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TBF, most land predators can't even survive in water. The real perfect predators are dolphins. They were in the water, left it, and returned just to show us they still got it.
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You'll get the whole new tiling assistant extension added, right out of the box. It expands on the edge tiling that GNOME already brings, by letting you do quarter tiling, so you have more flexibility in how you organize your workspace. You also can scale a window to use half of your screen's height, by dragging it to the bottom edge, or to the top edge.
Ubuntu 23.10 also comes with a brand new Ubuntu App Store, called the App Center. It's a really well designed application, and it won't stop you from installing apps from the Ubuntu repos, since debian packages are supported after all.
Ubuntu 23.10 also comes with a new firmware updater application. It uses the linux vendor firmware service as a backend, or course, so it's basically just a GUI for the FWUPD daemon.
The installer now defaults to a new install, with just the essentials. If you want the full complement of apps Ubuntu usually ships, then you'll have to select the "full install" option instead.
There's also a new experimental full disk encryption option that uses the TPM chip in your computer, if it has one.
And, of course, Ubuntu 23.10 ships with GNOME 45. First, the Activities button has been replaced with a workspaces indicator. Background apps have been improved in the quick settings, with the ability to click them to open a window, and a little indicator when closing an app. Still in the quick settings, you'll get a keyboard backlight toggle, that lets you turn that feature on or off, or select the brightness level you prefer. And, in the panel, you'll get a camera indicator when an app is accessing your webcam.
In terms of apps, there's a new split headerbar design for apps like Nautilus and the settings, and Nautilus gained improved search.
In the settings, you'll get a new system dialog, with more information about your computer, and an easy clickable button to copy all that information. There's also a new Privacy page, better designed, and a few otehr pages have been touched up, like with virtually every release of every desktop environment.
Finally, the compositor, Mutter, gained support for YUV color space, so it should handle certain movies and shows much better, and it now has a separate thread to handle the mouse pointer under wayland, which will result in a lot less lag and input delay, so that's a big improvement.
Under the hood, 23.10 ships whit the Linux kernel 6.5, so you should get the latest hardware support, and a bunch of performance improvements. Mantic Minotaur will be supported for 9 months, as it's not an LTS release, so it's only suitable if you don't mind running big upgrades regularly.
The flavour with the most changes is Ubuntu budgie, which updates to Budgie 10.8. THis has a new trash applet, the new Magpie compositor to better support X11 while Budgie plans its transition to being Wayland only, a new dialog to get super user permissions, support for performance modes in the power applet, plus some theme refinements with a green accent color by default, and a lot of smaller changes to the control center, the applets, support for Raspberry Pi, more themes being bundled out of the box, and more.
Ubuntu Cinnamon moves to Cinnamon 5.8.4, which will give you touchpad and touchscreen gestures, with a lot of configuration options, the new global dark mode setting, better support for desktop portals and flatpak apps. You get the new styles feature.
Other flavours are stuck on the same version of heir respective DEs and don't bring many changes apart from the internals.
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Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 11 Shell and every associated core feature and element are actually broken, and have been like this for many months.
My PC is not compatible with Wayland but it is really old and almost unable to open a web browser, so yeah, I see normal to drop X11 on most desktops envirnonments. And in not compatible machines there will be DE with X11 legacy support so no problem 😁
seeing Arduino having turned a classic proprietary product from one day to the next and creating Linux distros working on any ARM marchine like we have distros working on practically any x86 machine is too much a hassle (proprietary communication protocols of components?) perhaps RISC-V will be the better way to go in the future?
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By this I mean the psensor applet icon (second from the left) being to big.
I was messing arround trying to customize my desktop and i followed a guide on how to install and setup latte-dock (kde). Long story short, i failed removed latte (although I think it may have left some stuff behind) and when I restored my cinnamon panel the icon was like this. I've already restored the system with timeshift but it made no difference and tried to set "symbolic icon size" in panel settings but it completely ignores it. I googled for a solution but cant find any :c
Any ideas?
P.S. If I set panel height too small, all the applet icons go halfway off screen through the bottom, something they didnt used to do.
SOLVED: Using this comand:
gsettings reset-recursively org.cinnamon
Reverts the icons to their normal behaviour. Thanks to potatoguy
Based on a conversation about ffmpeg in the fediVerse this little sample was created to be used in the very same conversation as an example: tupambae.org/display/d27bd12f-…
No I'm not using Kali for "hacking" I'm experimenting if I can play games on it and I guess my little experiment failed here, I never had a smooth experience with Debian before it always break itself when doing a system updates.
I have no idea what you're doing wrong, but I've been using Debian for over twenty years and it's by far the most stable OS I've ever used, particularly the update system. I'm currently maintaining around 50 debian systems and never seen an issue you like you've posted, so no, there's nothing average about what your'e saying.
In my experience, unmet dependencies are unlikely to happen on a stable version where you only installed from the official repo.
The LZMA decompression errors point at a much more fundamental issue. I'm suspecting that the repository URLs point at non standard locations or downloads were interrupted, though I'm not sure exactly how, since AFAIK, apt checks the checksum.
If you must have something that's not In your distro, do yourself a favour and install Docker and run your package inside there, much less chance of killing your system.
Is Kali based on Debian Testing? Such issues can happen in the testing branch because sometimes only some of the dependencies from unstable get moved into it.
That's why it's strongly discouraged to use Testing.
Yup! Kali is a rolling distro built on Debian Testing, not Stable, annual releases. It can be used as a desktop OS, but still has pen testing and other security tools as their main focus
I never had problems, particularly with a popular package like Chromium, and I'm even using Debian-Testing, which is supposed to be unstable. You're definitely fiddling enough with your system to get Debian to get into DLL hell.
Some actionnable suggestions : * Verify disk using smartmontools. * Verify memory using memcheck. * (Temporarily) disable unofficial apt repos, do apt update, purge then reinstall the affected packages. * If that didn't help or you need more help, you could go to kali forum to politely request help, with a precise description of the issue. Please refrain from ranting even if you're annoyed.
Keep in mind this is free software provided without warranty. No one ows you a stable experience nor support. People are giving this software away and volonteering time and resources to make this happen. If there's a bug and you need it fixed, please submit a bug report, ideally with a patch to fix it.
No I'm not using Kali for "hacking" I'm experimenting if I can play games on it
Sorry but.. why on earth would you do that? Kali is a specialized distro, it's not made for day to day desktop use, much less for gaming on it. If you want to game on Linux, pick either a generic or gaming-oriented distro, and use Kali in a VM or dualboot.
Biochar production is no longer confined to agricultural soil improvement. It has matured into a multifaceted carbon-management industry capable of generating diversified revenue streams. A modern pyrolysis plant purpose-built for biochar output, enables operators to capitalize on energy recovery, carbon-credit issuance, specialty material applications, and waste-management fees. These pathways collectively establish a robust economic structure that can sustain capital-intensive infrastructure while addressing environmental imperatives.
Carbon Credit Monetization as a Primary Revenue Anchor
High-Integrity Carbon Removal
Biochar is recognized as a long-term carbon sink due to its highly aromatic, stable carbon matrix. This stability allows projects to qualify for engineered carbon removal credits that command premium prices in voluntary carbon markets. Recent methodologies require verified mass-balance data, lifecycle emissions accounting, and consistent quality control from feedstock procurement through final application.
dMRV-Enabled Transparency
Digital measurement, reporting, and verification practices accelerate credit issuance and reduce administrative delays. By integrating sensor networks and automated reporting into a biomass pyrolysis plant, operators can deliver precise carbon-removal documentation. High-integrity verification increases market access and enhances pricing leverage.
Biochar as a Commercial Material Across Sectors
Agricultural Enhancement Products
A significant revenue stream stems from selling biochar as a soil amendment. Its capacity to increase cation-exchange capability, improve water retention, and stabilize nutrients places biochar in high demand among regenerative-farming initiatives. Blended soil additives—such as biochar-compost mixtures or nutrient-charged carbon granules—often command higher market prices.
Industrial Additives and Specialty Applications
Biochar’s micro-porosity and thermal stability enable its utilization in filtration, construction materials, catalyst support, and polymer composites. Specialty-grade char produced under controlled conditions can enter markets with significantly higher margins than standard agricultural products. Such diversification minimizes demand volatility.
Energy Recovery and By-Product Commercialization
Syngas Utilization
During pyrolysis, a substantial fraction of biomass converts into non-condensable gases. These gases can fuel the reactor itself, reducing external energy consumption. Excess syngas may be used to power auxiliary equipment or generate electricity, depending on regulatory allowances.
Bio-Oil and Condensate Derivatives
Condensable vapors collected during thermal decomposition form bio-oil, a complex mixture of organics. Though often challenging to refine, bio-oil can serve as a combustion fuel, a precursor for chemical extraction, or an input for industrial heating systems. Where market demand aligns with regional regulations, bio-oil contributes an additional revenue layer.
Waste-Management Fees and Circular-Economy Incentives
Feedstock Intake Revenue
A biochar pyrolysis machine configured to accept agricultural residues, forestry waste, or sorted organic biomass can receive tipping fees from municipalities or private generators. This effectively converts feedstock procurement from a cost center into a profit driver.
Circular-Economy Subsidies
Governments increasingly incentivize carbon-negative processes and renewable-material production. Grants, low-interest loans, and tax credits are commonly available for projects that align with national biomass-utilization policies. These incentives strengthen long-term profitability.
Operational Efficiency as a Profit Multiplier
Consistent Feedstock Quality
Stable, low-contaminant biomass ensures predictable carbon yields and reduces maintenance costs. Establishing supply agreements with forestry operators or biomass aggregators improves feedstock consistency and cost control.
Process Optimization
Temperature regulation, residence-time management, and advanced reactor design influence product yield. Optimized thermochemical conditions increase char output, reduce fuel consumption, and limit downtime—directly amplifying profit margins.
Strengthening Economic Resilience Through Diversification
Biochar production projects thrive when revenue does not depend on a single market. Carbon credits offer high-value returns but fluctuate with global policy sentiment. Agricultural additives are stable but price-sensitive. By leveraging multiple income pathways—from material sales to waste-management fees—operators build a resilient revenue framework.
A well-designed pyrolysis plant, supported by efficient operations and diversified market channels, establishes biochar production as both environmentally restorative and financially enduring.
This article explores how different life stages, from puberty to menopause, impact gum health and offers practical advice on maintaining optimal oral care. If you ever need professional guidance, a dentist at Clementi or a dentist near Clementi can provid
Hormonal changes are a natural part of life, influencing not only our mood and energy levels but also our oral health. The gums are particularly sensitive to these changes due to their rich blood supply and strong immune presence. As hormone levels fluctuate, the gums can become more sensitive, inflamed, or slower to heal. This article explores how different life stages, from puberty to menopause, impact gum health and offers practical advice on maintaining optimal oral care. If you ever need professional guidance, a dentist at Clementi or a dentist near Clementi can provide valuable insights and treatment options.
The Role of Hormones in Gum Health
Gum tissue is highly responsive to hormonal changes because it is rich in blood vessels and immune cells. When estrogen or progesterone levels change, blood flow to the gums can increase, making the tissue more reactive and prone to inflammation. While hormones alone do not cause gum disease, they can amplify the gums' response to plaque, leading to varying symptoms even among individuals with similar oral hygiene habits.
Puberty: The First Major Hormonal Shift
Puberty marks the beginning of significant hormonal changes, making gums more reactive to plaque. Many teenagers notice red, swollen, or bleeding gums, even if their brushing habits remain consistent. This increased sensitivity is not always a sign of poor hygiene but can be exacerbated by inconsistent brushing, sugary snacks, and orthodontic appliances. Regular dental visits and consistent brushing routines are crucial for managing early inflammation and preventing long-term issues.
Pregnancy: A Time of Extreme Hormonal Changes
Pregnancy brings about some of the most dramatic hormonal shifts, significantly impacting gum health. Elevated levels of estrogen and progesterone increase blood flow to the gums and alter the immune system's response. Pregnant individuals often experience more bleeding and puffiness, and some may develop small, harmless overgrowths known as pregnancy tumors. Existing gum disease can also worsen rapidly during this period, making regular cleanings and check-ups essential. A dentist at Clementi or any dentist near Clementi can provide safe and effective care throughout pregnancy.
Oral Contraceptives: Mild but Noticeable Effects
Modern contraceptive pills contain lower hormone doses than their predecessors, but some users still notice increased gum sensitivity or bleeding after starting or switching brands. While these symptoms are generally milder than those experienced during pregnancy, they can still be bothersome. If symptoms appear shortly after starting a new prescription, it is advisable to consult both your dentist and your doctor. Consistent plaque control often helps alleviate these issues.
The Menstrual Cycle: Predictable Fluctuations
Gum sensitivity is common in the days leading up to menstruation, with some individuals experiencing slight swelling or tenderness that resolves once their period begins. This temporary increase in inflammation is typically due to hormonal shifts and is not a sign of disease. Gentle but thorough cleaning during these days can help minimize discomfort.
Perimenopause and Menopause: Long-Term Changes
The hormonal changes during perimenopause and menopause lead to gradual but lasting alterations in oral health. Declining estrogen levels cause gum tissue to become thinner and drier, and saliva production often decreases. Dry mouth increases the risk of plaque buildup, tooth decay, and gum irritation. Additionally, lower estrogen levels affect bone density, including the jawbone that supports the teeth. Monitoring gum health and bone support becomes increasingly important during these stages. If you notice dryness, bleeding, or tooth mobility, a visit to a dentist near Clementi can help identify early signs of gum disease or bone loss.
Hormonal Changes and Gum Disease
Gum disease begins with plaque buildup, but hormonal fluctuations can accelerate the progression from irritation to inflammation. During periods of significant hormonal activity, such as puberty, pregnancy, or perimenopause, even small amounts of plaque can cause a stronger reaction. Maintaining good oral hygiene habits, such as brushing twice daily, flossing regularly, and visiting the dentist, is crucial for preventing long-term tissue damage.
Practical Tips for Protecting Gum Health
Consistent daily care forms the foundation of gum health at any age. Brushing with a soft brush, flossing regularly, and scheduling regular dental exams are essential. During periods of increased gum sensitivity, it is helpful to avoid habits that exacerbate inflammation, such as smoking. Staying hydrated is particularly important during menopause when dry mouth is more common. Individuals with medical conditions like diabetes may require closer monitoring, as both hormones and blood sugar levels influence gum inflammation.
When to Seek Professional Help
While it is normal for gums to change with hormonal fluctuations, persistent or worsening symptoms should not be ignored. Signs such as constant bleeding, ongoing swelling, persistent bad breath, or loose teeth may indicate underlying issues. A timely check-up with a dentist at Clementi or another dentist near Clementi can help identify and treat gum disease early, preventing permanent damage.
Conclusion
Hormonal changes are an inevitable part of life, and understanding their impact on gum health can help alleviate concerns and guide appropriate care. By maintaining steady daily oral hygiene practices and seeking periodic professional guidance, you can keep your gums healthy through all stages of life, from puberty to menopause and beyond.
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Peru's mining and construction sectors continue to demonstrate robust growth, but operators face significant challenges from escalating operational expenses. With fuel prices increasing by approximately 18% over the past two years, labor costs rising steadily, and transportation expenses becoming increasingly volatile, selecting the right crushing equipment has never been more critical for maintaining profitability. This guide provides practical strategies for choosing crushing plants that optimize operational efficiency and minimize the impact of rising costs in the Peruvian market.
Peru's diverse geography, from coastal operations to high-altitude mining sites in the Andes, creates distinct challenges for crushing operations. The country's infrastructure limitations, particularly in remote mining regions, further complicate equipment selection decisions. Operators must consider not only initial purchase prices but also long-term operational costs, maintenance requirements, and equipment adaptability to varying site conditions. Understanding these factors is crucial for making informed decisions that will impact profitability for years to come.
Evaluating Equipment Efficiency in Current Economic Conditions
Fuel Efficiency as a Primary Selection Criterion
With diesel prices reaching historical highs in Peru, fuel consumption has become one of the most significant operational cost factors. When evaluating potential equipment, consider engines with advanced fuel injection systems and power management technology. Modern crushing plants often incorporate eco-mode operations that automatically adjust engine speed to match processing demands, typically reducing fuel consumption by 15-25% compared to conventional systems. For operations running multiple shifts, these savings can amount to thousands of dollars monthly, directly offsetting rising fuel expenses.
Maintenance Accessibility and Labor Optimization
Labor costs in Peru's mining sector have increased approximately 12% over the past three years, making equipment that requires minimal maintenance staffing increasingly attractive. Look for crushing plants with centralized grease points, hydraulic adjustment systems, and easy-access maintenance platforms that reduce service time. Modular component designs can further minimize downtime by enabling quick replacement of wear parts. When considering a stone crusher Peru(chancadora de piedra Perú)-based operations should prioritize models with local technical support and readily available spare parts to avoid extended equipment downtime.
Strategic Equipment Selection for Cost Management
Mobile Versus Stationary Plant Considerations
The choice between mobile and stationary crushing plants has significant implications for transportation and relocation costs. A well-chosen mobile stone crusher plant(planta chancadora movil) can eliminate multiple material handling steps and reduce trucking requirements by processing material directly at the extraction face. For operations spanning multiple sites or requiring periodic relocation, mobile plants typically offer 20-30% lower total operating costs despite higher initial investment. Evaluate your project timeline, material volume, and site geography to determine the optimal balance between mobility and processing capacity.
Production Capacity Matching to Avoid Underutilization
Oversized equipment represents one of the most common sources of unnecessary cost in Peruvian operations. Carefully analyze your actual production requirements rather than opting for maximum capacity. An appropriately sized plant operating at 80-90% capacity typically delivers better efficiency than an oversized unit running at 40-50%. Consider modular systems that can be expanded as production requirements increase, avoiding the substantial capital outlay for capacity that may not be needed for several years.
Leveraging Regional Market Opportunities
Considering Used Equipment from Neighboring Markets
The similarities in operating conditions and material characteristics across Andean countries create opportunities for cost-effective equipment sourcing. An aggregate crusher plant for sale in Chile(planta chancadora de aridos venta Chile) may offer substantial value, particularly given the comparable mineral compositions and altitude considerations. Many Chilean operations maintain equipment to high standards, and geographic proximity can reduce transportation costs compared to sourcing from other regions. Always verify equipment maintenance history and ensure compatibility with local support networks before purchasing internationally.
Local Support and Parts Availability
The availability of local technical support and spare parts significantly impacts operational costs through reduced downtime and lower repair expenses. Evaluate potential suppliers based on their service network within Peru, parts inventory levels, and technician response times. Establish relationships with suppliers who maintain comprehensive parts inventories in-country rather than relying on international shipments that can take weeks to arrive. This consideration becomes particularly crucial for operations in remote areas where equipment downtime can cost thousands of dollars per hour.
Operational Strategies to Mitigate Cost Pressures
Site Planning and Material Flow Optimization
Strategic site layout can substantially reduce fuel consumption and equipment wear. Position crushing plants to minimize material rehandling and optimize loader cycle times. Consider implementing direct feed systems where possible, and utilize natural topography to reduce the need for elevated conveyors or additional material handling equipment. For operations using a mobile stone crusher plant, develop a systematic approach to plant positioning that minimizes travel distances between processing areas while maintaining safety and operational efficiency.
Technology Integration for Efficiency Gains
Modern monitoring systems provide valuable data for optimizing crushing operations in real-time. Load-sensing hydraulics, automatic setting adjustments, and production monitoring systems can increase throughput while reducing fuel consumption and wear part costs. These systems typically pay for themselves within 6-18 months through improved efficiency and reduced maintenance costs. For operations considering a new stone crusher Peru-based technology providers can demonstrate specific return-on-investment calculations based on local fuel and labor rates.
Financial Considerations and Total Cost of Ownership
Lifecycle Cost Analysis Beyond Purchase Price
Equipment selection should be based on comprehensive lifecycle cost analysis rather than initial purchase price alone. Calculate total ownership costs including fuel consumption, maintenance requirements, expected downtime, resale value, and parts availability. This approach frequently reveals that higher-quality equipment with better fuel efficiency and reliability delivers significantly lower costs over a 5-7 year operational period, despite higher initial investment.
Financing Options and Economic Uncertainty
Given Peru's evolving economic landscape, consider flexible financing options that preserve capital while enabling equipment acquisition. Many manufacturers offer operating leases or rental-purchase agreements that provide predictable monthly costs while protecting against equipment obsolescence. These arrangements can be particularly valuable during periods of economic uncertainty, allowing operations to maintain modern, efficient equipment without substantial capital commitment.
Implementation and Operational Transition
Phased Implementation Strategies
For operations replacing existing equipment, consider phased implementation to minimize production disruption. Begin with the most critical bottleneck in your processing circuit, then systematically upgrade additional components. This approach spreads capital investment over time while delivering incremental efficiency improvements. Document performance metrics at each stage to validate equipment selection decisions and refine subsequent procurement choices.
Operator Training and Efficiency Culture
Equipment efficiency depends heavily on operator skill and awareness. Implement comprehensive training programs that emphasize fuel-efficient operation, proper maintenance procedures, and production optimization techniques. Consider incentive programs that reward operators for achieving specific efficiency targets, creating organizational alignment around cost control objectives. These human factors often deliver substantial returns with minimal capital investment.
Conclusion: Strategic Adaptation to Economic Realities
Selecting crushing equipment in Peru's current economic environment requires careful analysis of both technical specifications and operational cost structures. The most successful operations will be those that prioritize fuel efficiency, maintenance accessibility, and operational flexibility in their equipment selection process. By taking a comprehensive view of ownership costs and implementing strategic operational practices, Peruvian operators can not only survive current cost pressures but emerge with stronger, more competitive operations.
The perfect crushing plant for your operation balances processing capacity with operational efficiency, matches your specific site conditions and material characteristics, and aligns with your long-term business strategy. While economic challenges create pressure to reduce capital expenditure, remember that strategic investment in efficient, modern equipment often represents the most effective response to rising operational costs. By making informed, data-driven equipment selection decisions today, Peruvian operators can position themselves for sustained profitability regardless of economic conditions.
She lied about calling Joe Biden a war criminal which is kinda based. I'd rather her own it than do it and pretend she didn't but I don't mind that she did
Need to test more, but Chronos from F-Droid seemed interesting from what I already tested. Plus it has redundant means of not having its process killed by the system, as some do when running out of RAM for example.
I just use the stock clock app on GrapheneOS 😕. Its not pretty, but it works. The two below both look pretty good, maybe its time for me to reevaluate what I'm using.
Other users are saying other apps have issues. Hopefully this one is good.
I would use the default one butI de-googled and removed all their apps. Next step is to install graphine/e-os (not both are supports for my phone) one day.
I'm still using Timely, although you have to edit it's AndroidManifest to add the necessary permissions for newer Android versions. One more thing that was bought and killed by Google.
I suspect this is a problem of fragmentation on Android. I've had issues when I tried other Clock apps than the Google one. Alarms would not be triggered for various inexplicable reasons. Or they reset if the launcher crashed for whatever reason. I don't have the time and energy to test this simple function that I rely on quite heavily. And that's why I stick with the stock Google app because it has never failed me personally no matter whose manufacturer's version of Android it ran on.
Caroline du Saint est invitée sur la chaîne de L214 pour parler de son docu "L'usine des animaux" et son livre "Le déni français". Dans cet extrait, elle répond parfaitement à une intervention de Arnaud Rousseau, président de la FNSEA, le syndicat agricole majoritaire, sur BFM. Pour lui l'élevage intensif n'existe pas en France.
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Originally published by The Standard All links to Gospa News articles have been added aftermath The COVID – 19 coronavirus was “intentionally released” by the United States in Wuhan, China, with the target to trigger a global pandemic to raise public…
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Nice video. But, while I appreciate your hope, I think you overestimate the impact of the Steam Machine. Windows gamers have had a large userbase for decades and most companies did not care. PC versions came late and ran like sh...
That changed recently, because these companies need money and cannot afford to ignore PC gamers anymore. But Linux gamers probably will stay irrelevant for them.
Game publishers don't care much about PC gaming because they try to avoid piracy as much as they can. Publishing their games on PC have the chance of getting their game cracked. This is why they usually don't care much about PC gaming.
2025 is the year of Linux. I don't know how people still cannot say this. I mean look at the achievements: 5-6% world wide Linux market share on desktops (you have to dig deeper into statcounter statistics and filter out strange behavior as on India which is probably a result of bots), we have a record of 3% market share on Steam gamers (it ignores people like me who mostly playing GOG games). Linux also became mainstream. I don't mean it as in market share, but how it is represented in the public. A lot of Windows users switched and speak about their transition, others speak about that they will do soon and even huge YouTube channel are speaking about. Moreover Gamernexus made the first GPU-tests on Linux and is speaking about how happy he is to work together with Bazzite developers and he is very happy to continue the investment and work, another German hardware newspaper is starting GPU tests in January next year, but the decision was made this year. And end of Win10 support is also the begin of Linux for people who cannot run Win11 on their systems or who just do not want to install Win11.
I define the "year of Linux" as the year when the mainstream realizes that Linux is a valide alternative. That does not require the mainstream to actually using it, but it is like a point of no return. I think from 2025 on there is not much that could stop Linux growing until in unspoken amount of years Linux becomes the most used system on desktop. 2026 is just a follow up of the success of this year and Steam Machine and all the other things are just accelerating what happens anyway at this point. But btw, I also do not think that Steam Machine is that big deal. Performance-wise it is not that great and the price will be relatively high, especially since RAM is super expensive right now and will stay high for the next years.
On the other hand and more important Valve will contribute a lot of necessary work into the Linux eco system. Being able to play Windows games on Linux ARM64 without much trouble will also make Linux phones more interesting, especially if projects like Liberux Nexx will success. Linux phones aka pocket computer themselves will not be ready for the average user, just to create no misunderstanding.
Je ne suis pas très fan de cette ritournelle ("L'année prochaine sera-t-elle l'année de Linux ?"). Déjà par sa récurrence (ça me lasse). Puis par son côté "arlésien" (on n'en verra jamais vraiment le bout). Indépendamment de l'émergence de l'IA (et de son intégration dans les OS concurrents), le véritable coup de boost en faveur de Linux en 2025-26 est la fin de vie de Windows 10 ♥️ Ça a été largement couvert dans les médias, et Linux présenté comme une alternative viable 👏
I definitly went to full linux on my Surface, and now on my desktop. My desktop for the end of Win10. I am going to miss that Start menu, but glad for the lack of trackers. And i --love-- the customization. I have an extension that gives me options that help with my reading problems. One that lets me control the media being played from the panel. I am just having a really good time.
Left out a big incentive imo: End-of-Windows10 #endof10 leaves lots and lots of computers that can be migrated to Linux. Save money and stop e-waste!
OTOH, migration isn't for your normal user just yet which makes me excited for the #steam machine. Regular users will not even realize they will be running Linux.
Millennials are bucking trends, becoming an increasingly progressive voting bloc and rewriting the long-held rules of politics, writes Isabella Higgins.
Millennials are bucking trends, becoming an increasingly progressive voting bloc and rewriting the long-held rules of politics, writes Isabella Higgins.
I've been swinging all over my entire life. First quite far right due to being on 4chan. Then overcorrected to the far left when Trump got elected because of podcasts and Reddit, and now I've been settling somewhere right of centre, though my views are such a mixed bag that I wouldn't really even attempt to place myself anywhere on the political spectrum. I'm not exactly one of those people who, when you know their view on one or two issues, you can reliably guess their view on multiple other completely unrelated ones as well.
It's however been interesting to see how much my personal views have been shaped by the people I hang with online. I see it in other people as well: one of my best friends still hangs on 4chan and he's just as right-wing and racist as you would imagine. Ironically though, hanging here on Lemmy doesn't exactly pull me more towards the left but rather the opposite - I feel like being pushed away.
