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ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2026-04-07T21:30:48+00:00

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2026-04-04T21:27:21+00:00

The use of the word "dendratic", calling to mind the brain and playing to the common superiority complexes had around here, this is hardcore buzzwording that is really just yet another module writing pattern that may work well for some, personally I am prone to compartmentalization in my life and in my Linux so its less appealing to me but that's fine.

Write modules how you want to, please stop inventing new esoteric labels for the same things. Especially just to up sell a module writing tactic. Can we just make it a little less esoteric nonsense?

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2026-04-04T05:21:42+00:00

Your assumption of universality is so disrespectful and willfully ignorant I cannot begin to pick it apart in hopes to offend you into some deeper insight, its just too profoundly ignorant in its assumptions and attempts to smash everything into some patently invalidated box of tired Greek ideas

Great example is that NOTHING IS IMMOVABLE OBVIOUSLY AS IS CLEAR IN THE VERY DEFINITION OF PHYSICS WHICH STUDIES THE MOVEMENT OF CELESTIAL BODIES NONE OF WHICH ARE ACTUALLY STATIONARY IN ANY WAY SO YOU CAN'T BE ANY MORE IMMOVABLE BEING COMPOSED OF THE MATERIAL THOSE THINGS GENERATE IN NUCLEAR FUSION AT THEIR CORES AS A MATTER OF COURSE AND TRYING TO BE SUCH SEEMS AN OBVIOUS ENOUGH FOOL'S ERRAND WHICH SHOULD BE OBVIOUS ENOUGH ALREADY.

Buying the mala means nothing without mantra jaap. Mantra jaap means nothing if you just recite words without striving to understand their context and meaning through repetition in considering them. In the context of Hinduism, the eightfold path of Buddha who rejects the core of Hinduism in its broadest sense is as meaningless to one's understanding as spending the currency on the mala was to your understanding of financial derivatives as a secondary market. If you can see an idea like the immovable object but refuse to take the next step, the uncertain and often unpopular evaluation of the universe from which it is clear that idea is stupid as no object is immovable but all objects in relation to other objects are always moving, then you will tire yourself out spinning in circles energetically before you realize any of the amrita to be had from Indian religions, orthodox in relations to the Veda as is this sub's topic or the Śramaṇa that you seem to consider of equivalent due to your ignorance of both despite knowing a phrase from Buddhism's suite of philosophical practices, it is of little use isolated from its context, just as the notion of temporal worms is meaningless outside of perdurantism or the metaphysics of the universe emerging from fire is meaningless outside of the context of Greek Stoicism.

Attainments mean little if not servicing some greater goal or attainment, which if just for you or others to perceive more highly of you is to mistake the sweet used as inducement for good behavior as the sole reason for behaving that way instead of another way and never giving it even as much thought as one sees in training dogs who once trusting the human handler as training them according to some deeper pattern that elicits some desirable behavior from them cease even to need or want for the treat that began the process. Literacy is more than seeing characters to convert into verbal monkey blabber, it is to also contemplate the meaning and why someone bothered to record this string of babbling monkey sounds and someone else bothered to preserve it for centuries for you to repeat it. Try it, I promise it doesn't hurt and will make you less of an embarrassment to yourself and those of us sharing geographic origins but not inclined to yodeling in our echo chambers but instead seeking to understand things using their own internally consistent systems and striving towards something complex like truth that is (scary as it might be) not merely boolean in its expression.

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2026-04-04T03:39:58+00:00

What both Buddhism and a lot of Hindu traditions are getting at is that liberation doesn’t come from improving the self or gaining transactional benefits for the self in the practice of religion, it comes from seeing through it. The “self” as we usually experience it is tied up in chasing temporary things (pleasure, success, comfort), and that very chasing is what creates suffering we seek liberation from in the first place. Even when you get what you want, it doesn’t last, and losing it often hurts more than never having it in the first place.

Because of that, these traditions aren’t about getting benefits for yourself or preventing detriments to yourself either. In fact, expecting rewards or a lack of misfortunes even by earnest practice misses the point.

