Yeah, I would say that magic spells, in English and other languages, are more traditionally associated with rhymes than specific words. Latin associated to magic is through catholic ritualist use of Latin. Even then, it was more about repeating prayer phrases, like in stereotypical exorcism or funeral rites. Gothic novels, for example, straight up used catholic prayer in Latin to convey magical intent. But it was not vaudeville magic or modern day superpower magic like in pop culture.

Synology offers cloud services and business level support for their enterprise products. They do support different authentication workflows, they are just not all included with the consumer products.

Never conflate loneliness with not getting laid. Thereby lies the first in a long streak of mistakes.

extreme disconnect between researchers/academic writing and how the general populace interprets the word

This is the bane of sciences communication. No, the way I’m using the word is not the same you use and therefore your interpretation of my research is wrong. Prescriptive arguments about semantics are irrelevant and don’t fix the situation in the slightest, if anything they muddy the waters and worsen the quality of the discussion.

Orange, fite me…

Yes, that’s rack space. It is not even half of the costs of a data center. I know because I’ve worked in data centers and read the financial breakdowns of those materials. They are also useless without actual servers and deprecrate their value really fast.

Rack space is literally the only thing valuable that would be left. Those GPUs are useless for non LLM computation. The optimization of the chips and the massive amounts of soldered RAM. They are purpose made, and they were also manufactured very cheap without common longevity and endurance design features. They will degrade and start failing after less than 5 years or so. Most would be inoperable in a decade. Those data centers are massive piles of e-waste, an absolute misuse of sand.

“I’m so privileged and selfish that I will burn the planet down and kill everyone before having to walk more than a block or use public transport.”

I like trains.

Good, unless you have some disability it shouldn’t be.

Friendly warning that SD cards are not a backup. Those things die, frequently and without warning. They also bitrot fast. If you value the data being backed up, choose a more stable medium.

Navidrome for service. Dsub2000 on android and feishin on desktop.

There, all your needs covered.

As a plus, dsub also does podcasts and audio books.

A VPS with a reverse proxy connected to your tailnet and a dyndns domain. It would be cheaper than Plex premium, you can use the vps for other stuff, and you have 100% certainty it will never ever show ads.

Curiously, most antivirus, other than Defender, on Windows are scams. Or close enough to be indistinguishable. A few have turned straight up into malware or ransomware.

Writing is just a proxy for speaking. And entirely its own thing. Think about Greek. There are ancient texts from thousands of years ago that would be kinda weird but basically legible for modern readers. However, same text read in ancient pronunciation would be unintelligible. Search for Shakespeare in historical accent. Then suddenly a ton of things that seem weird in modern English actually start to rhyme and even make funny homophones jokes.

Essentially, written word is a living system. Learning this system is not just about its internal logic, but learning about its history and the myriad of quirks it picked up along the way.

Complementary to that, think that poetry is 90% having fun with these quirks.

Gaming away from mtx and daily reward grinds, and also single player experiences without the competitive pressure can be beneficial. It is also a low effort activity that distracts from work only mindsets and it’s been proven to be a net positive for rest in contrast with social media doom scrolling.

Significantly bigger, as in x2500 times bigger than cubesats.

Let’s not kid ourselves. Most localization in software is trash because technocrats refuse to pay actual translators. Part of the reason I have involved myself in FOSS localization efforts is because it is extremely obvious it is either being done by amateurs who don’t speak the language, or using machine translation (AI or otherwise) that never gets the context right. Most people doing quality localization are scattered thin and the only ones paying good money for quality localization (FAAMG or whatever they call themselves now) are now laying off massive amounts of workers to replace them with poorly implemented AI.

The concept of good and evil is actually very limiting and tends to raise people with twisted worldviews. Most intelligent people learn that morality is complex, reality is not black and white, and to wish harm upon others to ensure personal bliss is rather sociopathic and fucked up.

Christianity faces a major foundational dissonance. Early tribalist (in group, out group thinking) values that have to coexist with radical empathic universalism. They usually ignore the development of Jewish traditions, and it took priests centuries of dissertation to mesh both views together. But they are incompatible. To believe in clearcut good and evil, and also things like a reward heaven (an idea also eradicated in most Jewish tradition). One must learn to suspend empathy for the fellow human being. To be happy while knowing others are harshly suffering (aka “they deserve it”). To think that one’s own cruelty will be forgiven just by saying a magical incantation is also fucked up.

Now, the solution given to it is not widely accepted, and is the source of schisms in different Christian cults. Jesus’s message is that of universal forgiveness with radical empathy. The abolition of heaven and hell. But many intermediate concepts had to be inserted to make it make sense with organized religion. Like sin forgivenes through repentance, second coming prophecies to delay the forgivines, apocalyptic prophecies to delay the abolition of hell and other exceptionalist interpretations.

Anyways, I started rambling, but Christianity is incapable to be internally consistent as it is. And some dogmatic views require people to be actively assholes by definition.

Ublue is not a workable system image. It’s the general cloud native process to make distributions. There’s a bare bones starting point oci image called ublue-os. But that’s like saying the hammer is the original chair. It’s confusing a tool with the final product.