How To
WELCOME TRAVELER
{ Don't hesitate to contact me. ~drummyfish }
Are you tired of [1]bloat and can't stand [2]shitty software like
[3]Windows anymore? Do you want to [4]kill yourself? Do you hate
[5]capitalism? Do you also hate the [6]fascist alternatives you're being
offered? Do you just want to create a genuinely good [7]bullshitless
technology that would help all people? Do you just want to share knowledge
freely without [8]censorship? You have come to the right place.
Firstly let us welcome you, no matter who you are, no matter your
political opinions, your past and your skills, color or shape of your
genitalia, we are glad to have you here. Remember, you don't have to be a
programmer to help and enjoy LRS. LRS is a lifestyle, a philosophy.
Whether you are a programmer, artist, educator or just someone passing by,
you are welcome, you may enjoy our culture and its fruit and if you want,
you can help enrich it.
What This Article Is About
OK, let's say this is a set of general advice, life heuristics, pointers
and basics of our philosophy, something to get you started, give you a
point of view aligned with what we do, help you make a decision here and
there, help you free yourself. Remember that by definition nothing we ever
advice is a commandment or a rule you mustn't ever break, that would be
wrong in itself. Some things also may be yet a "thought in progress" and
change.
How To Read This How To
Use your eyes to read the letters from left to right and top to bottom. If
this is too hard read a how to read a how to read a how to.
Required Time To Read
Depends on how fast you read.
What You Will Learn
You will learn things that are both:
* written here and
* you didn't know before
Prerequisites
* brain
* eyes (not needed if you're using TTS)
Where To Go Next
Wherever you want, this is no dictatorship.
Moderacy (Middle Way) Vs Extremism
An important issue of many ideologies/philosophies/religions/etc. has
shown to be striking the right balance between moderacy and extremism.
Let's sum up the two stances:
* extremism: Being extreme in applying the ideas and principles, holding
to one's ideals extremely strongly, many times resulting in blind
orthodoxy, [9]shortcut thinking, blindly following rules and
commandments such as "I must never do X", "X implies Y" etc. Extremism
is not bad per se, in fact it is many times preferred, advised and
necessary, however one has to be aware of the dangers. It may lead to
becoming a brainwashed religion follower whose pursuit of
perfectionism and purism result in more bad than good.
* moderacy: Being moderate, holding to ideals only loosely, sometimes
leading to pragmatism, "ends justify the means", hypocrisy,
conveniently modifying rules on the go etc. Moderacy is also not bad
as such, but also comes with many dangers. It may lead to becoming an
immoral self-centered sheep conformist and even practically abandoning
one's ideals, giving up ([10]everyone does it, "Yeah I don't really
like capitalism, but that's how it is so I'll just play along for
now."), lying to oneself ("I do so much good by setting an Ukrainian
flag as my facebook profile picture!").
Where does the balance lie? TBH this is a very hard question and we don't
know the correct answer so far, perhaps there is no simple answer.
Figuring this out may be one of the most difficult parts of our
philosophy. The first good step is definitely to realize the issue, become
aware of it, and start considering it in making one's important decisions.
Choosing one or another should, as always, be done by ultimately aiming
for our ideals, not for one's own benefit, though of course as any mere
living being one will never be able to be completely objective and free
himself from things such as fear and self-preservation instincts. If you
make a bad decision, don't bash yourself, you are just mere mortal,
acknowledge your mistake, forgive yourself and move on, there is no use in
torturing yourself. One should perhaps not try to stick to either
extremism and moderacy as a rule, but rather try to apply a differently
balanced mix of both to any important decision that appears before him --
when unsure about the balance, a middle way between is probably safest,
but when you strongly feel one way is morally more right, go for it.
Examples from LRS point of view:
* Is it OK to ever use violence? Here LRS takes the extremist way of
strongly saying no -- according to us violence is always bad and we
define this as an [11]axiom, something without a need of proof, it is
the very foundation of our movement and not acknowledging it would
simply mean it's not LRS anymore. However a bit of moderacy may also
appear here; if for example someone uses violence in a desperate
attempt to protect one's child, though we won't embrace the action we
won't condemn the man either -- he committed a "sin", did something
wrong, but in his situation there was really no right thing to do, so
what should we blame him for, for being a subject of unfortunate
situation?
