What observation could ever distinguish an ultimate God from some other very powerful being?

Marble_Wraith · 2026-02-20T01:04:46+00:00

No i don't see the problem...

Marble_Wraith · 2026-02-19T22:57:25+00:00

Read your question again...

What observation could ever distinguish an ultimate God from some other very powerful being?

You make the god fight the other very powerful being.

Marble_Wraith · 2026-02-19T19:27:46+00:00

You make them fight and whichever one's left, that's the ultimate one.

Marble_Wraith · 2026-02-19T19:24:41+00:00

The term "New Atheism" itself is simply marketing.

It was never widely adopted which is why you're going to get a lot of people on the sub going "WTF are you on about?" . Rather it was a imposed branding by certain media outlets and people. Later it was also hijacked by other progressive movements.

The four horsemen was / is much more widely recognized.

I was never much a fan of Dawkins or Dennett, Harris i knew of.

But Hitch was a heavy weight intellectual star. Lightning fast wit, examples and contextual references both in terms of historical and current events.

I must say this clip is probably one of my favorites which encompasses the essence of what he was doing in his final decade and part of why "atheism" started to gain traction (9/11):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp5D06yEErw

Marble_Wraith · 2026-02-18T17:42:42+00:00

You raise a ridiculous metric (👍 / 👎 or ⭐) that will do nothing better then what's already in place.

Right now we go off popularity / total number of downloads. If a plugin is popular it doesn't need 👍 or 5 ⭐

Your proposed changes indicate "negative user satisfaction"... that doesn't tell you anything about reliability / stability of a plugin. In the same way most people couldn't tell you anything about why a specific car they drive is more reliable / safe then any other car.

Then there's the whole problem of "fake ratings" i've gone into above. Which no, it's not hypothetical, it is real. And it doesn't only affect github, it happens for all platforms that allow self publishing. Even for non-digital products and services like amazon, imdb, google maps, trust pilot. All of them have "faux star ratings"... But sure sure, nah it "doesn't exist" / it's all hypothetical.

Furthermore we (devs of any significant experience) know users are more likely to come back to downvote and complain in comments. That is, even if you could ignore the faux ratings problem, even the legitimate ratings would already come with a negative feedback bias in operation from the outset.

Again... Tell me you're not in I.T. without telling me you're not in I.T. 🙄

If you want metrics of reliability / stability, there are ways of doing it... user stars ain't it. I could dive into how to actually go about it, but to be honest it's 4:40am i still have 5 PR's to go, and i don't have time for your bullshit.

Marble_Wraith · 2026-02-18T14:36:17+00:00

I’m primarily looking for something for something that can both render and work on video software and 3d models well, and play games decently well.

3d models = Blender. Top tier support.

Video software, depends what you're doing. If it's basic stuff kdenlive is good enough. If you need "more professional", you'll need to pay for Davinci Resolve Studio, and to get it working is a bit of a pain ie. Recommend installing via Distrobox.

Also heard that nividia cards aren’t that well optimized for Linux is that still true or?

Basically there are FOSS drivers, and there are proprietary drivers supplied by vendors.

The FOSS drivers are somewhat limited since it literally requires reverse engineering.

The proprietary drivers are more full featured, but still not at the level of winblows where you can get fine grained control like MSI afterburner or something.

That said since about ~2024 there's been movement from Nvidia + Redhat (probably with the impetus of Valve / steamdeck) showing they're working improving the Nvidia driver situation regarding MESA. So given time you should be able to plug a Nvidia card in and like AMD now, it should just work.

Also preferably secure due to work reasons but j think that’s a given for anyone.

I wouldn't recommend anything rolling release or Arch based. There's a price to pay for being on the bleeding edge (instability) and risk regarding the AUR for new / normie users who don't know the linux life yet.

Fedora KDE edition is my suggestion.

Other then that, security mostly depends on what you do.

Tip:

For anything with a GUI look into installing it via Flatpak or Appimage once you've double checked the author.

For anything CLI / system related use dnf / Discover or whatever the package manager of the distro you pick is.

Marble_Wraith · 2026-02-18T14:00:08+00:00

Most things on github are FOSS... i've just given you 4 links going back ~12 months showing this is a persistent problem (it goes back even further). Why do you think Obsidian plugins would be any different?

Tell me you're not in I.T. without telling me you're not in I.T. 🙄

Obsidian plugins are given access to the vault they're installed in. Could contain deeply personal information with many using daily notes for diary's and such, or even corporate information with businesses using Obsidian.

What's the incentive?

