all the way to learning your favorite trick. The large variety of tricks also mean there are a ton of easier ones to learn, and learning these tricks provides such a strong feeling of accomplishment.

Cruising is very nice too, I intent to get a bigger old school board with soft(?) wheels for nice and easy transport.

The art on skateboards is also quite nice, there's something for everyone. Also you can buy blanks and draw on it yourself. I think the level of creativity in all aspects of this hobby is so amazing.

All things skating related welcomed, I'll try my best to answer with great care to everyone.

Thank you for participating
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 No.71066

>>71065
I don't like lewd stuff, thank God you didn't find anything like that

 No.71076

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>>71065
>I've even noticed the way I change direction is based off sliding my feet, it must look like I'm a salsa dancer or something. I am just practicing body varials as it allows me to do 180s and still land in my regular pose!
i am having difficulty of thinking of anything with that wide-ranging of an improvement effect on piloting the human body. i doubt even martial arts come with as many benefits.

>I don't really have much interest in learning switch.
i would do it if i had a place where i could skate every day reliably but as it is now, every time i skate at a place it feels like it might be the last time i am able to skate at that place because the harassment is unbearable. i am happy just to have 5 minutes uninterrupted before some evil spectacle unfolds. disgusting people with their camera/smartphone looking to farm me for content, annoying children swarming me, females bothering, aggressive old people insisting on individual attention, dogowners using their dogs to bark at me. if owned a place where i could skate in peace i would practice hours per day. now i only get a few minutes a few times a week. what really helped this was having a big car where i can drive to different spots and have all my gear always present and also having a place to retreat to when the unfortunates become too toxic or a place where i can rest in peace without someone jumping out of the bushes who has been stalking me because they believe this is how people meet each other.

>Your father is very cool and blessed to be so physically and mentally sharp at that age. Very cool.
yeah. since i live way healthier then he ever has, i am confident there is a high chance i will be able to still skate 40/50 years from now.

>I remember I was considering killing myself as I was not taking the workplace well. I still remember posting here in the wagey threads in 2015 or whenever that was. God what a shit time, sadly things aren't much better I'm just a little more hardened and accepting of fate.

reminds me of a short movie from the screenshot attached 'full time omeleto'. not much has changed since the egyptian days. just one or a few ruthless assholes at the top deciding for everyone while they have an army of violent rapisPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

 No.71081

>>71066
I find it funny and I would collect them if I had the money to spare. Hard to justify when you can get good boards in my country for 10~30USD

>>71076
Martial arts only seems to improve very specific movements which I guess requires a fight in the first place. Maybe higher level techniques will grant similar benefits to skating, but skating day 1 is improving your fundamental balance which is such a great skill. My mother needs it, she is short and overweight and leans forward when she walks like an anime character, this leads to her falling over once a month or so. She gets seriously injured and I freak the fuck out on her for it. She doesn't learn. Sorry tangent.

>>71076
Goodness I'm so sorry to hear about that. Is there a particular reason people are so awful there? General culture issue, bad area of the country? Some skateparks in my country and listed as no go zones on google reviews with comments stating that youth gangs will harrass you etc.. Hard to catch a break in this modern world.

Wonderful I wish you the best and a healthy life, perhaps I should be more healthy.

Oh god yea life seems to have always been shit one way or another and many tactics have remained the same.

 No.71083

>>71081
>She gets seriously injured and I freak the fuck out on her for it. She doesn't learn. Sorry tangent.

you can teach her by holding both her hands while she tries to balance on the skateboard and pushes and rides. you just walk along holding her hands that way when she falls, she can either catch herself or you can make her land so slowly that there is no injury. i did this with my father.

another thing that i did also works: i threaded a rope through his belt loops so that i can walk behind him holding the rope, that way he can use his arms for balance while i hold him close so when he falls i can decelerate his fall by just pulling the rope backwards.

>Goodness I'm so sorry to hear about that. Is there a particular reason people are so awful there?

when you can do something that is difficult and impressive in public, people have a wide range of needy nonconsensual behaviors that they feel a compulsion to exhibit. they want to meet, they want to stare, they want to ask questions, they want to get to know you, they want to impress you back, they want to have sex, even gay sex, they want to create monetized internet content, sometimes as hidden camera content from in the bushes, they want to follow you home because they want to know where you live, they want, they want, they want.