There's an old saying: "What do you call 10 people sitting at a table with 1 Nazi? 11 Nazis." By including a racist as your "best friend", you're quietly condoning and accepting his behavior. He won't change his views because of you. I waited way too long with my guy thinking I could fix him. He just learned to not bring up his views around me. Do yourself a favor and tell him to cut that shit out or you cant be as close.
As I said: I don't see what good that would achieve.
I don't cut ties with friends because a stranger online calls me a nazi for hanging with them. When trying to change someone's mind, a good starting point would be to not insult them, make demands, or issue ultimatums. Perhaps your friend didn't change his mind for the simple reason that you weren't giving him any reason to.
This defensive posture isn't warranted. I was commenting from a place of empathy since I was in a very similar situation and the cognitive dissonance and eventual hard talk I had to have was very difficult. If you truly feel that all life is equally valuable with no regard to race, then you are feeling some of this cognitive dissonance too. You won't know it, since that's the nature of cognitive dissonance, but it will be there. I wasn't calling you names or attempting to force anything on you. I was warning you about what your future looks like if you continue being good friends with a racist.
Perhaps your friend didn't change his mind for the simple reason that you weren't giving him any reason to.
A lack of social consequences is what gave him no reason to change his views. As long as his friends quietly ignored his crazy views, why should he feel the need to change. He might even feel those views are acceptable in regular society. We had plenty of "debates". All that did was make him feel hatred was a debatable stance. He ignored any good argument and burrowed more deeply into online spaces that accepted his hatred. I thought he was mellowing out after a COVID era phase. Turns out he learned to not to tell people irl about his views.
You can't fix him by being friends with him. I'm sorry. All that's going to do is make you more racist.
There's an old saying: "What do you call 10 people sitting at a table with 1 Nazi? 11 Nazis." By including a racist as your "best friend", you're quietly condoning and accepting his behavior. He won't change his views because of you. I waited way too long with my guy thinking I could fix him. He just learned to not bring up his views around me. Do yourself a favor and tell him to cut that shit out or you cant be as close.
If I met you and got along with you, I might consider us friends. If I later met your "best friend" and realized he had hateful views, I would see you in a completely different light and I wouldn't hang out again. After a while, all your friends will be racists or you're going to constantly be careful who you introduce your best friend to. You'll quietly hope your Chinese friend doesn't show up to the event so your best friend doesn't maybe make a weird comment. You'll start not hanging with people of color at the same time as your best friend. At that point, you'll be enabling racism. You'll be participating in the racism too. I'm saying this from experience. I did this until I realized what I was doing. Being friends with a hateful person is incompatible with my views. Their views are not "up for debate". They're completely unacceptable.
I used to have views like that too - then I changed. I'm not really worried about changing back. That kind of racism is completely incompatible with the way I see the world and other people.
I think that having opposing views just makes our conversations more interesting. He's far more capable of politely debating than the vast majority of people I engage with online.
I don't believe in free will and thus don't blame him for having those views. It's the result of his environment - not a conscious choice. For as long as he isn't hurting anyone else, it's a thought-crime at best.
After a time it becomes a choice, and if you stay that way from fear of rejection from your human group (maybe the racist family that taught it to you) well, you're a coward, plain and simple. To be real, most don't stay that way because of social pressure.
I genuinely meant what I said about not believing in free will. You don't have to share that belief, but if you're going to argue against my view, you can't just ignore this crucial detail.
If I was able to craft a perfect counterargument against their racist views, then they would helplessly change their mind about it and there would be no freedom in it. It's like claiming that 1 + 1 = 3 and someone then teaching them math and they actually understanding it. No matter how cherished that belief was, they'd be forced to change their mind kicking and screaming. There's zero freedom in being convinced by a well-crafted argument, and this works in both directions.
I wrote a big wordy reply but I think based on your lackadaisical attitude to bigotry we're just not gonna see eye to eye so I'll just wish you a good day
You’re willing to cut contact with anyone who doesn’t pass your purity test - I’m not.
Cutting ties with one of my oldest friend wouldn’t make him less racist; it would just remove the one person who still pushes back on his worst ideas. Same reason I bothered replying to you instead of blocking the second you started moral grandstanding. One of us is willing to talk to people we disagree with. The other isn’t.
Because everything is fucking my shit up and family is worth less than nothing. Older generations got some personal benefit from fasch policy as they aged.
Me, I just see it proven evil and stupid literally every single day. Hard work just gets you more debt. Ownership is fake unless youre already wealthy. The law doesn't protect me. The government is not my friend. The people in charge dont know what they're fucking doing unless there's a child in the room-and in that case I'd rather not know, but keep finding the fuck out. We know we don't get to retire.
It's a material interest thing. And at this point a lot of us aren't dumb enough to betray our comrades for the scraps our grandparents go6 by age 30.
Our parents took every advantage and then ahut the door behind them. How could we trust the system they put in place to keep themselves wealthy at the expense of everybody else? The only choice is a new paradigm that eschews unchecked capitalism and bolsters workers rights.
Spending several decades of my life hearing right-wing politicians and voters tell me that my "lifestyle choice" is bad, that I'm a degenerate who is ruining the country, that I don't deserve equal rights, that I deserve to be executed, and so so many other repulsive things like that definitely pushed me towards the other direction, politically.
Truthfully though, even if I weren't a part of the LGBT+ population, all the other ridiculous stuff would have been more than enough on its own to turn me off to right-wing politics.
Realistically, I think it's the authoritarian core of it mixed with the anti-intellectual principles that I always found off-putting. Although I never would have guessed we'd end up where we are in the USA back when I was a kid, this all honestly makes sense.
Maybe as a group ? but I am cis white Gen X and started out as middling conservative in my eary 20s, now green environmentalist and anarcho-socalist at 58.
How anyone can age, look around at the enviormental devestation, including climate change enhanced catastrophes that are going to get much much worse along with vast inequality and think this is good lets keep doing this, is bemusing beyond my ability to understand.
We're in the post-truth era. People have been taught that scientific consensus is equal in weight to their feelings on an issue. Climate change can be dismissed as fake news even though there is abundant evidence, it's a disturbing thought so it can just be thrown out.
No matter how good or bad your situation is, turning right is like gouging your own eyes out. It makes the situation worse for literally everyone. Even the hyper rich would be better off under a more left paradigm.
Quite easily explained: older generations accumulated wealth as they got older, so the central message of the right "I got mine, fuck you" (paraphrased) resonated more with them.
It was a baby boomer/greatest generation thing. The generation that served in ww2 benefitted greatly from massive programs to aid returning veterans, thus fueling both education, home ownership, and post-war consumerism. They were able to pass that onto the generation that came after, the baby boomers.
By the time the youngest baby boomers became adults the systems that allowed them and their parents to accumulate wealth began to be dismantled. Neoliberalism didnt happen in a day. It took years to fully tear the old system apart and years before the effect would be fully felt and visible. By then the older people cannot associate the 'now' with the events of several years ago, and younger people have never experienced the things that their parents did.
In short. The version of capitalism that WW2 veterans in the West lived with after the war 'worked' for them, while Communist regimes, most of which were built on exploited colonial holdings, or war torn nations that were never developed to begin with... Eastern Europe was much poorer than Western Europe even before WW2, and after WW2 they were both poor and bombed to hell and back. Vietnam was a French colony and the Vietnamese were fighting the French for liberation before they got taken over by the Japanese, who the Vietnamese also fought, before fighting the French and the Americans afterward. China was the USSR of the East... and also extremely underdeveloped.
This means seeing authoritarianism and poverty in 'Communist' regimes while seeing wealth in the US, Canada, the UK, and France after ww2 (which were built heavily on US aid and some where never bombed, like the US and Canada... and France adopted a fuckload of government intervention that fueled their growth) was something that people of that time would associate with those regimes, making it easier for them to think that the socialism there is what caused the poverty when in reality that was simply their starting position and not the end result.
The shit we are seeing now is basically disproving all of it. Russia has been 'capitalist' for 35 years now and they are still heavily underdeveloped in addition to being more authoritarian than it was under certain soviet regimes. Shit that was affordable and easy in the West, even in bad economic times, is now becoming prohibitively expensive. Food production is still extremely high and food waste is incredible... but food prices are continuing to get worse and worse.
Also for those who care to look at things from an actual historic perspective, it is becoming apparent that the reason why shit was good in the past was not due to endless economic growth but social policy and legislation.
Building more houses and apartments is pointless. There are too many apartments and too many houses. They are expensive because housing turned from making places to live to a speculative market. This is why Canadian cities are unlivable now.
Exactly. Boomers had the privilege of owning a home, building up savings, got pensions, and got to retire early. Gen x got most of those privileges, except maybe pensions... now millenials are pouring all their savings just to own a home, and social security is unlikely to exist by "retirement". And gen alpha are going be entering adult hood with 50 year mortgages? Gee, wonder why the young population is questioning the economic system.
Even greedy millennials who are very low on the whole "wanting for others to be well, not just myself" kind of feeling and personal principles are themselves experiencing how it is to be born under the boot and realizing one is destined to be under it until the day one dies, and that feels bad, it feels unfair, it makes you want to "fuck this shit up".
It's not that millennials are inherently better or worse than other age groups, it's that they're far more likely than older generations to be familiar with being relentlessly victimize by present day society, through no fault of their own and merely due to something they were born with (specifically the "when they were born").
Basically far more of them know how it feels to be born poor in a society that gives you almost zero chances to climb up from that no matter how capable you are and how hard you work, than previous generations.
You know which countries had Communist revolutions? The kind with lots and lots of poor people with zero chance of improving their lot, such as Czarist Russia.
Saw our boomer and genX parents ride the rise, told it'd be ours too, only to witness everything taken away, revealing only the lies remaining; the false promises that daddy corporation would take care of us all.
On a personal note, saw my parents throw away their entire 2 million, cost me a million in effort through blackmail, slavery, torture and fraud, and then inverted my efforts, so it's like they managed to throw away 4 million, and then I'm there with the government doing waves of culls of the disabled poor by cutting them off to starve, denying them even the pittance (~ I've heard said, disabled people's costs of living are 4-10 times higher, and, so, why is the top rate of disability support income less than half what they say is the living wage?)... yeah, the inequality keeps going down all the way. Not just comparing the billionaires and trillionaires to the working class and upper precariat. ... All while knowing the technology exists to emancipate everybody to lush abundance... Buuuut, is suppressed, because, ' gotta keep those rents and regressive tax extortion and usury flowing, eh?
Millennials are the first generation to move left as they age
I told you boomers I was gonna do that, when I was 17, already coming out of my corporate-fanboi phase of my teens. "Afukinatoadaso"
Glad there are millennials who came after me doing so too. Unsurprising, given what we went through. Well done capitalism, selling out our futures.
Now I just hope more remembered it's freedom too, and not just jumping boat from Big Baron into the arms of Big Brother (or Big Bully, or Big Bank, or Big Blight, or Big Bot).
Like ol Mikey Bakunin said: "We are convinced that freedom without Socialism is privilege and injustice, and that Socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality." -- Mikhail Bakunin en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mikhail_…
[Edit... it's only early to mid 40s for the first Millennials so far... We'll see if that sticks. As the saying goes, "60's the new 40".]
This guide will walk you through how to use the catalog effectively, ensuring you get the right parts, minimize downtime, and maintain the safety and reliability of your cranes.
For crane operators and maintenance professionals, the Manitowoc parts catalog is an essential resource that can make the difference between smooth operations and costly downtime. This guide will walk you through how to use the catalog effectively, ensuring you get the right parts, minimize downtime, and maintain the safety and reliability of your cranes.
The Importance of the Catalog in Crane Maintenance
The Manitowoc parts catalog is a detailed resource that links each part to your specific crane model. It provides exploded diagrams, precise part numbers, quantities, and important service notes. By using the catalog, you can reduce guesswork, order the correct Manitowoc parts, communicate effectively with your crane parts supplier, and keep downtime to a minimum.
Selecting Your Format: Printed or Digital
You have the option to use either a printed catalog or an online version. Printed catalogs are straightforward and don't require an internet connection, making them ideal for offline use. Online catalogs offer the convenience of quick searches and automatic updates, ensuring you always have the latest information. Regardless of the format you choose, always keep the machine's serial number handy, as this is crucial for accurate part identification.
Starting with the Model and Serial Number
The first step in using the catalog is to identify your crane's exact model and serial number. Manitowoc cranes come in various models and serial ranges, and a part that fits one may not fit another. By using the precise model code and full serial number, you can avoid unnecessary back-and-forth with your crane parts supplier, ensuring a smooth ordering process.
Reading Exploded Diagrams Carefully
Exploded diagrams are a crucial part of the catalog, showing how assemblies fit together. These diagrams include reference numbers, item numbers, and orientation notes, which are essential for identifying the correct parts. Take the time to trace the assembly before pulling a part number, as skipping this step can lead to selecting the wrong bolt or washer. Additionally, diagrams indicate whether an item is sold as a single assembly or as separate parts.
Understanding Part Numbers and Revisions
Part numbers are highly specific, and even a small change in digits can signify a different material, thread pitch, or revision. Some catalogs list old part numbers along with their replacements, so pay close attention to revision notes and supersessions. If a part was revised after production, the catalog will usually note the change. Matching the right revision to your serial range is essential for compatibility.
Using the Bill of Materials (BOM)
The Bill of Materials (BOM) is a valuable resource when rebuilding a module. It lists all the parts and quantities needed for an assembly, often including a kit part number for common rebuilds. Purchasing a kit can save time and ensure you get all the necessary mating items, such as seals, pins, and retainers. Think in terms of assemblies rather than individual parts to streamline your ordering process.
Measuring and Verifying Parts
If you're unsure about a part's fit, measure it directly on the machine. Key dimensions like diameter, length, and thread pitch are critical. Take clear photos and send them, along with the measurements, model, and serial number, to your crane parts supplier. This information allows them to confirm fitment before shipping, reducing the risk of receiving incompatible parts.
Paying Attention to Notes and Service Bulletins
Catalog pages often include notes about special tools, installation sequences, or temporary fixes. Sometimes, they refer to service bulletins that address known issues or approved replacements. Reading these notes can save you time and prevent incorrect repairs, so don't overlook them.
Cross-References: A Handy but Cautionary Tool
Cross-reference tables are useful for mapping old part numbers to current ones. While they can be a great guide, always verify a cross-referenced part against the exploded view and your serial range. When in doubt, consult your crane parts supplier to confirm the replacement number.
Ordering Related Items
When ordering a part, consider related components that may also need replacement. For example, a worn pin might indicate worn bushings or retaining hardware. Ordering related seals, bearings, and fasteners simultaneously avoids multiple trips and ensures compatibility. The catalog shows these related Manitowoc parts in the assembly, making it easier to build a comprehensive order.
Ensuring Authenticity and Traceability
Genuine Manitowoc parts meet original equipment manufacturer (OEM) specifications and come with traceable part numbers and batch or serial information. When ordering through a crane parts supplier, ask for proof of authenticity for critical parts. Counterfeit parts may look similar but can fail under load, posing a significant safety risk. Traceability is also important for warranty claims and root-cause analysis.
Planning for Lead Times and Stock
While the catalog provides detailed part information, it doesn't show stock levels or lead times. This is where your crane parts supplier comes in. Once you have the part numbers, check their availability and lead times. If a part has a long lead time, plan accordingly by scheduling an outage or ordering a spare. A well-thought-out spares plan, based on catalog data, can prevent emergency purchases and risky substitutions.
Keeping Clear Records
Maintaining detailed records of every order, installation date, and installer is crucial. Keep invoices and any serial data, and document any repairs, methods used, and testing performed. This record helps identify patterns, such as parts that fail repeatedly, and supports safety reviews and warranty claims.
Using the Catalog for Preventive Maintenance
Don't wait for a failure to occur. Use the catalog to create a spares list for critical components. The catalog provides exact quantities for rebuild kits and assemblies, helping you stock essential items and minimize downtime. This proactive approach keeps your crews from improvising under pressure.
Troubleshooting Common Issues
If diagrams don't match your machine, double-check the serial range. If a part number is discontinued, look for a replacement or consult a service bulletin. If descriptions are vague, rely on dimensions and exploded views. When multiple pages reference the same part, confirm the revision and serial applicability.
Collaborating with Your Supplier
A reputable crane parts supplier is more than just a vendor; they are a valuable partner. They can verify fitment, advise on lead times, and direct you to approved service centers. Share detailed information, including model, serial number, photos, and diagram references, to ensure accurate and timely advice. This collaboration reduces the risk of receiving counterfeit or incompatible parts.
Quick Pre-Order Checklist
Before placing an order, follow this checklist to ensure accuracy:
Confirm the full machine model and serial number.
Verify the exploded diagram reference and item number.
Note the exact part number, revision, and quantity.
Measure the on-machine part and take photos if unsure.
Send all information to your crane parts supplier.
Ask about lead time, warranty, and authenticity.
Log the order and track installation.
Final Thoughts
The Manitowoc parts catalog is a precision tool that, when used correctly, can significantly enhance your efficiency and safety. By leveraging diagrams, respecting serial ranges, and verifying part numbers, you can avoid costly mistakes and keep your cranes running smoothly. Pairing the catalog with a trusted crane parts supplier ensures you have the support you need for stock, verification, and service. Embrace these practices, and the catalog will become an indispensable part of your daily operations.
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Depuis de nombreuses années, des politiciens d’extrême droite font carrière en dénonçant l’existence d’un prétendu « lobby LGBT ». Selon eux, les personnes LGBT formeraient un groupe de pouvoir agissant en secret pour contrôler l’État et imposer un agenda idéologique. Une idée ancienne, dont les origines remontent jusqu’à l’affaire Dreyfus, et qui ne cesse malheureusement de se renouveler, charriant avec elle des discours toujours plus violents et LGBTphobes.
Ecriture, production et interprétation : Mathieu Burgalassi ( @mathieuburgalassi ) Réalisation : Valentin Levetti Montage : Marino Pesto Graphisme : Morgane Sabouret, Margaux Simon Directeur du développement des collaborations extérieures : Mathias Enthoven Co-directrice de la rédaction : Soumaya Benaïssa Directeur de la publication : Denis Robert
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Embarking on the journey of acquiring a small concrete batching plant is a significant and commendable step for any growing construction business. The budget range of $35,000 to $40,000 is a substantial commitment, and it is natural to question its sufficiency. This investment threshold is indeed a viable entry point into mechanized production, but its adequacy is not a simple yes or no. It hinges on a clear understanding of the equipment's capabilities, the ancillary costs of commissioning, and a realistic projection of how this asset will integrate into and propel your operational workflow. A thoughtful examination of these factors will ensure that your capital is deployed not just on a machine, but on a foundation for sustainable growth and resilience.
Deconstructing the Investment: What Your Capital Actually Acquires
Within the $35,000 to $40,000 range, you are typically considering a small stationary batching plant or a high-capacity mobile mixer with a focus on self-sufficiency. For a stationary setup, this budget often covers a core plant with a modest capacity, perhaps between 25-40 m³/h, which may include aggregate batching bins, a cement silo, a simple mixing unit, and a basic control system. It is crucial to understand that this initial quote may not be all-encompassing. The true scope of what is included—particularly the control system's level of automation, the number and capacity of cement silos, and the inclusion of a screw conveyor—varies significantly between manufacturers. Alternatively, this budget aligns well with a robust self-loading mobile mixer. This option consolidates several functions into one asset, offering batching, mixing, and transport capabilities. The key is to scrutinize the specification sheet with care, ensuring that the mini concrete batching plant you are considering is a complete, functional production unit rather than a base model that will require substantial additional investment to become operational.
The Operational Calculus: Beyond the Initial Purchase Price
The purchase price of the plant is merely the first component of the financial equation. To operate effectively and safely, a series of ancillary investments are required. Site preparation is a primary consideration. This includes land levelling, constructing stable concrete foundations capable of supporting the plant's dynamic loads, and ensuring reliable access for raw material delivery and finished product dispatch. Utility connections are another critical cost center. A plant of this scale will likely require a three-phase electrical connection, a dependable water source with a storage tank and pump, and potentially air compressor lines. Furthermore, you must budget for the essential support equipment that enables the plant to function. A wheel loader for handling aggregates is a fundamental requirement, representing a significant capital outlay if purchased, or an ongoing operational cost if rented. An initial stock of spare parts, filters, and lubricants is also a prudent preparatory expense. Allocating a contingency fund of 10-15% of the plant's cost for these setup and commissioning activities is a standard and responsible practice.
Strategic Positioning: Aligning the Investment with Your Business Trajectory
Ultimately, the question of "enough" is answered by how the plant serves your long-term business strategy. The small concrete plant price range is perfectly suited for specific, strategic roles. It is an ideal solution for a dedicated, long-term project where it can serve as the sole production source, paying for itself over the project's duration. It is also an excellent tool for a business aiming to achieve supply chain independence from volatile ready-mix concrete providers, ensuring control over quality, cost, and timing. For an enterprise with a diverse project portfolio, it provides the capability to produce concrete for multiple, smaller-scale jobs such as residential foundations, rural infrastructure, or precast product manufacturing. The investment is justified when the plant's output capacity aligns with your verifiable demand, allowing for high utilization rates. A machine that operates consistently will rapidly amortize its cost, while one that sits idle becomes a financial burden. By carefully matching the plant's capabilities to a clear and actionable business plan, an investment of $35,000 to $40,000 can indeed be more than enough—it can be the catalyst that transforms your operational capacity and secures your competitive future.
I'm running a NAS on Fedora Server with LUKS encrypted Btrfs hard drives in a USB-C multi-bay enclosure. I noticed that one or both of the hard drives keep making the same sound as when I'm lightly reading or writing files from it (the closest it sounds like to my ear is something like copying to a Wi-Fi connected device where there is a bottleneck somewhere other than the hard drive, so it has bursts of activity a few times a second between idle time). Using iostat -x on my two main hard drives, I do see periodic activity every 10 or so seconds but I'm definitely not accessing anything in them, and the activity indicators on the USB enclosure are still and not blinking to indicate activity.
Should I be worried about this? To my paranoid mind it feels like something is slowly reading my files with some exploit to bypass the indicator light to fly under the radar. But I just did a clean install of Fedora Server 43 (over the previous installation which was 42) and I never installed anything outside of the official package manager and Docker registry. I've also never had this issue on Fedora Server 42 as far as I know, and the NAS is on my desk so I feel like I would have heard it ages ago if it was something frequent. There's also no unexpected network activity on the Cockpit dashboard that would indicate that files are being uploaded, though I feel like if some malware can suppress the indicator light on a USB enclosure it can probably also hide its network traffic.
Is there something standard it's doing that could explain this? Like does Fedora 43 more frequently tell the drive's controller itself to do things like defragmentation or bit rot prevention when it's idle? That's the only explanation I can think of where the drive is clicking but no data is actually being transferred that would trigger the indicator light, since the operation would be entirely within the drive itself.
Hard drives don't normally make a clicking noise unless it's the head resetting due to an error. I'd definitely check the health of that drive, and make sure your backups are working.
If you have SMR drives, it is normal for them to rearrange their contents during periods of user inactivity. The way Shingled Magnetic Recording crams more bytes into the same platter necessitates its own kind of "defragmenting". Unless it's host-managed SMR, it's done by the drive's onboard controller, so the OS won't be aware.
If the drive previously wasn't making this noise (as in it had been filled with data, been in use for days-weeks and wasn't ever making this noise) and it doesn't happen in response to data writes (even hours after the fact) then it might be a cause for concern that the drive could be dying.
In general it's a good idea to have back-ups of any important data but I'd really ensure that's the case here and assume it could imminently fail. In general the sound of hard drives changing (that is sounding different in either idle noises or active writing/reading noises) is a cause for concern for potential drive failure though it could be other things and as drives age they can sometimes change sound signatures as mechanical components age without necessarily failing (could go on working fine for years).
That said there are normal processes in drives that can make noise:
Some sort of operation driven by your OS itself, I won't begin to get into all of them but there could be something accessing things in the background, doing file table or journaling operations, writes, checks, etc on the file system itself, just low level maintenance stuff.
SMR drives may continue to write and shuffle data for quite some time after being written to, especially if it was a large amount of data. Though this should still even in the case of multiple terabytes probably be resolved within 12 hours.
Many drives, especially high capacity enterprise drives do make a -soft- clicking sound as a result of the arms sweeping the surface when idle but not off to if I recall correctly spread around lubricant or some sort of basic mechanical maintenance. It's part of the normal drive operations. It's possible it occurs more frequently in response to a massive amount of writes previously like filling a drive or may not be activated until a certain amount of data is written, I'm not really sure how that works as that would probably be proprietary information to the manufacturer.
Should I be worried about this? To my paranoid mind it feels like something is slowly reading my files with some exploit to bypass the indicator light to fly under the radar.
How would it do this? Is it installing hacked firmware to your enclosure too? I doubt you're that valuable of a target.
If you're worried about malware then back up your stuff, nuke the install and reinstall from scratch. I wouldn't worry about it if this is the only thing you're seeing and find it unlikely.
Thank you for the in depth explanation of hard drive noises! I have everything I care about backed up and will keep listening for changes. Hopefully it's just an OS thing.
If it sounds like data access and not a failure, be at peace my brother, hard drives are at least as complicated as your computer and just do things sometimes.
Februari, Momentum Keluarga Menata Waktu di Tengah Padatnya Aktivitas
Memasuki bulan Februari, dinamika kehidupan masyarakat Indonesia biasanya mulai menunjukkan peningkatan signifikan dibandingkan bulan Januari. Dunia kerja bergerak lebih cepat, target dan agenda mulai disusun secara agresif, serta berbagai penyesuaian awal tahun mulai berjalan. Tidak sedikit karyawan yang mengalami kenaikan beban kerja, mulai dari laporan awal tahun, rapat perencanaan, hingga rancangan timeline proyek sepanjang 2025.
Di sektor pendidikan, situasinya serupa. Aktivitas sekolah kembali berada pada ritme penuh. Para siswa mulai menghadapi penilaian harian, tugas intensif, hingga persiapan program tengah semester. Orang tua pun berada pada titik keseimbangan yang kompleks: menjaga performa di dunia kerja sekaligus menjaga kualitas perhatian bagi pendidikan anak.
Kondisi tersebut menghadirkan tantangan emosional di berbagai keluarga. Kebersamaan di rumah sering kali terbatasi oleh padatnya pekerjaan dan aktivitas belajar. Waktu berkualitas semakin jarang terjadi, dan interaksi keluarga perlahan bergeser menjadi komunikasi fungsional, bukan emosional. Tidak heran apabila pada fase ini banyak keluarga mulai mempertimbangkan rencana untuk rehat sejenak dari rutinitas, termasuk kegiatan liburan.
Apakah Februari Waktu yang Tepat untuk Liburan?
Berdasarkan tren perjalanan keluarga beberapa tahun terakhir, Februari termasuk salah satu periode favorit untuk berlibur. Alasannya cukup rasional: aktivitas sekolah belum memasuki masa ujian, cuaca di banyak destinasi wisata cukup bersahabat, dan sebagian pekerja memiliki fleksibilitas cuti di awal tahun sebelum jadwal padat pertengahan tahun.
Sejumlah keluarga memilih liburan pendek (short escape) seperti staycation, wisata alam, atau city trip sebagai cara untuk memulihkan energi dan memperkuat hubungan emosional antaranggota keluarga. Namun, tren terbaru menunjukkan pergeseran preferensi: keluarga cenderung memilih liburan yang tidak hanya bersifat rekreatif, tetapi juga bernilai spiritual.