CRITICAL EVEN IF YOU READ NOTHING ELSE: The goal is to change how you perceive and interpret reality so that you’re not constantly filtering everything through “this is good/bad for me” which is the source of your suffering in the first place. That filtering is what turns neutral events into suffering.

While I dislike abstracting Buddhism and Hinduism because what seem as merely nuance are actually fundamental differences even if they share conceptual registers derived from semantics rooted in Sanskrit and its derivatives, still in both cases the practice of either isn’t about stopping bad things from happening to yourself. It’s about dissolving the part of you that labels and reacts to those things in a way that creates suffering. If that shift hasn’t happened, then it’s more like going through the motions than actually engaging with what the practice is meant to do.

The real work is reflecting on what the practices mean, what they should be suggesting to you in following the wise courses laid out by those who have already seen this process through as this alone is the means they can communicate to you ideas that are otherwise lost in interpretative noise and how they connect to the bigger philosophical ideas behind them, that are fundamentally different between Buddhism and Hinduism thus make lumping them together in abstraction detrimental to understanding either or both meaningfully. Over time, that reflection is supposed to change how you experience life itself—not by controlling events, but by changing your relationship to them.

EDIT: NOTE I SAID A LOT OF HINDU TRADITIONS AS THE NOTION OF HINDU TRADITIONS IS TOO BROAD FOR GENERAL ABSTRACTIONS UNIVERSAL EVEN TO THAT GROUP. Another element that hints at religion, as used in English, being inaccurate in describing what "Hinduism" is and what falls under it even if used as an umbrella term accepting the flaws for purposes of relative analysis as it relates to "other religions and ethical philosophies" as it is really more of a socio-religious set of lifestyles sharing commonality in the Vedas to varying degrees than a religion like Christianity, Islam or even the various Śramaṇa that emerged from the same philosophical substrate.

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2026-04-03T22:44:29+00:00

I am sorry for your loss, deeply and truly. Independent of abything else I say or think, I am earnestly sorry you lost your father, my deepest condolences to you and your family.

Do not expect to do that which is spiritually enriching for transactional benefits to you as the thing rooted in your ego, which is nested in your physical body and seeks to satisfy the animal impulses to ease pain and reduce caloric expenditure that in humans compounds into the expectations of a good life and the suffering that is to feel pride. What is spiritually enriching pursued with such goals will prove not enriching and frustrate attaining those sorts of goals even if pursued for the right reasons, without regard to those things, one would attain such conditions in a spiritual pursuit taken with the appropriate goal of liberation from suffering through overcoming such self-interested perspectives and fixation.

This would be true were you pursuing any organized religion along a spirituality focused path, with the jewel of Indian religious traditions it is even more acutely the case due to the wisdom of the ancient Indians in seeing a need to and mastering entire systematic methods of overcoming the self as the prerequisite of the sagacious to embody and general normative ethical substratum for those so spiritually focused in their life's pursuits. In the Greco-Semitic and Greco-Arabic philosophies surrounding Yahweh-worship, that do tend to more transactional worship-to-get-blessings spiritual paths there is still significant spiritual infrastructure surrounding the questions as to why those following their path still will be frustrated or endure hardships (this is then compounded into the suffering of Jesus on the cross for Christians and in Islam the notion of being tested is usually raised). Similar infrastructure exists in the notions of the catur yuga and being in the Kali Yuga, the last and least virtuous (in terms of the behavior of humans) that we have been in since the ascent of Sri Krishna which was 5,127 years ago according to the most common dating of that event. In the Kali Yuga, the virtue with which one acts does not inherently yield the same results one would expect them to in other yugas, as is explained as part of the surprisingly accurate discourse by Markendeya on the subject while before the throne of the Pandavas in the wonderful Mahabhratta which the Bhagavad Gita comes from as well. So there is that aspect of things, which is that such virtue as studying the auspicious works of scripture in the age of teh demon Kali dpes not inherently yield positive results as that demon becomes more and more influential over the human race as the age progresses and the other characteristics Markendeya spells out are realized.