>that youth gangs will harrass you etc.. Hard to catch a break in this modern world.

i have not encountered many youth gangs here, where i live the young people are drowned in artificial problems and are carefully kept depressed by the compulsory education system. young people who aren't camera-assholes usually don't mess with me, they are too busy recovering from being traumatized.

>Wonderful I wish you the best and a healthy life, perhaps I should be more healthy.

i did it over the course of ~8 years, lots of experimentation with what to eat and what else to keep this body in peak condition. i would try to live a certain way and then go back to my previous lifestyle for the most part and forget how much better i felt. i was missing a good way to deal with information in this overwhelming state of infinite information, which i have recently found.

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 No.71087

>>71083
Oh my mother is basically disabled, she could never ride a skateboard. If she falls she will likely break bones due to her weight and 25+ years of being on a medication that weakens her bones (long story).

Ah I see. The typical jealous normie. When I was a kid/teen I got the same treatment, they would run in my way, throw balls at me to try and make me fall. It's all a gimic to provoke me which gives them an excuse to attack me 5v1 or even get their parents involved. Fucking savages. I haven't experienced much of that now but laregly due to local parks being a lot more of a ghost town compared to 15~25 years ago. I'm sure in the main cities it would be worse.

Have you noticed how much more important it is to eat healthy now we are older? I'm only 29 and I feel like shit most of the time. Had some very painful issues that scared me but a better diet fixed those. Pain in abdomen was killing me. Still need to cut out all the beer and junk food :p very dumb of me to consume so much of it.

It's like school, school never ends. a lot of wizards spent most of their energy avoiding all of the bullies whether their were students, teachers, parents, random locals. I'm quite sharp on judging people with bad intentions, it does help they make it so damn obvious


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 No.68877[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

All you need to begin drawing is a pencil and some paper

Feel free to post any drawings of yours in this thread. Illustration, doodle, traditional, digital - anything goes. Discussion on skillbuilding techniques and fair critique of other wizards' work is welcome.

Videos:

Tyler Edlin - https://www.youtube.com/user/TylerE2284
Proko - https://www.youtube.com/user/ProkoTV
Sinix - https://www.youtube.com/user/sinixdesign
Scott Robertson - https://www.youtube.com/user/scottrobertsondesign
Matt Kohr (CtrlPaint) - https://www.ctrlpaint.com/library
Aaron Blaise - https://www.youtube.com/user/AaronBlaiseArt
Vilpu (Anatomy) - https://mega.nz/folder/9Pw1lYaS#Me7LSwlSg59lNGmkj9tt4w/folder/lPoXEYxS

Poses/Gestures
QuickPoses -https://www.quickposes.com/en
PoseSpace -https://www.posespace.com/posetool/default.aspx
https://x6ud.github.io/#/ Animal Head Reference Finder
https://anatomy360.info/anatomy-scan-reference-dump/

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 No.71032

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>>69464
That looks awesome! I love doing paper animations. Here is an old one I did years ago of a little Wizard making tea. Originally it was going to be longer but i got burnt out.

 No.71044

I feel like i can break down figures down into simple shapes with ease, but all those shapes are flat. I can draw from life and draw what I'm seeing, but i feel like it's just me breaking things into flat shapes again. I can't feel, or visualize or express things in a 3d space.

I feel like it's hindering my ability to shade properly, hindering my anatomy, and is making me completely incapable for drawing anything complex like a body in different perspectives (like top down)
Yes i do studies from life pretty often, ranging from simple shapes to human figures. I have attempted drawing each frame of an object rotating before, but it still doesn't help me visualize
Is there ANYTHING i can do to address this problem that doesn't default to "study from life" or "do still life", because rest assured i already try to do those as a part of my consistent practice. Is there anything i can do to face the problem head on, or do i continue studying and hope that one day my brain will finally start working with me?

