Applesause

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on Friction with KDEConnect · c/linux · 1 pts · 215d

Well that sounds like solutions, but I'm gonna scratch my head about the whole thing you just said for a bit tbh.

on Friction with KDEConnect · c/linux · 1 pts · 215d

Well I just thought it was neat I could screen record but whatevs, screenshots will probably get it done with a bit of explanation.

Image 1: File manager open, preparing to mount devices.

Image 2: Devices mounted, preparing to open filesystem on first device.

Image 3: Attempted to open filesystem on first device, met with access denied.

Image 4: Bypassed access denied, appended storage/emulated/0 to filesystem mount point(? i think im saying that right), filesystem now accessible.

Use Your Imagination 1: Opened filesystem on device 2, bypassed access denied, appended system/emulated/0 again, able to access filesystem.

Use Your Imagination 2: Attempted to open filesystem on device 1 again, access denied again, appended system/emulated/0 again, able to access file system again.

Ad Nauseum every time I want to access the filesystem on these devices remotely. It might actually be faster to just email myself the files. Probably less frustrating, too.

Does that explain it? You can also see how it would be easy to mix up which device I'm browsing because they are both called some random jumbled numbers with similar android file names instead of "phone" and "tablet" or something human like that

on Friction with KDEConnect · c/linux · 1 pts · 215d

Apparently I have a native ability to record videos of my screen on linux, which is very neat and I'm going to take advantage of it now.

I had originally typed up a couple paragraphs explaining, but I don't think it's as clear as this video. The 3rd IP/mount point being selected and resulting in a loading mouse icon is an example of unexplained disconnect. Hope that explains your question. Frankly that stack exchange page confuses and scares me.

You can see how it would be annoying to type ctrl+l storage/emulated/0 every single time you want to transfer a file from device to device, especially when you can't tell the difference between devices at a glance.

on Facts. · c/vegan · 1 pts · 222d

By this logic you could say you empty your bladder for the purpose of avoiding the embarrasment of urinating on yourself in public, rather than the biological purpose of excreting waste products.

Your body is made of matter, just like everything else. But the atoms you’re built from today won’t be the atoms you’re built from in a year.

My grandfather's axe is a wonderful axe. It's been in my family 3 generations now. It's had the head replaced once and the handle three times, and it's just as good today as it was in his day. Checkmate, reductionists.

Give me a simple cell from the early days of Earth’s history, and I could never predict that some 4 billion years later it would evolve into a giant rabbit that can punch you in the face. Kangaroos—like humans—are an unpredictable, emergent consequence of life’s evolution.

Appealing to the author's own lack of imagination is a bold stroke...

The fundamental laws that govern matter and energy cannot predict another fundamental property of life: It is the only system in the universe that uses information for its own purposes. Plants grow toward light, microbes swim toward rich food sources, animals hide from predators, humans send giant metal contraptions into outer space. Although one can, say, program a robot to search for a wall plug when its battery gets low, a living thing (a human programmer, for example) must hard-code that need into the machine. Life, by contrast, is both agential and autonomous. From microbes to crabs to people, all living things have their own itches to scratch.

And since no reductionist description of these things exists yet (that the author knows of), therefore physics must be rewritten.

Very woo.

I feel like you missed the "independent shops" part of the description entirely. And the "[amazon market is] fragmented but monopolized" part. And the "competitor to amazon" part. And, like, the entire gist of the post. And im wondering if you've used amazon recently, or perhaps have been living under a rock for a while to say you feel the payment system is the only centralized part of amazon.

I look for competency first, not any specific methodology; A doctorate is a good sign but no guarantee. Published papers are even better, read through some if they have them, thought that might correspond to academic competency instead of clinical. I find that the specific method they employ has a lot less to do with success than the person administering it or their experience. Lots of diverse experience is good. Current shrink did some years working in prisons, some years working with disabled veterans, some years working with the blind, some years working with the elderly before she settled down to private practice. I find it allows her a much more open-minded and empathetic perspective just from having seen so much of humanity. Always send them an email before you propose to book their services, that will tend to give you a decent idea of their communication, especially if you can get a decent email chain going, though of course some people are terrible emailers or texters or phone callers but are great in person so don't take any of these as gospel but as clues. I straight up would not consider seeing a shrink over telephone or televisual unless I'd already established an excellent rapport with them in-person.

One thing I always do now is, If I decide to book with them, intentionally find something to criticize. Was I made to wait 5 minutes past the appointed time? Is the chair in the room uncomfortable? Is there a distracting smell in the room? What you criticize doesn't matter as long as it's true and valid, falsity won't do here, just be honest and kind. It should ideally be something they have control over, but I don't nitpick. So, "I'd prefer the shades drawn" is probably a nitpick (unless you're photosensitive or something) but the chair is something you're gonna be sitting in for an hour. What you're looking for is not the solution to the critique, but the response to the critique. Are they dismissive, apologetic, aware-but-there's-nothing-they-can-do-about-it, do they accommodate you, etc. This will tell you a thousand times more than their website blurb about their style. It's testing whether their ego can handle criticism, and whether/how far they'll go to accommodate your needs. I test potential employers this way, too. You can tell a lot about a person by their reaction to honest, valid, kindly-expressed criticism. You'll never be able to tell whether they will be a good fit for you from this, but you can tell from an bad reaction to criticism that they won't be a good fit.

hope this helps

edit: Oh, and ironically I find that it helps to have someone who is different from you in important ways. With a friend, you want someone who you share a lot of common interests with and by extension probably think pretty similarly to. With a therapist it's practically the opposite: you want someone who has Therapy in common with you, and can see things from a different perspective than you do. There's such a thing as too much of this, but in general a perspective that significantly diverges from your own is a good thing.