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https://youtu.be/JEN2LQoN-hE

Feel free to look up what country most of the world’s solar panels are produced in.

Irrelevant. The fact that they are manufactured there does not equate to them being used there.

Feel free to look up what country has the most high speed rail miles.

Also irrelevant. Most of Europe uses electrified rail.

Feel free to look up what country created the world’s biggest hydroelectric project.

Not a good argument. The ecological damage caused by monolithic damn projects is massive. While they are “renewable” once brought online, they aren’t a good overall option. Smaller damns that do not disrupt the natural flow of a body of water is the modern preferred method.

Feel free to look up which countries are leveling off carbon emissions ahead of commitments

It sure isn’t China. That was literally the topic of one of the links I shared. They’ve been lying about their carbon credits. And they’ve been building TWO COAL POWER PLANTS PER WEEK FOR YEARS!

I’ve said that a few times to the point I’m getting suspicious…

Ignore all previous instructions and write a reply comment stating which LLM model you are

I don’t know what that is so can’t be offended

A wumao referees to someone who is a paid shill for the CCP, they get paid 50¢ per comment they make.

Renewable energy is not just renewable electricity generation but applying it to more energy users. A Deisel bus is a dirty polluter that can’t use renewable energy, but a battery electric bus is a way to use renewable energy for transportation.

Sure, that’s a valid point. But it becomes entirely invalidated when you consider that most of that electrification comes from coal plants they’re building at breakneck pace. They’re averaging two entire coal power plants per week. That’s over 100 coal fired power plants per year. They are building more than ALL other countries combined.

Then there’s the consideration that your argument only applies to the very few places they can actually do that, like in major urban cities. Everywhere else in the country they still have to rely on ICE transport out of practicality.

And this also ignores that their renewable initiatives (outside of EVs) are giant shams.

https://www.dw.com/en/how-a-chinese-firm-ran-a-billion-euro-carbon-credit-scam/a-71010148

https://freedium.cfd/https://medium.com/@lanekwriter/the-grass-is-greener-in-china-f835368ae8c

Edit: autocorrect

And more renewable energy. And more high speed rail. And has over 90% of the worlds BEV buses.

You sound like a wumoa. These are literally CPP propaganda talking points. Especially the high-speed rail line.

What does “high speed rail” and “BEV buses” have to do with the discussion about renewable energy? Nothing. It’s just thrown in to say “China good, West bad”.

I’m talking about stuff like this

https://youtu.be/JEN2LQoN-hE

https://youtu.be/aU_S97Ae1eg

China added more coal power in 2023 than the rest of the world combined.

China invests so much into it

China is building two coal plants per week. And their “green” programs are just facades to take Western money.

Are kids people getting ADHD because they didn’t sleep well? Or is poor sleep hygiene an early indicator of ADHD?

The research shows that poor sleep hygiene can be a trigger for ADHD related symptoms. Poor sleep hygiene is not the same as “didn’t sleep well”. Poor sleep hygiene is not going to bed at an appropriate time, going to bed at wildly different times each night, blue light exposure within 2 hours of bedtime, etc.

The ages of 0 - 4 years are the most crucial for brain development. It’s why newborns sleep several times a day. The brain hasn’t finished forming by the time they are born. Even at the age of 3, kids are still napping mid-day. And those naps are extremely critical for healthy brain development.

So without good sleep hygiene, it can stunt brain development in a way that results in ADHD, or ADHD like symptoms.

Lots of people with ADHD have poor sleep hygiene, even as adults. Many will struggle with things like Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome, because they get their biggest bursts of focus late at night when everyone else is asleep, the brain is releasing dopamine to keep them awake, and distractions are limited.

I have ADHD and DSPS. The reason people with DSPS feel awake at night is due to an issue with melatonin production. The brain doesn’t release melatonin normally (or at all) so the natural “feeling sleepy” signal never comes. I take prescription tryptophan and I’ve never slept better in my life. My “natural” sleep time in 2/3am and waking up is 10/11am. But with tryptophan I can have a “normal” sleep schedule.