 No.71046

I also problem with drawing bodies in general I can do the head decently but the rest of the body specially the arms and shoulders always look unnatural and odd to me when I draw them

I am just deeply afraid that I will never reach a level of drawing I truely desire and I everything I draw will always be mediocre and never good as some Japanese artist on Pixiv because my own brain is against me

 No.71047

>>71044
I remember watching Glenn Vilppu drawing and feeling like I was beginning to understand what it means to "feel" form. Watching more experienced artist draw can help you too. I recommend Vilppu and Michael Hampton.
If you watch enough people figure draw, you'll notice that some people start with gestures while others focus on contours. There isn't a definitive drawing style, but by modifying your process, at least temporary, you can gain a new perspective on drawing.
I have been copying drawings from Bridgman's Complete Guide to Drawing From Life. His figures make it easy to see how the forms of the body interlock into each other.
Beyond that, I think it boils down to mileage. By studying and drawing a lot, the small bits of knowledge you pick up will add up and start becoming noticeable.

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I am not much of an artist. These look wonky as hell.


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 No.309747[Reply]

Sometimes I wish went to the mental hospital. Maybe things would’ve turned out differently. Maybe.
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 No.309923

>>309913
Yeah you're right. I get it, it's scary. Hell, I'd even say it's terrifying. But hey, look, if we do end up making an argument such as that one, wouldn't it also mean that regular doctors that treat diseases of your body aren't to be trusted either? Like, if you claim that modern psychiatry or psychotherapy is detrimental because just 80 years ago they would lobotomize people which is practically torture, doesn't that also mean you shouldn't trust regular doctors because there was a time when doctors would use bloodletting or mercury or radium to treat diseases? And again, don't take this the wrong way, I do realize what you're saying is practically true, but I need to know who out there can help you if you're depressed or have serious emotional pain in your life if this industry is not to be trusted. Are you then simply supposed to heal by finding like-minded people that get you and enjoy spending time with you or is the answer different

 No.309924

>>309912
how come you weren't able to refuse that treatment? how severe was your "outburst"?

 No.309978

>>309792
>I came to the conclusion that the main flaw of the mental health system is its tendency to suck you in

anyone who doubts this is possible: watch the interview tucker carlsson did with the 'professional patient', author Laura Delano:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PdWKkyooCk

 No.309995

The only benefit is how it makes it easier to get neetbux. Every other aspect is a nightmare

 No.309996

but maybe you can talk to a psychotherapist and he'll give you decent life advice or explain what exactly it is you're experiencing and going through and help you deal with it. especially if he's older than you or generally professional


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 No.229335[Reply]

If due to finances and life circumstances you are 100% forced to cohabitate with normies, how do you deal with them? They constantly pick on you, belittle you and attempt to crush you.
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 No.229390

>>229348
op's pic is like 20 years old from 4chan. normies are moralizing but their morals suck

 No.229391

>>229336
truth nuke

Also try to gain some sort of leverage over them. Don't be afraid to exploit it. After I became buff. They leave me alone, mostly because they know if I become violent it won't end well for them.

 No.229396

>>229335
In these circumstances, you play with the Big Black Caster balls

 No.229399

>They constantly pick on you, belittle you and attempt to crush you.
You need to use your autism bracrabls to learn how to hack the system.
Hide your power level. They don't pick on us only, they pick on anyone who looks weak in the moment or is going against the current, even Chads and Stacys gets bullied from time to time.

First step is to try learn how to appear normal.
Dress not like a total dweeb with unfit old clothes (yes, that one with a cartoon character or things you love, don't use them outside), take a bath, shave and trim to not look like a hobo, get a ok haircut from time to time (max each 4 months), get to know to small talk normally (just enough, no need to be a chit-chatter).
Then learn how to get out of situations and stand for yourself. If you literally say you are not comfortable with something (talking about a subject, personal fact, being in a stressful situation) or that you need to leave people will accept, some will even respect because you are direct.
And try to be polite. As much as you can. Being rude is bad enough but being a rude retard neural divergent or whatever they call is even worse.

It's not expensive nor impossible to look normal and it's free to act normal. It's just a lot of study and hardwork for whom this isn't instinct.
It takes time, I took almost a decade to find out why I was ignored and made fun of, but I went from total schizo silent retard to just a polite guy that doesn't talk much.
In the end you see that normies are just better at hiding their weirdness.

 No.229658

>>229335
just get an overnight job. most people who work overnight want to be away from people and society in general and aren't very talkative


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 No.318527[Reply]

Has weed changed or have I changed?
Weed used to make me feel great, now it just makes me feel sad and quite uncomfortable with myself.
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 No.323642

Smoking weed, daily, is very bad for you, now if you smoke ocasionally there isn't much problem. Point is: avoid becoming a pot head because makes you literally retarded on the long run.

