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I'm doing a few of these tonight: one T420s, one T440p and one X230 thinkpad. All with OpenBSD 7.1 (various configurations).

I sell Thinkpads with coreboot, replacing the proprietary UEFI firmware, here: minifree.org/

I normally install Debian, but I offer BSD aswell.

Using screen light to light my room,

Saves electricity and lighting element by delaying usage.

Little light needed for some tasks which you can match (such as removing shells of walnuts from a bucket, can do almost blind)

Will switch on light a bit later...

@freeschool more successfully democratic states like switzerland have the state running so tight that the government may aswell not exist (in switzerland, everything is decentralized and they don't even have a president, it's a council of leaders from different districts, and no one person ever has ultimate authority over anything. couping it is basically impossible, and libertarianism is basically the default mode for the whole country. it's amazing, and i wish that existed in the UK)

I wonder if anyone has seen anyone like me! (? ? ? ?)

...meaning many points / someone on point with their direction and backing up points / encouraging expression from others without hating.

I seek my equal / a dance partner somewhat
- anyone with time
- able to get stuff done
- able to imagine / pretend and then consider doing it almost same day!

If you have anything on that welcome it.

@freeschool oh, well i'm a big believer in decentralisation, so i would not want to give any government more power over its citizens

What creates conspiracy theory?

- Lack of transparency

...very important pieces of information that all of us should have immediate access to in a transparent manner."

yewtu.be/watch?v=-saXqmktVOYwc


vs. and no

SYSTEM - WHAT IS A SYSTEM

A system is patterns of a mentality...

(In the political sense...)

and through that all is iterated / carried out within it.

A lot like a binary system also which people can't see when PEOPLE control computers.

It's many more things than just that and more about people + system that makes it so powerful and magnifies the will of any small group... but when people say money is not political and can't see who it comes from but at the same time don't trust BANKS and GOV it's dis-empowering to them to say that in one sentence... "money is ok" ?? <--- It's a paradox somewhat unless you agree banks and gov are ok!

To continue to use for "change" is like the hamster running in a wheel thinking it's getting further.

Most people don't see how something is pushed IS POLITICAL or biased.. WHO CAN BLAME THEM THEY / WE ALSO SIMPLY DON'T SEE IT behind closed doors, UN-transparent mini-systems, full of mumbo-jumbo and middle-men etc..

No wonder - they didn't see that so it's probably ok / not manipulated at all... right? !

Any system is political or had some ideas behind it and MUCH of what people can't see is like a central place doing it's things while people are busy working!

It's all ' hidden ' until they read Wikipedia or someone says what things really are and how it started, what it's really for...

believe me when I say peaceful work hasn't been on agenda for years (because it wouldn't pay!)

Anyone and everyone being more peaceful people would do less work / less productivity according to Goverment's and their GDP view of it's people and their own thoughts would come to the surface politically (if they had time peacefully). And less tax for less work etc is 'not good'.
You see the circle and what a certain mentality wants, and that's the baseline.

Queens passing may invoke the word "Nazis" more often but they (the people rich or royalty) and they (the mentality) didn't go away as soon as the war stopped.

IMPORTANT ABOUT THEY:
'They' can mean (they -> the people)
and 'they' (the mentality)
This they is about contributed by people and through people if they act and ALSO if they don't act (like turning away from a crime and ignoring it happened).

*** This what helps power grow is what we need to train it out. ***

From people on Mastodon giving bad extreme examples / not giving time / not talking about things... all of that also IGNORES even under the guise or escape of family or their computing stuff etc... and so far according to my humble experience and analysis this is the basic formula for lots of NAZISM / FINANCIAL FASCISM / CLASSISM:

If not regularly doing some of the other work... it allows all to grow...
so if you:

1. IGNORE THINGS CONSTANTLY
= NAZISM / FINANCIAL FASCISM / CLASSISM...

2 LET OTHER PEOPLE FORCE THEIR WILL ON OTHERS / STANDING IDLE EVENTUALLY ALLOWS
= NAZISM / FINANCIAL FASCISM / CLASSISM...

I don't have the words perfect ( can change the uppecase text easily but for now it differentiates this annotation)

AVERAGE PERSON IS TO BLAME / IS A MINI-NAZI IF ALSO
1. Ignores people / avoids reply communication
2. Does their work and ignores the rest (sorry just allows bad stuff to happen while I appreciate you don't want to get mixed up, but the strong opposition does make you choose and later is worse for all of us).