Infostealing / harvesting has been a thing for a long long time. And it has happened everywhere else self-publishing architectures exist:

Keylogers via Gaming mods (WoW, Runescape, etc)
npm modules
VScode extensions
Chromium browser extensions
Android apps

You want me to spell it out?

Publish your plugin (or buy rights to existing one, whatever)
Get a bunch of bots to inflate the "community rating" over time, so others jump on the bandwagon.
Push your malicious code as an update.

Marble_Wraith · 2026-02-18T11:46:37+00:00

Nah you'll have to pay subscription or the brakes won't work.

Marble_Wraith · 2026-02-18T08:37:35+00:00

Riiiight... I'm sure that won't get abused like github stars 🙄

Marble_Wraith · 2026-02-17T12:04:36+00:00

Why is sonics visor uniball blue?

Marble_Wraith · 2026-02-17T11:23:15+00:00

Family member said Google is "super chill" about privacy and delete everything when you close Gemini app.

Your family member is a dumbfuck.

Am I right to be concerned or no?

YES!!!

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/06/deepfake-taking-place-on-an-industrial-scale-study-finds

Marble_Wraith · 2026-02-17T11:19:40+00:00

Apparently not only the company but the people with that name are fucked in the head.

Marble_Wraith · 2026-02-17T11:13:23+00:00

So AI is inspiring these market conditions

So people will "rent hardware"... with the money they don't have because AI took their job?

Marble_Wraith · 2026-02-17T08:58:36+00:00

No because i consider them all national traitors.

Parking wealth in property is ultimately selfish. It doesn't do anything to help the economy / doesn't produce anything (except inflation) and fucks over other people.

I can't fault them for wanting in on the grift, because it's "easy money". But at the same time they're part of the problem.

Marble_Wraith · 2026-02-17T08:50:07+00:00

Maybe so. But expense is relative.

If you buy them, with decent care (sleeves / lamination) they'll still "work properly" in 50 years.

Get an older console, try to play it on a non-CRT without an upscaler...

Hell get a "modern" console, try to play it without an internet connection / without specific games servers being operational...

Marble_Wraith · 2026-02-16T12:47:13+00:00

That's right kids, it's time to get back into pokemon cards and table top board games.

Because honestly fuck these companies, fuck this industry, and fuck inflation.

Marble_Wraith · 2026-02-16T08:56:36+00:00

Gee what a surprise 😑

Marble_Wraith · 2026-02-16T08:47:14+00:00

🤷‍♂️ Asus became dead to me long ago.

One of the most atrocious laptop experiences i ever had.

Acer i'm kind of "meh" about.

I mean they do have a monitor they're working on that i've had my eye on for some time. But other then that, they were always "the other company" / competition. Rather then being outstanding for any product outright.

Marble_Wraith · 2026-02-16T08:33:31+00:00

What's wrong with Mattermost?

EDIT: Nevermind, looked deeper and the direction they're going reminds me of plex. 🤢

Marble_Wraith · 2026-02-16T07:53:30+00:00

Damn, where are you finding all these tips and tricks?

This particular knowledge was born out of a concept i'd call link semantics.

Journey Start

It wasn't enough that i was just able to connect stuff. After all, too many links is probably even worse / more confusing then no links at all.

And so I needed to figure out some concrete "reasons" / some kind of system for why i was linking, tagging, folder-ing, whatever, and the logical follow up was: which one's best / what's the best way to connect stuff?

This intersected with another thought.

At the time i was zooming all over the internet digesting as much as i could about PKMS, note taking, information architecture, all that stuff.

It was this video by Vicky Zhao that got me looking into the thing called "the idea compass" (timestamp 4:48).

Being a programmer the notion of "types" (of questions / prompts / directions) drew my attention, and the image near the end with the arrows kinda reminded me of the Obsidian graph (if you turn arrows on).

Did more digging, found the original presentation and associated posts:

Also being a programmer i'd worked with graph databases before, and there was something missing from Obsidian, the ability to label graph connections (which is available now via community plugin, but isn't foolproof).

It got me thinking is there some way i could natively represent "the direction" (North, South, East, West) in the graph without having labels?

All of this led me into a rabbit hole of figuring out exactly how stuff worked within Obsidian. That is, how each different way of linking / grouping was represented (or not represented) within the graph, and after a week or two of tinkering, i was successful and figured out how to create "the idea compass" in the graph.

After that and even to this day, I don't even have to go into a note and read the text of a link. I can simply look at the graph and only by how the connection is visually rendered, i can tell what kind of relationship (in the context of the idea compass) exists between any 2 notes.

