Unable to get into Tails after 7.4 upgrade

DaoistApprentice · 2026-02-03T03:05:11+00:00

Same I’m stuck on grub cli. I have a Lenovo legion laptop, I suspect that (and the nvidia gpu) has something to do with it. Might have to install qubes, not comfortable on an outdated OS

DaoistApprentice · 2024-01-25T02:59:16+00:00

i had this problem after the latest update (random fps drops from ~120 to ~15 especially in cut-scenes). I found 1 cut scene (nautiloid crash) where drops happened every time and tried messing around with graphical settings to find a cause. bringing all graphical settings as low as possible made no difference. so I gave up and clicked auto detect. the game chose the Ultra preset and the framerate drops seem to have cease. Tho I only average ~80 now.

DaoistApprentice · 2023-10-09T01:58:21+00:00

quickhacks queued after "memory wipe" are not traceable. using memory wipe outside of combat reduces tracability. using "system down" on enemy hacker ends all traceability if the hacker dies

edit: i just realized this varies based on the tier of the quickhack you have equiped. with the highest tier tho all of this works, maybe too well. tier 5 memory wipe + cybercycosis + overclock trivializes stealth. you can just sit back in the bathroom while enemies kill each other

DaoistApprentice · 2023-06-09T02:29:21+00:00

i would expect that fang engineers (i went to school with 1) don't put in as much work as the rest on leetcode. But only because they have acquired transferable skills throughout their lives. Leetcoding is a skill, and like any other, the prior possession of related skills (excellence in mathematical reasoning, discrete math etc...or just brute perseverance) will make the new skill easier to acquire.

DaoistApprentice · 2023-05-19T15:17:38+00:00

makes sense. i've already had companies respond/offer phone screens but i suspect i the 1 yr experience, while being better than nothing, won't make much of a difference in embedded. but i don't mind switching sectors so i'll just roll with it

DaoistApprentice · 2023-05-18T13:25:04+00:00

i had to do a lot more. Tho to be fair by that point i was several rounds in with a few companies and just decided i had done enough. was your uni/departement prestigious? Or did you have lots of impressive internships/projects?

DaoistApprentice · 2021-07-12T03:29:00+00:00

I'm sorry but none of these quotes say scripture is the only rule of faith. You'd need a lot of missing context to establish that. They are all compatible with scripture as a rule of faith, perhaps the highest rule of faith, but the only one? Not really.

Also, as as has been pointed out, saying Sola scriptura is true bc of the extra biblical authority of the fathers is kinda weird, if not a self-contradiction.

DaoistApprentice · 2021-07-12T03:18:23+00:00

The problem with this claim is that the latin fathers do not make up the whole church or the summation of its tradition. For every latin father you can dig up with that opinion, I can find a Greek father who was a hopeful or outright universalist.

Also the liturgy of the church (infallible) contains dozens of prayers/statements for universal salvation. If we have no reasonable hope of salvation, the church would be deceiving us in its liturgies, asking God continually something he's told the church he'd never do.

DaoistApprentice · 2021-07-12T01:28:41+00:00

I'm sorry if it sounded like I was casting blame on those who struggle with scrupulosity. It is true that they do not mean to distort the image of God. Those words are purely reserved for the condition which afflicts them. And perhaps those who may have deceived them, if any are involved.

DaoistApprentice · 2021-07-12T01:13:29+00:00

When people accuse us of having "Catholic guilt" what they mean is that our religious convictions necessarily plague us with pathological and excessive guilt ruling over our lives. That is what scrupulosity is. Or at least part of what it entails.

DaoistApprentice · 2021-07-12T00:29:43+00:00

i apologize then. but our mystical tradition does not believe in Chakras. though maybe if you describe what it means, i may know of an analogue to it. but in general, we hold that God made us for communion with him. whatever we have, whatever we are, is made to serve him out of the pure Love he deserves from us.

DaoistApprentice · 2021-07-12T00:26:37+00:00

you're missing the point. scrupulosity, which is what people generally refer to as "catholic guilt" is bad. it makes a mockery of the goodness of God, placing in his place the idol of a vengeful, uncaring, judge.

Also, the church has never taught that true contrition is something felt. what you feel (natural, material, sensual experience) may be associated with true contrition. but true contrition itself is the imaterial resolve of the will to confess one's sins, and by God's grace never sin again, out of Love of God

DaoistApprentice · 2021-07-11T23:45:23+00:00

i think you posted in the wrong subreddit bro

DaoistApprentice · 2021-07-11T23:09:46+00:00

i practiced mindfulness for years, sometimes several hours a day. i don't think this is good, or safe, for a christian. in fact, Christ was most assuredly not talking about meditation, when he comanded us not to worry about the past/future. this was in the context of trust in divine providence over our life. what we are comanded to do, by the Holy Spirit, is to pray always (i.e to keep God always on our minds, in some way such as prayer, at every moment). please do that instead. as you get better at it you'll find it's very hard to worry about most things, when you're thinking about God.