Perjalanan Ibadah sebagai Alternatif Liburan Berkualitas
Dalam beberapa tahun terakhir, perjalanan ibadah keluarga ke Tanah Suci di awal tahun semakin diminati. Alasan utama bukan semata-mata sebagai kegiatan religius, tetapi juga karena nilai kebersamaan dan kedekatan emosional yang terbangun selama perjalanan.
Februari dinilai ideal karena cuaca di Makkah dan Madinah berada pada tingkat kenyamanan yang lebih baik dibandingkan musim panas, sehingga semua rentang usia — mulai dari anak-anak hingga lansia — dapat menjalankan kegiatan ibadah dengan lebih optimal. Selain itu, jumlah jamaah tidak seramai musim puncak, sehingga memberikan suasana ibadah yang lebih tenang.
Pada poin ini banyak keluarga memilih keberangkatan penjadwalan jarak dekat setelah membahas kebutuhan internal keluarga. Dalam konteks inilah rekomendasi perjalanan umroh februari sering menjadi rujukan bagi keluarga yang menginginkan kegiatan ibadah sekaligus kebersamaan dalam suasana yang lebih damai, jauh dari tekanan rutinitas harian.
Manfaat Psikologis dan Sosial bagi Keluarga
Perjalanan ibadah sebagai bentuk liburan menghadirkan sejumlah dampak signifikan:
Dampak Penjelasan
Emosional Kesempatan saling mendukung dan mendoakan, memperdalam kelekatan keluarga
Psikologis Mengurangi stres, menyegarkan mental, dan menghadirkan ketenangan batin
Sosial Menciptakan memori kebersamaan yang memperkuat hubungan jangka panjang
Keagamaan Meningkatkan kedisiplinan dan semangat ibadah setelah kembali ke rutinitas
Banyak keluarga melaporkan perubahan positif yang berkelanjutan setelah perjalanan spiritual bersama. Interaksi sehari-hari menjadi lebih harmonis, rasa saling menghargai meningkat, dan komunikasi terasa lebih hangat.
Tren Perencanaan Keberangkatan 2026
Tidak sedikit keluarga yang setelah mengalami perjalanan awal tahun kemudian merencanakan keberangkatan untuk tahun berikutnya agar persiapan finansial dan waktu lebih matang. Jadwal keberangkatan umroh februari 2026 menjadi salah satu yang paling sering dibahas di kalangan keluarga karena memberikan fleksibilitas dalam perencanaan dan pembagian anggaran.
Penutup
Februari bukan sekadar bulan penuh aktivitas. Di balik padatnya pekerjaan dan sekolah, bulan ini menyimpan peluang besar bagi keluarga untuk mengevaluasi kualitas hubungan dan kebersamaan. Liburan keluarga — baik rekreatif maupun spiritual — tidak hanya memberikan penyegaran fisik dan emosional, tetapi juga membangun fondasi komunikasi dan kasih sayang yang lebih kuat.
Pada akhirnya, waktu bersama keluarga bukan sekadar aktivitas tambahan di sela pekerjaan. Ia merupakan kebutuhan emosional yang menjaga kesehatan mental seluruh anggota keluarga. Dengan perencanaan yang tepat, Februari dapat menjadi momentum untuk bukan hanya kembali bekerja dengan semangat baru, tetapi juga mengembalikan kedekatan keluarga yang mungkin sempat tergerus oleh rutinitas.
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Website accessibility has become a fundamental expectation in today's digital landscape. It's no longer a niche concern but a critical aspect of how users expect the web to function. A website that accommodates users with screen readers, keyboard navigation, or those dealing with unstable mobile connections not only meets a broader audience but also enhances the overall user experience. This is the essence and the significant advantage of accessibility.
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are the industry standards that most businesses follow. Achieving these standards benefits both users and businesses. Whether you manage your website internally or collaborate with a web design agency, understanding accessibility principles can significantly enhance your decision-making process.
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Moreover, accessibility enhances search engine visibility. Practices such as clean headings, descriptive alt text, and consistent structure help search engines better understand your content, leading to improved indexing. This is almost a byproduct of accessibility efforts.
Legally, accessibility is also crucial. The number of accessibility-related lawsuits is on the rise in many countries. While meeting WCAG standards doesn't eliminate legal risk entirely, it significantly reduces it.
Finally, accessibility improves the overall user experience. Logical navigation, readable contrast, and clear instructions benefit everyone. You'll likely see fewer support requests and higher engagement across the board.
Understanding WCAG in Simple Terms
WCAG is based on four core principles: perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust. These principles may sound abstract, but they translate into practical choices. For example, creating meaningful headings, ensuring buttons function as intended, and providing a predictable path through a page are all part of WCAG compliance.
Most businesses aim for WCAG 2.1 AA, which covers the most common accessibility needs without being overly technical. A reputable web design agency will typically design to at least this standard by default.
Accessibility is not about achieving perfection but about maintaining consistency and care.
Practical Improvements with Significant Impact
Some accessibility improvements can have a substantial impact. Proper HTML structure helps assistive technologies understand your content. Meaningful alt text ensures that screen reader users can follow your message. Ensuring keyboard-only navigation supports users with mobility challenges. Clear form labels reduce confusion, and strong color contrast improves readability on various devices.
These changes don't require a complete redesign. They involve adjustments to how content is structured and presented. Small improvements accumulate over time, leading to a more accessible site.
Approaching Compliance Without Feeling Overwhelmed
Start with a thorough review of your current site. Automated tools can identify some issues, but manual testing provides a clearer picture. Try navigating without a mouse, zooming text, and using a screen reader. These exercises can be eye-opening.
Prioritize fixes based on their impact. Pages that facilitate essential tasks, such as checkout, contact forms, logins, and navigation, should be addressed first. After these, focus on clarity and readability.
Integrating accessibility into your regular workflow is also beneficial. Designers, writers, and developers all play a role in accessibility. When your team understands the basics—such as adding alt text, avoiding image-only buttons, and maintaining logical heading levels—your site remains more accessible.
If you work with a web design agency, ask them to explain their approach to accessibility during design and development. Good partners consider accessibility from the outset rather than treating it as an afterthought.
The Importance of Ongoing Checks
An accessible site can become inaccessible over time. New content, plugin updates, and layout changes can inadvertently break accessibility features. Regular monthly reviews can help keep things in check.
Pay attention to user behavior as well. If users consistently drop off at the same form field or page, there may be usability issues. Accessibility and usability often go hand in hand.
What Accessibility Says About Your Brand
An accessible website subtly communicates your business's commitment to inclusivity. You don't need to make grand statements about inclusion; the experience itself conveys your values.
Accessible websites also appear more professional. Clean structure, readable text, and thoughtful design are not accidental. They demonstrate discipline and build trust with new visitors faster than any slogan.
Where WCAG Compliance Leads You
WCAG is not about achieving a perfect score but about reducing friction and expanding access. Many accessibility fixes also improve speed, clarity, and overall quality.
If you're working with a web design agency, consider accessibility as a standard requirement, not an optional upgrade. The best agencies treat it as part of building a durable, user-friendly website.
Final Thought
Accessibility is practical. It strengthens your site, widens your audience, and reduces risk. WCAG provides a guide, not a burden. Start by addressing the most critical issues, continue to improve over time, and make accessibility part of your everyday process. When your website works for everyone, it becomes clearer, faster, and more effective—for every visitor, not just those who rely on assistive tools. This is beneficial for both users and your business.
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Decoding the Company's Constitution and Shareholders' Agreements
Before proceeding with the appointment, it is imperative to thoroughly review the company's constitution and any existing shareholders' agreements. These documents often outline the procedural mechanics for appointing directors. Some companies grant the board the authority to appoint directors between meetings, while others mandate shareholder approval or bestow nomination rights on specific investors. Adhering to these stipulated rules is crucial; failure to do so can render the appointment invalid.
The Practical Steps: Appointing a Director
The process of appointing a director involves several practical steps. Begin by gathering the necessary particulars: the candidate's name, identification (NRIC or passport), residential address, nationality, occupation, and contact details. It is also prudent to check for potential conflicts of interest and other directorships. If the new director is a foreign national who will assume an operational role, confirming work pass requirements is essential.
Conduct the appropriate meeting. If the constitution permits board appointments, pass a board resolution and meticulously record it in the minutes. Should shareholder approval be necessary, convene a general meeting or obtain a written resolution. Post-decision, file the appointment with ACRA via BizFile+. In most instances, ACRA must be notified within 14 days of the appointment. Update the register of directors and any internal records, and maintain a comprehensive file containing the minutes, consent form, and ACRA receipt.
Onboarding: Setting the Stage for Success
The appointment process does not conclude with notifying ACRA. New directors should receive an induction pack that includes the constitution, recent minutes, financial statements, key contracts, and an overview of statutory duties. Clarifying disclosure requirements and the company's conflicts policy from the outset can mitigate misunderstandings down the line.
Resignation: A Smooth Exit
When a director opts to resign, the process should be formalized in writing, with the effective date clearly stated. The board must acknowledge the resignation and document it at the subsequent meeting. As with appointments, file the resignation with ACRA within the stipulated 14-day timeframe. If the resigning director is the sole resident director, it is imperative to plan for a replacement to avoid breaching the resident-director requirement. Collect any company property, revoke signatory powers, and document the handover of duties.
Removal: The Shareholders' Prerogative
Shareholders possess the authority to remove a director through an ordinary resolution, subject to the constitution and the Companies Act. Typically, notice of the intended resolution must be provided to the director. The director has the right to submit written representations to the shareholders, which can be circulated upon request. Following the vote, file the change with ACRA within the statutory timeline. Adhering strictly to notice rules is crucial, as procedural oversights often form the basis for subsequent legal challenges.
Automatic Disqualification and Court Orders
Certain events automatically disqualify a director, such as bankruptcy, specific convictions, or court orders. Should a director become disqualified, the company is obligated to notify ACRA promptly. In rare instances, courts may also remove a director. For complex matters, seeking legal advice is advisable.
After any change in directorship, it is essential to update bank mandates, licenses, contracts, and insurance. If the director had signing authority, inform the banks and revoke signatures as needed. Notify auditors and major stakeholders if the change impacts approvals or contracts. Keeping the statutory register, share register, and minute books up to date is vital to prevent fraud and operational disruptions.
Common Pitfalls: What to Avoid
Avoid assuming that verbal consent suffices. Do not bypass the constitution or shareholders' agreement checks. Refrain from delaying ACRA filings. Ensure that handovers are formalized. Each of these seemingly minor shortcuts can create significant risks later, such as disputes, invalid appointments, or fines.
The Role of Secretarial Services
A proficient company secretarial services provider can be invaluable in navigating these processes. They handle the checklist, draft resolutions, prepare consent forms, lodge BizFile+ notifications, and update statutory books. They also offer guidance on residency rules, filing timelines, and special clauses in shareholders' agreements. Outsourcing these tasks reduces the likelihood of procedural errors and allows directors to concentrate on governance rather than administrative minutiae.
Recordkeeping: Your Safeguard
Maintain a dedicated folder for each appointment or removal, containing the consent form, board/shareholder resolutions, resignation letter (if applicable), ACRA lodgement receipt, and updated registers. This folder serves as your proof if auditors, investors, or courts inquire about the handling of the change.
A Practical Checklist
Confirm that the constitution permits the proposed action.
Obtain written consent to act (for appointments) or written resignation (for departures).
Pass the appropriate board or shareholder resolution and record the minutes.
File the change on BizFile+ within 14 days.
Update registers, bank mandates, and licenses.
Keep a comprehensive file with all documents and lodgement receipts.
Final Thoughts
Appointing or removing a director is a significant corporate event that should be treated as a governance milestone. Adhere to the constitution and the law, file promptly, and maintain meticulous records. When in doubt, engage experienced secretarial services to manage the mechanics. This disciplined approach ensures clean, compliant, and low-risk transitions—essential for a well-run company.
I went back to fedora and picked a more boring but practical filesystem setup.
The server has a dual port intel i226v NIC and an onboard realtek NIC. The realtek NIC has a fixed IP address and is just for management. the intel NIC has one port going to WAN and the other to LAN.
Originally, I had the WAN and LAN ports thrown into bridges on the linux host. the host doesnt try to join the WAN port by claiming an IP or doing anythign else with it. it's just here for the OPNsense VM to jump onto and do what it wants. The LAN side was similar but also had a few VLANs I created on the host and passed to the VM as separate interfaces. the VLANs were just passed out from the host and the untagged was a bridge that the host could join.
This did not work. The bridges could not reach out to the world.
I set WAN as direct attachment type in mode bridge to the wan port side of the intel NIC and it created a macvlantap that did reach out of the machine. the LAN and VLAN side still did not work and I cannot do a vtap for that as I need containers on the host to use a few of these.
So I destroyed all the bridges and recreated the LAN. it works! recreate the vlans, WAN dies? reboot the machine, WAN works, VLANs work, but I cannot get the LAN to work as it just keeps dropping the VM's interface from that bridge.
I have a failover so it’s not a risk. And I cannot pass the intel card to the VM because the passthrough on this motherboard only works on GPU and one of the NVMe slots. The goals of this build was to put everything in one box and get the fuck off the cloud.
Okay I did that with WAN and that can work there but it’s not possible to do that with LAN because the containers need to be able to talk to those networks too.
To anyone following, I found part of the problem was a few stale interfaces cockpit lied about were still around. Cockpit still sucks. if you must use it, only tweak with it. do initial config from the CLI.
Now I just need to figure out how to keep the bridges from deactivating when the VM doesnt load fast enough for them. NetworkManager seems really impatient.
@muusemuuse I define a bridge in NM, bind the NIC to the bridge, assign the IP to the bridge. It comes up and stays up regardless of the state of the VM's.
Agora, há alguns conceitos são tão pouco falados que não necessariamente possuem significados consistentes (até onde sei); outros são mais formalizados, mas menos utilizados.
Caso alguém queira me apontar que exilinguismo e/ou exorlinguismo sejam termos com definições fixas que diferem das citadas, estou aberte a tais correções.
Maldenominação: O ato de usar a linguagem errada para tratar alguém (como, por exemplo, usar ele ou macho para se referir a alguém que só usa o pronome ela e que não é homem ou algo adjacente a isso) ou algum grupo de pessoas (como, por exemplo, usar mulheres ou moças para se referir a um grupo de pessoas composto por pessoas que não são mulheres e não usam o final de palavra -a). É uma adaptação de misgendering que considera também que usar a linguagem pessoal errada não necessariamente é equivalente a errar a identidade de gênero de alguém;
Exilinguismo: Quaisquer formas de intolerância a flexões de gênero que saem da norma padrão da língua portuguesa (neolinguagem);
Exorlinguismo: A imposição de a/ela/a ou o/ele/o como os únicos tratamentos válidos. Todas as manifestações de exilinguismo são também exorlinguistas, mas exorlinguismo também cobre questões como intolerância contra quem não quer linguagem marcada, ou, se existirem tais casos, contra pessoas que usam ambos os conjuntos a/ela/a e o/ele/o, questões que não são cobertas por exilinguismo. A ideia do termo exorlinguismo é ser um equivalente a exorsexismo, a intolerância contra pessoas fora do binário de gênero, só que, neste caso, seria a intolerância a pessoas e formas de linguagem genérica fora do binário de linguagem;
AntiNCL: Quaisquer questões que afetam pessoas não-conformistas de linguagem. Ou seja, todas as manifestações de exorlinguismo quanto à linguagem pessoal acabam sendo antiNCL, mas homens que só querem ser tratadas por a/ela/a ou mulheres que só querem ser tratados por o/ele/o são questões só cobertas por intolerância antiNCL, e não por exorlinguismo. Ser a favor da linguagem mascunormativa também não chega a ser antiNCL por si só.
Linguagem mascunormativa: Descreve o uso de o/ele/o e termos associados com o gênero homem como linguagem genérica, isto é, usada para grupos mistos, pessoas hipotéticas ou afins. É possível ser a favor da neolinguagem ou do conjunto -/-/- para uso em tratamentos pessoais e ainda assim ser a favor da linguagem mascunormativa. Mascunormatividade é a imposição de que características vistas como masculinas são neutras/padrão, enquanto outras são marcadas ou desviantes, mesmo em contextos onde homens não estão envolvides.
Na maior parte dos casos, diferenciar entre formas de discriminação referentes às flexões de gênero pode não ser importante: "proibir a neolinguagem é um ato cissexista" não é exatamente uma afirmação incorreta, considerando que muitas vezes tal tipo de ataque tem como objetivo fechar brechas para que pessoas expressem não-binaridade, isto é, uma forma de cisdissidência, por meio da linguagem pessoal. Mas nem todas as pessoas cisdissidentes usam neolinguagem e nem toda consequência negativa de proibir a neolinguagem vai respingar somente em pessoas cisdissidentes.
Ao meu ver, tais termos estão posicionados da seguinte forma:
Nem todas as questões relacionadas com linguagem estão explicadas em um diagrama tão resumido. Por exemplo, existe a questão do uso da triforma todes, todas e todos: não é linguagem mascunormativa, mas também presume que todes se encaixam em uma das três flexões disponibilizadas ou que podem se encaixar em uma delas, e acata a insegurança binária em torno de materiais que só utilizam neolinguagem como linguagem genérica. Como outro exemplo, uma pessoa gênero-fluido que encontra empecilhos ao pedir para que usem ou le/ile/e ou ê/elu/e de acordo com o seu gênero no momento pode encontrar resistências que são mais relacionadas com a questão da troca do que com a questão da neolinguagem: isso é exilinguismo ou só exorlinguismo? São questões a serem discutidas.
O descaso exilinguista em espaços não-binários (e trans, e LGBTQIAPN+ em geral)
Em comunicações públicas
O medo da neolinguagem para além de "não-binárie"
Vários grupos querem se ver como subversivos por não flexionarem a palavra não-binárie em questão de gênero gramatical (escrevendo, por exemplo, "pessoas não-bináries" ou "grupo não-binárie"), mas ainda não conseguiriam nem falar ou escrever algo como "elus são es minhes amigues" sem cair na mascunormatividade linguística ou em formas de contornar a necessidade da linguagem marcada.
"Falta de prática/convivência/base" é uma desculpa que serve para quem se descobriu não-binárie no semestre anterior e está recém entrando em contato com usuáries de neolinguagem, não para pessoas que se envolvem com comunidades não-binárias há vários anos. Muito menos para organizações compostas por múltiplas pessoas com a função de revisar textos antes de serem publicados.
A neolinguagem geralmente é só considerada dentro do âmbito de acolher pessoas não-binárias. Embora, na grande maioria dos casos, pessoas que usam neolinguagem sejam não-binárias, não vejo uma preocupação do movimento não-binário (ou de movimentos que se dizem inclusivos da não-binaridade) em levantar muitas pautas relacionadas com linguagem. A ABRANB tem um parecer sobre linguagem e menciona a pauta explicitamente em sua síntese de pautas não-binárias, mas, até onde soube, não existiram: - Pesquisas amplas para descobrir quantas pessoas não-binárias usam conjuntos de linguagem que diferem de a/ela/a ou o/ele/o; - Pesquisas comparando a qualidade de vida entre pessoas não-binárias que priorizam neolinguagem, pessoas não-binárias que usam algum conjunto de linguagem "não óbvio" mas dentro da língua e pessoas que aceitam a linguagem que geralmente seria presumida socialmente; - Campanhas para o reconhecimento explícito de conjuntos de linguagem variados, de forma que vai além de um aceno vago à ideia de que algumas pessoas usam ê/elu/e ou algo parecido, mostrando que existem outras formas de tratamento individualizadas válidas; - Oferecimento ou busca por oficinas que ensinam a usar neolinguagem advindo de IBRAT, ABRANB, ABGLT, ABRAI ou outras organizações focadas em populações cisdissidentes. Há o curso da BRAVA (que foca em ensinar a usar ê/elu/e e -/-/- como linguagem genérica e não ensina a pensar a linguagem pessoal de forma mais diversa, fora que já é de uma plataforma cujo objetivo é oferecer aulas) e houve uma iniciativa temporária chamada Introdução A que reuniu vídeos sobre conceitos básicos relacionados à comunidade LGBTQIAPN+; todas as outras oficinas ensinando uso da neolinguagem tendem a ser esforços individuais, ou pelo menos não são divulgadas em espaços onde estou.
Meu ponto aqui não é dizer que a pauta da neolinguagem precisa ser centralizada dentro de espaços LGBTQIAPN+, trans e/ou não-binários, e sim que ela raramente é sequer considerada. E, quando é, ou tende a ser um assunto tratado de forma resumida e pouco representativa da diversidade da neolinguagem ou a inclusão tende a acontecer apenas porque algume usuárie de neolinguagem teve que lutar dentro da "sua comunidade" para que o assunto fosse destacado de forma séria.
A falta de divulgação de informações inclusivas sobre linguagem pessoal e neolinguagem
Também presencio um atrito quanto à disseminação de informações sobre neolinguagem. É fácil encontrar o Orientando ao pesquisar sobre quaisquer identidades de gênero e ver referências ao site por meio de quem quer falar sobre orientações ou identidades de gênero, então por que praticamente só encontro o modelo APF sendo usado nos espaços que modero? Por que a página neopronomes é mais visitada que a que explica o modelo artigo/pronome/final de palavra ou mesmo neoflexões, que contém muito mais detalhes úteis para quem tem dúvidas sobre como aplicar neolinguagem?
Se o modelo APF é tão indesejável por outres usuáries de neolinguagem, por que ninguém propôs outro? [Pronome]/[de + pronome] (como em "elu/delu") é uma tradução mal feita que nunca vi ser utilizada de forma que subverte sua redundância (sendo que poderia ser, no mínimo, algo como "elu/sue"). Eu já vi formas reduzidas de APF (que removem artigo ou final de palavra), e, embora eu ache absurda a ideia de padronizar um artigo ou um final de palavra quando já existem tantas interpretações diferentes junto aos mesmos pronomes, a popularização de um sistema assim já me ajudaria muito em comparação com o quanto eu tenho que explicar para quem absorveu que qualquer parte do tratamento é "um pronome" para ser usado no lugar de ele ou ela.
Aliás, dela e dele não são pronomes, e sim contrações; já sua, minha, seu e meu são pronomes! Mas eles são possessivos, e não pessoais. Eu só espero que quem tenha caído na página de neopronomes do Orientando para "aprender sobre pronomes" realmente tenha aprendido quais partes do tratamento de alguém são realmente pronomes.
Enfim, é um sofrimento eu ter distribuído centenas de livretos com o texto Tudo, ou pelo menos muita coisa, sobre linguagem pessoal em eventos/locais relevantes e ainda ter que lidar com as mesmas pessoas que aprovaram a distribuição não terem aprendido nada com os livretos. Também não aconteceu de eu chegar em eventos ou grupos com pessoas da mesma cidade e encontrar pessoas que aprenderam com as técnicas descritas ali. E se nem esforços locais funcionam, na internet ainda é pior: praticamente ninguém compartilha textos ou vídeos de outras pessoas, especialmente se não são famosas ou se não são trabalhos feitos dentro da academia (os quais geralmente são bem rasos em questão de informar sobre linguagem pessoal), mesmo em grupos politizados.
Eu espero que o cultura enebê faça sucesso, e que mais pessoas se sintam à vontade para compartilhar seus trabalhos na rede qósmiques (e ter mais pessoas os espalhando a partir disso), mas o quanto é possível que isso realmente aconteça, quando temos uma maioria que não se interessa pelo assunto?
Mascunormatividade e retórica antiNCL ao falar de gente (majoritariamente) binária
Outra questão é que a neolinguagem ainda não está sendo aplicada como linguagem genérica em todos os aspectos mesmo em publicações de organizações que defendem sua existência. Por exemplo, "nossos opressores cis" ou "bilhonários" ainda são grupos de pessoas com linguagem mista, e portanto usar o/ele/o ainda reforça linguagem mascunormativa.
Também existe a ideia de que mulheres só podem usar a/ela/a e de que homens só podem usar o/ele/o, sendo que isso apaga experiências não-conformistas de linguagem e homens/mulheres não-bináries. Eu entendo que usar neolinguagem para falar de mulheres e homens pode confundir gente exorsexista e que preza um essencialismo de gênero onde é a conformidade de gênero que valida alguém ser mulher ou homem, mas a vida real é mais diversa do que isso e pessoas não-binárias já deveriam entender que linguagem e identidade de gênero são questões diferentes.
Finalmente, existe a questão de usar a biforma ("elas e eles", "todas e todos") quando presume-se que um grupo só contém pessoas binárias e conformistas de linguagem. Assim como a questão do parágrafo acima, acho que essa é uma concessão desnecessária a quem preza pela conformidade de linguagem, especialmente dentro de espaços que se propõem a ser inclusivos e contra normatividade de gênero.
Em grupos informais
Discriminação em grupos mais abertos
Além de espaços que modero (e olhe lá, porque já tive que banir gente por isso), quase não há lugares com discussões na língua portuguesa onde me senti bem-vinde como usuárie de neolinguagem.
Isso vem desde grupos que incentivam a "falar dos pronomes", mas não sobre o resto do tratamento (i Oltiel também escreve sobre isso aqui), passa por pessoas que acham que podem escolher os elementos que uso por eu solicitar tratamento com elementos "neutros" (neolinguísticos) e passam a me maldenominar com neoartigos e neopronomes diferentes dos solicitados e vai até pessoas reclamando ou fazendo chacota por meus conjuntos de linguagem serem "estrangeiros", "complexos" ou "novos" demais (sendo que uso -/eld/e desde antes da popularização de ê/elu/e e tal conjunto não requer o aprendizado de uma quantidade de elementos diferentes, apenas do conceito de não existir um "gênero gramatical neutro" engessado e mutualmente exclusivo dos outros que forem surgindo).
Este é um problema social geral que tende a ser ainda pior quanto menos usuáries de neolinguagem já existem em determinado espaço. Porém, administradóries de espaços não-binários (ou que incluem pessoas não-binárias) poderiam simplesmente ter políticas que punem tais atitudes e/ou incentivam a leitura de materiais básicos sobre linguagem pessoal (que pode incluir outros assuntos pertinentes também, como materiais que ensinam sobre identidades não-binárias diversas e retórica racista/capacitista/etc). Ao invés disso, tenho que explicar sozinhe com carinho e paciência sobre como é possível se acostumar com a suposta inconveniência de não me maldenominar só porque alguém quis ficar comentando merda ao invés de ir atrás do assunto por conta própria ou ignorar minha introdução e não se referir a mim por linguagem marcada.
Como falei em Um guia não-binário e autista para fazer amizades, a não-binaridade já tende a ser um fator que isola as pessoas. Mas há pouca aceitação de usuáries de neolinguagem mesmo dentro de espaços não-binários, e não é incomum eu ser xe únique ou ume des úniques usuáries de neolinguagem em determinado grupo trans e/ou não-binário, e ser xe únique que não aceita o pronome elu e/ou o pronome ile.
Também já presenciei em espaços que organizo reações negativas contra a presença de váries usuáries de neolinguagem, muitas vezes com presunções errôneas acerca do quanto seríamos agressives ou coercives quanto a determinadas questões apenas pela utilização da neolinguagem em tais espaços.
Falta de valorização de outres usuáries de neolinguagem
A disseminação de questões de linguagem pessoal também não tende a ocorrer em espaços mais casuais, onde não é incomum aparecerem pessoas que me agradecem quando divulgo materiais relacionados com linguagem porque "queriam aprender e não sabiam onde achar" (mesmo provavelmente não sendo nem a primeira vez que eu publico tais links no mesmo grupo). Também praticamente nunca vejo pessoas trazendo recursos relacionados com linguagem quando há discussões sobre o assunto, embora já tenha visto uma pessoa divulgando o testador de conjuntos em seu Tumblr pessoal.