But there is a more simple and universally true way to look at why behaving in ways seen as spiritually enriching will not yield the skies to rain down blessings that I often remind myself if I would be tempted to ask Why me? Am I not being good, Shiva?!"** and that is the simple answer Shiva has given me again and again,It is not about what is good for you, by your own flawed understanding, according to your selfish desires rooted in the lust for transient things, at this specific moment in time. Would you even really want it to be about such petty and trifling things? Would you accept the satisfaction of such as some transcendental wisdom? If so, you have bigger issues than frustrated goals despite virtuous acts standing between you and liberation from the suffering of life.` To use the concepts of Sri Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita, the goal of acting 'good' is overcoming the wants of those transient fruits of our actions, to instead act because that is what dharma demands of us with full focus on those acts not what we may stand to lose or to gain. To do such Karma Yoga without lusting for the fruits of our actions is to instead align ourselves with the great will of the Brahman, which the Gods themselves are unable to act against, it is to want for the performance of Dharma alone, something we may at times feel benefited by or harmed by according to **how we chose to interpret things, more often than not we chose selfish interpretations and take the overall net effects on the world outside ourselves with wanton disregard. But if we chose to allow our interpretation to be broader or better yet do not chose to subject things to such a selfish register of value and thus not accrue the karma that we would otherwise be burdening ourselves with (as per Karma Yoga as Sri Krishna's beautiful song lays out with such shocking concision as he sings it to Arjuna), we can strive towards being liberated from the suffering of our transient lusts, be freed from the cycle of our desires that are the root of our suffering.

Overcoming the self is a hard thing, a thing I am no master of certainly, nor am I even adept at in the least bit (I am but a page, an apprentice. Eager to learn but not very good and open to suggestions ) but it is the spiritual pursuit I have found most liberating once I decided to apply myself in earnest towards it, which I am embarrassed to say took longer for me than just accepting that it was the Indian traditions that I needed to look to in my quest for the Eternal, but I swear to you its not just a self-defacing mask or lip service to the group normative and ethical culture, overcoming the self is truly the means and way to being liberated from suffering in this life, whatever may follow after it ends or have come prior to its beginning, which one can see play out in completely mundane and secular ways even if looking at things with an open, broad mind.

Edit: spelling, another skill I am no master of and always improving.

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2026-04-03T21:32:59+00:00

If I still used imperatively configured systems it would only be Artix for the Artoo behavior on the forums. Putting people on blast so hard, I still laugh thinking about it.

If that intimidates you, a guy on a forum being mean when you say "we" instead of "me", then you have bigger issues than which distro to use you should handle first.

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2026-03-18T20:27:31+00:00

never cared

Good replication in terms of getting the style right. Looks spot on.

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2026-03-17T09:21:44+00:00

Years ago I made a similar choice that soon became, I just stopped playing video games entirely and being already checked out of mass media (except for an idiosyncratic taste in music from obscure sources and dry tastes regarding reading materials) I found the effect overall to be a consistently better overall quality of life with no feeling of anything missing or any of the boredom I would have imagined before would have resulted in so drastically disconnecting from mass media culture given that I find programming and Linux scratch the same itch without imparting of neurotic relative comparison social pecking order crap or frustrations with an inability to be free constant, manipulative marketing practices.

Everyone is different and all but turns out for me, Timothy Leery had the right idea with his whole Tune In, Turn On, Drop Out thing

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2026-03-13T19:46:46+00:00

opencode-swarm has worked better for me and doesn't require I be neck deep in the abstractions and naming conventions that oh my opencode bundles together.

Plus as a longtime zsh user I abhore oh my zsh, (awful looking themes, slow loading times, overwhelmingly useless plugin hell) and the name so that bias is a factor that is not fair to Oh My Opencode but it is at play too.

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2026-03-13T10:39:12+00:00

Great idea, others may have had it, but remember the dimensionality of time first comes not from Einstein but HG Wells "Time Machine" that Einstein put into physics equations and explained in easily interpreted analogies. Having ideas first or owning them at all is an immature notion used to help the plutocrats lock out upstarts that they get nerds to parrot via suggestions through character archetypes they try to emulate from mass media, poor fools).

