Sophocles

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[–] Sophocles 3 points 2 months ago

I was curious where Calyx would go after the recent Pixel/Android update issues. I'm glad they are going to try to push through and release more updates, even though it's 6 months out. Might have to switch to Lineage, but I hope I'll be coming back to CalyxOS come January

[–] Sophocles 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Games with amazing OSTs:
TES Skyrim
TES Oblivion
TES Morrowind
LOZ Minish Cap
LOZ A Link to the Past
LOZ Ocarina of Time
Sonic and the Secret Rings
Minecraft
Halo 1-4 & Reach
Bonus: Music by Ola Gjeilo (not a soundtrack but falls closely in line with Skyrim's explore music, might even be better)

Favorite tracks from said games:
Skyrim: Far Horizons (London Symphony Orchestra Version)
Oblivion: The Wings of Kynareth
Morrowind: Over the Next Hill
Minish Cap: Mt. Crennel (Orchestral Remake)
Link to the Past: Lost Woods
Ocarina of Time: Gerudo Valley
Sonic & the Secret Rings: The Place that was Found (Evil Foundry)
Minecraft: Wet Hands
Halo 1-4 & Reach: main title themes
Ola Gjeilo: The Rose II

[–] Sophocles 4 points 2 months ago

As a personal philosophy, I like to learn how something works before I allow myself to take it for granted. As a few examples: I can do math by hand, wash my own clothes with homemade detetgant, write a short story or poem, draw/illustrate with pencil pretty well, and I can even build a log cabin with hand tools. Only then do I allow myself to use calculators, washers, generative AI, and modern power tools to perform those skills for me. I can now embrace these new technologies form a standpoint of knowing what they made easier, AI included. Of course many will not think this way ingeneral society, but this is how I tackle the problem from an introspective angle

[–] Sophocles 9 points 2 months ago

The end goal of every authoritarian entity is to control currency. Your access to food, entertainment, medical care, quality of life, etc. all go through your exchange of currency. If they control the currency, they control all of the above. NSFW video games are just a small foot in the door, I can see this encroaching onto every aspect of society soon

[–] Sophocles 3 points 2 months ago

I love anything written by James A. Owen. His flagship series is The Chronicles of the Imaginarium Geographica, which is an excellent fantasy story. Everyone I've reccomended it to, including well-seasoned book lovers, has put it in their top 5. He's also written more thoughtful books like the Meditations trilogy, as well as the Starchild comic series, which are both really good. On top of all that he's an artist and illustrates for all of his books

[–] Sophocles 3 points 2 months ago

I feel the same way. Monero is the best contender for that philosophy, and governments/corporations hate it because they know it's a threat to their financial chokehold. Whoever controlls the money controlls the power, so if the money is decentralized and private, no entity can ever hold that power over everyone

[–] Sophocles 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Looks yummy! I'd call it a taco, because with fajitas, the tortillas are usually served on the side, and quesadillas usually have more cheese than protein/veggies.

Also if you like chicken and bell peppers you should try a dish called pechuga alambre; it's so good and similar to fajitas but has cheese and bacon on top

[–] Sophocles 7 points 2 months ago

Me reading the Epic of Gilgamesh 4000 years later

[–] Sophocles 8 points 2 months ago

For me it was NordVPN>Windows Privacy>Signal>Mullvad>Fediverse>CalyxOS>Linux. Surprisingly similar.

Tracing it back I think I learned about Nord VPN from an Internet Historian ad, and went from there.

[–] Sophocles 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

In general I agree, I love me some appimage, but Flatpak is good when you need sandboxes and repo packages are super easy with apt or dnf

[–] Sophocles 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think I fixed it; I use Jerboa and put the image link in the wrong field. Whoops!

[–] Sophocles 1 points 2 months ago

I also now have your comment

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