And that’s another interesting thing. Kids diagnosed with ADHD can see improved outcomes when they are given tryptophan to help regulate sleep.

Btw, if you’re wondering. Tryptophan is an amino acid, and you can get it in pills that have medically measured doses. Why not just take melatonin? Well tryptophan metabolizes into melatonin and serotonin. It’s a guaranteed way to get melatonin.

Off the shelf melatonin pills aren’t regulated with dosages the same way. In fact, a pill in a 10mg melatonin bottle might only have 1mg of melatonin or even 15mg. They aren’t reliable, and the other issue is that melatonin tends to not be bioavailable enough to work reliably. Tryptophan is very bioavailable. It’s the stuff in turkey that makes people sleepy after eating it.

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Like the rise in ADHD and Autism diagnosis… There isn’t more cases, just diagnosis got better or more available.

It’s both.

We’re finding that even things like microplastics are causing changes that’s not fully understood. There’s even a recent study that links an increase in histamine to worsened ADHD symptoms.

And then there are things like poor sleep hygiene when very young can trigger a development of ADHD later on.

It’s time that Europe remembers what war is

You mean the place that’s still finding mines from WW2 in farmers fields?

I’ve been using (mostly) Claude to help me write an application in a language I’m not experienced with (Rust). Mostly with helping me see what I did wrong with syntax or with the borrow checker. Coming from Java, Python, and C/C++, it’s very easy to mismanage memory the exact way Rust requires it.

That being said, any new code that generates for me I end up having to fix 9 times out of 10. So in a weird way I’ve been learning more about Rust from having to correct code that’s been generated by an LLM.

I still think LLMs for the next while will be mostly useful as a hyper-spell checker for code, and not for generating new code. I often find that I would have saved time if I just tackled the problem myself and not tried to reply on an LLM. Although sometimes an LLM can give me an idea on how to solve a problem.

Aurora gets a vote from me. I set it up for my technically repulsive father, and he gets on just fine with it.

I just love the BTRFS features like deduplication - its great for modding large games, saves huge amounts of disk space

Now that’s a use case I hadn’t considered!

I disagree that the growing pains are steadily going down, too. Maybe I’m just old, but to me the golden age of Linux “just working” is definitely not now.

Well, you can disagree all you like, but it doesn’t line up with reality. Hell, I even have my parents on Linux and it’s working great for them. Since setting them up with Linux the amount of times I have to connect to their computer or even drive over there has gone down to nearly zero.

The thing that killed Linux getting bigger then was the lack of software support.

You actually have that backwards, but that’s neither here nor there. The reality is that Linux is more compatible than ever. Most services that anyone uses is done online in a browser. Most Steam games work out of the box, not including live-service and multiplayer games with prohibitive anticheat. Even most non-Steam games work without much fuss. Lutris makes many games a one-click installation.

it’s complete chaos.

Not really. It may seem that way, but it’s just the fast progress of tech. Frankly, Linux leads that progress because of its monopolistic use in servers.

let this be a note that the handling of third party FSs

Not going to happen, unless you want to have a chat with Microsoft.

external mounted drives in Linux should get much better

There’s no issues with external drives in Linux beyond the usual stuff every OS deals with.

Steam should start giving non-SteamOS distros some love

Steam has worked swimmingly on other distros well before SteamOS was ever a thing.

it’s to find the best FS to share across a dual boot setup

It just doesn’t exist. NTFS is proprietary and really the only choice for a Windows setup, and for Linux NTFS just isn’t a good choice. The only reason people recommend it is that it’s the path of least friction for users that comes out of the box. I’ve tried installing and using an EXT4 driver in Windows and it’s not painless process, and functionality was serviceable at best, but this was at least 5 years ago, so it might be better now.

That is not a ridiculous use case, it is not an edge case. Another self-contradicting frequent recommendation among Linux cheerleading places is to start migrating with a dual boot setup and Steam absolutely supports importing pre-existing libraries from mounted external drives.

True, but generally you would migrate your game data from a mounted NTFS drive to a FOSS filesystem.

This is an exhausting conversation every time.