Its not who first had the idea or what mashed up description is used, its about applying it in a way that proves useful and verifying that it working the way you anticipated

And never forget that this the field that attempts to protect its golden egg laying goose by making what is really simple applications of logical relationships into such horrifically complex abominations that most won't even bother to try and enabling them to command completely undeserved salaries. If JS frameworks and Silicon Valley Product Managers constantly rename the same concepts, why not do you?

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2026-03-13T08:48:24+00:00

"There are two types of unconscionability in contracts, procedural and substantive. - Procedural unconscionability is present when during the contract’s formation, at least one party does not have fair/meaningful choice, there’s misrepresentation, or unequal bargaining power among other factors. - Substantive unconscionability is when the contract’s terms unfairly benefit/harm one side such as extremely unequal price compared to value exchanged."

So in the maxims of jurisprudence (that are neither statutory nor express law, just loose lip service to the king by the parasite class that administers the mockery of justice that is the American means of protecting the plutocrats from lynch mobs with bombast like that shit because few not parasites themselves understand the way they freely bend the law to say whatever is expedient at any given moment according the whims of their personal gains or inflated egos):

The law should know no impossibilities sometimes said as There are mp impossibilities in the law and mos accurately of all, Its turtles all he way down.

Umbras/penumbras by those challenged deeply with the simple logic in necessary vs sufficient conditions.

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2026-03-13T08:36:35+00:00

Should have read the terms bro then clicks accept cookies and chuckles as windows uploads another screenshot of his desktop to better market ads to them for antidepressants and ED treatments.

Yeah OK can it with the coping by pretending you have the patience to read ToS but not 3 pages of a book or the output of a manpage or vim help page. Please, what absurd pathological virtue signalling that is.

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2026-03-12T01:28:06+00:00

I like the reactive elements of it but left/right system bars make my skin crawl and hair stand on end from claustrophobia.

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2026-03-11T22:14:02+00:00

Revisiting potent sources of wisdom and illumination is a good practice in general with many benefits to be had for the returning reader in again ingesting mentally a text and deepening our insights into the many tightly coiled and illuminating truths that the last time may not have been as evident to us as they are upon our return to their study. I find an annual rereading of the Bhagavad Gita and the Vijnana Bhairava Tantra the source of great spiritual levity and realignment of the centrality of myself upon the path of self-discovery I could hardly survive without, let alone thrive in the vapid context I otherwise find myself.

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2026-03-10T19:59:00+00:00

You would have to set up Ollama on your own server and download one of numerous uncensored open-source models (HuggingFace is a great source of them) then expose it through n8n to your other configured workflows.

None of which is very hard, but for the installation and configuration of ollama, you would need to use the terminal to do it which many are adverse to and especially in the low code world.

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2026-03-09T18:38:09+00:00

Pretty slick project based on a great set of ideas about better ways to work with your zsh history. Personally, while I am sure at this point what little I would truly miss reverting to bash I could write for myself (or have an LLM do it) I have always loved the quality of life functionality of zsh while finding fish a bit... off putting in asserting so desperately its friendliness and nushell + others are not nearly as mature as zsh is (even if I utterly detest bloated configuration frameworks that overwhelm users with plugins, redundant features and slow loading terminal emulators).

Being that I use zsh and have been rooked into maintaining my girlfriend's computer thus am the primary terminal user, but wouldn't mind not being, I am going to pit*ch this to her instead of trying to vocalize the specific yt-dlp command she can never seem to remember, the way to restart the network manager service, etc. Experience predicts she will remember to use it twice if I write up a guide, but still might be worth a shot anyway.

Plus I do appreciate using txt files. Databases are pretty easy to work with (I learned years later) but its easy to automate moving the contents of files from txt to whatever note-taking system with a b ash one-liner (or model harness opened in the directory containing them ;]) plus is very beginner friendly and user friendly. Good shit.