I might re-write this ANY TIPS APPRECIATED

ABOUT MY PROFILE via RUSSELL BRAND's SPEECH

TEXT BELOW FROM VIDEO
AND WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SAY TO YOU ABOUT WHAT MY PROFILE EXISTS FOR...

"...Journey of mutual awakening..."

"Through this discourse we grow together."

"There will be moments of Angst and Fear, that is a necessary part of the journey."
" BUT If we go within..."
" If we stay alert..."
" If we communicate clearly, from this mayhem we can create something beautiful, not necessarily perfect, but better than what we have now for sure."

NOTES:
1- Last line also depends on if you're ok with hiding reality or let others to run it badly in order just to 'survive' and get squeezed later down the line)

2- pain is almost a sure sign to learn and when realising things (and I think that is a good signal that someone pointed to what triggered you and it's homework to reduce the trigger / get past it to next stages of understand ---> then ----> solution making after that)

3- Through others (even if they don't say it perfectly) this is almost always needed to be heard or listen or realise more puzzle pieces and overall do the homework of life.

Russell Brand is one of the most is on point on my list.

If it's your first time check other videos with regular 10/10 stuff

This one IS GOOD continuing about Queen / Power / Authority vs. Unity / Difference

yewtu.be/watch?v=PXC-xP1UNrA

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THIS ONE ISN'T INTERESTING ENOUGH (To show you how honest I am this one is basically about digitization but doesn't say much or enough to watch)
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Channel to bookmark here
- not just for entertainment but personal understanding / teaching yourself from quite simple ok media from Russel, not too over-glamourous :
yewtu.be/channel/UCswH8ovgUp5B

ROOTS of cheating people is:

Anything behind your back and far away is problem when it comes to governments cheating people.

Anything in secret, off the record.. etc is all a problem.

It changes the whole productivity of your work like a hole in your pocket. And gives it to err.. actually who knows who it's given to, just money is somehow spent and somehow problems continue.

@barefootstache I believe expectations placed onto men and women are a product of the common beliefs in their society at the time rather than a biological function.

In my opinion, the reason why many of these beliefs seem to be the same in many different cultures is because men and women have a discernible physical difference, which means one sex is often better than the other in certain activities.

For higher efficiency, men and women adopted the roles that they were good at. Men excel at strength, which was necessary to survive in the tribal and later the agricultural world, which means men possessed more utility and thus more authority. Women stayed home and cared for children, since children required their mothers, and because a lack of strength made women useless for physical labor in harsher areas. Eventually, people started to affix tasks to the sex that practiced them.

We do have empirical evidence in this regard. Descendants of societies which required a higher amount of physical labor due to their harsher climate tend to have strict gender norms, whereas descendants of societies with agricultural endowments due to which planting and harvesting crops did not require heavy physical labor have less strict gender norms.

How capitalism survives.
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(1) Divide the wealth we all produce so the richest 5% get half, the middle 25% get a third, and the 70% majority get a sixth.

(2) Repeat to the middle that socialism means the bottom wants to take what’s yours.

youtube.com/channel/UCK-6FjMu9

Prof. Richard D. Wolff

HOW CAN TECHNOLOGY BE DESIGNED TO TRICK ME.

HOW CAN I LOSE / OTHERS GET MORE PROFIT?

Visual examples for "fair-looking" games which have hidden design or rely on your lack of understanding.

video = Tricks Carnivals Don't Want You To Know About
yewtu.be/watch?v=iyG0p3iK3IA

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NON TL;DR / EXTENDED SECTIONS BELOW:
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I found lots of people (even great people) thinking money is somehow fair and that it's only for us to get it...

I have found people (on Mastodon) who didn't trust (banks and government) so much but somehow think money is just a tool.
Sort of not really a problem or main problem / actually quite neutral / just numbers / designed fair!!!!
but the answer is something to ask EVERY TIME...

1. A TOOL FOR WHO?
2. WHO DESIGNS IT?
3. IS IT CONSTANTLY CHANGING?
4. WAS IT DEVELOPED ALSO FOR OTHER THINGS?

Thinking life is unfair isn't my aim here only IT'S TO REALLY WAKE UP AND NOT BE NAIVE!

It might be you underestimating how much over the years people thoughts about the massive profit they want and to make it as low-key as possible... (not to hit you over the head but slowly or using games/transactions siphon it / draw the %'s out)...