* Is it OK to sometimes use proprietary software? Here for example
[12]Richard Stallman/FSF/[13]GNU take the extremist stance and say no,
proprietary software is the literal [14]devil and though shalt evade
it for all cost (in fact GNU will put effort in purposefully breaking
compatibility with proprietary software, which is borderline
capitalist behavior similar to artificial obsolescence etc.). While we
agree it is a good general rule to avoid software whose purpose is
almost exclusively the abuse of its user, we may be more tolerant and
allow breaking the rule sometimes, because to us proprietary software
is nothing set in any axiom, it is just a symptom resulting from bad
society. As a non-axiom it should be a subject to constant
reevaluation against the main goal. A simple commandment of "NO TOUCH
NOTHING PROPRIETARY" is a good tool for a newcomer, it is a simple to
follow rule of thumb that teaches him to find free replacements and
alternatives, however once one becomes advanced and eventually a
master of the freedom philosophy, he sees things aren't as simple to
be solved by one simple rule, just as a master of music knows when to
break basic rules of thumb, when to leave the scale, break the rhythm
to make excellent music. Here we see it similarly: When touching
proprietary software doesn't result in significant harm (such as
supporting its developer, becoming addicted to it, getting abused by
it, ...) and when it does significant good (e.g. inspires creation of
its free clone, reveals the mechanisms by which it abuses its users,
...), it may in fact be good to do so.
* Should you oppose your boss at work, deny to serve him in unethical
practice because he is a filthy capitalist and so make trouble for
yourself, possibly even get fired for it? Well, this is not so easy
again; a strict extremist anticapitalist here would just stay without
a job because he couldn't work as any work supports capitalism. On the
other hand such a guy would just be homeless, rid of any practical
opportunity to create and do good, and would probably die soon anyway.
Here it's more or less a question of personal tuning, finding the
"least harmful" job, minimizing time spent at it so as to be able to
do good in spare time, opposing your boss sometimes but not every
single time, not really building a career so that you may quit at any
moment etc. Until we have [15]basic income or something, you are more
or less [16]doomed to suffer dealing with this on your own sadly.
Tech
This section lays out some essential steps, according to [17]LRS, which a
newcomer should take in relation to [18]technology:
* Learn about the most essential topics and concepts, mainly [19]free
software, "[20]open-source", [21]bloat, [22]minimalism, [23]kiss,
[24]capitalism, [25]capitalist_software, [26]suckless, [27]LRS,
[28]less retarded society, [29]anacho pacifism, [30]type A/B fail etc.
You will also need to open up your mind and re-learn some toxic
concepts you've been taught by the system, e.g. [31]we do NOT fight
anything, we do NOT create any [32]heroes, "leaders" or celebrities
(we follow ideas, not people), admit [33]work is shit, older is better
than "[34]modern" etc.
* Install [35]GNU/[36]Linux [37]operating system to free yourself from
shit like [38]Windows and [39]Mac (you can also consider [40]BSD and
similar free OSes but you're yet probably too noob for that at this
point). Do NOT try to switch to "Linux" right away if it's your first
time, it's almost impossible, you want to just install "Linux" as
[41]dual boot (alongside your main OS) or on another computer
(easier). This way you'll be using both operating systems, slowly
getting more comfortable with "Linux" and eventually you'll find
yourself uninstalling Windows altogether. You can also just try
"Linux" in a [42]virtual machine, from a live CD/flash drive or you
can buy something with "Linux" preinstalled like [43]Raspberry Pi.
Which "Linux" to install? There are many options and as a noob you
don't have to go hardcore right away, just install any [44]distro that
[45]just werks (don't listen to people who tell you to install
[46]Gentoo tho). Remember, perfect distro doesn't exist, all tech is
shit nowadays, just choose something and go with it. You can try
these:
* [47]Devuan: Nice, [48]LRS approved distro that respects your
[49]freedom that just works, is easy to install and is actually
nice. Good for any skill level.
* [50]Debian: Like Devuan but uses the evil [51]systemd which
doesn't have to bother you at this point. Try Debian if Devuan
doesn't work for any reason.
* [52]Mint: More noob, [53]bloated and mainstream distro that only
mildly cares about freedom, but is extremely easy and works
almost everywhere. Try this if Debian didn't work for you.
* [54]Ubuntu: Kind of like Mint, try it if Mint didn't work.
* [55]Puppy Linux: Tiny kind of a "toy" distro that uses very
little resources.
