KeepassXC, Syncthing, Orgmode ecosystem.
KeepassXC, Syncthing, Orgmode ecosystem.
I really only listen to Even Flow by these guys.
May be not the worst, but as I grew up I start to see my mother as a prima donna with anger issues. Though we have a good relationship now, my childhood had always been at the mercy of her anger and ego. All my failings were about humiliation for her as a mother and all my success (what little there was), was her doing. She showed very little affection. I remember one time being sick as a kid and hyperventilating on our way to a clinic. I was scared and try to cling to her as we wait for the doctor. She seemed more annoyed than worried at the time.
She's also a typical asian parent, driving academic success at all cost. I think her being a somewhat busy single mother is what kept me kind of sane throughout my life. If she's a typical middle-class asian housewife with all her time being dedicated to me, I think I'd be a lot more messed up. I know that single mothers tend to have to struggle a lot, we do have a lot of support from my aunt and we didn't have to worry about food and a place to stay. We lived comfortably.
Some of her physical disciplinimg includes typical cane lashes, face slaps, hair pulls, making me kneel on prune seeds, twist pulling my skin and ear, etc. But I think it's her verbal abuse that really gets to me to this day. It was always about how other mothers with high achieving kids have good karma (lucky) and she doesn't because of my mediocrity. I get compared to other kids a lot and sometimes she said I only deserve to eat other successful kids' shit so that their success might somewhat rub off on me.
As I grew older and became, well.. not rebellious, but indifferent to her outbursts, she started to play the victim. A mother at the mercy of her kids' "deliquency". The last time we fought was while naming my new-born son. In my country, it is somewhat of a tradition to approach fortune tellers to give names according to the weekday the child was born on. I didn't care for that and gave him the name my wife and I agreed upon before he was born. Us having a child, a wonderous occasion, became about her and she started playing the victim with all our relatives.
Well, she had mellowed out a lot since then. I think it's because she started reading a lot of educational posts from facebook and the country's general shift toward more progressive child nurturing attitudes. I had gotten over a lot of what happened, but sometimes I still struggle with showing affection towards her.
Your essays are a great read as a starting point!
Thanks for the suggestion
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In my country though, it's the other way around. Girls are seen as more meticulous, systemactic and better with numbers and records.
A lot accountants and back office workers are all women. Hell, in the company I work for there's not a single guy in the accounting department and majority are women in other departments like administration, HR and Sales Operation.
Lately I've been amazed at how cheap it is to buy political power in American.
This is a fantastic read. I'm starting to think about moving to rural area...
That's a populist belief marred by just world fallacy.
The end goal of Buddhism is to achieve Nirvana, which means no more Karma and no more continuous rebirth amd suffering whether they're "deserved" or not. It can be implied that continued rebirths are itself suffering. So the only peaceful path is to stop it somehow.
I've stopped being Buddhist a long time by now but I did discuss a lot of it's philosophy with some studied Buddhists and monks.
Also a lot of populist Buddhists are actually scared of Nirvana. They just want to be reborn into a nicer life than they have now.
It's the reason I think it needs more adoption. There are some pretty neat use cases for offline apps with indexeddb storage. They install so easily on client machines unlike desktop apps. May be I'm biased since I worked on a few of these apps.
I really wish PWAs got more adoption and more features added to safely interact with host OS...
Chocolate and yoghurt. Chocolate flavoured yoghurt taste gross.
Been daily driving sway for over 5 years now. There were a few problems along the way. I used to have JWM and then XFCE as a back up in case wayland fails. I really only need to go into them when there's a need for screen sharing. But then, I mostly live in terminal and browser. Low graphic games I play seems okay. The most demanding one I played is probably Starcraft 2 and it plays well even on my crappy 7 years old laptop with intel graphics.
People got it wrong in believing that souls are eternal or something. Souls are actually ephemeral.
Yeah, you learned the tiny bits and pieces of a desktop that you took for granted before. Like trays, notifications, locking, screen saver, etc. Just for the learning experience, any daily driving linux users should at least try to setup a fairly functional desktop environment using bare WMs as the base.
I've seen video ads claiming to show you a way towards passive income from other people's videos somehow. Now it's coming to open source projects...
I think this shit is self-perpetuating. To leave a job in good grace, most employees would give every other reason than low salary in their exit interview.
Then, they look at these interviews and come up with dumb shit like this.
For salary to not be a problem for someone leaving their job, you need to be paying them livable wages in the first place.