If games are made fair perhaps you don't understand them yet- so allow me to show this video - it touched many of the points I touch on in my posts... and provides a simple kind-of equivalent to how you can play things easy and wonder why you fail or why you almost just about maybe kinda of get the prize probably at the cost of more than you paid....

I was really sure technology can be developed to trick you and well look at all the videos online it's a real education!

yewtu.be/search?q=carnival+che

And in turn this is much like money games- you just don't see it behind the numbers, formula they constructed and even change every day or regularly without making it clear.

List of games as a simile / metaphor for life (in order of video):

Balloon / Dart throw [soft balloon, needs massive speed / accuracy, prizes are in the corners and therefore harder to hit)

Duck Pond Game (wins every time but not jackpot as 99% are not wins).

Free Throw / Basketball type games [Different rings, over-inflated. different height, non-standard distance, not the same park free-throw]

Tricky Tubs (2 balls in tub) [plastic tubs, angled tubs]

Bottle Toss [weighted bottles in Pyramid, Ball isn't equivalent to bottles, need hitting at very bottom]

Baseball toss [radar is slower than standard, are tweakable by booth owners like many modern games like Claw Games],

Ring Toss Games [rings are plastic and light / bouncy, almost impossible even if you did it above bottle)

Shoot The Star [BB Guns + paper] not well powered gun, sight off + Paper can't be ripped when floppy

Rope Ladder (essentially is a Tightrope because it's fixed only at one point in the wall... the rungs also is misleading as putting hands and legs in tht position off-balances you),

Cheaper prizes than cost to play
[entry fee covers prize]

Perhaps this last one people know and people play for fun, but the rest is people not realising the soft-cheating / physics at play which I think is what is happening in life.

Life equivalent = house prices
Houses are built and people pay over and over for simply the same house paid off (even with profit still infinite profit goes on)
It doesn't need anyone to pay it off at some point but banks and government get endless money just for people living in a house... they 'lease' and encourage house prices to sky rocket just to get the tax off each house each time someone buys or sells or own land. Just wasted 10's of 10,000's

Hope you get some of this
or can list your own... thanks

For one year already, Australian police can hack your device, collect or delete your data, or take over your social media accounts. Authorities around the world want to spy on our private data. We must fight for our right to privacy! 💪
tutanota.com/blog/posts/austra #surveillance #privacy #Fight4Privacy

Not heating here yet... made excuse to cook and imagine it warms up place and eat hot food instead...
which also I was not doing (cooking half a week of food) but as it gets colder I step up the warming of food and then warming of place...

CHECK HOW MUCH DATA / ENERGY A SITE SUCKS / PUMPS OUT

So I realized I usually use what is a low footprint (how much download and upload speed it sucks or draws from one computer to another)

Imagine all this stuff takes energy to run... and each action uses energy (data and processing power to get it to you).

How much it sucks or pumps is going to effect the footprint consumption,

I THINK THIS IS WHAT PEOPLE DON'T SEE

- A LOT OF DATA IS DEAD AFTERWARDS (NOT USED WISELY, EVEN LOADED MANY TIMES)

- DISPOSABLE ENERGY IS NOT A GOOD IDEA SOMETIMES (STREAMING ALL THE TIME)

Especially things streaming or updating a lot... here are my tests:

---> lichess.org = Kb/s !!
Nominal about 3-10Kb/s !!
Sometimes spikes if loading a new game but straight back down after+ lichess has NO ADVERTS!...
lichess = is 'Libre Chess'

---> OwnCast = 1mb/s
- OwnCast defaults at 1mb/s (horrible / a lot if it's just people filming their hands on keyboard or even low-action livecast!)

Imagine people sharing connections and wondering why internet is slow!

Another point is even if you have super fast net, you're still killing the world faster by using heavy sites or using sites heavily... anyway test a site for yourself!

WANT TO TRY?

- Test a site for a while (some applications show average or maximums but keep an eye while playing a game

- Advertising probably even on and idle site download things actively / aggressively - got any examples?

- I'd appreciate people to MENTION WHAT APPS THEY USE (to measure bandwidth and speeds incoming / outgoing)
(ESPECIALLY LINUX)

=
more data = more energy
= lots of bandwidth?

and remember it's not only download but the other computers UPloading and needing to do that (at the same time often!)

WOULD LOVE PEOPLE TO MEASURE THEIR GAMES /

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