 No.323859

>>323636
The voices are extremely unpleasant and I already hallucinate stuff sometimes. It's well known among schizophrenics weed makes this dramatically worse.
The stoner didn't really build an identity around it but hearing his complaints really convinced me this isn't a fun drug

 No.323867

>>323642
There's no convincing evidence showing a casual relationship between weed and long term IQ/cognitive decline. If you use weed heavily you'll be slower but it reverses with abstinence, similar to getting rest after chronic sleep deprivation. Studies showing IQ loss are confounded by those who use weed also being more likely to be cognitively impaired or low SES to begin with.

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>>323859
>The voices are extremely unpleasant and I already hallucinate stuff sometimes.

what if those are unconscious parts of you who are trying to reach you through your stubbornness and group-allegiance to save you from perpetuating a mistake? because that is what weed usually does to people. weed tries to get you to be less of a phony and make you question your narratives. but if you are so far gone that you accepted the narratives and they become load-bearing part of the personality you have chosen to identify with, you might be too far gone.

what else is the subconscious supposed to do to reach someone ignorant and stupid who is being tricked? how to shake someone who is being tricked when everyone around is in on the con and affirm his tricked personality…

>It's well known among schizophrenics weed makes this dramatically worse.

why you are people schizophrenics though? there is no need for that. i don't think people become schizophrenics because of genetics, bad lack or pure outside influence. people become schizophrenics the same way they forget to bring a jacket in the autumn, because they are stupid and they make mistakes. and while anyone can make a mistakes, people who are willing to learn only make mistakes once or twice.

>The stoner didn't really build an identity around it but hearing his complaints really convinced me this isn't a fun drug

it's a fun drug for people who are surrounded by idiots and need a break from all the evil and degeneracy. it's not fun for the idiots who make the lives of others hell because weed tries to be like "hey, yeah you, what are you doing? this isn't fun, would you like when someone did this to you?" and the idiot is like "SHUT THE FUCK UP WITH YOUR RACISM AGAINST ME!".

 No.325521

>>325446
you obviously aren't familiar with this phenomenon of hearing voices which aren't your thoughts, which you can't turn off or control what they say
or realise what this is like
this will easily wreck your life


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 No.309973[Reply]

Wiz, I really hate the way things are these days. You know how "brainrot" and cringe culture affect people now—my friends, my parents, and just daily life in general are all so annoying. The interactions between Gen Z and Boomers are getting weirder, and people in general are becoming stranger, which makes everyday life incredibly frustrating. What if history could repeat itself—like World War II—so that those forgetful Gen Zers and Boomers, and all the annoying people today, could finally realize just how terrifying a world war really is
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 No.309979

The kids are spending too much time on their phones. The west has fallen. Billions must die.

 No.309980

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There will probably be war and famine and mass die offs because it's what the graphs show, that human population has peaked like all of the economic bubbles we see today

Who will escape the coming purge?

 No.309981

>>309980
Only a handful of people can truly survive and adapt to warfare, and that is the reality of the purge cleansing away the rot of the modern era.

 No.309991

>>309975
>they will face execution
Probably by their own people at that, hopefully before the war actually starts.

 No.309994

Oh look, another one. So who ordered the invasion of wizchan with this nonsense? Talpiot program?


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 No.309759[Reply]

i keep wondering if all fiction could be unhealthy for the brain. human life is so short, a day has so few hours. how can you take one or more of these hours and flee to a place that doesn't exist and disconnect from your own reality.

places that don't exist have begun to repell me. my own reality has so many projects i would like to attend to that i feel gridlocked by not knowing what to do first. desire for fiction might be nothing but pure idleness.

i assume i understand the impulse, though i could be mistaken. when i was a child and were forced to attend child prison (school), the idea of no longer being able to explore the world at my own pace and instead had to spend time with the violent conformist was completely depressing. have them judge my intelligence based on how hard i could force myself to care what they thought was important in their desperate attempt to turn me into a mindless soldier and stomp all my dreams and interests in the process.

i'd flee into video games and at least videogames are interactive. in a video game i can make decisions, in school i was but an inmate without agency. but in a movie about a super hero, there is no interaction, the poor fool who watches this is but the passive recipient of centralized propaganda. i don't see how someone would accept this premise and spend time on this.
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 No.309984

>>309982
Fiction is a result of the ability to imagine what isn't. Reality is what is. So when you blindly indulge in reality you can't question anything.