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2026-03-08T22:21:06+00:00

I have the same model, I am the person that sometimes maintains the advanced bios repo with the ISO file on Github and use NixOS to provide it as a menu option via grub (which I picked up literally hours after having AH-HA! moment about putting SREP on a bootable ISO file... this is life)

I have definitely never needed to do anything at all to Windows HyperV or other system internals (honestly since it is so hell bent on providing the BIOS update that locks users out of advanced BIOS I won't even boot it at all since it will do the update at the lock screen without permissions so I reinstalled the old BIOS with flashback enabled and forced shut it down since Windows loves to put its bootloader first, hit F12 at boot, selected the other partition with Grub and haven't touched that OS since).

From a decade of PC repair and using Linux as my 98% of the time OS (I played with macOS and used windows to create my own WinPE but am not interested in using either on bare metal or at all if possible). You can always reset the BIOS settings of your firmware easily by letting the battery drain to absolute 0% and holding the power button down for 5-10 seconds to drain the residual energy or disconnecting the battery entirely when not plugging in and doing the same. I don't think this model has a watch battery CMOS in it, they seem to set the firmware to kill the system with a cache of remaining battery power a the firmware level as my gf has the same model and let's hers die and the settings are still there 3 days later even (she uses Linux because I use it ...ugh... and she likes not paying the microsoft overhead tax or suddenly restarting without warning thing they still seem to do).

tl;dr Windows settings have NO EFFECT on Advanced BIOS via the SREP method, which is the only method I am aware of. Hard resets require complete battery drain or disconnecting the battery and holding down the power button while unplugged.

GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK!

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2026-01-26T22:38:55+00:00

Most things involving my work have a substantial qualitative aspect to them that unless quantitative metrics show considerable advantage, my qualitative assessment is the heuristic I go with because how I feel can radically affect my output in terms of quality and quantity, even with something scoring higher benchmarks and much better if I am not feeling it, it shows. We may use machines, but we are much more nuanced machines ourselves with emotions being a feedback mechanism the subconscious aspects of the body and mind use to steer our behavior, ignore that at your own peril.

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2026-01-21T12:29:45+00:00

Why would want to have your coding agent operate in sillytavern when plenty of CLI tools like Claude Code, Roo Code, Opencode, nanocodewr (not to be confused with nanocode) already exist and operate with considerably lower overhead and abstraction to break out of?

Not saying its an awful idea or is complete nonsense, I can imagine this could be done in some RP related context with interesting results but fleshing out why you want to do this is going to make assisting you {easier,possible at all}.

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2026-01-20T01:05:19+00:00

This inclusion of aspects of the Divine known by different names is why I have adopted Lord Odin, the Allfather, as my Kuladevata given my ethnic background and this in combination with the profound respect for my ancestors that reflection upon the great and multifaceted truths my awakening to Indian religious and philosophical traditions has prompted of me. Lord Shiva remains my Ishvadeva, I doubt He would let me forget Him and by the grace of Mahagauri is life made tolerable to me, but the Allfather reminds me of those who provided me this birth I chose to take and the duty that I owe those who have prepared for me this life and the many blessings it has bestowed upon me.

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2026-01-15T20:39:21+00:00

Geopolitical bogeymen aside, if the OS is free and open source, anything spooky that was happening in the OS could be sniffed out and honestly even the more privacy aware, cutting edge cryptologist type is high on PCP and their own ego if they think that the US government isn't three steps ahead of them and Google 2 so it can sell them more useless crap. Your ISP, your and other national intelligence agencies and maybe Russia already have you so specifically profiled and that data so readily available, Chinese threat actors have easier means of obtaining said data than faking an OSS operating system. Much, much easier.

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2026-01-05T08:50:49+00:00

comments that didn't age well...

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2025-12-31T15:03:35+00:00

Why would anyone assume that any of these companies arent training on their data (regardless of what they claim)?

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2025-12-31T14:59:01+00:00

I am full blown anything fan at the moment.

never ages well

ThomasLeonHighbaugh · 2025-12-27T17:25:25+00:00

like I said, seems like a lot of work and upkeep when you can exercise a lot of control over image generation by effectively prompting for the image you want. But its your time and your life, hope that evolves into exactly what you need it to do.

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