The only shit that humanity can do anymore is destroy everything good that is has already done. Same goes for remakes, not just tampering with rereleases.
Terry is a good example, because the things that he made are finished. He finished TempleOS. He didn't abandon it in the middle after fixing most problems and then make a TempleOS 2, and hand it over to some organization or corporation that fucked it all up. I think the Suckless people are also a good example, though they are almost as anti-design as it gets. It's the same usual Unix copium of pretending that graphics and UI are bad to not have to actually do it and do it well. As has been has been done since the 80s.
Anyway, I don't think any of this will actually be solved. I just want to find good versions of good programs and stick with them, and actually, I think there is enough stuff out there that is good enough for me. But if you are willing to make your own tools, then it makes sense to do it. And you can base them on things that already exist, doesn't have to be completely from scratch.
I don't even care about that, because I would never, ever, work on any project that is open to the public. I've read enough mailing lists to know that I do not like most people working in software. Also, any software that is made by too many people is shitty software. If too much work from too many people goes into something, that something is probably fundamentally broken and will never be good.
Good software is software that is made at most a small team and then finished, and never updated again because it's perfect. Any software that gets perpetually reinvented is made by retards. Good example being GTK, though really, it could be most software, because we are in a free software dark age, almost everything is worse than it used to be, because again, all the good stuff got thrown out and it was all remade, by morons.
Cool. May be useful when soon. I'll have to figure out how to get my system working the very specific way that I want it to, but after that my plan is to use the ThinkPad as my main system, and install Windows on my other laptop, so I can play games on it. Downside will be that only having one monitor, so, I may have to swap cables, or just have no good monitor for most things.
I miss desktops so much. Laptops are all trash and I hate them, no exceptions. Only reason why I use them is that I have no place where I intend to stay, and I can put a laptop or two in a bag, but not a desktop. Also, I don't use the desktops that I have because I don't have an uninterruptible power supply, and I'm sick of losing stuff from power outages. And again, if I buy one, not something that I can just put in a bag and fly with.
May never use one again, which is absolutely terrible, I basically always hated laptops. Even if I do, for a full free software system, I don't even know what I would use. The good Linux distributions only support x86, and x86 is shit. I guess it would have to be FreeBSD on POWER9 (may be the only OS that has a good repository for that), but that costs a fortune. There is also the most powerful single-board computer from Pine, maybe that's an option, but again, software may be limited, because it's fucking ARM.
And then as far as Librebooted desktops go, it's just one old desktop that is weaker than a lot of the supported ThinkPads (especially with the ones added to the list recently). Also a server board, but it's expensive. If System76 stuff is actually Librebooted, then that too is expensive as hell. May be a good option, though, $999 is bearable, considering that it's new. Though it is for the absolute lowest end. Also, I don't like the cases. Soulless, and no drive bays, so I'd have to waste money on something I don't even like. It doesn't seem like they sell motherboards separately.
Terry was way more coherent than Brandon, even in his most incoherent moments. Though it did vary a lot, and overall, most of what he said made sense (by far). And I don't think it was the medication either, because he was coherent when he was already homeless. His interview is a good example of that. Without knowing him, you wouldn't think that he's schizophrenic at all. Really, I think Terry was mostly sane, and his overall worldview made a lot of sense, actually. https://yewtu.be/watch?v=HXwNTw4I6Ok https://yewtu.be/watch?v=LTiRWN5T0Gw
Brandon, on the other hand, probably doesn't even know who he is most of the time, and probably gets injected with every known drug before public appearances.
I unironically think he should be released. Like I said on the Odysee comments:
'As far as "stolen data" goes, he should not be going to jail at all, because the government and the corporations running it do the same thing on a much larger scale. If they can do it, then individuals should be able to do it, because individuals are more important than institutions. That's why rights exist, when institutions take priority, then you have a might-makes-right dictatorship, like the one that you're living in right now."
"When are they going to arrest all the people running big tech for stealing people's data through their backdoors and built-in spyware? When are the old sacks of shit running the government and the intelligence agencies going to arrest themselves for spying on people? More interested in that, that actually threatens me unlike the pudding man. Also, politicians and corporate heads shouldn't have any privacy, they should be recorded and streamed at all times and all of their movements should be monitored, because they don't believe in privacy for other people, so they shouldn't have it and should get a taste of it."
The pudding man did nothing wrong that the people that run the government didn't do much worse. Release PomPomPurin!
I kinda want one because it has a keyboard, and I could run Emacs in it, for portable org-mode lists, and also play some audio, I guess. No interest in phone shit, it's only neat because with the keyboard, it's more like a pocket computer. Also has those switches for turning components off, that shouldn't be always on.
Fuck those garbage DEs, though, I want a window manager, or maybe XFCE (GTK2), or even LXDE/LXQt, or even MATE (GTK2). Or even just the TTY, that may be enough for most things. Though I guess having icons and menus could be helpful so it's not keyboard-only (keyboard must be pretty small).
Yeah, the label does not address intelligence at all. At this point, on the physical/biological side of it, it mostly means "non-standard brain that we can't categorize". But there are also characteristics that those people have in common, of course, even comparing the dumb to the smart. Some of the characteristics are also contradictory, like how some autists are more dyslexic and some are more hyperlexic (but neither are the normal thing).
I think obsessions can alter a lot too, really depends on what each person happens to get interested in, so it must be a least partly connected to whether or not reading is one of those things. Could have an effect, I don't know, I don't even remember not being able to read (but I do remember refusing to do presentations in school since the very beginning).
Also, of course, every category of person that isn't "dumb obedient slave to society", or a psychopath running that society, or a narcissist getting the population to worship the system, has to have some negative label associated with it, whether it's a problem or not. Though in this case it lost most of the negativity, probably because people started using it that way more instead of trying to fucking ban it as offensive like everything else.
Makes sense when giving away their humanity (if we're calling it that) is the normal thing for normal people to do. All you have left are the people that refuse to do that because they have their own thing going on and don't follow the masses, and grew up mostly inside of their own heads, so, I guess more likely to be more introspective, though with massively varying levels of being able to comprehend reality at all.
Also, autism and Asperger's have been unified into just autism. Though that label is kinda silly in the first place, huge umbrella term for a massive variety of people. Totally different brains, just all non-standard. Then again, all labels are silly to some extent or another. Should they be really strict or really vague, or somewhere in between? I guess which one is better depends on each label and what you're trying to do.
Well, yeah, in that sense, though even in real life, things were drawn a certain amount of time ago. But I'm talking in-universe, how things would have to be for the show to actually make sense.