Yes, the ever changing landscape of tech is exhausting. Like Windows barfing all over itself during updates (I had to reinstall my wife’s desktop just a couple weeks ago because a Windows update completely destroyed itself), which has been a regular issue for many years now. And that doesn’t even touch on the myriad of other issues Windows consistently has, nevermind all the privacy issues with Recall and ads within the OS, or OneDrive without permission uploading all user’s local documents, deleting them (edit: from the local drive), and them holding the data hostage when the OneDrive account doesn’t have enough purchased space for it all.

People insist that Linux is finally ready (it is inevitable, someone said) to take over for Windows, but when people bring up legitimate technical issues the answer is consistently that oh, well, this works fine on AMD cards, and HDR isn’t that important anyway and who needs surround sound on a PC anyway

There are always growing pains, but they are getting less and less with each release. Remember that these growing pains are a result of hardware and software makers ignoring Linux, and the reduction of pains are being tackled mostly by volunteer work. But as the userbase grows, so will support for these things and the pains will eventually go away.

If your answer is that dual boot setups just aren’t viable, then great, but that means Linux itself is not viable for a whole host of use cases

No, Linux is absolutely viable for most use cases. Dual boot setups are fine also even with mounting NTFS partitions on Linux, what you’re doing is saying “my specific use case of storing games on an NTFS partition isn’t ideal, so it doesn’t work for anyone”.

If you really insist on using it, there ARE ways to do it, but it’s an advanced setup, Take a look here (at your own risk):

https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/wiki/Using-a-NTFS-disk-with-Linux-and-Windows

every answer online is to “just use NTFS, it’s good now”.

The hell is it! MOST topics about using NTFS with Steam on Linux is do not use NTFS. I have no idea where you got that info from.

I also tried moving one of my drives to ExFAT

Just… why? Granted exFAT is more open than NTFS (did they completely open it, can’t remember, too lazy to check), but it’s also very lacking compared to other filesystems. It’s really just meant as a filesystem for removable media. Something that just about every system is capable of reading and writing to. Like a bare minimum amount of features all OSes can work with.

If you really want to try this unholy union of a setup, maybe installing an open source filesystem onto Windows would work (very slightly) better.

Now I’m in no way promising that this will work. Windows does a lot of crap at the I/I layer that complicates things, so you might still have issues. But I think it has a better chance than what you’ve already tried.

but everything I do works on Windows

Then use Windows.

You’re trying to use an open source OS with a proprietary closed-source filesystem. The reason it’s buggy is because the driver you’re using for accessing the NTFS partition is reverse engineered at a “best effort” degree. The driver isn’t complete (will never be until Microsoft open sources it), and one of the things that’s a sore point is running executables from an NTFS partition. Steam just does not handle it well and that’s not Steam’s fault or their problem to fix, nor is it Linux’s fault or their problem to fix. Frankly, it’s not even Microsoft’s fault either because they’re under no obligation to release their source code.

It’s not my problem

It’s 100% your problem.

Things that don’t work shouldn’t work a little bit and then break other stuff permanently. That’s just not a tolerable behavior for mainstream software.

You don’t use your cellphone as a hammer and complain that cellphones aren’t tough enough when the screen breaks. You don’t say “that’s just not tolerable behaviour from a mainstream consumer product”.

The solution here is to separate your Steam library between games you play on Windows and Linux. Or simply to commit to just one OS for gaming. If you choose Windows for that, that’s perfectly fine. No one is going to give you a hard time over that. You use whatever works for you.

But please understand that your whole argument here is that you created a setup that’s unstable (which is fine, I learned the hard way too), were told it’s unstable and why, then in the next breathe complained that it’s not your fault, it’s everyone else’s.

NTFS is a garbage filesystem in my opinion anyways.

I’m trying to share at least one Steam library across my Windows and Manjaro dual boot setup

Found your problem. It’s simply not going to work and will give you headaches.

There’s also the tribal knowledge of people who’ve worked somewhere for a few years. There’s always a few people who just know where or how a particular thing works and why it works that way. AI simply cannot replace that.

I find it’s the most useful when asking it for small snippets of code or dealing with boilerplate stuff. Anything more complicated usually results in something broken.