* Learn a bit of [56]command line ([57]Unix utils, [58]bash etc.). No
need to become a hacker right away, just get familiar with this
essential Unix environment.
* Free yourself technologically, i.e. make yourself depend as little as
possible on capitalist technology; this step if crucial, you can't
really live well or achieve anything while being a slave. This
includes firstly leaving proprietary platforms such as [59]Facebook,
[60]Google's platforms such as [61]YouTube, [62]reddit etc. Also stop
being dependent on proprietary programs ([63]MS office, [64]photoshop
etc.), and proprietary consumer devices such as a [65]smartphone.
Again, it's impossible to free yourself 100% immediately, go slowly
and try to get more freedom even if you can't achieve 100% freedom.
This means either stop using harmful software/services/devices and
engaging in bad habits (social media etc.) or at least minimize their
use, and/or use more freedom-friendly alternatives such as different
[66]search engines (e.g. [67]searx, ...), a [68]dumbphone or at least
[69]free OS smartphone rather than capitalist [70]smartphone, freedom
friendly laptop (e.g. an old [71]thinkpad) rather than iShit or
consumerist gayming PC, start using [72]FOSS programs, e.g. [73]GIMP
instead of Photoshop, [74]LibreOffice instead of MS Office etc,
[75]invidious or [76]Peertube instead of [77]YouTube etc. If you are
addicted to some modern AAA game like [78]World of Warcraft, then
satisfaction of your need for entertainment requires latest [79]modern
powerful PC, paying game subscription, paid operating system,
expensive GPU, fast Internet connection... if as a first step you
transition to something like [80]Minetest, suddenly you can do with
any old computer with an old integrated GPU, running a FOSS operating
system, you'll suddenly be able to play on computers that people will
give your for free; better yet if you eventually transition to chess
or text adventures, any calculator or perhaps pen and paper will
satisfy your need of entertainment, your freedom will increase
greatly. Remember, it is best if you can stop using something
altogether, the second best thing is to stop being dependent on a
single entity, try to use a decentralized and/or [81]suckless [82]FOSS
alternative but do not try to just mimic your old proprietary habits
in the FOSS world, you have to learn new ways of computing (for
example start using multiple search engines instead of relying on one,
it's not good to just drop-in replace one search engine for another).
Avoid falling to traps of shit like [83]distrohopping, this just
enslaves you in a different way.
* If you want to program [84]LRS, learn [85]C (see the [86]tutorial).
Also learn a bit of [87]POSIX shell and maybe some mainstream
[88]scripting language (can be even a bloated one like [89]Python).
Learn about [90]licensing and [91]version control ([92]git). As you
advance, start studying deeper topics such as [93]history or
[94]hacker culture etc.
* Optionally make your own minimal [95]website (or even a
[96]gopherhole) to help reshare ideas you like (static [97]HTML site
without [98]JavaScript). This is very easy, and the site can be hosted
for free e.g. on [99]git hosting sites like Codeberg or GitLab. Get in
touch with us.
* Start creating: either programs or other stuff like [100]free art,
educational materials etc. Remember, creating is the most important
thing to do, it is more important than setting up a perfectly free
suckless LRS system, don't fall to the trap of becoming obsessed and
paralyzed by hopping, ricing etc. Your system is just a tool, it is
worth nothing if it's not used for creating something, and it doesn't
really matter which text editor or operating system you used to write
your program.
* profit???
Would you like to create [101]LRS but don't have enough spare time/money
to make this possible? You can check out [102]making living with LRS.
How To Make A Website
{ If you REALLY want something dead simple to quickly make a site, try
https://rentry.co. Making a real custom website is still better if you
can. ~drummyfish }
Making your own tiny independent website is pretty simple and a very good
thing to do for being able to share opinions and files relatively freely
-- using "social networks" for sharing non-mainstream stuff will not work
as these get hardcore censored (yes, even the "FOSS" ones like
[103]Mastodon etc.). By making your own website you also help decentralize
the [104]web again, take a bit of control from the [105]corporations, and
you can greatly help others by sharing useful information with them. See
also [106]smol internet. Watch out though, getting into controversial
topics on your site will nowadays greatly complicate your life, so firstly
set up some "neutral" site and once you get into it, look for ways to
somehow add [107]free speech to that. Even if you keep using mainstream
social media, it's good to also have your own site and have a link to it
on your profile.