Também não é incomum eu receber relatos de outras pessoas que navegam por outros espaços não-binários ou trans que suas linguagens pessoais foram desrespeitadas. Usar neopronome é foda, menine… é um texto de 2018, mas ainda é aplicável: sei de relatos mais recentes (dos últimos dois anos) de pessoas tendo dificuldades de achar outres usuáries de neolinguagem, tendo seus tratamentos ignorados ou assim por diante.
Edição (25/11/25): Ironicamente, menos de duas horas depois de eu ter publicado este texto, Oltiel fez esta postagem relatando que em um requerimento de um formulário que éli foi preencher só tinham quatro opções de pronomes (ela, ele, elu, ile), sem nem mesmo uma opção de "outro", a qual havia sido providenciada em outras perguntas.
A ignorância acerca das questões de linguagem é valorizada: "a maioria não vai adotar esses termos novos"/"ninguém tem a obrigação de estudar isso", o que justifica não olhar ou repassar quaisquer recursos que ensinam sobre linguagem pessoal (ou neolinguagem num geral), e colocar pessoas que utilizam neolinguagem (ou conjuntos como -/-/-) como frescas e/ou elitistas. São pessoas que buscam comunidades para combater o isolamento que passam por serem pessoas fora das normas, mas que não se importam em disseminar a intolerância contra pessoas que têm necessidades diferentes das suas.
As defesas isentonas da "linguagem neutra"
O que o termo "linguagem neutra" representa?
O termo linguagem neutra já foi, ao menos ao meu ver, fundamentalmente pró-neolinguagem e contra a mascunormatividade da língua padrão. Este guia de 2014 fala sobre "linguagem oral não-binária ou neutra", e inclui diversas opções de pronomes e outros elementos. Aprender a usar -/-/- era importante para a pauta da linguagem neutra, sim, mas para situações onde usar neolinguagem poderia prejudicar uma pessoa, ou mesmo para não ter que usar linguagem marcada para pessoas desconhecidas, não como uma alternativa permanente a aprender a usar le/elu/e, ou ê/ile/e, ou i/ili/i, ou qualquer outra linguagem que alguém pode escolher para usar de forma genérica e pessoal.
Mas aí estamos em 2025, e ainda temos pessoas: - Considerando que o/ele/o já é o gênero neutro na língua portuguesa, e que, por isso, outras "formas de linguagem neutra" são desnecessárias; - Colocando que proibir flexões alternativas de gênero não impede de usar linguagem neutra, porque é possível fazer contornos (ou seja, -/-/-); - Falando que "a linguagem neutra não está desenvolvida" por haverem "opções demais", sem existir um padrão acatado por todes.
Ao meu ver, isso é um problema.
Eu entendo que nem todes gostam do termo neolinguagem. Inclusive falei sobre desejar ter escolhido outro termo, porque o que eu achava óbvio e coerente virou, para outras pessoas, uma diminuição do conceito e uma limitação a ser algo que nunca será comum na sociedade. Se outras pessoas preferirem adotar plurilinguagem, exilinguagem ou linguagem dissidente ou o que for, sintam-se livres para isso.
Atualmente, uso os termos linguagem genérica e neolinguagem justamente para não haver essa falha na comunicação. Descrever conjuntos diferentes também é importante para denotar a "linguagem neutra" que pode estar ou não estar sendo usada em determinado contexto.
As defesas exilinguistas da "linguagem neutra"
Como falei, o termo "linguagem neutra" atualmente tem, muitas vezes, a conotação de ser um gênero gramatical único onde todas as propostas acerca de seus elementos são intercambiáveis. Isto resulta em maldenominação e em ataques gratuitos contra usuáries de neolinguagem que não usam os elementos preferidos de quem defende a uniformização de um gênero gramatical codificado como neutro.
(...) A integração de um gênero gramatical que se propõe a ser neutro dentro da língua padrão será um passo à frente tanto em relação a facilitar [combate à linguagem mascunormativa] quanto em relação a fornecer um conjunto de linguagem pessoal visto como neutro mas amplamente aceito, o qual pode assim ser usado por pessoas não-binárias que só querem ser referidas de qualquer forma neutra/genérica ou para se referir a crianças que ainda não desenvolveram suas próprias preferências de linguagem pessoal de forma que não impõe a elas conjuntos de linguagem binários de forma geralmente cissexista e diadista.
Porém, o foco único em padronizar um gênero gramatical neutro muitas vezes deixa de lado a necessidade mais importante de não maldenominar pessoas cisdissidentes e/ou inconformistas de linguagem. De fornecer o respeito básico do uso de pronomes, artigos e outras partes de um conjunto de linguagem que cada pessoa quer que sejam utilizades para si, assim como quem usa a/ela/a ou o/ele/o e possui certa aparência aceitável dentro da sociedade cissexista tem seus conjuntos de linguagem respeitados.
(...)
Só que o que vejo em debates acerca de qual deve ser o novo gênero gramatical neutro ou se deve existir um novo gênero gramatical neutro é uma falta de consideração com pessoas que dependem de neolinguagem não (só) como uma forma de expressar inclusividade, mas (também) como uma forma de ter conjuntos de linguagem com os quais não se sentem maldenominadas; de ter conjuntos de linguagem que sentem que as representam quando os conjuntos dentro da língua padrão se mostram insuficientes.
Talvez isso pareça fútil para pessoas binárias – especialmente cis – as quais possuem gamas enormes de formas de encontrar validação interna e externa para suas identidades de gênero. Porém, no caso de pessoas não-binárias, muitas vezes a linguagem pessoal é uma das únicas formas que temos para buscar euforia de gênero ou combater inseguranças em relação a não sermos vistes da forma certa. E maldenominação não deixa de poder machucar só porque uma pessoa trans está deixando de ser referida por um conjunto como ê/elu/e ou ly/ily/y ao invés de a/ela/a ou o/ele/o.
Ainda vejo pessoas tentando resolver o suposto problema da neolinguagem ser ampla demais, de não haver um pronome pessoal único, um artigo definido único ou mesmo uma flexão única que pode ser forçada em cima de todas as pessoas que não usam a/ela/a, o/ele/o ou -/-/-. Eu entendo que existem pessoas não-binárias que não se importam (e/ou que não conhecem a diversidade da neolinguagem), de forma que pedem para ser tratadas por "pronomes neutros"/"linguagem neutra" sem especificar o que querem dizer com isso, e incentivo então a perguntar pelo que querem ser tratadas de forma mais detalhada. Mas e nós, que não escolhemos nossas linguagens pessoais por serem "neutras", e sim por serem representativas de formas mais específicas de não-binaridade, ou mesmo de outros aspectos, como alterumanidade? Para mim, pessoalmente, seria tão agonizante ser referide apenas com linguagem vista como ambígua ou neutra (porque um conjunto desses também seria incentivado como linguagem genérica) quanto ser referide com linguagem vista como feminina ou masculina.
Eu não me importo com a pauta de inserir um gênero gramatical codificado como neutro em alguma reforma oficial da língua portuguesa. No entanto: 1. Essa inserção não deve ser utilizada como uma forma de exterminar outras variações neolinguísticas que pessoas utilizam como linguagem pessoal.
2. Considero mais importante lutar, ao menos em longo prazo, para a abertura de flexões gramaticais, da mesma forma que nomes próprios podem ser qualquer coisa sem ir contra as normas da língua. Isto não difere muito da questão de gênero/"sexo" em documentos: a curto prazo, tudo bem se contentar com a inserção de uma ou duas opções novas nos sistemas que já existem, mas é fundamental reconhecer que documentos não deveriam conter campos de gênero/sexo e que não são documentos oficiais que determinam que identidades de gênero alguém realmente tem ou não tem fora daquele contexto.
Demandas antiexorlinguistas
Ficam, então, as seguintes considerações para as equipes de espaços que têm o objetivo de combater cissexismo e imposições de normas de gênero, independentemente se forem espaços de convivência que querem ser inclusivos ou grupos com propósitos ativistas ou educacionais:
O uso de linguagem genérica consistente no combate à mascunormatividade e à binaridade da língua, seja por uso de linguagem sem marcação (-/-/-) e/ou por uso de algum conjunto que envolve neolinguagem com pronúncia fácil e que minimiza conotações de parecer a/ela/a ou o/ele/o. Caso enfatizar pessoas que usam a/ela/a como separadas seja uma questão vista como relevante, sugiro biformas que utilizem a neolinguagem como genérica para o resto das pessoas consistente durante o texto inteiro, como em "sejam bem-vindas e bem-vindes todas as trabalhadoras e todes es trabalhadóries". Pessoalmente, não vejo a necessidade de tal redundância, mas, se for para ter redundância, que ela não seja exorsexista ou mantenha o mito de que só existem três conjuntos de linguagem válidos. Ninguém vai achar que o conjunto o/ele/o está sendo abolido como linguagem pessoal se ele não aparecer.
A separação dos conceitos "pronome" e "gênero gramatical". Não adianta passar a chamar gêneros gramaticais de pronomes para separá-los do conceito de identidade de gênero e continuar com a lógica de que alguém que usa o pronome tal precisa usar a flexão tal ou o artigo tal (ou vice-versa). Existe gente usando pronome elu que usa artigo ê, que usa artigo le, que usa artigo o, que não usa artigo; existe gente usando final de palavra -e que usa pronome elz, que usa pronome ily, que usa pronome ael; e assim por diante. Vários conjuntos de linguagem "misturam" gêneros gramaticais, e é por isso que não acho que faz muito sentido chamar conjuntos de linguagem pessoais de gêneros gramaticais, mas não adianta trocar o nome para tratamento ou pronomes se a mesma lógica rígida vai ser cobrada.
A disseminação do modelo artigo/pronome/final de palavra, ou, alternativamente, de qualquer outro modelo que pelo menos separe e ajude a explicitar pronomes e finais de palavra como elementos independentes um do outro. Isso significa se apresentar com tal modelo, colocar ele em perfis, pedir para que pessoas os preencham em formulários e não voltar atrás no primeiro sinal de que as pessoas em volta estão contentes falando que usam "o masculino" ou "ile/dile" ou afins.
A defesa da abertura de gêneros gramaticais para além de um único "neutro". Isso significa que guias não deveriam se limitar a ensinar "a linguagem neutra" sem ressaltar que existem diversos conjuntos de linguagem e múltiplas formas de lidar com flexões irregulares, de forma que outras pessoas não estão erradas por pedir para ser tratadas por mi ao invés de minhe ou por usar neopronomes pessoais diferentes de elu. Tudo bem fazer uma recomendação específica em um documento rápido, especialmente em questão de linguagem genérica; não está tudo bem agir como se toda a neolinguagem fosse intercambiável em todas as situações e apenas determinada forma devesse ser tratada como correta. Além disso, tentativas de tornar um "gênero gramatical neutro" oficial precisam reconhecer que nem todes es usuáries de neolinguagem vão passar a adotá-lo, especialmente como linguagem pessoal.
Combate a chacotas e comentários negativos contra usuáries de neolinguagem ou elementos usados como neolinguagem. Uma pessoa se introduzindo com determinado tratamento não deveria ter que lidar com comentários falando de como a aplicação correta de tal tratamento é feia, esquisita, ridícula e/ou inutilizável. Isso significa ter aliades nos defendendo em conversas e equipes de moderação tomando ações contra tais atitudes. Se alguém se apresentar com um conjunto impronunciável/complicado para programas que leem telas, como, por exemplo, zhzhz/🌈💜💚/@, faz sentido pedir um conjunto auxiliar ou conferir se a pessoa está trollando, mas pronomes como elz, elf ou ild não são trollagem ou impronunciáveis só por terem duas consoantes seguidas (uma delas com som de vogal) e/ou por não serem elu ou ile.
Combate a desleixos de concordância exclusivos à neolinguagem. Falar "o meu professore" sobre alguém que só usa ê/elu/e ainda é maldenominação, e comunidades que buscam defender usuáries de neolinguagem precisam deixar de ser permissivas desde que haja uma ou outra "tentativa" de vez em quando.
Criação de espaços específicos para falar de questões de linguagem e/ou focados em pessoas NCL em contextos relevantes. Isso significa formar grupos específicos em organizações e comunidades que são separados de grupos não-binários ou trans, especialmente se estes já demonstram descaso com questões de linguagem. Também significa considerar incluir painéis, aulas ou afins sobre questões de linguagem dentro de eventos que buscam representar várias formas diferentes de identidades hetero/cisdissidentes, e parar de chamar pessoas não-binárias aleatórias que mal utilizam neolinguagem no dia-a-dia para realizar apresentações ou opinar sobre o assunto como se tal nível de representatividade e autoridade fosse satisfatório.
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Tudo, ou pelo menos muita coisa, sobre linguagem pessoal
Edição (18/10/2024): Adicionei alguns links mais recentes e a informação sobre o elemento do asterisco entre parênteses/colchetes/afins em conjuntos de linguagem. A informação do asterisco é a única informação além da questão de links que não se encontra na versão impressa, ao menos neste momento.
Edição (17/11/2023): Uma versão para imprimir deste texto (7 folhas frente e verso em formato de livreto, 28 páginas ao todo) pode ser encontrada aqui. Ao adaptar o texto, percebi alguns erros e pontos fracos que acabei mudando nesta versão do texto também. Isso não significa que as duas versões são idênticas, mas a ideia é que sejam relativamente parecidas.
Este texto tem a intenção de trazer a pauta de conjuntos de linguagem (focando em conjuntos de linguagem pessoal) para pessoas que podem não ter tido muito contato com o assunto antes. Porém, ele ainda presume conhecimento sobre as seguintes coisas, que talvez algumas pessoas que passem por este texto ainda não tenham tido contato:
1) Os termos cis, não-cis, cisdissidente e trans aparecem neste texto. Para entender com detalhes o que os termos cis e trans significam, procure-os neste glossário. Os termos não-cis e cisdissidente são sinônimos, e se referem a qualquer pessoa que não seja cis (o que inclui pessoas trans).
2) Normas de gênero são as normas esperadas pela sociedade que são cobradas de quem pertence a cada gênero (ou que também podem ser cobradas de pessoas vistas como pertencentes a certo gênero mesmo que não sejam). No caso de sociedades eurocêntricas, geralmente se espera que mulheres sejam delicadas, sensíveis, vaidosas e boas donas de casa, e que homens escondam a maioria de seus sentimentos, gostem de esportes e sejam agressivos. Estes são exemplos de normas de gênero, mas elas também envolvem roupas, brinquedos, empregos e outras coisas que supostamente são "apropriadas para cada gênero". Pessoas que quebram várias destas normas podem se chamar de não-conformistas de gênero.
3) Identidade de gênero é algo pessoal, que não vai ter necessariamente nenhuma relação com corporalidade/sexo, normas de gênero, influências externas, aparência ou formas de agir ou de se vestir. Identidade de gênero não é algo exclusivo de pessoas não-cis: homem e mulher são identidades de gênero (enquanto cis e trans são modalidades de gênero). Caso queira ler mais sobre o que é gênero, clique aqui.
4) Muitas pessoas não são (somente/completamente/sempre) mulheres ou homens. Mencionarei pessoas não-binárias como um grupo que cobre essas experiências, e uma página que explica com mais detalhes como alguém pode experienciar isso pode ser encontrada aqui. Nem todas as pessoas que se encaixam nessa descrição se descrevem como não-binárias, o que pode ter a ver com diversos motivos. De qualquer modo, a discriminação experienciada por pessoas que não podem ser descritas precisamente somente como mulheres ou como homens é chamada de exorsexismo.
5) Respeitar as identidades de gênero de todas as pessoas é importante. Identidades de gênero fazem parte da cultura de cada lugar e da identidade pessoal, e negar a identidade de gênero de alguém (por conta da pessoa não cumprir as normas de gênero associadas com seu gênero, não ter uma aparência cisnormativa, ter uma identidade de gênero incomum ou difícil de explicar, "ser nova/velha demais pra isso" ou qualquer outro motivo) pode ser causar danos sérios à saúde mental de alguém, especialmente quando isso acontece com frequência.
6) Trolls, na maioria dos contextos de discussões na internet, são pessoas que insistem em incomodar outras pessoas de forma persistente, geralmente na internet. As ações de trolls podem ser descritas como trollagem. Uma trollagem comum em meios ativistas envolve tentar enganar pessoas "de fora" sobre o que grupos marginalizados são ou querem (espalhando suposições de má fé ou fingindo ser uma caricatura ridícula de alguém do grupo).
7) A maioria das outras coisas citadas que podem não ser de conhecimento geral possuem explicações logo após sua primeira menção, ou links para textos que explicam ao que tais coisas se referem.
Linguagem pessoal é algo que quase todo mundo que consegue se comunicar em alguma língua com "gêneros gramaticais" tem.
Sim, mesmo pessoas que nunca pensaram sobre o assunto e que são completamente alheias a comunidades NHINCQ+ (Não-Hétero, Intersexo, Não-Cis, Queer, etc). Sim, mesmo pessoas que dizem que é pra evitar quaisquer sinais desses gêneros gramaticais para falar delas. Sim, mesmo pessoas que não possuem nenhuma preferência em relação à linguagem.
As únicas pessoas que considero que não possuem alguma linguagem pessoal são as que ainda não têm certeza de que linguagem querem usar.
E, por isso, é importante ter noção de como usar e respeitar qualquer tipo de conjunto de linguagem.
Enfim, vou tentar explicar passo a passo o que são conjuntos de linguagem para pessoas que não estão familiarizadas com o assunto.
"O que é um conjunto de linguagem?"
Em lugares onde a língua portuguesa é a padrão, é comum ensinarem crianças que existem jeitos diferentes de se referir às pessoas: a forma "masculina" quando a pessoa "é homem", e a forma "feminina" quando a pessoa "é mulher". (Vou explicar as aspas depois.)
A forma "masculina" seria composta de palavras como o, ele, moço, este, ator, professor, guri, pai, filho, namorado e bom.
A forma "feminina" seria composta de palavras como a, ela, moça, esta, atriz, professora, guria, mãe, filha, namorada e boa.
Deste modo, poderíamos dizer que existe um conjunto de linguagem "masculino" e outro "feminino", que uniriam estas palavras citadas. No caso destes conjuntos especificamente, eles são chamados de gêneros gramaticais também, os quais são literalmente descritos na gramática formal como masculino e feminino.
Mas esta questão não termina aí, e também não acho que gênero gramatical descreva bem todos os conjuntos de linguagem existentes.
Mesmo que exista esta associação de certas palavras com certos gêneros ou estereótipos relacionados a gênero, não existem razões universais para que certas palavras precisem ser usadas apenas para pessoas masculinas, homens, pessoas femininas e/ou mulheres.
Saias ou cabelos compridos não precisam ser necessariamente “coisas femininas”, ternos ou cabelos curtos não precisam ser necessariamente “coisas masculinas”. Estas são só decisões que foram feitas em certos lugares e períodos que nem estão presentes em todas as culturas e/ou épocas.
Também por conta disso, é importante ter formas de descrever tais conjuntos de linguagem de formas que não usem feminilidade ou masculinidade como ponto de partida. Temos nomes específicos para roupas, partes do corpo e cores de forma que não tenhamos que usar vocabulário vago e arbitrário como feminine ou masculine para nos referirmos a elas, então faz sentido ter formas de descrever linguagem de forma que não dependa destas palavras.
Existe mais de um jeito de pessoas se referirem a tais conjuntos, como a/ela/a e o/ele/o, ela/dela e ele/dele, ela/a e ele/o e a/uma/da/ela/dela/minha/essa/a e o/um/do/ele/dele/meu/esse/o.
Quando uma pessoa quer ser referida com um certo conjunto de linguagem, dizemos que tal pessoa usa tal conjunto, ou que certo conjunto de linguagem é o conjunto daquela pessoa. Por exemplo:
Eu sou o Marco. Eu uso o/ele/o.
Aquele é o Marco. O conjunto de linguagem dele é o/ele/o.
Eu vou explicar mais sobre o que exatamente significa a/ela/a, o/ele/o e afins depois. O que importa agora é que, independentemente dos modelos usados, conjuntos de linguagem vão muito além destes dois.
"Mas pra quê ter conjuntos de linguagem além dos previstos pela língua padrão?"
A existência de um binário estrito de conjuntos de linguagem baseado em gênero causa diversos problemas:
Quando não se sabe qual o gênero de uma pessoa ou de um animal, que conjunto de linguagem devemos usar?
Quando existem grupos formados por seres de gêneros diferentes, como devemos nos referir ao grupo?
Quando alguém não é nem homem e nem mulher, como nos devemos nos referir a tal alguém?
Acho importante notar que todos estes problemas são relacionados com seres vivos. Poucas pessoas se importam com o uso de a/ela/a para cadeiras e geladeiras e de o/ele/o para sofás e ventiladores, e se alguém tentar te convencer de que aceitar mais linguagens também tem a ver com usar conjuntos de linguagem diferentes para objetos ou até mesmo para nomes de espécies, é bem provável que tal pessoa esteja trollando.
As soluções propostas que envolvem a língua padrão são frequentemente egoístas (como "quem não se encaixa nessas linguagens não importa"), pouco práticas (como "é só descrever essas pessoas e esses grupos de forma indireta o tempo todo"), machistas (como "o/ele/o já é um conjunto neutro") ou exorsexistas (como "não existe essa coisa de não ser homem nem mulher").
Por conta disso, surgiram formas de um conceito atualmente chamado de neolinguagem, o qual engloba quaisquer palavras alternativas que não são previstas pelos gêneros gramaticais padrão.
Algumas pessoas começaram a usar arroba para substituir a ou o em palavras como el@ ou tod@s nas últimas décadas, mas como era apenas uma substituição para os dois conjuntos padrão, esta solução foi considerada pouco inclusiva. Com o tempo, surgiu a ideia de usar a letra X para fazer a mesma coisa, mas a maioria das pessoas não entendia que a letra não era pra ser pronunciada, e programas que leem telas para quem não as enxerga (parcialmente ou totalmente) sempre pronunciava a letra X nos finais das palavras como “cs”.
Depois disso, foram sugeridas tanto propostas para "neutralizar a língua" de forma pronunciável quanto propostas de diversidade de conjuntos de linguagem, para que cada pessoa possa escolher o que fica mais confortável para si. Todas as possibilidades que não se encaixam nos gêneros gramaticais previstos pela língua padrão são consideradas parte da neolinguagem.
Este texto é especificamente sobre linguagem pessoal (a linguagem que cada pessoa usa), e não sobre linguagem genérica/neutra (uma linguagem ideal para usar quando a linguagem de alguém ou de algum grupo é indeterminada). Eu listei estas questões sobre linguagem genérica por serem relevantes, mas se você quiser saber mais sobre como deixar de usar o/ele/o como linguagem genérica, textos relevantes estão disponíveis aqui.
A maioria das pessoas que usa neolinguagem como parte de seu conjunto de linguagem pessoal são não-binárias. Mesmo assim, pessoas binárias (que são sempre, estritamente e completamente homens ou mulheres) também podem querer usar conjuntos de linguagem pessoal fora dos padrões, algo que quando acontece é geralmente feito por pessoas não-conformistas de gênero como parte de suas expressões pessoais.
"Não é só decidir um gênero gramatical/conjunto de linguagem neutro e usar ele?"
A ideia de que dois gêneros específicos permaneçam tendo conjuntos de linguagem específicos associados a si, enquanto pessoas de todas as outras centenas de identidades possíveis tenham apenas um conjunto associado a elas, é dar a ideia de que gêneros/arquétipos binários são simplesmente mais importantes e merecedores de atenção.
Se tal conjunto neutro ainda por cima for também associado com não saber o gênero de alguém, isso dá a entender que qualquer pessoa que não seja binária ou que rejeite linguagens associadas a gêneros binários esteja num limbo de indeterminação de gênero. Isso pode ser algo apreciado por algumas pessoas, mas a ideia de que pessoas não-binárias só estão indecisas sobre seu gênero é um preconceito vil que não deveria ser reforçado.
Não existe nenhuma proposta de conjunto de linguagem neutro que tenha o apoio de todas as pessoas dentro ou fora de comunidades que propõem um conjunto neutro universal. Não faz sentido alguém se sujeitar a ser referide por um conjunto de linguagem do qual não gosta muito quando isso não aumenta as chances de outras pessoas usarem tal conjunto de linguagem.
Mais detalhes acerca de descrever conjuntos
Agora que expliquei que 1) neolinguagem já existe, já está em uso, e não faz sentido fingir que não é necessária e que 2) conjuntos de linguagem são diversos, acho importante explicar como estes vão ser descritos.
Neste texto, e em outros textos, o esquema que uso é artigo/pronome/final de palavra (este pode ser chamado de terminação ou de flexão também).
O artigo (nome técnico: artigo definido da forma singular) é o que se usa na frente do nome da pessoa, ou de algo que substitui o nome da pessoa mas que usa seu artigo.
Ao escrever "o João", "a advogada", "ê artista" e "le professore", as palavras o, a, ê e le estão cumprindo a função de artigo. A e o são artigos previstos pela língua, mas ê e le são neoartigos.
O pronome (nome técnico: pronome pessoal reto da terceira pessoa do singular) é o que se usa para substituir o nome da pessoa e fazer certas contrações.
Ao escrever "ela é forte", "isso é dele", "estou pensando nelu" e "ile é legal", os pronomes que estão sendo usados são ela, ele, elu e ile, respectivamente. Ela e ele são pronomes previstos pela língua, enquanto elu e ile são neopronomes.
O final de palavra (nome técnico na maior parte dos casos, mas que recomendo evitar: flexão de gênero) é o que se usa no final das palavras que mudam entre a e o dentro dos conjuntos de linguagem previstos pela língua padrão.
Ao escrever "médica", "amigo", "linde" e "cozinheiry", os finais de palavra que estão sendo usados são a, o, e e y, respectivamente.
Após definir os três elementos, eles podem ser unidos nesta mesma ordem, com barras entre eles. Assim, podemos ter a/ela/a, o/ele/o, ê/elu/e, y/ély/y, i/éli/i, le/ile/e e várias outras possibilidades.
Quando alguém não quer que algum elemento seja usado, escreve-se um traço. Por exemplo, uma pessoa que não quer que usem um artigo para ela pode usar -/elu/e, e alguém que quer que seu nome seja usado ao invés de pronomes pode usar i/-/i.
Quando não há preferência acerca de certo elemento ("qualquer um serve"), a pessoa pode usar [q], [qlq], [qqr] ou similar no lugar do elemento. Por exemplo, alguém cujo conjunto é [qlq]/ile/e vai aceitar a, o, ê, e, le, y, i, il ou qualquer outro artigo, incluindo neoartigos.
Quando alguém quer que fiquem trocando o que usam no lugar de certo elemento, a pessoa pode usar [r], [rtt], [rot] ou similar para indicar um elemento rotativo. Por exemplo, alguém cujo conjunto é -/éli/[rtt] quer que troquem o final de palavra que usam para éli com frequência.
Quando alguém quer especificar alguma observação mais específica, a pessoa pode usar (*), ou similar. Por exemplo, alguém cujo conjunto é -/(*)/(**) pode especificar em seu perfil algo como:
* Aceito quaisquer neopronomes, menos ila, ilo e elo.
** Prefiro que evitem me marcar com flexões, mas em casos onde isso for muito inconveniente, podem usar -e, desde que o uso não seja constante.
Quando alguém quer indicar elementos alternativos em seus conjuntos, a pessoa pode usar vírgulas e parênteses, chaves ou similares para indicar as possibilidades ao invés de escrever conjuntos separados. Por exemplo, alguém pode preferir escrever seu conjunto como -/(ily, ile)/y ao invés de especificar tanto -/ily/y quanto -/ile/y.
