MalReynolds

isn’t most of modern vegetable agriculture at least equally harmful

I'm a going with far more harmful.

But right up the alley of local LLMs which are coming along gangbusters. For your consideration perplexica search engine.

It also exposes a proxy (and a tun), most things you want behind a vpn can use a proxy.

Bioinformatics may suit, especially if you go hard at understanding biochem. In fact all the Informatics (Medical, Chemical, Geo, ...) have good prospects, and at the very least will get you quickly past the bottom IT rungs and likely in interesting places. Mathematics (perhaps Computational) is surprisingly versatile and very much in demand if you can be creative about presenting yourself, you've proved you can handle some of the most complex shit out there.

But it's probably worth making a mini research project out of exploring your options, weeks spent now might be very rewarding long term.

Thought it was something like that, hence needs must when the devil drives

Check here Personally wouldn't piss on it if it was on fire, but needs must when the devil drives.

Pretty sure it's in google services which you can turn on, personally think that waters down the point of Graphene if you leave that on, to the point of pointlessness, but some countries seem to live on whatsapp, more's the pity.

For what seems to be your use case, it should be good or better (AMD helps) and everything you need is in the tin. There are a couple of gotchas, and the doco could be better if you're a dev, but if you're just gaming you'll be fine.

Try to avoid using rpm-ostree install (it's dog slow and slows updates, you're building an OS image after all) instead first try flatpak and then create a fedora distrobox (or arch or whatever, but fed is most in line with the base install) and dnf install from inside that (and then export to the main OS, keep it clean and it'll be stable).

ujust update rocks, but it updates automatically in the background (there's at least two OS images at all times, so in the unlikely event it breaks you just revert), so don't forget to reboot every now and then, weekly at least for security reasons.

Go here for questions, there's a discord too if you like that sort of thing. Have fun!

First Hit.

Dress Code Lyrics

Sent home.
Eleven years old.
Violation to the dress code.
Skirt not enough. You: too much.


Eleven years old.
Beware of boys - all cave, no man.
Skirt not enough. You: too much.
Mature prematurely. Become woman, early.


Beware of boys - all cave, no man.
“Nice girls want love, silly girls want to make it.”
Mature prematurely. Become woman, early.
Having a body implies public property.


“Nice girls want love, silly girls want to make it.”
The principal measures my hemline. Ruler to thigh.
Having a body implies public property.
How can my body say something I don’t?


The principal measures my hemline. Ruler to thigh.
Violation to the dress code.
How can my body say something I don’t?
Sent home.

I made a post a while ago, pontificating that poetry is text and should be treated as such, in truth partly for my eyes sake but also on principle. Nothing happened, so I'll make a mild protest from searching the title and cutting and pasting, takes under a minute. Feel free to reply and explain if you're wedded to images. Note, you need to use a # code block ( 3 backticks ` on either side of the text block) in markup to preserve to host text format. First Hit...

Threshold Gods by Jenny George

I saw a real bat, crawling on its elbows
across the porch like a goblin.
It was early evening. I want to ask about death.

But first I want to ask about flying.


The swimmers talk quietly, standing waist-deep in the dark lake.
It’s time to come in but they keep talking quietly.
Above them, early bats driving low over the water.
From here the voices are undifferentiated.
The dark is full of purring moths.


Think of it—to navigate by adjustment, by the beauty
of adjustment. All those shifts and echoes.
The bats veer and dive. Their eyes are tiny golden fruits.
They capture the moths in their teeth.


Summer is ending. The orchard is carved with the names of girls.
Wind fingers the leaves softly, like torn clothes.
Remember, desire was the first creature
that flew from the crevice
back when the earth and the sky were pinned together
like two rocks.


Now, I open the screen door and there it is—
a leather change purse
moving across the floorboards.


But in the dream you were large and you opened
the translucent hide of your body
and you folded me
in your long arms. And held me for a while.
As a bat might hold a small, dying bat. As the lake
holds the night upside down in its mouth.


From The Dream of Reason (Copper Canyon Press, 2018).```

Aye, to each their own. I went the other way, Arch -> Fedora -> Immutable Fedora, because I was sick of tinkering and wanted stability ;}

TLDR:

Skip to today, and Big Tech is pursuing the same approach, often in the same states.

They too have funded front groups, hired an armada of lobbyists, donated millions to campaigns, and opened a firehose of lobbying money to replace real privacy laws with fake industry alternatives as ineffective as non-smoking sections.