 No.309985

>>309984
>So when you blindly indulge in reality you can't question anything.

i don't see reason to believe reality could be an indulgence. when i imagine the worst corrupt scum establishment mouthpiece like rachel madow insisting that the experimental for-profit covid gene therapy was safe and effective, she does so because she gets paid to say this and/or because she blackmailed into it. for her in her situation, reality would be an indulgence. but outside of corruption and evil, i don't see it.

and why can't you question things without fiction, because you are addicted to fiction and have to resort to it every 5 minutes like a phone addict, otherwise you scream because reality is so unbearable for your more louder personality-fragments?

 No.309986

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>>309984
i see this as just more communication in bad-faith happening in this thread. the necessary discomfort with this particular topic however can't drown out the loud absence of any valid ideas that would defend fiction as anything other then irresponsibility.

 No.309989

>>309970
>of the things you are guilty of,
this is literally just you projecting again.
go be a normalfag somewhere else, this board is not for normalfags.

 No.309990

>>309985
Wtf are you even talking about you make absolutely no sense.


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 No.70926[Reply]

Has anyone considered designing a board game as a hobby? I have been doing it for over a decade, well even arguably my whole life, even as a child. All I do is formulate rules and people can use equipment they have at home to play. Advantages are.

>anyone who is reasonably intelligent can do it
>you create a whole mathematical universe in a few minutes potentially, making it the greatest payoff/investment ratio of any hobby I would argue
>you can get famous even with a very bad and derivative game (not that we care about that kind of thing)

Feel free to ask me about how to make abstract games, however I only formulate rules, I know nothing about producing components, sorry if that is an area of interest for you
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 No.71070

>>70961
>I thought what you were saying was people shouldn't bother playing games because ai will beat them

your thoughts remind me of something i am currently noticing: a distinct new type of ai-fueled nihilism and depression in which people are convinced nothing is worth doing because machines can do it better. this narrative might be the loud dramatic deathrattle of competitive people as they finally understood their breed (and soldiers have literally been bred though people get nervous when this is discussed) will be made obsolete by machines.

 No.71072

My problem with a lot of these "designed" boardgames is that a lot of them are just "chess but the pieces move different". Now I'm not huge into the boardgame design scene, so I'm sure there's some innovation, but that's sort of my impression as a dilettante. Another thing is that there's often times no digital versions of these games which makes trying them out nearly impossible. So, it reduces the game to an intellectual curiosity rather than a proper game you can actually play and invest your time in.

 No.71075

>>71072
>no digital versions of these games which makes trying them out nearly impossible

i'm trying to think which widely available program could be use to play them. something like a simple mspaint/kolourpaint might be too crude since there is only one layer of paint so moving pieces would include moving the background the pieces are on as well.

there is a tabletop simulator on steam, this might work, i have been waiting for it for 10 years for it to be cheaper during a sale, no luck so far.

i guess powerpoint/LibreOfficeImpress should work, you could use paint to cut out pieces and paste them into powerpoint, each remaining a individual, clickable, moveable image you can drag around with the mouse

 No.71079

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>>70950
>I sometimes daydream of some sort of board game where AI actually can't win.

this is probably the guy to talk about the dream lol

 No.71080

>>71075
You're learning to use Python. It's what primary school students are taught so they can create small programming projects, like little games.


/hob/

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 No.68063[Reply]

I always played around with it in a very disengaged, uncommitted manner. Well, on September 2nd, just a few days ago, I decided to really learn Linux to the point I could truthfully add to my resume to help me find a position somewhere. For that reason, I picked Ubuntu, possibly the most popular, all-purpose Linux distribution out there. I began doing the edx's version of the Linux Foundation's Introduction to Linux course because of the bells and whistles they have there in terms of exercises and whatnot. Unfortunately, they peppered the whole course with unbelievably idiotic mini videos geared towards morons. Imagery of douchebags with designer haircuts typing away at a laptop with some coolcorp background and annoying music.

So I said fuck it, and instead I decided to read the Linux Bible. But then I found out there's an Ubuntu Linux Bible by the same author, and so that's what I'm reading now. Straight to the point, concise, has exercises, not as many as I would like, but I can come up with variations on my own. Today is the third day I'm following the book, and I intend to make a daily post, briefly talking about the stuff I've learned on that day.