Esta imagem foi feita para explicar como funcionam os conjuntos de linguagem mostrados. Imagens similares podem ser encontradas aqui.
Em relação a outros jeitos de falar sobre conjuntos de linguagem:
Usar “linguagem feminina/masculina/neutra” não funciona muito bem, tanto por reforçar normas de gênero (e se uma pessoa quiser usar o/ele/o sem ser masculina?), quanto por ser uma afirmação vaga (e se uma pessoa quiser usar o/elo/o, é uma linguagem masculina? E e/ele/e? Se alguém disser que usa linguagem neutra, é para usar le/elu/e, ê/elu/e, -/ile/e, -/-/- ou o quê?) Também força associações desnecessárias com características associadas a gêneros. (Por que temos que dizer que uma pessoa sem gênero que está usando a/ela/a porque é a linguagem associada com a palavra pessoa está usando uma linguagem feminina?) Mais sobre isso aqui, aqui e aqui, e também existe este texto sobre como usar "linguagem neutra" é algo muito vago.
Usar "elu/delu" e afins também não funciona bem: ocupa mais caracteres do que e/elu/e, usa tal espaço para uma informação que vai ser supérflua sob quase todas as circunstâncias e não sinaliza informações como o final de palavra, algo praticamente fundamental para se referir a alguém na língua portuguesa. Fiz um texto inteiro sobre isso aqui.
Colocar só o pronome e o final de palavra funciona bem para pessoas cujos conjuntos estão dentro dos padrões, mas visto que existem muitas opiniões diferentes sobre que artigos deveriam ser usados para quem tem final de palavra e e/ou pronome elu, acho que faz sentido que cada pessoa possa deixar explícito seu próprio artigo, ao invés de utilizarmos a presunção de que ele será sempre igual ao final de palavra.
Eu entendo a utilidade de oferecer mais informações sobre a própria linguagem, e dou meu apoio a qualquer pessoa que quiser colocar a/uma/da/ela/dela/minha/essa/a ao invés de a/ela/a em seu perfil, mas para propósitos como citar conjuntos em textos ou em lugares com pouco espaço, acho importante ter a possibilidade de resumir um conjunto em três ou quatro elementos.
Se alguém tiver interesse em como foi feita a escolha dos elementos artigo, pronome e final de palavra, já escrevi um texto sobre isso também. Resumidamente, é porque são elementos comuns que também são frequentemente disputados por pessoas que defendem propostas específicas de linguagem genérica/neutra.
Entendo que podem haver dúvidas acerca de outras particularidades de certos conjuntos de linguagem, mesmo com informações sobre artigo(s), pronome(s) e final(is) de palavra de alguém. Algumas dessas serão explicadas depois, mas por enquanto acho mais importante ter ao menos uma noção básica do que significam os três elementos citados.
"Como saber qual o conjunto de linguagem que alguém usa?"
Conjunto de linguagem, assim como identidade de gênero, são características frequentemente presumidas, mas que, idealmente, não deveriam ser.
Tanto homens quanto mulheres quanto outras pessoas podem usar quaisquer tipos de roupas e acessórios, e ter qualquer tipo de cabelo, voz, corpo, personalidade e gostos. A ideia de que é possível julgar alguém como homem ou como mulher se baseando em aparência, documentos ou em como a pessoa se comunica é baseada em estereótipos de gênero e de sexo, e prejudica pessoas trans, intersexo, não-binárias e/ou que não seguem as normas associadas com seus gêneros.
Da mesma forma, não há como presumir que conjunto de linguagem alguém usa sem a pessoa dizer qual conjunto usa. Mesmo indicadores como homem ou mulher nem sempre significam que a pessoa usa a linguagem comumente associada com tal gênero.
É possível alguém se referir a si e assim revelar alguma parte de sua linguagem (geralmente o final de palavra, em frases como "estou atrasade" ou "sou arquiteta"), mas, mesmo assim, é importante considerar que:
Aquela pode não ser a única possibilidade do que a pessoa usa (uma pessoa pode usar tanto a/ela/a quanto o/ele/o, por exemplo);
A pessoa pode querer usar certos conjuntos para se referir a si mesma, mas não querer que outras pessoas usem a mesma linguagem (porque a pessoa está questionando, é insegura, erra a própria linguagem com frequência, tem medo de ser vista como estranha se usar neolinguagem em público, não se importa em usar uma linguagem binária para si mas vê a mesma linguagem vinda de outras pessoas como uma forma de presumir que a pessoa tem um gênero binário quando não tem, etc.);
A presença de certo artigo, pronome ou final de palavra não infere outros elementos (pessoas podem usar -/elo/o, -/ele/e, a/ila/a, -/ilã/e, u/elu/u, ê/elu/e, etc).
Caso a comunicação entre você e a outra pessoa seja privada, eu não acho indelicado perguntar sobre seu(s) conjunto(s) de linguagem. ("Eu uso pronome eld e flexão -e, como posso me referir a você?") Também é possível que a pessoa tenha ele(s) disponível(is) em algum perfil online.
Porém, em situações públicas, fazer esta pergunta pode ser uma indelicadeza, não apenas porque a maioria das pessoas (infelizmente) quer que você presuma, mas também porque uma pessoa pode ter que escolher entre sair do armário contra a própria vontade e ter a linguagem errada sendo usada para si.
Neste caso, pode ser importante a adoção de alguma linguagem neutra para ser usada para todo mundo que você não conhece, como -/-/- ou e/elu/e.
Mesmo assim, é importante que você ou use esta linguagem neutra para todas as pessoas que você não sabe a linguagem, ou para nenhuma. É um problema só usar isso quando você pensa que há uma possibilidade da pessoa ser trans, não-binária e/ou não-conformista de gênero.
Caso você esteja organizando algum espaço que seja seguro para pessoas cujos conjuntos de linguagem são presumidos erroneamente com frequência (o que inclui não ser seguro para pessoas que acreditam que gênero e linguagem devam sempre ser presumidos e/ou baseados em gênero/sexo), você pode oferecer formas de pessoas expressarem seus conjuntos.
Em espaços online, isso significa encorajar que pessoas disponibilizem seus conjuntos em introduções, nomes de tela e/ou espaços no perfil. Em espaços físicos, isso significa pedir conjunto de linguagem na introdução de cada pessoa e/ou disponibilizar adesivos para escrever conjuntos e encorajar que mesmo pessoas "cuja linguagem é óbvia" os digam/usem. Guias e/ou explicações sobre como tais conjuntos funcionam também devem estar disponíveis.
Lembre-se também de que nem todas as pessoas podem querer disponibilizar seus conjuntos, por mais seguro que seja o espaço. Enquanto isso é um problema quando são pessoas binárias conformistas de gênero afirmando que linguagem pessoal deve ser presumida, obrigar pessoas a escolher um conjunto de linguagem pode ser um problema para pessoas no armário, inseguras sobre que linguagem querem, que sentem disforia de gênero ao terem que dizer seus conjuntos de linguagem, etc.
Sugiro encorajar pessoas a não usar nenhuma linguagem específica ao se referir às pessoas do grupo que não querem disponibilizar seus conjuntos de linguagem.
Novamente, estas medidas precisam valer para todas as pessoas, e não apenas quando houverem pessoas não-cis e/ou não-conformistas de gênero no grupo.
Caso você ou o grupo esteja lidando com gente no armário, talvez seja interessante que pessoas disponibilizem uma linguagem para ser usada dentro do grupo e outra fora do grupo.
"Como posso disponibilizar meu conjunto?"
Se você se sente confortável e segure para fazer isso, você pode colocar em biografias ou similares de perfis de redes sociais/fóruns/programas de chat/etc., em apelidos de programas de chat, ou em outros lugares que pessoas podem conferir para saber como podem se referir a você e/ou informações básicas sobre você.
Em espaços físicos, você pode usar buttons, camisetas, bordados, crachás, adesivos ou outros indicadores. Você também pode se apresentar falando do seu conjunto de linguagem (como em "sou Miriam, uso a/ela/a").
A maioria das pessoas não sabe como funciona a questão de artigo/pronome/final de palavra, então é provável que você tenha que explicá-la, especialmente se seu conjunto contém neolinguagem e portanto não é visto como “óbvio”.
"Que conjuntos eu posso ter?"
Pessoas podem ter quantos conjuntos de linguagem pessoais quiserem, e eles podem ser formados pelos elementos que cada pessoa quiser. Porém, infelizmente, quanto mais “fora do comum” for o conjunto, menor é a possibilidade de outras pessoas quererem usá-lo.
Existe uma certa polêmica em relação a se pessoas binárias ou cis podem ou não usar conjuntos além dos associados com seus gêneros, ou além de o/ele/o e de a/ela/a. Eu não vejo problema em uma pessoa cis querer usar conjuntos como le/elu/e, -/ila/a ou outros, desde que seu uso seja respeitoso.
Acredito que pessoas binárias possam querer usar conjuntos além dos associados com seus gêneros pelos seguintes motivos, por exemplo:
Suas expressões de gênero (ou seja, como se vestem, agem, etc.) não se encaixam com as expressões ditadas pelas normas de gênero, e tais pessoas podem querer usar um conjunto de linguagem que seja mais relacionado com sua expressão de gênero do que com sua identidade de gênero;
Se forem pessoas trans, podem não querer se abrir como trans ou dar sinais de que não são do seu gênero designado, e assim usar outro conjunto para disfarçar isso;
Se tiverem preocupações com privacidade, misoginia ou outras questões, podem usar um conjunto de linguagem diferente em certos espaços para criar uma impressão diferente de sua identidade;
Essas pessoas podem estar questionando suas identidades de gênero e usar linguagem pessoal como uma forma de experimentar possibilidades para suas identidades;
Essas pessoas podem simplesmente gostar muito de certos conjuntos de linguagem sem saber explicar o motivo, e querer que eles sejam usados para elas.
De qualquer modo, acho que alguns cuidados devem ser tomados por pessoas que usam certos conjuntos de linguagem só por diversão ou curiosidade mas que não se importam tanto quando pessoas usam a linguagem errada ou associada com seu gênero:
A experiência de uma pessoa cis que não se importa com a linguagem associada com seu gênero mas que também usa outro(s) conjunto(s) é diferente da experiência de alguém cisdissidente que encontra dificuldades em ter pessoas aceitando sua linguagem. Maldenominação (o uso do conjunto de linguagem errado) dói muito mais quando usar o conjunto certo é importante e fundamental para a pessoa.
Pessoas cis não possuem uma "experiência meio trans" só por usarem conjuntos de linguagem além dos esperados. Pessoas trans binárias não possuem uma "experiência meio não-binária" por usarem ou terem usado conjuntos de linguagem além dos esperados. Embora algumas experiências possam ter sido parecidas, pessoas que são de um grupo internalizam muito mais o ódio contra o grupo do que pessoas que só foram confundidas com membres de tal grupo.
Pessoas não estão sendo mais inclusivas por aceitar qualquer conjunto de linguagem, ou por aceitar algum conjunto que consideram neutro além do conjunto associado com seu gênero. Isso só lembra pessoas fora dos padrões de que algumas pessoas podem ficar "brincando" com seus conjuntos o quanto quiserem e ser maldenominadas sem grandes consequências. (E potencialmente ensina pessoas dentro do padrão de que ninguém deveria se importar com linguagem, sendo que pessoas fora do padrão são as que vão sofrer mais com isso.)
Basicamente: se você quiser usar algum conjunto além do associado ao seu gênero, não há problemas em utilizá-lo, mas isso não “dá pontos” de inclusividade ou de cisdissidência. Se o motivo para você usar outros conjuntos for “quero saber como pessoas trans se sentem”, “quero saber como pessoas não-binárias são tratadas” ou “quero mostrar que ninguém deveria se importar com conjuntos de linguagem”, repense, porque isso será visto como algo ofensivo e que não ajuda a causa de ninguém.
"E se o conjunto de alguém for difícil de usar ou de lembrar?"
Em primeiro lugar, nunca diga a alguém que é muito difícil usar seu conjunto e que você pode demorar para se acostumar (ou similar). Nós que incluímos neolinguagem em nossos conjuntos de linguagem pessoais estamos acostumades a ouvir/ler isso de praticamente qualquer pessoa binária que acabou de ser informada sobre nossos conjuntos. Também peço que não pergunte o motivo de alguém não usar algum conjunto específico que você preferiria que a pessoa usasse.
Sim, neolinguagem, conjuntos fora do padrão esperado ou mesmo a possibilidade de você ter usado outro conjunto para a pessoa por anos antes de receber a informação sobre a pessoa estar usando outro conjunto são coisas difíceis de se lidar. Para todo mundo! Até a pessoa que escolheu o próprio conjunto de linguagem pode errar ocasionalmente. E eu garanto que até ativistas "super desconstruídes" muitas vezes maldenominam pessoas que não usam os conjuntos que elus internalizaram que tais pessoas deveriam usar, mesmo sem querer.
Mas é horrível ter que ouvir isso tantas e tantas vezes. Qualquer pessoa que é maldenominada com frequência sabe que são poucas pessoas que vão sequer tentar usar o conjunto de linguagem certo. Qualquer pessoa que é maldenominada com frequência sabe que pessoas bem intencionadas vão tentar usar o conjunto certo mas ainda podem errar de vez em quando, especialmente no início. Ser maldenominade já dói, e ter que lidar com um eufemismo para "sua identidade é inconveniente pra mim e talvez eu nem tenha capacidade para respeitar ela direito" ao conhecer ou se abrir para qualquer pessoa nova só contribui com essa dor.
Enfim, aqui estão algumas dicas para lidar com conjuntos que não são intuitivos para você:
Você pode aproveitar es seguintes dicas e exercícios: 1, 23;
Você pode ver como conjuntos são usados no contexto de certas frases aqui;
Você pode tentar falar sobre a pessoa para outras pessoas usando a linguagem certa, para as consequências não serem tão grandes caso você erre a linguagem da pessoa durante essa "fase de treinamento";
Você pode chamar algumas pessoas e propor que por algumas horas cada pessoa ali use algum conjunto com o qual você tem dificuldade, ou fazer algum tipo de roleplay (tipo de jogo ou brincadeira onde você cria ume personagem) e fazer algume personagem que usa tal conjunto de linguagem.
Você pode praticar o conjunto da pessoa fazendo uma história sobre ume personagem que usa o mesmo conjunto de linguagem.
Se você ainda não estiver conseguindo lembrar/usar o conjunto de alguma pessoa, você pode pedir um conjunto auxiliar, ou seja, um conjunto que a pessoa não prefere que usem, mas que aceita caso não seja possível usar outro.
Porém, se você não consegue nem pensar em ê/elu/e, e/ele/e, -/éli/i, a/ila/a, u/êlu/u ou similares como conjuntos auxiliares satisfatórios, você vai ter que dar um jeito de se acostumar com neolinguagem, usando as dicas acima ou pedindo dicas para outras pessoas (de preferência de forma privada e sem envolver a pessoa afetada).
"Mas se qualquer coisa vale como elemento de conjunto de linguagem, não vão surgir vários conjuntos estranhos e impossíveis de usar?"
Em geral, pessoas querem que seus conjuntos de linguagem sejam usados, então é mais provável que alguém com um conjunto incomum use algo como -/ilo/o ou fy/yl/y do que algo como eu/legal/sou ou fsda/vjisdhef/fhi.
A maioria dos artigos tem até duas letras. A maioria dos pronomes tem a letra L no meio ou no fim e começa com vogal. A maioria dos finais de palavra é feita para funcionar junto a consoantes. A maioria dos conjuntos é feita para ser pronunciável, mas sem que os elementos sejam confundidos com outras palavras.
Algumas exceções a isso são:
Neoartigos. É muito difícil conseguir uma ou duas letras que sejam pronunciáveis e que não sejam nenhuma palavra, especialmente se for para combinar com algum pronome e/ou final de palavra. Artigos como e, ne, ny e la parecem palavras existentes ou contrações entre um final de palavra e a palavra em (assim como na e no), enquanto artigos como ze ou ed podem parecer nomes ou partes do nome de alguém.
Conjuntos temáticos. São raridades, mas conjuntos como fo/ogo/o ou an/ane/el existem.
Pronomes compostos por símbolos ou emojis. Eles são apenas para uso em texto; não há pronúncias em voz alta, a não ser que estas sejam explicitamente indicadas.
Um ou outro uso que já vi por aí de le e ty como pronomes, e também quero incluir aqui quaisquer outros pronomes que começam com consoantes. Isso faz com que palavras como delu, aquelu e nelu possam ficar difíceis ou impossíveis de reconhecer/pronunciar (ex.: dty, nle).
Elementos que usam x ou símbolos como ＠ e *. X, ＠, ' e * possuem "pronúncia" muda; a palavra el@ pode ser lida como el, por exemplo. Mesmo assim, não é recomendável usar símbolos em conjuntos de linguagem, especialmente em abundância, por conta de programas que leem telas descreverem o símbolo (como em "el arroba" para el@).
Em geral, aquelus que possuem preferências por conjuntos mais complexos ou que contém elementos impronunciáveis também oferecem conjuntos auxiliares mais intuitivos e pronunciáveis como alternativas.
Muitas pessoas não conseguem se sentir confortáveis usando conjuntos de linguagem pessoais que foram projetados para serem “neutros” ou parecidos com os padrões. E, às vezes, tais pessoas acabam se identificando mais com palavras estranhas ou com símbolos que não podem ser pronunciados.
O ponto aqui é que nem todo conjunto de linguagem estranho é "coisa de troll", mas que realmente pode ser meio suspeito se todos os conjuntos de linguagem de alguém forem longos, impossíveis de pronunciar ou compostos por outras palavras.
Se você legitimamente não consegue usar nenhum dos conjuntos listados de alguém, você pode perguntar por um conjunto auxiliar ou não usar nenhuma linguagem específica para a pessoa.
Neopalavras não cobertas por artigo/pronome/final de palavra
Se uma pessoa é fotógrafa e usa -/elu/e, usamos "este fotógrafe" para se referir a tal pessoa?
Uma ideia para pronomes demonstrativos é que se substitua a letra L em um pronome por ss ou st para formar pronomes demonstrativos. Então éli daria em éssi e ésti, el daria em ess e est, ila daria em issa e ista, e assim por diante.
Mas, sinceramente, eu não sei se pessoas que usam ilu querem ser chamadas de istu, ou se pessoas que usam elz querem ser chamadas de essz. Nestes casos, eu recomendo manter a letra e do início e usar o final de palavra (ou ie se tal final de palavra for e), caso não seja possível perguntar para a pessoa o que ela prefere.
Neste caso, a/ila/a daria em essa e esta, enquanto ze/eld/e daria em éstie e éssie (recomendo a primeira letra E aberta para diferenciar melhor de este/esse; ou fechada caso em seu sotaque tal letra já seja aberta).
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Em relação a alternativas a meu/minha e a seu/sua, também existe divisão: algumas pessoas preferem usar as alternativas "universais" mi e su para pessoas que usam quaisquer finais de palavra fora da norma, enquanto outras preferem minhe e sue, com o final de palavra e podendo ser substituído por qualquer outro.
E quanto a letras repetidas? Escreve-se "su namoradu" ou "suu namoradu"? "Professori não-binári" ou "professori não-binárii"?
Pessoalmente, prefiro omitir a letra repetida, mas pode ter gente que prefere mantê-la. Mas só a omito no caso de letra repetida, não de som repetido: eu diria que alguém que usa o final i é não-binári, mas que alguém que usa o final y é não-bináriy.
No caso de alternativas a palavras terminadas em ca, ga, co ou go, caso o início do final de palavra seja i, e ou algo de som similar, recomendo trocar c para qu e g para gu. Então alguém seria ume amigue ou umi médiqui, para manter a sonoridade da palavra.
Artigos indefinidos e contrações que envolvem artigos usam o final de palavra, não o artigo. Alguém que usa ze/elz/e é ume menine, não umze menine. Se alguém usa i/éli/e, palavras como de e ne são usadas ao invés de di e ni.
De qualquer forma, acho importante lembrar de duas coisas:
Ainda não existem padrões muito rígidos, e até mesmo pessoas que usam neolinguagem em seus conjuntos podem não saber de várias destas coisas, ou não concordar com elas;
"Errar" algo como usar amige ao invés de amigue não vai machucar tanto quanto usar amiga ou amigo. É melhor você improvisar algo que não seja ideal do que se recusar a tentar. Só não se ofenda quando o que você pensou não era a solução ideal!
Pronúncia de neoartigos, neopronomes, etc.
Esta seção é baseada na minha experiência em conviver com outras pessoas que usam neolinguagem no dia-a-dia. É possível que existam pessoas que usem outras pronúncias para os elementos listados aqui. Por favor, priorize respeitar os desejos de quem usa os elementos indicados aqui em sua linguagem pessoal.
Este texto não listará todas as possibilidades que já vi, e sim apenas as mais comuns ou que eu acredito que possam trazer dificuldades com mais frequência. Afinal, ainda que diga-se o oposto, a maior parte da neolinguagem utilizada no dia-a-dia tenta ser acessível inclusive para programas que leem telas.
Letras e combinações pouco comuns na língua portuguesa
A pronúncia de y é igual à da letra I. A pronúncia de w é igual à da letra U.
Ou seja, ila e yla possuem a mesma pronúncia, assim como élu e élw.
Edição: É possível que existam pessoas que usem a vogal y com o mesmo som que esta letra tem na língua guarani (entre outras): um som entre i e u, que (até onde sei) pode ser feito "dizendo i com a boca no formato que se faz o som de u". Nunca vi alguém fazendo questão desta pronúncia, mas a possibilidade existe.
A pronúncia de ae (como artigo, final de palavra ou parte final de pronomes como elae) é ái. Acredito que isso possa ser diferente em regiões que não pronunciam e no final das palavras como i.
Ocasionalmente, alguém pode ter um final de palavra como s ou z, o que pode formar palavras como menins, escritorz, linds ou receosz. Em geral, as palavras são pronunciáveis: pense em como a maioria consegue pronunciar Halls, McDonald's ou youtubers sem grandes dificuldades. Caso a palavra já termine em som de s/z sem o final de palavra (como em receosz), você pode não pronunciar o final de palavra.
Quando o final de palavra não for pronunciado (indicado por x, ', * ou outra coisa assim), pode acontecer um estranhamento parecido, já que muitas palavras vão efetivamente terminar em consoantes incomuns. Novamente, você vai ter que "suprimir" a última sílaba, não deixando escapar nenhuma vogal após atrasad, amig, frac e afins.
Neoartigos
A não ser que tenham acentuação que diga o contrário, vejo os artigos contendo a com uma pronúncia como á, os artigos contendo e com uma pronúncia como ê e os artigos contendo o com uma pronúncia como ô.
Então ne teria a pronúncia nê, ze teria a pronúncia zê, la teria a pronúncia lá, oa teria a pronúncia ôa e assim por diante.
Neopronomes e sílabas tônicas
Neolinguagem, em geral, ainda segue as seguintes regras da língua portuguesa:
Toda palavra com mais de uma sílaba possui uma sílaba mais forte do que as outras, a sílaba tônica. Na palavra máscara, por exemplo, a sílaba má é mais forte. Quando há acentuação (á, é, í, ó, ú, â, ê, ô), ela sempre acontece na sílaba tônica.
Palavras oxítonas, ou seja, aquelas onde a sílaba final for mais forte (como amor, troféu ou sofá), levam acentuação apenas caso terminem em a(s), e(s), o(s), em(ns) ou nos ditongos abertos éu(s), ói(s) e éi(s).
Palavras paroxítonas, ou seja, aquelas onde a penúltima sílaba for mais forte (como túnel, bola ou recado), levam acentuação apenas caso terminem em r, l, n, x, ps, ã(o)(s), um(ns), om(ns), us, i(s), ei(s), ea(s), oa(s), eo(s), ua(s), ia(s), ue(s), ie(s), uo(s) ou io(s).
Ou seja, eli sem acento deve ser uma palavra presumida como oxítona (e-LI), afinal, se fosse paroxítona, haveria um acento (éli se a letra e tiver som aberto, êli se a mesma letra tiver som fechado).
No entanto, existem alguns problemas em fazer a presunção de que é só prestar atenção nas normas gramaticais:
Estas regras não dizem nada sobre paroxítonas que terminam em u, d, y, w, etc.;
Estas regras podem ser ignoradas por pessoas que nem sabem que elas existem, ou que preferem ignorá-las na hora de escrever os elementos de seus conjuntos.
Sugiro tratar y(s) como i(s) e u e w(s) como us nos finais das palavras, além de tratar pronomes como elx, eld e eln como palavras de uma sílaba só. Mas isso é o que eu acho mais prático, e não há necessariamente nenhum consenso acerca desta questão.
Enfim, com isso dito, aqui estão as pronúncias que sugiro para alguns neopronomes "menos óbvios":
ael → "a-ÉU"
elae → "e-LÁI", visto que o som final lembra palavras como vai e cai;
eld → "éud" ou "ÉU-di";
elf → "éuf" ou "ÉU-fi";
eln → "éun", para a letra N final você pode pensar em sua pronúncia em palavras como próton;
elu → "e-LÚ", mas muita gente usa "Ê-lu", o que não me parece ideal considerando que é pra ser uma proposta de "pronome neutro" sendo que está pendendo muito pra algo parecido com ele com esta pronúncia. Caso você queira usar "Ê-lu", sugiro simplesmente usar êlu.;
ely → "e-LI". Novamente, recomendo usar ély ou êly se você quer outra pronúncia;
elx → "éu", embora tenham algumes que prefiram "éucs";
elz → "éuz";
ila → "I-la";
ilae → "i-LÁI";
ile → "I-le";
ili → "i-LÍ";
ilo → "I-lo", pense no final da palavra aquilo;
ilu → "i-LU", mas ao menos esse aqui acho menos absurdo se quiserem pronunciar como "I-lu".
Palavras com mudanças sonoras dependentes dos finais de palavra a e o
Senhor e senhora, assim como receosa e receoso e outras palavras, mudam o som da letra O dependendo do final de palavra.
Sinceramente, não sei se existe uma regra gramatical que explique isso de forma que possa ser usada para cobrir outros finais de palavra. Ou se alguém se importa se pronunciarem receosae, senhory ou afins de forma que corresponda com o som da letra O usado para um final de palavra que a pessoa não usa.
Oltiel sugere o uso da letra U: assim, palavras desse tipo ficariam receúsy, senhure, curiúsi ou afins. Não é uma alternativa muito conhecida, mas acho que é uma boa opção.
Dicas finais para pessoas que querem ajudar quem tem conjuntos de linguagem fora dos padrões
Algumas destas dicas já estão presentes no texto, mas ainda assim pode fazer sentido reforçá-las.
Quando possível, e em relação a pessoas fora do armário, corrija pessoas usando a linguagem errada para quem você conhece. Isso tira um pouco do peso de pessoas que geralmente são maldenominadas e que precisam ficar corrigindo para não serem.
Ensine pessoas sobre artigo/pronome/final de palavra e apresente sua linguagem/fale sobre conjuntos de linguagem desta forma. Assim, pessoas cujos artigos, finais de palavra e/ou pronomes não são tão óbvios podem ter chances maiores de serem entendidas ao mencionarem seus conjuntos. Guias rápidos que podem ser referenciados podem ser encontrados aqui e aqui.
Caso você esteja segure para fazer isso, disponibilize seus conjuntos de linguagem pessoal em perfis, introduções, páginas, crachás, etc.
Não presuma conjuntos de linguagem pessoais alheios; use alguma forma de linguagem genérica/neutra universal para pessoas de conjuntos desconhecidos. Isso inclui pessoas com qualquer aparência. Não faça isso só para quem você acha "fora da norma" o suficiente.
