Yeah, how do you deal with that?
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So, don't condense your thought here, I would love to read everything.
Hope you wife is doing better.
Imo, the way that some have instrumentalized Western social media for disinformation is a bigger threat than allowing a competitor
A combination of social policies, fiscal responsibility (or a semblance of it compared to other countries), agro business being the locomotive, a resurgence of heavy industry coupled with Gov. backing (aero/space, oil refineries, etc) and family consumption have helped the country recently.
The current president, and his party, deserves credit for many of those achievements but not all. Let's remember that this is a process that started on the 90s and, yes, accelerated under the current president and his party. Not all have been roses and there is plenty of criticism but it is a change of pace that was much needed.
If not been for the disastrous policies, COVID being the prime example, of the previous administration which turned the economy and politics upside down the country would be further ahead now. I would say we are back where we were, also 8th economy,
We still face many issues: dysfunctional congress, high inequality which leads to violence. But in general, I'd say, we are on the right path.
One of the main reasons I went back to Gnome was the out of box support for RDP.
I am from Brazil, my wife from Finland and we live in Sweden. We speak English to each other.
To our two and half year old daughter, we speak our native languages and she learns Swedish in daycare.
In the beginning we showed some YouTube for her. The Brazilian Mundo Bita is great with catchy songs and amazing animation. My wife wanted to show the Moomins and we got some Swedish Babblarna as well. Disney+ has a lot of content already translated to every one of our languages. But we noticed that her mood swung wildly after her television stint, max 1h and not even every day. So we decided to not watch TV, for now at least, and concentrate on books/coloring/etc.
We read/have plenty of books. Sweden has great libraries with many titles for the little ones, also in different languages.
If I would rank her skills: #1 Finnish, #2-3 Portuguese/Swedish. This past month she started saying small things in English too, even singing the Happy Birthday song.
All kids are different, and interests ebb and flow, but I am hopeful that, in the future, Portuguese and Swedish might help with other languages like Spanish/Italian or Norwegian/Danish if she needs them for whatever reason.
It is impressive how kids can learn so many languages. But very tough, a constant effort to translate and encourage her to speak the native language of the parents. Specially in the beginning she would confuse who-speaks-what and we would scratch our heads when she made a phrase, in baby-speak no less, mixing different languages in it or modifying words to fit the logic of one language. Very interesting.
The main thing I learned is to find what interests the child and go that route. Be music, books, TV.
Stadia, Pixelbook, Pixel pass, Jamboard, etc.
Started with film when I was a kid but was always scared by my parents because of the "high cost" and then when I got my first digital there were no more restrictions.
It opened up other areas of interest that are tangentially related to it: I go hiking/camping, learned Photoshop and video editing, spend time learning about the masters in Painting/Photography/Film making, scouting for locations where to go on holidays. Even started a, not very successful but fun, YouTube channel.
It is also possible to enjoy it daily once you know what is out there.
From the time I started to mess around with Linux, around 96-98, the biggest distros were certainly Slackware, Debian and Red Hat.
Slack you basically had to compile and config everything from scratch.
RH helped a bit with packaged software in RPM format but dependency management was missing. Basically a glorified tar ball.
apt solved the distribution and packaging of software.
About high refresh rate games: I have gamed on 144hz/120hz (one gaming monitor and another OLED TV) but I prefer to lower it so I can increase quality of graphics.
Multi monitor I can't say I have much experience with them connected at the same time but I have used the OLED+Gaming monitor few times but I can't say I do it often.
What I do very often is to leave the machine running and use RDP/Steam client to connect to it and game/work.
Linux support, and Ubuntu and Gnome for that matter, improved leaps and bounds since last LTS.
This is all to say that my main gaming rig runs Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with Gnome, heavily tweaked, to look and behave like MacOS and.... Its a dream.
Heck, in fact I like it so much that I prefer it to MacOS in every possible way. The only issue is, still, the lack of Adobe support.
And that is why I still have an Apple machine.
Give it a try. You will be surprised by how well so many games run.
Maybe not so much that people were expected to get their socks knocked off once again but mostly that M1 Max/Pro are more than enough for years to come for the majority of the people that got them.
Heck, I have a M1Air and a M1Max16. I can't even max it out with my current usage. Hard to justify the slight bump for the M2 given the cost in the EU. Even if M3 would double the performance and battery life would still be a hard sell.
Nothing technical. Just going around forests and seascapes taking photos.
In the future I want to do less talking and more vistas and surroundings.
Anyone else into landscape photography?