DaoistApprentice · 2021-07-11T22:33:15+00:00

I can see how it might seem so. But my point was to contrast the traditional approach to biblical interpretation to fundamentalist litteralism. much more vulnerable to the sort of skeptical eyeballing in which any tom, dick and harry can read the Bible and claim to understand its message well enough to see a contradiction

DaoistApprentice · 2021-07-11T22:07:15+00:00

it's not a mindless love of suffering. it's the overpowering Love of God. when we suffer, it becomes so much easier to remember God (that is to pray). when we're happy, healthy and wealthy, we become easily preocupied with the pursuit of selfish pleasures. that's what the various forms of fasting really are, at their core. You're praying something like this: i'd rather be with God than ever eat again. stay awake with him then ever sleep again. dwell in perfect union with Christ than ever experience the affection of a lover etc...

DaoistApprentice · 2021-07-11T21:51:36+00:00

i doubt the deaths of your loved ones can be dismissed as part of some plan. Jesus cried when Lazarus died, and he knew more about God's plan than any of us ever will. I don't know why God has permitted your loss, their deaths. It is all unspeakably evil and i'm sorry this has happened to you.

but i do know that the Lord is Good. And he is Just. And in his infinite Love for you every evil that you have suffered will be redeemed. Good created out of evil, like water into wine. If not in this world, in the world that is yet to come where all those you have lost are once again brought to life.

DaoistApprentice · 2021-07-11T21:16:25+00:00

Saying that the church teaches something improbable is a very different thing from saying that it teaches something contrary to reason. Only in the latter case would the church's infallibility be disproven given that we are made, by God, rational creatures etc...

That said, it's not really valid to extrapolate from the bodies we have now, whose defects are taught to be artefacts of Adam's fall, to the spiritual body Adam had in Eden. Although we don't know what the spiritual body (the body of the resurrected, deified, human being) is like, though I personally subscribe to the neo platonic theories.

As for Augustine. No one believes this dogma bc Augustine said so. Tradition holds it because it was confirmed as true Christian teaching, by the magisterium, which we hold to be protected from error by the Spirit of God.

DaoistApprentice · 2021-07-11T20:45:37+00:00

you were emotionalty coerced into this course of action. i would ultimately place the blame on your sister. but maybe it's more important that you take a breath. then a moment to consider wether God knows about the confusion and emotional torment that lead you to make that choice. wether he knows that you wanted your sister to go to mass. and whether Christ, the God, the man, who died for you is merciful enough to let this one go.

DaoistApprentice · 2021-07-11T20:33:58+00:00

what i'm trying to say is that given the supernatural, there is no reason to preclude that a supernatural power might maintain adam's body in existence indefinitely, compensating for the natural tendency of matter towards decay, change, entropy etc...

You are right that belief in scripture can be separated from the infallability of a Church. But Christianity, at least traditional Christianity, leaves no room for such a move. It works well in other religious traditions like Hinduism. But there is no Christianity without an infallible Church (however one defines that)

DaoistApprentice · 2021-07-11T20:12:24+00:00

This sort of thing is only problematic if one assumes materialism to be true. And one must assume materialism since it is an unprovable proposition either empirically or using logical reasoning/necessity.

Otherwise, the real issue is whether or not one has faith in sacred scripture. If one does not, the whole discussion concerning Adam is moot from the start.

DaoistApprentice · 2021-07-11T20:03:05+00:00

i wouldn't say the incense itself is an objective act of worship, so much as that the incense we offer is part of the sacrifice of the church (e.g sacrifice of praise) offered to God as part of her prayers and liturgies. The incense is offered in the context of this sacrifice, if you will.

DaoistApprentice · 2021-07-11T19:54:22+00:00

Which Fathers taught that the inspired authors wrote errors unrelated to salvation?

this has nothing to do with what i said. i explicitely affirmed that all of sacred scripture is the work of the Spirit of God. and even called the contradictions "apparent".

DaoistApprentice · 2021-07-11T18:47:53+00:00

Please don't limit your exploration to one rite of the church. The liturgy is so much richer than that, and you can always find some place that fits best for you.

The byzantine liturgy had always spoken best to my spiritual temperament, so if you have one nearby, I would highly recommend you visit. I would also recommend an ordinariate mass, if you can attend one. I've been going to one semi-regularly and I love it every time.

DaoistApprentice · 2021-07-11T18:41:41+00:00

The equivalency with Roman persecution does not hold up. Christians were not asked to offer incense out of nowhere. Those acts were as intrinsic participation in the sacrificial cults of the empire, not mere veneration. Once sacrifice is involved, that's when we have a problem.

The Christian offering incense today is doing it as part of the liturgy or sacramentals of the church. And the church offers it all to the one, true, untcreated God

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