Não pergunte sobre conjuntos de linguagem pessoais em situações que podem ter que fazer alguém ter que decidir entre ser maldenominade e sair do armário.
Se você estiver em uma conversa privada com alguém que você mal conhece e meio que precisa saber do conjunto de linguagem da pessoa, você pode reforçar que aquele conjunto é só para aquela conversa e que está tudo bem se a pessoa decidir por outro conjunto no futuro.
Respeite pessoas que não querem disponibilizar seus conjuntos de linguagem, mas também lembre-se de que há pessoas que só não disponibilizam sua linguagem pessoal porque “é para ser óbvia”. Esta noção deve ser combatida.
Não fique pedindo desculpas ou se justificando ao se deparar com um conjunto incomum ou ao errar o conjunto de alguém. Se você errar, corrija casualmente logo em seguida ou ignore e tome nota para acertar da próxima vez.
Se você estiver tentando muito e não conseguir usar nenhum conjunto pessoal disponibilizado pela pessoa, peça um conjunto auxiliar, faça exercícios para lidar melhor com o(s) conjunto(s) da pessoa ou use -/-/- ("sintaxe neutra"/nenhum elemento especificado).
Dicas finais para pessoas cujos conjuntos frequentemente não são respeitados
Quanto mais você indicar seu(s) conjunto(s) (por meio de perfis, buttons, camisetas, etc.), melhor.
Tenha alguma página (ou panfleto/cartão físico) de explicação, onde cada conjunto é demonstrado por meio de exemplos. Um guia para ajudar nisso pode ser encontrado aqui.
Mesmo seguindo as dicas anteriores, tenha em mente que a maioria das pessoas não se importa com sua linguagem pessoal, e acha que está certa ao presumir. Esperar que pessoas se deem conta de que podem estar erradas ou que as normas culturais mudem para que conjuntos neutros universais sejam usados para qualquer pessoa que ainda não disponibilizou sua linguagem provavelmente vai te frustrar a longo prazo.
Quanto mais tempo você esperar para introduzir sua linguagem pessoal e/ou corrigir pessoas em relação a ela, mais outras pessoas vão teimar não usar sua linguagem, podendo até recusar o uso porque "antes tava tudo bem falar assim".
Muitas pessoas só respeitarão sua linguagem ao serem pressionadas. Não tenha medo de corrigir pessoas próximas em todas as oportunidades possíveis, se não houver perigo.
Também não se sinta mal ao cercar pessoas que te maldenominam de pessoas que usam o conjunto certo (ou um dos conjuntos certos), e que não hesitam em corrigir cada erro.
Sua disforia relacionada com linguagem é válida (mesmo que você seja cis). Se você tiver que passar um tempo longe de quem te maldenomina, ou se você estiver desconfortável com maldenominação, isso não é frescura ou algo vergonhoso, ridículo ou incomum.
Você não é uma pessoa ruim, confusa ou chata por ter um conjunto incomum, ter vários conjuntos, mudar de conjuntos frequentemente, querer conjuntos diferentes em situações diferentes, etc.
Ao apresentar seus conjuntos, é preferível que você não dê muitas opções, e que tais opções sejam organizadas. Por exemplo, em um crachá, pode ser melhor você colocar um ou dois conjuntos ao invés de oito ou dez, e tente organizar vários elementos em mais de um conjunto. Por exemplo, coloque em seu perfil que você usa a/ela/a, -/ele/e, le/ile/e e u/elu/u ao invés de dizer que você usa a/u/le/ela/ele/elu/ile/e/a/u.
Tanto na fala oral quanto na escrita, outras pessoas não se corrigem se baseando no conjunto de linguagem que você está usando. Isso significa que eu acho relativamente seguro dizer que você é "ume alune" ao invés de "um aluno", por exemplo.
É verdade que elementos de conjuntos mais incomuns podem fazer com que seja mais difícil de alguém usar certo conjunto de linguagem, mas garanto que você não precisa se confinar a conjuntos como (ê, e)/elu/e ou -/ile/e só por serem mais espalhados/comuns. A maioria vai reagir com a mesma quantidade de confusão/raiva/etc. ao lidar com estes conjuntos em relação a conjuntos como y/ily/y, ze/elz/e ou i/ila/i. Recomendo usar o que ficar mais confortável para você!
Linguagem não-binária ou neutra é um conjunto de formas linguísticas para se comunicar de maneira a não demarcar gênero para pessoas. Essa forma de linguagem é extremamente importante para pessoas trans não-binárias.
The global Family Entertainment Center (FEC) market is entering a decisive expansion phase shaped by diversified consumer expectations, multipurpose venue planning, and increasingly sophisticated attraction portfolios. Operators across urban and suburban regions are deploying compact yet high-value assets—such as a small roller coaster or advanced simulators—to reinforce visitor engagement and lengthen dwell time. At the same time, equipment manufacturers are responding with modular engineering, integrated digital systems, and broader inventories of theme park equipment for sale, enabling new entrants to scale quickly with reduced technical overhead. The sector’s acceleration is measurable, sustained, and structurally supported by both demographic and economic trends.
Shifts in Consumer Behavior
Demand for localized leisure offerings has intensified as families seek short-duration, low-logistics entertainment options. These preferences elevate FEC venues that integrate distinct zones—motion rides, soft-play modules, gamification arenas, and small-footprint thrill rides.
Younger demographics, in particular, show a preference for immersive micro-experiences rather than singular marquee attractions. A small roller coaster within an indoor facility, for example, provides a compact yet repeatable adrenaline component without overwhelming operational requirements. This shift toward modular excitement is reconfiguring floor plans and revenue models.
Technology-Driven Upgrades
Advanced engineering is redefining the possibilities for indoor and hybrid FEC deployments. Modern theme park equipment for sale increasingly features:
Energy-efficient drive systems
Reinforced yet lightweight structural alloys
Sensor-based diagnostics for predictive maintenance
Integrated queue, ticketing, and capacity-management software These technical advancements reduce downtime and enhance throughput reliability. Operators can maintain higher utilization rates, especially in peak hours, by adopting equipment designed for repetitive short-cycle operation.
As a result, the performance gap between traditional amusement parks and FECs continues to narrow.
Spatial Optimization and Vertical Growth
Real estate scarcity has pushed operators toward vertical expansion and multi-level architectural concepts. These venues employ mezzanines, suspended paths, and elevated ride platforms to amplify perceived scale.
A strategically placed small roller coaster on a raised deck, for example, creates an immediately visible kinetic focal point. The visual motion acts as a visitor magnet, drawing traffic deeper into the facility.
This trend is prompting designers to integrate structural reinforcement at early planning stages, allowing heavier attractions to coexist with lightweight play structures and VR zones.
Diversification of Revenue Streams
The rise of hybrid FEC formats—combining dining, edutainment, retail, and competitive socializing—is reshaping financial models. Revenue is no longer anchored solely in ticket sales. Operators increasingly adopt multi-tier monetization:
Pay-per-ride micro-transactions
Membership and loyalty subscriptions
High-margin food and beverage operations
Sponsored attraction zones
Corporate event rentals and private bookings
Attractions sourced from the growing selection of theme park equipment for sale can be customized for branding partnerships, enabling incremental revenue opportunities and improved return on capital expenditure.
Safety, Compliance, and Engineering Traceability
As the FEC sector scales, safety governance has become a critical determinant of market access. Governments and industry bodies are enforcing tighter directives on structural integrity, ride commissioning, and ongoing maintenance protocols.
Manufacturers offering theme park equipment for sale must now provide comprehensive documentation packages including:
Finite element analysis (FEA) reports
Material certification and welding traceability
Redundant braking or restraint systems
Detailed operating manuals and training modules
These requirements ensure that even compact attractions—such as a small roller coaster—meet international safety expectations while maintaining operational efficiency.
Demand in Emerging Markets
Urbanization in Asia, the Middle East, and parts of Latin America has driven a surge in new FEC developments. Developers in these regions frequently adopt “anchor-plus-cluster” models: establishing a major attraction surrounded by smaller modular installations.
Given climate considerations and space constraints, indoor environments dominate these markets. Consequently, there is strong demand for compact, low-noise, high-throughput attractions—precisely the category where manufacturers have expanded offerings of theme park equipment for sale optimized for enclosed venues.
Competitive Landscape and Consolidation Trends
The market is witnessing consolidation as multi-site operators acquire independent FECs to expand their footprint and standardize operations. This consolidation brings economies of scale:
Unified procurement systems
Centralized maintenance teams
Shared inventory for replacement parts
Streamlined compliance workflows
Standardized attraction portfolios—including staples like a small roller coaster—enable operators to replicate high-performing layouts across regions with minimal redesign.
Equipment suppliers are likewise merging to expand catalog breadth, integrate digital ride-control systems, and enhance global after-sales support.
Strategic Implications for Investors
Investors entering the FEC sector face a landscape that rewards disciplined asset selection and precise capacity planning. Key considerations include:
Market Density and Catchment Area Over-saturation can erode per-capita spend. Feasibility studies must calculate realistic dwell time and traffic potential.
Attraction Mix Balancing soft-play, competitive gaming, and thrill elements is essential. Incorporating a compact kinetic ride—such as a small roller coaster—can anchor visitor circulation patterns.
Lifecycle Value of Equipment High-quality theme park equipment for sale with comprehensive spare-parts systems reduces lifecycle cost and protects uptime.
Digital Integration Cashless systems, app-based loyalty programs, and data-driven crowd management shape modern FEC competitiveness.
Outlook and Long-Term Trajectory
The expansion of the Family Entertainment Center market is expected to continue at a steady rate, driven by demographic stability, the increasing value placed on shared family experiences, and the rising availability of compact yet technologically advanced attractions.
Manufacturers are accelerating development cycles, offering new categories of theme park equipment for sale capable of functioning in smaller footprints while delivering high entertainment value. These innovations position FECs as agile, replicable investment opportunities adaptable to malls, mixed-use developments, transport hubs, and tourist districts.
Meanwhile, anchor attractions like a small roller coaster will remain essential tools for establishing initial foot traffic, enhancing venue visibility, and shaping visitor psychology in crowded entertainment environments.
Conclusion
The Family Entertainment Center market is transitioning into a mature yet dynamically evolving sector defined by engineered efficiency, modular attraction strategies, and multi-stream monetization. The interplay between compact kinetic attractions, upgraded facility design, and high-reliability theme park equipment for sale will continue to drive competitive differentiation.
Operators who integrate technical rigor with flexible visitor experiences are best positioned to capture the next phase of growth.
Continuing from my last grocery shopping video, hang out with me at 85 Degree Bakery Cafe's outdoor dining section as I enjoy sugary sweets that are honestly probably fucking terrible for me. But less terrible than meats and cholesterol-laden goods? So, just sit there quietly and let me have this.
Wanted to refilm this vlog I started on the first day of summer, but it's autumn now. The weather's cold, I'm wet in a bad way, and ain't no way I'm drinking iced boba this early in the morning, so we're gonna have to make do with hot big titty tea instead.
Back at another open streets event! This time, I’m biking around a mission while diving into the less pretty parts of California's legacy. It’s only a few weeks after the Pico Union Ciclavia, but it took me all summer to get around to editing it cause I wasn't sure if I gave these complex subjects the respect they deserved. However, after seeing the past year of my government's actions, it feels like the bar for recognizing American history has never been lower.
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I believe that should not be a valid defense, ever.
If you're not OK with what you're ordered to do, you should not do it (and we should have a system of justice and social support which honors that).
If you actually do something you're responsible for that deed, ie possibly culpable.
If you're being pressured/manipulated/... the person doing so is responsible for that, so culpable as well - but notin place - if applicable.
German law actually contains an apologetic first step in this direction, called 'Remonstration'. I think we can all guess how it wound up in that particular legal system.
Besides being able to point at the article and say "see, we fixed it", I'm not aware of a single (let alone significant) case where it was actually/successfully used.
In somewhat interesting contrast, German law does not codify protection of whistle blowers, for example.
Disagree. One of the main purposes of military training (in most, maybe all, cases) is to strip everyone of their individual autonomy.
If you're not OK with what you're ordered to do, you should not do it
The problem with this that soldiers are explicitly trained to not even consider their own judgement of their orders. They don't stop, judge, then pull the trigger. They just pull the trigger. If they disobey an order, they're court martialed. It's the military's justice system that then gets to decide if the order was unlawful. The system is designed to strip soldiers of their power.
If a 28yo enlists, they share some responsibility simply by knowingly joining an immoral organization. But most new recruits are in high school. They don't know what the hell is going on.
All this to say: the leaders who have stripped young boys of their autonomy in order to have them commit horrific acts that will scar them for life in order to protect their own regime, they're the real villains. I see the individual soldiers as victims.
However, EU regulation introduced in June 2025 requires that all smartphones sold on the European market receive software updates for a long time. The directive does not specify a minimum price for this rule to take effect. The EU explicitly states that software updates must be available for five years after a device is no longer sold.
Motorola’s lawyers have apparently studied that legal text closely, and now the company appears to be ready to confront the EU Commission. Their interpretation is that the EU does not actually require updates to be provided at all, but only requires that if updates are offered, they must be free of charge. However, we are not aware of any case in which a smartphone manufacturer has ever charged money for security patches.
According to EU regulations, every smartphone is supposed to receive software updates for many years. That makes sense so users don't have to throw away a working device. But Motorola is trying to get around this with some legal fine print.
[url=https://www.gsmarena.com/sony_xperia_10_vii-review-2879.php]https://www.gsmarena.com/sony_xperia_10_vii-review-2879.php[/url]
The device seems okay, but I wanted to hear if other people here have feedback
The Xperia 10 series has always been Sony's definition of a balanced mid-ranger - practical, lightweight, with a focus on longevity and multimedia. The...
5 III here and it's generally been good for 3.5 years now, but I've been disappointed to find the fingerprint reader stopped working recently. Apparently this is a somewhat widespread issue due to the narrow, edge-located design that allows too much moisture underneath it.
Yours lasted longer than mine. Mine gave out after 2 years. I'm still using it though. I wish the screen were a bit brighter and the speakers a bit louder. Other than that it's the perfect phone.
My wife used Xperia phones exclusively for years. The only real issues she had, and why she dropped them, was their mid tier cameras and the severe overheating. She switched pre-COVID, so maybe the CPU issue has been addressed.
Had Sony smartphones for years. Loved them. The real issue with Sony nowadays is imho their terrible update policy which only offers two or three years if updates iirc, which is so much less than other players it was a dealbreaker for me. Last time I had one I could flash a custom rom but the camera was locked to the original firmware, with the default mode being much worse than the one Sony offered - which I considered a dick move. Dunno how they behave with their current phones though.
Just checked, the phone will supposedly be updated until 2031, which isn't bad. Battery, camera, display all seem to be fine.
I'm running a Motorola G Power for the headphone jack. Do you have more info on their predatory update policy? Genuinely curious to know what's in store for me in the future. I'm not crazy about this phone but it does have a headphone jack and an SD card slot which is why I settled for it.
I have a Sony Xperia 10 IV. To be honest, I only bought it for the headphone jack and microSD card slot, and struggled a lot between it and an old Fairphone. If not for gaming or taking pictures, it's good enough, I guess. At lease, it's good enough for me.
I degoogled it, striped most of its property apps, and only installed FOSS ones as replacements. It has a good battery life (at lease for me), I only have to charge it twice a week, but I'm not a heavy user. (Only basic social, web browsing, music, some video watching.)
It still receives security updates after three years, which should have stopped sometime ago. Anyway, I think I'll eventually have to get it a new OS.
Not knowing the requirements that push you to needing an SD (I get it, I wish all phones still had them), but I found 2 apps that really help with reducing my need for an SD: Syncthing and Resilio Sync.
ST ensures all files on my phone are synced to my home server (photos instantly, other files only when I have wifi), and Resilio enables me to pull any file from my home server at any time (with it's Selective Sync feature).
This may not address your requirements, just throwing it out there.
The microSD card is for all the videos and lossless CDs, they are huge... For desktop syncing, I use self-hosted Syncthing too, somehow I didn't use it for my phone...
I have the 10vi. It's pretty good for the money I paid (~300€). The UI is very close to plain android which is nice and doesn't have a billion extra apps pre-installed like Samsung. The battery has been great so far. MicroSD and headphone jack are great features and I think you can also unlock the bootloader.
Having said that, some issues I've had that may or may not exist in other versions: - The lock screen is buggy as hell, way too many accidental fingerprint unlocks and camera bugs that have persisted across updates. - In Europe (different countries) it's only ever gotten 5G once. - Sony is doing something weird with its camera hardware. Any apps that try to use the camera outside the official app are having issues focusing and one app was actually crashing. This is not an everyday issue but would be a problem if you want to use a third party camera app.
I'd still recommend it but maybe try to find a discount cause Sony overcharges a lot.
Go to versus. On the left side, scroll down to 3.5mm headphone jack and change the selector to On. Then choose whatever are the other most important criteria for you.
First of all, I wanna say that I love my Steam Deck and Linux. I'm spending 90% of my gaming time on the Deck.
That being said, the external storage situation on Steam OS is really shitty and it makes me understand why some people just stick to normal consoles.
I've been using external storage for years on Playstation and never encountered a problem which made me reinstall everything.
In around a month, it happened to me twice on Steam OS.
All the Steam games on my external drive just disappeared and Retrodeck tells me that (probably because of an update to Steam OS) it can't find my rom folders anymore.
Such things makes me look stupid when I'm trying to show my son how kind of "better" the Steam Deck is compared to my Playstation 5.
I've seen that Valve is saying that we shouldn't rely on external storage, but there is no real choice now that game are taking so much space and with only 256gb at my disposal in the Deck. I hope they'll improve this with the launch of Steam Machine as it'd be a big step toward an almost console like experience.
Would having an SD card be safer than an external hard drive in such situation?
Buying more internal storage is a solution that I'd want to avoid as it would only be usable with one device..
What external storage are you using? Is it the same that worked so flawlessly on your PS5?
Because I’ve recently bought some M.2 SSD enclosures with a Realtek RTL9210B chip and those seem to be buggy in that the enclosure goes offline for a few seconds after some random time (hours to days).
And I only noticed it because of random disconnect notifications about the one I use for Time Machine.
La web de Olga Panadés es una luminosa guía para aquellos que desean profundizar en un curso de milagros. Olga, como facilitadora devocional, acompaña a las personas en su proceso de autodescubrimiento y conexión con el Maestro interior. Su enfoque se basa en la simplicidad y claridad, permitiendo que cada individuo explore las enseñanzas de forma accesible y práctica.
Ofrecen diversos programas, incluyendo "La Iniciación", que ofrece una comprensión paso a paso de las lecciones de este curso fundamental. Además, "La Travesía" proporciona un viaje devocional de cuatro semanas dirigido a aquellos que buscan una conexión más profunda con su espiritualidad.
El Círculo representa un espacio de encuentro mensal para quienes están comprometidos con el aprendizaje continuo de un curso de milagros, fomentando una comunidad de apoyo y conexión. Las sesiones individuales permiten a los participantes trabajar a un nivel personal, facilitando un espacio para el crecimiento y la sanación.
El sitio web de Olga Panadés es un recurso invaluable para cualquiera que busque integrar las enseñanzas de un curso de milagros y vivir una experiencia transformadora.
However, real marble comes with significant drawbacks: it's expensive, heavy, porous, and requires high maintenance. Marble-look tiles offer a practical alternative that captures the aesthetic appeal of marble without the associated hassles.
Marble has long been a symbol of timeless elegance, adorning countless classic interiors with its unique veining, cool touch, and quiet opulence. However, real marble comes with significant drawbacks: it's expensive, heavy, porous, and requires high maintenance. Marble-look tiles offer a practical alternative that captures the aesthetic appeal of marble without the associated hassles.
Practicality and Aesthetic Appeal
Marble-look tiles are typically crafted from porcelain or glazed ceramic, expertly designed to replicate the veins, subtle color variations, and polished sheen of natural marble. At a distance, these tiles can easily be mistaken for real stone. Upon closer inspection, their benefits become apparent. Porcelain tiles are stain-resistant and do not absorb water like natural marble, making them ideal for kitchens, bathrooms, and high-traffic areas. This versatility allows you to incorporate the classic marble look throughout your home, not just in low-use rooms.
Consistency and Customization
One of the standout features of marble-look tiles is their consistency. Unlike real marble, which can vary greatly from slab to slab, these tiles offer uniformity. You can order tiles that match perfectly across an entire room, ensuring a cohesive look. They come in a variety of sizes, finishes, and grout-friendly rectified edges, allowing for customization to suit your specific needs. Whether you desire a book-matched marble wall or a seamless vein across the floor, porcelain tiles can achieve these effects. A visit to a ceramic tile shop will allow you to compare textures and tones before making a final decision.
Durability and Low Maintenance
Durability is another strong point of marble-look tiles. Natural marble is relatively soft and prone to scratches, chips, and stains, requiring regular sealing to maintain its appearance. In contrast, porcelain tiles are dense and hard, resisting scratches and stains. They can withstand intense cleaning and harsh cleaners that would damage natural stone, making them practical for busy households, rental units, and homes with children or pets.
Maintenance is also significantly simpler with marble-look tiles. While natural marble needs to be sealed and resealed regularly, marble-look tiles require only basic sweeping and mopping to stay looking fresh. Grout lines are the primary maintenance concern, so choosing the right grout is essential. Epoxy grout reduces staining and cleaning efforts. For a cleaner look, consider rectified tiles with narrow joints to minimize grout area. When selecting tiles at a tile shop in Singapore, inquire about recommended grout and cleaning products that match the finish.
Versatile Finish Options
Marble-look tiles offer a range of finish options to suit any room. Polished tiles provide a glossy, high-end sheen, perfect for entrance halls and living areas. Honed finishes offer a matte, softer look, ideal for floors where slip resistance is important. Textured tiles can mimic honed stone while adding grip for wet areas. Consider the function of each room when choosing a finish: while glossy tiles look luxurious, they can be more slippery when wet. Your tiler can recommend the appropriate finish for each space.
Large Format and Seamless Effects
Large-format porcelain slabs are another significant advantage of marble-look tiles. These slabs can be over a meter long, reducing grout lines and creating a continuous field that mimics the appearance of a natural slab. The visual effect is calm and expansive, making small rooms feel larger by minimizing surface interruptions. If you're drawn to the seamless look of marble slabs, consult your ceramic tile shop about full-size panels and rectified edges.
Matching with Interiors
Marble-look tiles are incredibly versatile when it comes to matching with different interior styles. Pale Carrara-style veins complement Scandinavian and minimalist interiors, while stronger Calacatta-style contrasts pair well with brass hardware and darker cabinetry. Dark marble-look tiles add drama and work beautifully with matte black fixtures. The key to a successful design is balance: use the tile as a backdrop and let finishes, furniture, and textiles add warmth. If you're renovating in Singapore, visit a tile shop in Singapore to see how samples interact with your lighting and fixtures.
Cost and Value Considerations
Cost and value are important considerations when choosing flooring and wall materials. Real marble is expensive not only in terms of material costs but also in transportation and installation. Additionally, the long-term maintenance costs can add up. Marble-look tiles offer a more affordable upfront cost and lower ongoing care requirements. Installation is simpler due to the lighter weight and consistency of the tiles. For many homeowners, the visual appeal is high, and the financial risk is lower. A well-executed marble-look installation can enhance resale value without being prohibitively expensive.
Sustainability and Sourcing
Sustainability is another factor to consider. While porcelain tiles require energy to fire, they can last for decades. Many manufacturers now incorporate recycled content and use more efficient kilns. Natural stone, on the other hand, has a significant environmental footprint due to quarrying and transportation. If sustainability is a priority, ask your ceramic tile shop about product disclosures, recycled content, and local sourcing options. A durable tile that minimizes the need for frequent replacement is generally the greener choice.
Importance of Proper Installation
Installation is a critical aspect of achieving a beautiful and functional tile installation. Proper substrate flatness, correct adhesives, and precise joints are essential, especially for large-format marble-look slabs. If you want the veins to flow consistently, mark the tiles beforehand and discuss the direction with your installer. Luxury tiles benefit from experienced installers who can handle large pieces and minimize lippage. If you don't have a preferred installer, your tile shop can provide recommendations.
Conclusion: Timeless Elegance for Modern Living
In conclusion, marble-look tiles offer the timeless elegance of marble with the practicality and durability needed for modern living. They provide consistency, ease of maintenance, and a wide range of finish options. Whether you're looking to create a seamless look or match a specific interior style, a visit to a ceramic tile shop in Singapore will help you find the perfect tiles. Choose the right finish, grout, and installer, and you'll enjoy a surface that looks timeless and performs well in everyday life.
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My mom has been a lifelong windows user and has not used any other operating systems before besides her iPad and iPhone, but she’s pretty good at figuring things out technology wise as far as I know, but still just wants her computer to just work.
After my mom finished using quickbooks and other windows hold only programs I recommended Linux to her especially since she was on windows 10 and couldn’t upgrade to 11.
I just installed Linux mint for her and got her all setup with all her files in the same place etc. I even cloned her windows 10 system and setup a virtual machine with her old system in case of an emergency she needs something that just doesn’t work on Linux or something we missed, it’s pretty slow due to running the VM from an HDD but I told her she shouldn’t need to use it except in some extreme circumstances.
Her use cases these days are looking through, saving photos from her phone, browsing the web, and some word processing / spreadsheets which I setup to have the tabbed view similar to Microsoft office. I also installed the Google Chrome flatpak for her so she can sync all her bookmarks, and such back onto her device.
I setup unattended upgrades and helped her verify all her peripherals and Bluetooth devices are working.
So far so good only hiccup seems to be she has some saved emails in .msg format which can’t be opened but I read I can convert those files into a readable format for her, worst case she can use the vm I setup.
I let her know I’m available for tech support whenever she needs if something comes up.
Looking for feedback on anything I may have missed or might want to tell her to ensure she has a good experience.
Nice - I've done a similar thing for my mom, except she was transitioning from macOS (but had used Windows a lot previously for work). So far she has had a package conflict that broke the package system (Signal was installed from their PPA) which raised a rather ominous error message for her ("Your package system is broken"). I could fix it easily as I had set up VNC via SSH, and that worked as expected first time I needed it, but it's not something she would be able to do by herself. And I still haven't installed Singal in a way that won't break things later yet...
She still uses her old Macbook on and off, and there are some things she only has access through that machine. I want to set up better cross platform solutions for her. Especially file sync and images needs to be fixed, but I've not landed on a way to do that. I could set her up with an account on my Nextcloud, but I don't like having access to her files and I also would not want to be liable for her files disappearing. Same with images. I use Nextcloud for images myself, have thought of setting up Immich. But same thing here, don't really want to have access to her stuff (not sure if Immich can be set up to be E2EE?)
You should install Signal as Flatpak. It should be available through the app store if you are on Mint. Otherwise see flathub.org/en/apps/org.signal…
Do not consult companies websites for how to install on Linux if you can avoid it, they will nearly always break your setup. Just head for the app store and click the big green button.
Signal on flatpak works well, and I agree. The only thing I had to do was edit it with flatseal to let it access my home directory - sending files and pictures didn’t work properly until I did that.
Flatpak can be confusing when you try to access the file system without the rights until you realize it’s the sandbox config.
There's a note on the Flathub page that it requires permission to your home folder, so this should be granted automatically. Maybe they made an update since you had the issue?
In most cases the sandboxing should not require user intervention. Apps can either use the native file picker (which gives them access to selected files) or list which directories they want to access in their manifest. If an app tells you to select a file by path-in-text-input or homemade file picker, but doesn't have permission to the relevant directories, that's a config issue on the packager's side.