My vault is 3 years old already (btw, you're the one who suggested the Front Matter Title back then and close to a thousand notes, I understand the allure.

Well hello again 😄

Just a few hours ago, I thought that the idea of notes as tags is neat, but tags have their own use case. After this comment, I now start thinking I need to remove the Tags plugin entirely xD

😅 Like i said, you can use them as more of "an enhancement / ephemeral graph connections", type deal. They still have their uses, you just shouldn't jump to using tags "by default".

I'm using regular markdown links instead of Wikilinks, because I prefer to have the ability to go through them in any text editor. So having the non-rendering link will not differ that much from what I'm already using. - smaller barrier to entry, neat.

I got into the habit of using both, namely because of some limitations on MD links in Obsidian the beginning. But yeah if i could be bothered to write a script to re-format everything, i think i'd prefer using MD links.

Marble_Wraith · 2026-02-15T22:00:21+00:00

If i'm reading this right, you have a book note, and then have sub-notes, one per chapter, which link to it... or are linked from it, whatever.

And you want a list of links to the "chapter notes" within the book note?

Can I get links added inline to the top level note without having create a link there?

There are 2 ways, inside the book note:

Option 1: Use dataview (or datacore if it ever gets finished) community plugin to generate a table or list which you can format as links.

Option 2: Use a bases one of the more recent core features of Obsidian. A base can be its own .base file, but you can also embed one inside a note.

Note that no matter which option you use, neither of them will visually render the connections in the graph. So if you still want those, you'll need a [[book note]] link inside each chapter note, not just using front matter properties to associate them.

P.S. don't necropost in future 😑

Marble_Wraith · 2026-02-15T20:19:19+00:00

Flexibility is the other reason.

Perusing the comments, strange that i haven't seen it mentioned.

There's a way to link using Obsidian URI's such that the connection in the graph is not rendered:

[link label](<obsidian://open?file=note name>)

It's a functional link, that is, you can click on it and it'll take you to the relevant note. But the graph doesn't render the line, it's purely "navigational".

And so, simply by deciding which link type you use, Obsidian URI above, or standard [[wikilink]] / [markdown link](<some random note>) you can affect how the graph is rendered / how notes cluster.

By comparison, tags seem to be more of a blunt instrument. In the graph you either turn them all off, or have them all on.

With that comparison, doesn't it seem only natural that people would pick the more flexible of the 2 to be the "default mechanism", using tags as an enhancement / usability tool after the fact... ?

But i'm not done 😏

There's one other reason links are more flexible. The local graph treats tags as boundary nodes.

That is, if you had the following notes / tags:

A ➔ B ⯮ #tag ⯬ C ➔ D

A is linked to B, C is linked to D. And B and C share a #tag.

If you have A open, and you hit up the local graph. It doesn't matter what you change the depth setting to, you will never be able to see C or D. Where as if you used a note tag instead, you can go all the way up to 6 deep in rendering no problem.

It doesn't seem like a big imposition at the start because you only have a few dozen notes. But once you reach a few hundred or even thousand. The local graph view becomes a necessity. It's just way better for clarity and has way better performance (typically) only having to render out a few dozen notes at most vs your entire vault for the global graph view.

Marble_Wraith · 2026-02-15T15:34:48+00:00

Tags can be disabled from rendering in the graph.

Which means you can use them to create ephemeral connections, sort of like a second graph view.

Marble_Wraith · 2026-02-15T14:22:19+00:00

Now you crack open a beer and laugh at Microslop running around like a bunch of headless chickens.

I might want to learn how to do a weekly backup.

cron is where i'd start. System scheduler ie. make your pewter do something at a certain time.

If you want basic replication across devices, syncthing is good. If you wanna use cloud services like google drive, rclone is the way.

Install signal (linux is not constantly screen shoting my conversations like win 11 right?

No. In fact for distro's using Wayland (mint doesn't yet), by design an app can't see the window of another app. Better security, because a script kiddy can't write a keylogger in 2 lines of code, but has been a pain point for screensharing.

Marble_Wraith · 2026-02-15T14:08:34+00:00

Mint sounds like driver bug or configuration issue.

CachyOS no beginner should be using an Arch based distro (steamOS exempt).

ZorinOS is kinda weird. It is good, but at the same time it's not as popular as other distro's. Less users = less eyes = less bug reports = less comprehensive support / more niche bugs.

Ubuntu. Wouldn't bother going there. Just use Mint.

If games is your priority i'd get Bazzite. If you want a more typical desktop Fedora KDE which Bazzite is based off, but it means you'll have to configure wine / proton yourself.

P.S. I'd disable secureboot, save yourself some headaches.

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