The first day was pretty much just going through the fluff. What Linux is, history of Linux, Unix, GNU, what open source is, etc. That's the first 20 pages of the book's 718 pages.

The second day I read about the X Window System, desktop environments, GNOME desktop, Nautilus file manager, and ways to run Linux (live medium, permanent install, etc.). The exercises consist of messing around with the GUI pretty much, something you would naturally do in a fresh install of an OS. I also had to install Ubuntu because I was running Windows. I got lucky because Ubuntu 24.04.1 came with some broken packages for Nvidia drives, and that of course fucked my shit up, which was a very excellent opportunity to do some tinkering and learning. I got it to work, it only took me an hour or so. I read people saying this is the most broken Ubuntu update in years, which I take as a good sign for my timing. And then I broke Light Locker while changing to Xfce as my desktop environment.

Anyway, third day, today, I finally reach the meat of the book and begin messing around with the shell, trying different commands, pretty simple stuff, whoami, pwd, ls, cd, command syntax, hyphenated options for command's behavior, locating commands, and really, just getting comfortable to mess around in the termPost too long. Click here to view the full text.
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 No.71064

>>71057
I would like something like this, but I use my stuff outside often and only the ipad pro has a screen with 1000 nits SDR brightness in my price range (used 5th gen). The standard 300-500 nits is basically useless outside.

 No.71071

>>71064
>I would like something like this, but I use my stuff outside often and only the ipad pro has a screen with 1000 nits SDR brightness in my price range (used 5th gen). The standard 300-500 nits is basically useless outside.

yeah i think you'd be disappointed if you tried to use it in broad daylight/ sunshine. not using dark-theme helps but it is still a little disappointing and draws the user into the shadows.

because i have had it with this shit i am currently assembling a computer that uses an e-ink display as a monitor specifically for when it is very bright outside. i already have all the parts and just struggle with creating some kind of enclosure where everything can go inside.

other then that i really like the yoga and i don't care that the keyboard makes it bulky, i put it in a backpack anyways and it is light enough. it is a touchscreen tablet (even with drawing pen!) where you can get regular linux on, and not this stupid mobile ios/android babbies-first-computer modern consumer interface.

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Coolio, my old Linux thread got bumped. Welp, since you guys brought it up I'll update my rig situation. I still have the server running on Debian. It's hosting a few services like Jellyfin, Kavita, Navidrome, Radarr, and a couple of others. I'm using Homepage running in Docker as a dashboard for that stuff, it's pretty neat. It's like having a computer for your computer. As for my actual computer, I'm currently using Arch with Niri, a Wayland compositor. Niri is really damn good btw, for everything except gaming apparently, though I have never had a problem with that. I've been using it for a couple of months now and I'm keeping a KDE Plasma setup handy just in case.

Recently, I set up Pi-hole on my home server to handle local DNS and block network-wide ads. Overall, I've been trying to maintain a very lean system and watch the installed packages like a hawk. I'm thinking about trying Nix, but if I ever get serious about it, I'll try to follow a tutorial to set up Linux From Scratch on an old laptop. That should be fun.

 No.71077

interesting to see you followed a book, looking forward to reading the whole thread. when i started i tried to follow along a 7 hour tuorial video, i don't remember if i finished it all the way but i think i regret not bothering with a book. i wasn't into books when i started linux but now i am because i have seen so much internet video already.

if someone was asked me today on how to start with linux today, i'd say find/buy/borrow an old laptop, go to the library with it, leave all other tech at home, install a simple linux distribution on it while checking the books on linux that are in the library and just spend time looking at everything and clicking every button, look in every menu, do every exercise.

i started with manjaro, now i am on fedora, most likely i will go to debian in a few years because the frequent updates annoy me or break stuff for me. i took turns trying xfce, gnome and kde for long periods of time, ended up liking kde the most, i use it with widgets on my desktop that always display system_information. temperature, ssd read/write, network up/down, usage percentage of cpu/gpu/ram/swap.

 No.71078

I switched to it around 8 months ago and found AI specifically command line stuff like claude code made it much easier. If I ever wanted to know how to do something I could just ask or it could just do it for me if it wasn't dangerous. Really like customizing it it's very easy now to have a bunch of custom stuff


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