I bricked my mother's computer (tried to create a USB backup, Windows 10 froze 80% through, cutting power corrupted the GPT partition table). She agreed to use Fedora Workstation on it so I tried to install it but it wouldn't detect the drive after I ran basically every command in System Recovery Linux from a USB in an attempt to fix it.
We've concluded the laptop is done for. Thankfully I had just bought a used laptop for $40 (Toshiba Satelite Pro U500) that I had no actual use for (I just thought it was neat). Unfortunately it came with Windows 10 and unlike Windows 11, Windows 10 is good enough. I put the change to Linux on hold until after Windows 10 extended support ends in October next year.
I should really set up unattended updates on my own PC.
As for what you might have missed, as much as I hate GNOME it's pretty solid for a casual user (especially from the Apple ecosystem). Not that it really matters. Also, you should go in and enable the firewall. Linux Mint for some reason installs with the firewall completely open by default IIRC.
Well updates installs not only security patches but also new features and there always possibly that something would break,so better if u would do upgrade urself manually
I'd look into potentially setting up Winboat or Winapps on her machine. would make using Windows stuff slightly easier as opposed to having to keep opening up a VM.
My goal here is for her NOT to use the VM. I only set it up as a backup in case there was something I overlooked. Ideally she’ll never need to go into the VM.
I think Mint does this out of the box, but check if Timeshift is set up for automatic backups. It's meant for system-level snapshots (basically everything outside the HOME-folder), so you can easily revert if an update or something breaks the system.
Also consider some form of periodic external backup of her files and documents in the home folder, to protect against hardware failure.
Buying an asphalt plant for sale from China has become a common choice for contractors across Latin America due to competitive manufacturing quality, accessible pricing, and flexible equipment configurations. However, the total investment cost involves far more than the machine’s list price. Shipping, customs clearance, inland transport, installation, training, and hidden operational expenses can significantly affect the overall budget. Contractors working on large infrastructure projects, especially those connected to asphalt plant Peru applications or remote road construction, must understand the full cost structure to make accurate financial plans. This article provides a practical, detailed breakdown of all major expenses and offers strategies to help companies avoid unexpected costs.
Machine Purchase Price And Optional Configurations
The core cost begins with the asphalt plant itself, but variations in technology, capacity, and optional components can create significant price differences. Whether purchasing a stationary model or evaluating a competitive mobile asphalt plant price, buyers must consider the total value rather than comparing base prices alone.
Base Equipment Cost
An asphalt plant for sale(planta de asfalto en venta) from China typically includes essential components such as the drying drum, burner, dust collector, mixing tower, and control system. Prices vary depending on capacity and automation features. Larger plants or those with advanced mixing systems naturally cost more but also support higher daily output.
Optional Upgrades That Affect The Budget
Manufacturers offer various optional systems, including:
Baghouse dust collectors
Reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) systems
Energy-efficient burners
High-automation control units
Each upgrade enhances efficiency or compliance, but contractors should confirm whether these additions are necessary for local regulations, especially for projects similar to asphalt plant Peru installations where environmental standards are rising.
International Shipping And Port Handling Costs
Shipping is one of the most significant additional costs when transporting equipment from China to Latin America. Understanding how these expenses are calculated allows contractors to avoid misleading budget assumptions.
Sea Freight Costs
Shipping costs depend heavily on destination, container availability, and seasonal freight fluctuations. Remote ports or smaller markets typically have higher container rates. Contractors should also consider the number of containers required, as asphalt plants often ship in multiple units.
Port Service Fees And Documentation
Beyond the freight rate, port-related expenses may include:
Terminal handling charges
Customs inspection fees
Port storage charges for delays
Bank and customs documentation fees
These unexpected items can add hundreds or thousands of dollars to the total cost.
Customs Duties, Taxes, And Import Requirements
Every Latin American country has unique tax rules affecting asphalt plant imports. These must be calculated from the beginning to avoid severe cost overruns.
Import Duties And VAT
Depending on the country, import duties may range from 5% to more than 25% of the equipment value. VAT is typically applied after duties, further increasing the total cost. Contractors working on asphalt plant Peru(planta asfalto Perú) projects should consult local customs brokers to ensure proper pre-calculations.
Compliance-Related Costs
Countries with strict environmental rules may require dust control systems or low-emission burners. If these upgrades were not included in the original quote, contractors will face additional expenses later. Early communication with both supplier and local regulators helps avoid this problem.
Inland Transportation And Site Delivery
Transporting heavy equipment from the port to the project site is often more challenging than international shipping. Many infrastructure projects are located far from major cities, especially those linked to mining, rural road networks, or port expansions.
Route Planning Challenges
Transporting large asphalt plant components may require:
Escort vehicles
Special permits
Road reinforcement or bridge clearance checks
These additional logistics frequently influence the total mobile asphalt plant price(planta de asfalto movil precio) because mobile units typically reduce transport complexity and may require fewer special vehicles.
Unloading, Crane Rental, And On-Site Handling
Cranes are often necessary for unloading containers and positioning equipment on concrete foundations. Contractors who fail to budget for crane rental or lifting services may face unexpected costs once the plant arrives.
Installation, Commissioning, And Operator Training
Once the plant reaches the site, installation involves labor, time, and potential technical adjustments.
Supplier-Side Services
Reputable Chinese suppliers provide on-site engineers to supervise installation and train local operators. However, contractors must clearly verify:
Whether the service fee is included in the purchase price
Who pays for travel, accommodation, and meals
How long the commissioning period lasts
Local Labor And Infrastructure
Contractors should also account for foundation preparation, power supply installation, and fuel system setup. These non-equipment elements often cost more in remote or mountainous areas.
Hidden Costs And How Contractors Can Avoid Them
Hidden costs can appear at any stage of the procurement process, but most can be eliminated with proper planning and supplier communication.
Common Hidden Cost Categories
Frequent overlooked expenses include:
Extra spare parts not included in the standard package
Delays at port causing storage fees
Incorrect documentation leading to customs penalties
Civil works changes required after plant arrival
Practical Tips For Avoiding Hidden Costs
To minimize risk, contractors should:
Request a fully itemized quotation from suppliers, covering all equipment and optional parts
Use a reliable freight forwarder familiar with asphalt plant shipments
Consult local customs brokers early in the purchasing process
Confirm crane rental and ground preparation costs before delivery
Consider a mobile asphalt plant price if project mobility reduces future transport costs
Conclusion
The total cost of importing an asphalt plant from China to Latin America depends on machinery specifications, international logistics, customs duties, installation requirements, and hidden operational factors. Understanding each cost element allows contractors to accurately calculate investment and select the most suitable asphalt plant for sale for their project needs. Whether planning installations similar to asphalt plant Peru projects or seeking faster deployment with mobile units, careful preparation is the key to avoiding budget overruns and ensuring long-term performance.
The conversation around construction equipment in Nigeria is evolving, and the concrete mixer is at the center of this dynamic shift. While the initial price tags of traditional drum mixers might seem appealing, a deeper analysis reveals a more compelling narrative. The market is witnessing a pivot towards efficiency and operational autonomy, driven by the unique challenges and opportunities within the Nigerian building sector. Understanding the true cost of a concrete mixer requires looking beyond the simple invoice and evaluating its impact on labor, logistics, and project timelines. In this context, self loading concrete mixture are not just another option; they are emerging as a strategic asset, redefining value for forward-thinking contractors and developers who are tired of the old bottlenecks and are ready to build smarter.
The Nigerian Construction Landscape: A Market Ripe for Disruption
Nigeria's construction ecosystem is a vibrant, fast-paced environment characterized by ambitious projects and equally formidable challenges. The traditional workflow, reliant on manual labor, separate loading equipment, and standalone mixers, is fraught with inefficiencies that inflate hidden costs. Labor dependencies can lead to project delays and inconsistent output quality. The logistics of coordinating multiple machines and workers on often congested and space-constrained sites creates a operational friction that slows progress to a crawl. Furthermore, the reliance on a steady supply of ready-mix concrete from off-site plants introduces vulnerability to price volatility and delivery delays, which can derail even the most meticulously planned project schedule. This landscape, with its inherent complexities, is precisely why the market is primed for a more integrated and intelligent solution.
The Self-Loading Value Proposition: More Than Just a Mixer
A self-loading concrete mixer is a paradigm shift in on-site material management. It is not merely a mixer but a compact, mobile batching plant on wheels. This all-in-one functionality is its superpower. The machine integrates a loading mechanism, water tank, aggregate and cement hoppers, and a mixing drum into a single, cohesive unit. This consolidation dismantles the traditional, disjointed process. A single operator can now manage the entire concrete production cycle—from loading raw materials to discharging the final mixed product directly at the point of placement. This eliminates the need for a separate wheel loader and its operator, drastically reducing labor costs and simplifying on-site coordination. The agility of these units allows them to navigate tight urban sites and access remote locations, bringing production capability directly to where it's needed most, untethering projects from the limitations of fixed supply chains.
The Smart Investment: Analyzing Total Cost of Ownership
When evaluating price of concrete mixer in nigeria, the smart money is on the total cost of ownership, not the initial purchase price. This is where self-loading models truly distinguish themselves and justify their investment. While the upfront cost is higher than a basic drum mixer, the long-term financial picture tells a different story. The significant reduction in labor—consolidating multiple roles into one—translates into continuous savings on wages. The operational efficiency gained from producing concrete on-demand slashes project timelines, enabling contractors to take on more work within the same period. This increased throughput is a direct revenue multiplier. Additionally, by producing your own concrete, you insulate your business from the price fluctuations of commercial ready-mix and eliminate the costs and delays associated with its transport. When you factor in the versatility, time savings, and labor optimization, the ROI on a self-loading mixer becomes overwhelmingly persuasive, making it not an expense, but a strategic investment in building a more resilient, profitable, and competitive construction business in Nigeria.
Fedora annoyed me and I said screw it, I'm going back to arch. But I cant remember how I got it to work the last time I set it up. There's a couple weird issues and changes since last I set this up that I think are contributing to this.
1 - /boot/efi is no longer considered an appropriate mount point. just create a EFI partition and mount it /efi and let the OS put /boot inside the root partition if it needs it., then throw a UKI on /boot/efi/EFI/Linux. Problem? bootctl insists I am either in a container or not in EFI mode. I have not been successful in convincing it otherwise.
2 - bcachefs boot time mounting is in a weird place right now. supposedly I can call a piece of the array by UUID and it will just mount, but I used to use the old_blk_id method in fstab and the modern equivalent to that appears to be grabbing the UUID off bcachefs fs usage, which will show the UUID that matches all members of the array under blkid, which is noted as being broken at the moment. Why not use btrfs? well I tried it and found it annoyingly inflexible and finally gave up and am trying to go back to what worked on my last home server.
3 - I'm attempting to use UKI this time to make it easier to transition into using secure boot when I feel like doing that later on, and its possible that UKI, systemd-boot, bcachefs, and the /efi mountpoint are not a great mix.
Yeah. I'm someone who often strays from the beaten path, but then again, I don't wonder why I have problems and go back to defaults once I find out that I'm doing that edge case thing again.
It's hard enough to use Linux sometimes, don't need to make my life even harder. I usually use my PC as a tool, not as a hobby.
just create a EFI partition and mount it /efi and let the OS put /boot inside the root partition if it needs it., then throw a UKI on /boot/efi/EFI/Linux
If I'm reading this correctly you mounted the ESP to /efi and then put the UKI in /boot/efi anyway. It needs to be on the ESP. My /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset looks like this, if it helps. If you were to use /boot/efi for the ESP you would have to change the paths here.
its possible that UKI, systemd-boot, bcachefs, and the /efi mountpoint are not a great mix
I don't see the point of systemd-boot with UKIs. All it does is chain-load the EFI boot stub in the UKI anyway. I just used efibootmgr to create an entry in the UEFI which boots the UKI directly.
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I think it's just a really good Windows-like. It uses a modified GNOME that looks pretty good. Though as a KDE fangirl, I probably wouldn't be able to see it as anything other than GNOME. (◕દ◕)
It's based on Ubuntu, so I'm sure support is good and breakage is infrequent.
It also looks like you can pay $50 and get access to the pro version, which can mimic any of the major desktops and also lets you use their exclusive creative suite. If that's any good, it's no wonder people are flocking to it. Linux is still kinda mid for creatives.
Kinda seems like the new Mint, not that Mint is going anywhere.
Which is weird right? Who is recommending this distro for it to surge? Is this actually a lot of downloads when compared to other distros? I've never seen it listed once in any of the many "which distro should I switch to?" posts.
I've never actually read a Forbes article on my own. I've seen some Forbes articles posted though. Maybe all these downloads are just from Forbes junkies and they saw the article.
It’s a 3 year old article, but Zorin has been building its relationships with the media and putting some effort in to marketing. The journalist here explains why he features Zorin OS in his articles. Probably a lesson here for FOSS and Linux in general. If you want adoption, you need to tell people about it where they are and not hope they find you. It’s not, “if you build it they will come.” It’s “if you build it and tell them about it, they will come.” I think the average Linux user is probably not an expert on how to spread Linux because the average Linux user is into niches and doesn’t believe in marketing and probably even has an aversion to it.
It’s an interesting article. Spoon feeding doesn’t come easy for an engineer, but from what the article conveys a little can go a long way. It’s hard to overestimate the reach of mainstream publications.
I did and I was pretty impressed. The way they modified the Gnome desktop with extensions is the way Gnome should've been in the first place. It's actually usable.
Hi, I just switched my home PC to Zorin. I picked it thinking that it would be the simplest version of Linux for my family members to start using, given its similarity to Windows. So far no issues with them using it but it is noticably slower to load programs.
I use will continue using Mint on my personal devices despite my dislike for using the terminal, having grown up doing everything through the Windows GUI.
I don't speak the language. Everything is hidden, unless you know the words that invoke the desired effect. Eg. sudo apt update or the like. Also, plenty of room for error, even if you do have some idea what you're doing. With a GUI, the user can at least fumble around through menus to find the desired action.
Yeah, those of us who've gotten familiar with the terminal often forget that it generally lacks discoverability and getting to the point of knowing how to find things in it can be painful and annoying.
Not enjoying the terminal isn't a failing. GUIs exist for a reason.
Whenver the desred action is not evident in the GUI, I use teminal and have Chat translate it into Linuxese. Terminal is GPT's goto, 4sure. It is apparent that terminal is much more elegant, if you speak the language. Fumbling around in a GUI must feel so clumsey to a master.
I saw a comment stating that it charges 45$ for Zorin OS Pro, which is basically the normal OS but with some open-source software installed on it (Blender, Kdenlive, Audacity, etc.)
What even is zorin os lol I've never even heard of it. Normies really do surprise me often like this, like they mathematically calculate to pick the strangest least expected things through the most alien of mechanisms, it's always fun trying to figure it out after the fact. Delightful news!
begging people to consider that not everything is a universal affects everyone problem but a problem nonetheless it's called survivor bias. zorin is a unique offender for producing their even number LTS on the following off numbered year . they only got 24.04 like last month. some non-steam struggles when using older packages
Is that headline number for the free or paid for version? I couldn't tell from the article.
Looks like all downloads are direct from them, so it's much harder for distros using torrents to know their install base, but I suspect they're not much different.
I've seen increased activity with the Arch, Mint & Raspios torrents that I seed - although I don't have cold figures to say how much by.
So, they know it's only windows users that downloads it? Interesting - their version 17 must have sucked so much that people switched back, and now they give it another go?
for non-techie users that want to switch it's great. Yes the updates are slow and few/far between but I mean if you go the paid route you get tech support and a few other software packages/themes.
I think for people who just want to keep older machines going and simply want to do work and browse/stream it's fine. beyond that? good luck. I've heard that upgrading it is worse than Ubuntu and it's based on Ubuntu so...
But Zorin has pretty good PR so that's what's going for them. Honestly though if you want a new user on linux that isn't comfortable with it just yet I feel there are better options that "just work" like Bazzite or Mint.
That's not my point. My point is, they try Zorin, they don't like it, and now they go on about how much Linux sucks as they run back to Windows. I highly doubt many of them will bother distro-hopping. As far as must users will be concerned, they tried Linux and it sucked. They're almost definitely not going to want to spend more time redoing their system a bunch until they find one they like, nor are they going to want to spend the time with dotfiles getting it the way they want.
If they did research on other distros before installing Zorin, they probably wouldn't have gone with Zorin...
They're riding a bandwagon, not setting their own path.
I don’t understand this attitude. I did a bunch of research, used Ventoy to try out five different distros and went with Zorin. I think Zorin is a very good intro to Linux for noobs. It’s a pretty polished experience and would say if Zorin doesn’t convince complete noobs to switch, then they likely wouldn’t have switched. What other distros might I ask, were you thinking they’d have chosen instead?
I agree. If Zorin lowers the bar for entry enough that some will continue on and perhaps hop to another distro if they outgrow Zorin, then it’s a win. Desktop Linux isn’t going to win everyone over - Apple will pick up some and most will stay on Windows either way.
There will always be a lot of people trying a product out, figuring it’s not for them for whatever reason, and revert back. I don’t see a solution that will retain those people. Change is difficult for a lot of people.
For the Zorin org, even those who shelled out for the Pro edition and jump back to Windows, that income still goes to devs that are working to maintain the Linux ecosystem.
If it lessens the impact of switching operating systems, and holds them in long enough to get comfortable with Linux, alternatively provides just enough Windows-like veneer to be comfortable enough then it is still a win.
I personally like Zorin better than Mint. Mint is very dated looking, while Zorin feels more in line with a modern OS. They also try to create an easy experience for non-techie people to use Linux. They need some model to keep themselves going though. The money for pro also unlocks some features they’ve added to the OS and the free software is still free, they just make it easy to acquire it for non-techie people who don’t want to spend time trying to do their own research, or don’t know how to.
It's good for people who are use to windows and aren't comfortable with linux yet, it was the first distro I used when I switched to Linux but now I've been on Fedora for the past four years or so
ZorinOS is a decent stepping stone for those coming from windows. It was my first Linux daily driver when I made the switch. It got me comfortable enough with Linux to dive in and start learning before I started distro hopping. I ended up on Mint and now just recommend that, but Zorin got me over the hump to become a full time Linux user.
Might be fun to make a live USB and see how much it's changed in the last ten years. I've got a 4 day weekend coming up.... might have to try that.
Zorin looks like a great starting-off point for normal (non-tech) people migrating from Windows. Visually it’s much more polished than Mint, based on Gnome and Ubuntu LTS.
Ubuntu LTS means it can also work in a corporate setting as it will get all the vendor support.
The Pro version is a bit of a bait-and-switch as I understand the only unique point is are the skins that give you Window 11 and MacOS look-alike themes. All the rest seems to be an open source software bundle. For Windows (or Mac) users the price isn’t really a negative and can be smart marketing.
For all of us used to the common Linux DE’s, dabble or dive into Arch, do heavy gaming? We aren’t the target audience. And that’s fine.
Never felt like this before Got them, grey clouds hanging over me Got caught up in the downpour Need an umbrella to get underneath
And maybe I don't know what's meant for me 'Cause me and you haven't spoken in several weeks You should know that I'm gonna play for keeps Just need to weather the storm
Behind grey clouds is blue skies and sunrise, oh-oh And God knows I have tried to visualize what it's like to feel warm Behind grey clouds is blue skies and sunrise, oh-oh And God knows I have tried to visualize what it's like to feel warm
Swept away by this whirlwind As the ground turns to dust Fate turns as we meet again And the like turns to lust
But maybe I just know what's meant for me 'Cause me and you haven't spoken in several weeks Should know that if this was meant to be You should let it be known
Behind grey clouds is blue skies and sunrise, oh-oh And God knows I have tried to visualize what it's like to feel warm Behind grey clouds is blue skies and sunrise, oh-oh And God knows I have tried to visualize what it's like to feel warm
Warm, warm Warm, warm Warm, warm What's like to feel warm
Behind grey clouds is blue skies and sunrise, oh-oh And God knows I have tried to visualize what it's like to feel warm Behind grey clouds is blue skies and sunrise, oh-oh And God knows I have tried to visualize what it's like, what it's like, oh
Warm (warm), warm (warm, warm) Warm (warm, warm), oh What it's like to feel warm (Warm, warm), warm (Warm, warm), warm (Warm, warm), oh-oh (What's it's like) to feel warm
I wear my heart on my sleeve But not for show And I find it hard not to leave And let go I don't know when to bite my tongue The words just kind of flow And I suppose I'm only young I've got room to grow
I'll cut to the chase I'm finding my feet In this rat race I'm just tryna succeed
I'm gonna throw caution to the wind I'm gonna stand alone And come hell or high water I wanna stay afloat I'm gonna go the extra mile This time I'm gonna throw caution to the wind I'm gonna stand alone, I'm gonna stand alone
Getting to know the ropes Learning on the job And even with these high hopes It's hard not to stop And if you lend me your ear I swear You won't have to knock on wood Don't despair
I'll cut to the chase I'm finding my feet In this rat race I'm just trynna succeed
I'm gonna throw caution to the wind I'm gonna stand alone And come hell or high water I wanna stay afloat I'm gonna go the extra mile This time I'm gonna throw caution to the wind I'm gonna stand alone, I'm gonna stand alone
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It's the same old story in this tug of war We go back and forth, we go back and forth And it ain't good for me, what we do this for? We go back and forth, won’t do this, no
Oh whoa We go back and forth, we go back and forth Oh whoa We go back and forth, won’t do this, no
All, all we, all All, all, always never tell if All, all we, all All, all, always never tell if All, all we, all All, all, always never tell if All, all we, all All, all, always never tell if
You're only nice when you wanna be You always leave me wondering, wondering It's not as simple as you and me Can never tell if I'm in love with him or lost with him
Tryna find an in-between, it's all, it's all or nothing You pull me back when you feel me slip away Deceive me with your loving
It's the same old story in this tug of war We go back and forth, we go back and forth And it ain't good for me, what we do this for? We go back and forth, won’t do this, no
Oh whoa We go back and forth, we go back and forth Oh whoa We go back and forth, won’t do this, no
All, all we, all All, all, always never tell if All, all we, all All, all, always never tell if All, all we, all All, all, always never tell if All, all we, all All, all, always never tell if
With you, there's no reasoning I'm done with fighting all the time, all the time I'm tryna speak, you're not listening Closed ears with open eyes, broken minds
Tryna find an in-between, it's all, it's all or nothing, oh You pull me back when you feel me slip away Deceive me with your loving
It's the same old story in this tug of war, oh We go back and forth, we go back and forth And it ain't good for me, what we do this for? We go back and forth, won’t do this, no
All, all we, all All, all, always never tell if All, all we, all All, all, always never tell if All, all we, all All, all, always never tell if All, all we, all All, all, always never tell if All, all we, all
Music video by Becky Hill, Galantis performing Run. Lyrics:
The story’s the same, never changed, we’ve been here before Yeah we tried to be friends but it ends up being much more We get insecure, build up walls, Then we play Pretend we don’t care No it doesn’t feel right When we fight It gets us nowhere But we’re too scared
So we run and we run and we run Further away from love Look at what we’ve become Yeah we run and run and run and we run Losing the air in our lungs What do we do about us We don’t wanna fall out of love again love again Too afraid of another chance So we run and run and run and we run Further away from love What do we do about us
Mile after mile Getting tired of feeling this way Is it worth all the while Can we find something to say Baby i can reassure, break your walls, We can just admit that we care Cos it doesn’t feel right When we fight It gets us nowhere But we’re too scared
So we run and we run and we run Further away from love Look at what we’ve become Yeah we run and run and run and we run Losing the air in our lungs What do we do about us We don’t wanna fall out of love again love again Too afraid of another chance So we run and run and run and we run Further away from love What do we do about us
The Fedi Files continues with special guest prettygood@socially.drinkingatmy.computer (or Uncle PG for short).
In this episode we talk about capybaras, life as an internet old man, touching grass a little bit, video games, addictions, fast food slop, and more! From fedi lore to self-hosting, this episode covered a range of topics. Yes, for those wondering, Wiz did insert cars again. There's even a list of shoutouts at the end, you'll have to see if you made the list 😀
Looks amazing. I was just thinking about my friend who keeps Windows around for iTunes syncing yesterday, one more thing I can suggest to people moving to Linux.
As stated in the r/jailbreak reddit thread, would it be possible to sync music to iOS's Apple Music with libimobiledevice? From my observation when mounted via FUSE, the music is at /iTunes_Control...
Honestly... I come from iOS, using for nearly a decade. Yes that stuff is secure, yes that stuff is (or at least was) stable, yes that stuff is slick to the point of being a status symbol... but DAMN does it suck for interoperability!
Every success of bringing the Apple ecosystem to interact with anything is just so ridiculously hard... for in the end bringing very little.
Do yourself a favor, switch to (deGoogled) Android to enjoy KDE Connect, adb, scrcpy, etc just working out of the box, copying normal files the normal way, however you want. Try "just" Linux if you can't but on mobile that's not for everyone.
Again, I celebrate this success and all ways, e.g. iSH or Homebrew, that help to tinker, manage, work with Apple hardware but honestly I suggest ignoring it entirely. Just rely on software and hardware that actually provides the bare minimum to be interoperable. Not this.
Instead use this, and iSH, Homebrew, libimobiledevice, and the rest to transition AWAY from that locked ecosystem.
Switching phones isn’t necessarily easy or doable for everyone. I’ve got my device already, I appreciate this new app since it’s usable without me spending more money or changing everything about my mobile device.
Of course, in fact you do not have to change right now, or even next month. Instead you are in a great position when you already have a device because it means you can take the time you need to prepare for a transition without any rush. The problem IMHO is ... if you repeat the cycle. If in few years, or whenever you do change phones you say, again "Switching isn’t necessarily easy or doable for everyone" while having done nothing to change your situation.
Please, don't rush a change and make it painful. Take the time and use the resources you have... but do something, even if a small thing, to go where you want to be. Do not stay stuck in a place you do not even enjoy.
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Manipulating the URL to take me to the relevant hashtag pages shows me a sensitive content warning that obviously should not apply.
Editing my account settings to allow all sensitive content and manipulating the URL to return to the relevant hashtag pages still show the same sensitive content warning.
If you still have Meta accounts, I highly suggest you uninstall the apps if you haven't already. It's safer to just log in and test these URLs from a browser you can wipe.
> Searching for the #Democrat and #Democrats hashtags [on InstaGram] pulls up zero clickable results, while obviously #Republican and #Republicans work just fine
That's just technofascist billionaires respecting free speech (that they agree with) and suppressing platform abuse (including anything they disagree with). Nothing to see here citizen, move along ... : P
After switching from hyprland to sway and niri I found my now favorite: river wm. Because simple and fast as hell. But what grinds my gears is the missing opportunity to switch through workspaces (river calls them tags). Mod4+Tab for endless rushing through all spaces is something I really like. Did someone managed to bring this feature up and running? Are here other fans of river wm?
Outdated how? I use it for my daily driver and it works fine for me. It's a fairly simple program and the 0.3.x river protocol is fairly stable so I would doubt it's become outdated, but if it is, you should be able to patch it yourself given the simplicity of the program.
Météo-France a relevé des couches de neige d'un à quatre centimètres en moyenne sur l'Ile-de-France, frappée dans la nuit par son premier épisode hivernal de la saison. Des Parisiens en ont profité pour faire de de la luge sur les escaliers de Montmartre et sur les pelouses de la Basilique du Sacré-Cœur. #shorts
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La di da, da di da La di da, da di da La di da, da di da
I won't waste your high, don't waste mine, mine If you want my trust then take your time, your time
Late in the evening, I want ya I do what I got to, to feel you with me I already told you to hold me Already told ya
My heart goes La di da, da di da La di da, da di da La di da, da di da My heart goes La di da, da di da La di da, da di da La di da, da di da My heart goes
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh I'm deep in your love, deep in your love, ooh-ooh Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh I'm deep in your love, deep in your love, ooh-ooh
Rules are made for breaking come and play, come and play Patience is a virtue so they say, they say
Late in the evening, I want ya I do what I got to, to feel you with me I already told you to hold me Already told ya
My heart goes La di da, da di da La di da, da di da La di da, da di da My heart goes La di da, da di da La di da, da di da La di da, da di da My heart goes
Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh I'm deep in your love, deep in your love, ooh-ooh Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh I'm deep in your love, deep in your love, ooh-ooh
My heart goes La di da, da di da La di da, da di da (I'm deep in your love) La di da, da di da (I'm deep in your love) My heart goes (Ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh) La di da, da di da La di da, da di da (I'm deep in your love) La di da, da di da (I'm deep in your love) My heart goes
Baby now you’re back again Back into my life Hit a lot of turbulence You know One to many arguments I have to let go Forgive you i know
You say you wanna try And I see you change before my eyes Into somebody new
So
No empty promises I need to know it’s worth it If gonna go there with you
This is the last time Now you’re mine, the last time falling in love After the last fight I realised I’m not giving you up
The first time we broke you left in the night This time we’re getting right
This is the last time Now you’re mine, the last time falling in love
You know it’s been hard for me I still got my fears Couple insecurities Deep down
But I’ma give you all of me Give you my best All this beautiful mess
No more tears up in my eyes Wondering where u where last night No more stressing bout who’s on your mind Said we give it one last try One more try to stay for life For life
I’m doing just fine now its over I’ve been moving on and living my life But occasionally I lose composure And I can’t get you out of my mind
If I could go Back in time I’d do things differently yeah I wouldn’t think twice I distract myself Think of someone else But every now & then you remind me
It’s only when I’m lying in bed on my own And I wake up and I don’t see your name on my phone It’s in the moments where I think that I’m better alone That’s when I remember That’s when I remember
Every time I walk past your house in the rain And I tell myself that you were the biggest mistake And just when I think I’m finally doing ok That’s when I remember That’s when I remember
My friends tell me I shouldn’t listen To the voices that go round in my head So I try to delete all the memories But you’re really hard to forget
London-based ceramic artist Bisila Noha has work in the touring exhibition "Body Vessel Clay," first shown in London in 2022 and now on view at the Ford Foundation in New York. The show is a display of work by Black women ceramic artists include Simone Leigh, Magdelene Odundo, Adebunmi Gbadebo and many more. In this virtual artist talk, Noha shares vibrant photo & video documentation describing how her travels, most recently to Nigerian and Senegal, inform her work and perspective as an artist. More info: bisilanoha.co.uk/
This programming was sponsored by Kaabo Clay, a network and resource for Black ceramic artists worldwide: kaaboclay.org
Πιο συγκεκριμένα, προβλέπεται ότι οι εθελόντριες ηλικίας 20 έως 26 ετών θα αποκτούν στρατιωτική ιδιότητα όμοια με εκείνη των αντρών που κατατάσσονται για την εκπλήρωση της κύριας στρατιωτικής τους υποχρέωσης και θα υπάγονται στους ίδιους στρατιωτικούς νόμους και κανονισμούς.
Η διάρκεια της εθελοντικής θητείας θα είναι 12 μήνες και οι εθελόντριες θα μπορούν να ανακατατάσσονται ή να επανακατατάσσονται ως Οπλίτες Βραχείας Ανακατάταξης (ΟΒΑ) σύμφωνα με τις υφιστάμενες διατάξεις. Μετά τη συμπλήρωση του 40ου έτους, οι εθελόντριες θα εντάσσονται στην εφεδρεία και σε περίπτωση επιστράτευσης θα καλούνται σύμφωνα με τις υπηρεσιακές ανάγκες της αρμόδιας διεύθυνσης του Γενικού Επιτελείου Στρατού.
Για να δηλώσουν την πρόθεση τους να καταταγούν, οι εθελόντριες θα πρέπει να απευθύνονται στη Διεύθυνση Στρατολογικού του ΓΕΣ από την 1η Ιανουαρίου έως την 31η Μαρτίου κάθε έτους, υποβάλλοντας τα απαραίτητα έγγραφα. Ο αριθμός, ωστόσο, των γυναικών που μπορούν να καταταγούν στον στρατό θα κυμαίνεται και θα καθορίζεται σε ετήσια βάση.
Αλλαγές στην εφεδρεία Σύμφωνα με τις διατάξεις, η πρόσκληση εφέδρων των ενεργών μονάδων θα γίνεται τουλάχιστον μία φορά ανά τριετία και των εφέδρων των επιστρατευόμενων μονάδων μία φορά στα πέντε χρόνια. Ορίζεται ακόμη, ότι η εκπαίδευση θα διαρκεί τουλάχιστον τρεις ημέρες.
Με την ψήφιση του νομοσχεδίου του υπουργείου Εθνικής Αμυνας ανοίγει ο δρόμος για την εθελοντική στράτευση γυναικών και στην Ελλάδα – Ολόκληρο το πλαίσιο
i have a 32 gigs usb drive and, given that most isos are around 2-5 gigs, it's such a shame to see nearly 30 gigs of perfectly good free space go to waste whenever i need to use it as a bootable drive. is there any way i can burn an iso image to the usb drive while still being able to use its free space?
What happened? Due to the recent XZ-Utils drama I checked the code and I'm appalled. There are more BLOBS than source code. https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/tree/3f65f0ef03e4aebcd14f233ca808a4f8946...
i thought about doing that, but i wasnt sure if that would get recognized as a bootable device (especially on my pc which is still has a bios instead of uefi). ill test it and come back to say if it worked or not
Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO files. With ventoy, you don't need to format the disk again and again, you just need to copy the iso file to the USB drive and boot it.
Was super excited when i found Ventoy. Had 2 partitions on the same flash drive, 1 for Ventoy and .isos and one for backing up various files. It was supposed to be the one to rule them all.
When it came to actually using Ventoy to create a new Linux installation, the installation failed and the Ventoy partition became completely corrupted, rendering it unusable and the .isos were gone.
Not sure what happened, but going with Ventoy is not really worth the hassle if I can reliably flash a usb drive that I know will work.
Copy the ISO image to the USB: dd of=/dev/sdb if=/path/to/image/linux.ISO bs=1M status=progress
Make the data partition in the free space: cfdisk /dev/sdb, don't remove the iso9660 signature, create partition in the free space, and Write.
Format the partition with filesystem of your choice: mkfs, cryptsetup, etc.
(everything as root, replace /dev/sdb with the location of your USB)
As is, this only leaves exactly enough for the ISO you are currently working with, sealing the fate of the data partition if you need to swap out the ISO. I suspect there is a workaround in theory, but I haven't gotten around to that yet.
Also see github.com/thias/glim, a GRUB-based alternative to Ventoy, albeit with less compatibility.
Edit: this will not work with Windows ISOs and the data partition won't show up in certain versions of Windows, in case anyone is wondering
::: spoiler For posterity, what I originally thought, don't do this Wipe the drive and partition it so the first partition is large enough for your ISO, then the second partition for your data spans the remaining space. I chose MBR over GPT so I could boot on both modern and legacy BIOS machines. Then dd your ISO to the first partition. Set the bootable flag on that partition if it isn't already. Format the second partition with whatever filesystem you'd like.
My Clonezilla recovery drive is set up like this, but it's been a while so I might have forgotten something. Let me know if I did. :::
edit: actually i think i got it right this time, i just needed to format it as an empty partition on gparted. brb edit 2: nope. blank screen again (even though the dd'd partition got recognized by gparted this time)
If it shows up in gparted correctly it sounds like you did it correctly but just to make sure, don't dd the iso to the mounted partition, you don't want to have a filesystem with a .iso file on it. dd directly to the device (like /Dev/sda1 or whatever). BTW you don't need dd just use cp.
Sorry about that, you are right. The way I originally envisioned would have disrupted the partitioning of the original ISO. Tried it myself and ran into the same issue, then finally recalled how I actually did it. See my edited comment above. Unfortunately, changing out the ISO non-destructively might be harder than I originally thought.
Yes, it's not special. If the partition is big enough, you can just put files on it. If it's not, either expand it or create a new one and just use it like normal.
But keep in mind, depending on the tool you use, it might wipe the whole drive next time you write an ISO.
Heyho, recently someone asked for the silliest reasons, but as someone who has suggested linux to many people, I often encounter people having valid reasons for staying with Windows or switching back.
The most boring but valid one is "I have to use Windows for work. It is a requirement (of some software I have to use)". But there are also other answers that fit. My sister for example tried Linux, but while installing software constantly encountered issues that I helped her solve and eventually switched back because she felt like she had less control than over windows. While I am aware that this is fundamentally wrong, it is valid that some amateur users do not want to invest enough time to get over the initial hurdles of relearning how to install software.
What are the best reasons people have given you for not wanting to try Linux?
I did an update or something and it corrupted the bootloading for Fedora Silverblue. Had to just reinstall everything. Also was a time when the update url or something was broken and I couldn't update. That remains the biggest issue. But it might not be an issue for a professionally maintained distro like Ubuntu that has a company backing it. I feel like it's safe to recommend Ubuntu but not any other distros.
And it's definitely true that the average user has more control on Windows. You can download installers and random zip files with executables and they'll just work. Linux has such a messed up model for executables and libraries that they usually have to be recompiled for every Linux distro unless you use flatpak.
But I think it's mostly the learning curve of getting used to how linux desktops work and their idiosyncrasies that makes it hard for people. And tons of bad advice online telling you to run commands.
Linux actually has lots of GUI apps that can help fix issues and do things in Linux but people keep offering outdated advice about using command line tools and editing brittle config files.
If you want stable Linux immutable base fedora silverblue is not good option. Wait for bluefin-LTS or OpenSUSE's Aeon which is long support stable base Without frequent breakages you mentioned.
My friend - loves making and sharing home videos, but his entire workflow is tied to Windows Movie Maker - his wife insists on using an iPhone and is tech-illiterate, so depends on him having iTunes for syncing stuff - has bad memories of Linux from the 2000s and has grown comfortable with a copy of Windows that I've debloated
I love Linux. I use it wherever I can. I don't use Linux on my primary gaming workstation, for the simple reason that the display drivers, specifically mixed extended desktop and screen mirroring is just straight up ass.
This genuinely surprises me, I can understand having driver issues, but I honestly have had a perfect experience with extended desktop and screen mirroring, never a single problem. While finding Windows' to be ass
Premiere, Photoshop, Lightroom, FL Studio. They either don't work or work terribly on Linux. That one DAW on Linux from Ableton devs that's decent still has awful UX compared to FL and VST compatibility seemed spotty. I do use Linux daily (Debian flavor) though just not on my main PC but on my laptop, and also on the work laptop for work.
The last Windows machine in my house is because of one program: Embrilliance. It's embroidery software that lets you make designs and send them directly to the embroidery machine. It technically works in WINE, but for some reason one of the cursors is missing, so when you try to draw freehand, you have no idea where the mouse is. Was thinking about trying Winboat for this eventually, but I haven't gotten around to it.
"I really only use the PC for gaming. Mostly, I play Valorant."
There ya go, you're not getting that working under Linux even if you are a master tinker. 🤷♂️ He did eventually switch, but not until long after he stopped playing Valorant regularly.
Some reasons are silly, some are incredibly valid. Sometimes it's just "I don't want to" and that's OK too, lol.
Bitch I'm standing right in front of you, also you can pay people or get free support on the internet. Linux users are way more helpful than the average Windows user...
Average Windows advice for basically every "Please help!" posts: "Just run DISM/SFC" marked as "solved"
I work on Windows computers for people, and do run both commands as just general flow. But I was so fucking excited recently to finally run into an issue that those commands actually fixed something (or at least a couple of the noticeable issues). Was so shocked that I had to tell all my direct co-workers.
But basically all other times I have ran them for real problems, I can't remember any instance where they worked. For all the videos or guides with titles like "How to fix all Windows PCs", you would think that they are the only solution.
The only frustrating thing with Linux communities/guides I tend to run into (especially when I had zero experience), are steps that get left out. Not out of malice, but because users that are much more experienced leave out things that are assumed to be already understood. Of course I don't have a specific example off-hand since I already have some understanding at this point. Which kind of shows how easy it is to take certain things as "obvious." Outside of that, the answers/guides do normally be good and friendly.
They are not ready. They took several years to master Windows to just a minimum of use. They don't have the money to pay for help if problems occur. They don't have someone in their network that can help them. They need a specific app to work flawlessly for either job or hobby. There's a lot of good reasons. But there are getting less of them, while Linux is evolving.
The best reason is the simplest one. People have job where they rely on a piece of software. If you took years to master something like Adobe Photoshop and later switched to linux only for all that to go away and you being forced to use something different like Gimp, you would 100% be pissed off
Adobe software, autoCAD, and anticheat are the top 3 reasons I usually hear. While there are alternatives for the first two, people who need these specific tools professionally don't really have the choice.
Anticheat for gaming is a big one too. Personally I didn't even consider switching until I finally quit Destiny 2 for good. If the main game someone plays just doesn't work, they're not gonna switch.
Do you work with CAD programs and if so, do you know a full feature alternative? I grew up with Linux because my father had unix at work before CAD program makers moved to windows and nowadays he has windows because that is where his CAD programs work. He is in retirement already, but very much a creature of habit. So while he has time to learn something new, radically different controls or such wouldn’t work out.
I use commercial CAD. CATIA for car bodies. There is no FOSS alternative that comes close for my work. But the light at the end of the tunnel is, many CAD systems, including CATIA, are going web based. So users just need a browser on any OS. And the back end can be what it wants.
My father worked in machine development, I believe AutoCAD was actually one of the programs they used. I am sceptical when it comes to browser based versions utilising the full power of the system, interesting development for sure though.
Yes I have no interest in having a browser in the way. But 2 things. Firstly CATIA in a browser is just the same CATIA running on a remote PC somewhere. It's the same program. And secondly, as longvas the UI looks and works the same, with no delays, then it'll be fine. Sure you can't use it when your wifi or Internet is down or slow, or the provider has power or Internet issues. And your customer is not a military or super secrecy case. But its clearly expecting to find a market.
I mean the bigwigs often have some kind of licensing that needs internet access if some kind anyway. So no internet is often an issue, even with the program on the pc itself.
I can give you my own reason: I don’t have enough energy left besides work and general life to clean up my mess of hoarded data and make the switch. I am reasonably sure that all my hardware would work, about all games I play should work (nothing with crazy anticheats, next to all steam) too. I have two Linux nerds I could contact if needed and I have some prior experience, even though it is about half a life ago.
Edit: Oh and having something that does what I want and not some guessed approximation at home would make me even more intolerant of the shitshow we have at work.
TL;DR: Basically gaming compatibility and additional complications, on top of all what is new due to Linux.
I have a brother trying to convince him to use Linux over Windows (or at least dual boot). I could make him use Manjaro (back then when I was using Manjaro myself) on a laptop. That was his first experience and he is a gamer who likes multiplayer games. So the experience was a bit mixed. Later I borrowed him my Steam Deck for 2 weeks and it was a torture to myself, as it was the launch period of the hardware. And then I convinced him to buy Steam Deck instead a laptop.
He still loves the Steam Deck and uses it here and there, especially on vacation. But as lot of primary multiplayer games he play do not work on Linux and because of complications with some non Steam games and lot of applications he had, such as Discord, he went back to Windows on his new PC. Some complications arised because of the Steam Deck and its limitations, but that did not change the fact how games he plays are not working.
But he admits that SteamOS is the better operating system. And he understands why it is what it is, but as said, that does not change the fact he cannot play some of his favorite games on Linux. But that is not all. You have to understand that newcomers who experience LInux for the first time, and switched reluctant without research, don't know what Wayland is, don't know differences between desktop environments and has to deal with compatibility layers on top of all other new Linux stuff for them.
Why your sister felt she has less control is just a feeling, because she know less, therefore can control less. It makes sense from her perspective, so I would not say its entirely wrong.
I can give you reasons I have for not installing Linux on one of my laptops:
Intel graphics support, or the absence of it;
decent touchscreen support (Windows Ink);
WSL which I use with NixOS, and it does simplify most of my dev needs;
unfortunately, Adobe apps which I still heavily rely on (I'd wish I had an alternative),
PowerPoint (again, I'd wish I had an alternative).
If you want to comment: "oh but have you tried Affinity, Pixie, Only Office, Libre Impress, reveal.js, {enter your fav presentation/photo editing tool} -- yes I have, and no, unfortunately, it's not even close. Also, to be clear, I've never paid, and never will for the Windows/Adobe products.
(e) PowerPoint (again, I'd wish I had an alternative).
Oh for ducks' sakes... just make pdf slides, do you really need animation and/or transitions? They are going to be a proufoudly horrible and disconcertingly awkward mind searing experience anyway
i use neither animations nor transitions. but i do extensively use movies (which have a horrible support in Impress), and i use lots of equations (which you can enable using third-party plugins in Impress, but working with them is very difficult).
i've been bitten twice when i've been traveling on a conference and had to quickly put up slides in Impress, and ended up not being able to do what i wanted because of all of its limitations. i ended up using reveal.js, but that also has its own drawbacks, e.g., the lack of UI, which i can use to quickly fine-tune arrows, text positions etc.
The solution I'm working on is to connect to a Windows computer via moonlight for their solidworks stuff, hopefully freeing up the potential to do Linux on their main machine
I've been meaning to switch to Linux, it at least dual boot for a couple years now but have a dumb roadblock that has gotten in the way.
I rebuilt my desktop a few years ago, adding a fast new SSD as well as pretty much all new guts (mb, processor, graphics) carrying over an ancient HDD that was home to my win 10 installation and a tiny 60gb ssd.
When I rebuilt, I figured I would migrate Windows from the old HDD to the shiny new SSD, but was never successful in doing that.
My next step was to install another copy of win10 onto the new SSD, thinking I could just drag and drop my various program folders from the old install into the new. Dumb, I know.
Long story short, I'm still booting off of the old HDD and have two copys of Windows that I have to choose from when booting (the one on the new SSD is empty and doesn't see any of my old programs).
I've been avoiding it, but do I have to do a complete wipe at this point were I to attempt a dual Windows/Linux boot? I'd really rather not have to reinstall all of my junk on a fresh build.
I've run Linux before, so I'm not a complete noob, but it's been a few years. I'd switch over completely if I wasn't dependent on the Adobe CS (another problem I plan to fix in time, I know there are alternatives).
Sorry if this isn't the right place to post this, but I was hoping a veteran in this community that may have solved a similar situation.
When doing IT support for my parents windows PC I used the following two options in the past:
software that can copy the programs to a new install (but it was flakey and couldn't copy every app)
just cloning the whole drive with clonezilla. As long as the new drive is equal or larger than the old one, this worked perfectly.
There is a clonezilla live boot iso somewhere, or you can do it with any linux live boot and gparted + dd. Just make sure to have a backup of your important data outside of this PC (just in case you fuck up) learn what the tools and command do before running them and tripple check that you are copying the old install to the new drive, not the other way around.
Then after the cloning unplug the old HDD for testing. Because a clone will have identical IDs the boot process and some programs might get confused.
During the linux install, unplug the windows ssd and have only the hdd attached, again for the ID issues and just be extra safe to not fuck anything up.
WinBoat lets you run any Windows application on Linux with seamless desktop integration. Elegant interface, automated installs, filesystem integration, and native OS-level windows.
also that's definitely not going to have adequate performance, you'd need something like looking glass and that requires a spare gpu or sriov/gvt-g. it's probably easier to set up with a standalone vm
I'm not very familiar with either of the two. But, at first glance, it does seem so. Thanks for mentioning WinApps!
also that’s definitely not going to have adequate performance, you’d need something like looking glass and that requires a spare gpu or sriov/gvt-g. it’s probably easier to set up with a standalone vm
Unfortunately, I don't have any personal experience with either of the two. As such, I can't comment on this. Though, you're probably right for any gpu-intensive software.
Run Windows apps such as Microsoft Office/Adobe in Linux (Ubuntu/Fedora) and GNOME/KDE as if they were a part of the native OS, including Nautilus integration. Hard fork of https://github.com/Fmst...
I've done basically the same thing with my computer. While I was still stuck with Windows, my main installation broke and took ages to boot. I installed another copy onto the same disk to run some software, then dual (triple?) booted with Mint.
Mine are all on the same physical disk, but the process should be the same.
The Mint bootloader took over from Windows, and presents me with a menu on boot. The default choice is Mint, which automatically boots after a few seconds, but it gives me a few options, one of which is the Windows bootloader. If I choose this, it gives me the same options as before I installed Mint, so lets me boot into either installation.
It goes without saying, but make a backup before you change anything, and remember that Boot Repair is available for most Linux distros 😀
You've survived and perhaps thrived booting off the HDD for a while, so I would wipe the SSD and install Linux there if you intend to switch over at some point. That's what I did for my test bench, my last personal machine with Windows; Linux on an SSD and Windows on an old HDD, where the slow speeds don't really bother my infrequent use.
As others have suggested it is probably smarter to just backup windows onto a portable hard drive, or you could do Windows2Go which is finicky but do-able.
Also you didn't ask what distro, but I have been enjoying Fedora Kinoite it's a very smooth transition (and improvement) from Windows.
These are very subjective arguments, and even the objective points are completely subjective depending on your distro.
I mean one of his arguments is that C++ is just inherently insecure. He just takes Microsoft's claims at face-value that all their pointless shit is the magical security wall that it claims to be. He buys into the same lie that ACE on a Windows, Mac or Android is somehow much much safer than on Linux. Most of his claims that other OSes are more secure are rooted in "well yeah they do exactly the same but at least they knooow they do".
I'm not even acknowledging ChromeOS - it is Linux, except it only runs a browser.
99% of this stuff also applies to Windows/MacOS/Android/iOS, except moreso and far more universally. And 90% of this stuff is only relevant if you're being targeted by some state-funded intelligence like the CIA (cold reading your RAM?? minimum 16-character password?? Keystroke fingerprinting?????)
So whatever, I think the hardening guide looks fairly accurate, but unless you're being spied on by world powers, I wouldn't consider it worth peoples' time to read, never mind implement. 90% of people are still going to be more secure by cluelessly using Linux instead of cluelessly using the others.
The thing about most default configs of any OS is that user storage is largely accessable to all apps. True of Linux, Android. Windows, ...
Graphene has options to restrict that but you have to set it up that way. Android also has App sandboxing for app data.
Thinking through the threat model of course is always good as is hardening. All security is porous. Linux is fine generally. If one is exposing services on the public net it is not clear that any OS or software is sufficiently secure, that takes constant effort in terms of monitoring and management.
Graphene has options to restrict that [user storage availability] but you have to set it up that way.
It's also a bit of a pain to manage as an end user. I wish it shipped with a toggle that was a step up from stock Android but also not in the way constantly. Like "we went through the top 50 apps on Play Store and FDroid, we classified them as media player, social media, etc., and we made rules for each category that reasonably isolates it while still allowing core functionality."
I highly value Madaidan's input on the matter and also their work on projects such as Kicksecure and Whonix. Furthermore, it's clear that Desktop Linux hasn't been able to combat all the pain points that were mentioned in the article. However, we've definitely come a long way since and there's lot to be optimistic about; secureblue to name a thriving project.
But, while I appreciate how the article continues to draw awareness to the fact that Desktop Linux isn't as secure as some like to think, the write-up is ultimately bound to be (severely) outdated at some point. And, perhaps, we might already be past the point in which it does more harm than good...
Anyhow, I'd actually like to take this opportunity to promote a platform that continues to deliver up-to-date articles about security on Linux: privsec.dev/posts/linux/
Time to distrohop again. Kubuntu's been irking me for a while and that guide says it's insecure and CachyOS (though I don't like the default software suite) has been nice. Though I need to find an alternative distro (don't trust Red Hat, had a bad experience with OpenSUSE, don't have the patience to learn Arch).
Accompanied with your input, if we look at the distros that are mentioned between Privacy Guides and PrivSec.dev; then Arch Linux, NixOS or a derivative of either of the two seem to be most suitable for you at first glance. As NixOS is rather infamous for its learning curve and you seem to have gotten a liking to CachyOS, I'd recommend a distro under the umbrella of Arch Linux. I suppose it's rather unfortunate that I'm unaware of a well-maintained Arch-derivative that's properly hardened; somewhat akin to what secureblue/Kicksecure/nix-mineral offer for Fedora Atomic/Debian/NixOS respectively. Though..., perhaps that's actually what's to be expected with Arch Linux 😅; I hope you may find solace at the fact that the ever-so-reliable ArchWiki got your back: wiki.archlinux.org/title/Secur… Wish ya good luck 😉!
I'm probably gonna go for Fedora or OpenSUSE. I like CachyOS because it's just plug and play, but the article says that Arch derivatives tend to be insecure because they're behind the curve on updates.
I'd rather not use an American distro but all the instructions for installing software are usually for Ubuntu/Debian, Fedora, or Arch.
security you don't understand is security you don't have. windows' exploit mitigations don't work because the average user doesn't understand them and can easily be guided into disabling them.
the weakest attack surface is the stupidity of the user and that's not gonna change however much you try to make your os secure
A secure OS should account for dumb/malicious users and mitigate the damage they can do. If a user can be convinced to disable protections on Windows or Android, that same user could easily be convinced to download a script and run it with sudo.
As someone who did use this guide as an exercise in making my setup as secure as it could be without changing distros or hampering productivity, a few words of advice: - Make a threat model for yourself before diving in and apply the mitigations judiciously. It's not exactly a checklist, just use something secureblue or Qubes if you are really paranoid about your computer. - The majority of the mitigations 'just work' and have no noticeable impact on performance, battery life, or compatibility. - If your CPU/Memory performance widget breaks, dial back on the ptrace options - If Flatpaks fail to launch, dial back on the namespace options - Check back every so often because some of the options end up having unwanted side-effects with updates. See the preamble in boot parameters, where a change in Linux made in 2021 (which finally made it into Debian Stable this year) made the slub_debug mitigation actually worsen security.
I’ve had a hot take for a while now that Linux isn’t “more secure” than other operating systems like a lot of evangelists will claim. I think people get this impression because the user base for desktop Linux has been small enough that no one was writing malware targeted at us.
Unix’s security model was developed in a world where the primary concern was protecting the system from users and protecting users from each other. It wasn’t really designed for single-user systems where the main concern is protecting the user from their own applications.
The silver lining is that a lot of these backdoors are nation-state level so you might not be targeted by them. If I had data on my computer worth a dang, I'd be more concerned.
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This isn't something that they always do, but the MX team has released some numbers behind MX Linux25 in their latest blog post mxlinux.org/blog/mx-news-week-…
Diantre ! (à partir de 20:27) Je comprends pourquoi il est devenu impossible d'échanger avec Nick sur Mastodon 😟 Je comprends aussi le trop plein d'interactions avec la communauté. Mais favoriser ces interactions sur la plateforme d'un GAFAM plutôt que sur un réseau libre... qq chose m'échappe. Je reste donc au point mort avec mon envie de soutien de la chaîne via Liberapay (genre 10 €/mois), quand il suffit d'1 € sur YT pour avoir accès à du continu supplémentaire... Misère.
Je précise que mon problème n'est pas la question du montant du soutien. Mais plutôt qu'en soutenant la chaîne via #Liberapay, les contenus supplémentaires me seront probablement toujours inaccessibles (sinon il faudrait payer via YouTube - hors de question - ou Patreon - qui prend sa commission au passage).
J'ai comme l'impression d'être dans une impasse...
A million downloads in a day for Zorin OS is wild, but I remember a time 11 years ago where I thought it was the bee's knees too, so I get it. thanks for compiling all these headlines for us, nick!
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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
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