Also please take a look at [108]gopher (a much better alternative to web)
and how to make your own gopherhole -- mainstream web is really becoming
unusable, uninhabitable and will die soon, moving to gopher (or hosting
your site both on the web and gopher, which is the best option possibly)
is a good thing to do, you will not only simplify your life and avoid a
lot of censorship but you will also support this smaller network. Another
way of sharing your stuff is through things like [109]torrents, [110]IPFS
and so on. But back to websites now.
Here we will quickly sum up how to make a [111]static, single page plain
[112]HTML website without TLS (https), which should suffice for most
things (sharing opinions, contacts, files, multimedia, simple blogging,
...). Once you get more advanced you can do fancy stuff like this wiki
(multi-page wiki written in [113]Markdown, compiled to HTML with a shell
script etc.).
NOTE on TLS (https): most sites on the web nowadays use encryption for MUH
SECURITY obsession and also web browsers kinda prefer such sites etc. (in
the future it will probably be required but by then we'll already be
elsewhere) -- such site addresses are prefixed with https://, as opposed
to normal non-encrypted http://. [114]Encryption is huge [115]bloat and
mess to set up, normally you need to pay extra money to get a
[116]certificate for it (though services like Let's Encrypt provide
certificates for free) etc. -- basically you only need encryption if you
have an interactive site where passwords or other sensitive info gets
sent, a purely static site basically doesn't need encryption at all,
however if your site doesn't support encryption it may get some penalty by
search engines and browsers as they won't "trust it as much", it's just a
form of internet bullying for not conforming to latest encryption
hysteria. All in all if you can set up encryption easily (e.g. with a
single button on your web hosting provider site), do it just for the sake
of normies; if you are experienced and can set it up yourself easily, also
do it, but if not, just don't care about it and run your site on http://
only, at least for now until you get into this stuff. Also very
importantly always support plain unencrypted http even if you set up
https, otherwise you're bullying simple browsers that don't implement
encryption.
Now do NOT follow mainstream tutorials on making website (Wordpress, PHP,
static generators, ...) -- these are absolute horseshit and just follow
ugly capitalist ways, you will just get brain cancer. Also do NOT use any
frameworks; do NOT even use static site generators -- these are not needed
at all! All you really need for making a small website is:
* [117]Plain text editor (gedit, [118]geany, [119]vim, [120]emacs,
[121]ed, ...). This is easy, just download it. Just don't use a
[122]rich text editor (MS Office, Libreoffice, ...), ok? That doesn't
work!
* Static site hosting, i.e. a publicly accessible web server to store
your site on, which will serve the site to clients. You have several
options here:
* There exist free static site hosting services, e.g. those on many
[123]git hosting platforms like [124]GitLab or [125]Codeberg
(even [126]GitHub, but avoid that one if possible), on
[127]pubnix or sites like [128]neocities. You may just search for
free web hosting on [129]wiby or something. Here you may still
encounter some censorship, but it can be a good start. Just
search their site for details on how to host a site there --
usually you will get an [130]FTP or [131]SSH access and just
upload your website there. Some have normie friendly web
interface so you don't even have to deal with [132]command line,
but it's better to not rely on them, learn to do it properly.
* You may host your site at home, typically using [133]Raspberry
Pi. This doesn't really cost anything as the weaker Raspberrys
(e.g. 3B) consume negligible amount of electricity, and for
non-extreme traffic you won't even need a super high speed
connection (especially considering you will make a very tiny,
efficient website). This is a very good option as practically no
one will be able to censor you (only police and ISP), but it's
also a tiny bit more difficult to set up because firstly you need
to set up a webserver ([134]Apache is usually installed on any
GNU/Linux distro though, it's really easy to do) and secondly you
NEED A PUBLIC [135]IP ADDRESS (as typically you will be behind a
[136]NAT so that computers from outside can't reach your server,
but if you have an IPv6 IP address you may already be publicly
accessible!): you will probably have to ask your [137]internet
provider for it (maybe you already have it, maybe they will give
it to you for free, maybe you'll have to pay some small fee; just
ask). Then you will also need to set up port forwarding on your
[138]router so that the requests from the outside are redirected
to your web server computer (Raspberry Pi) -- this is just done
in router settings by entering the IP address of the webserver
computer somewhere. It is possible to self host even without
public IP (if you're behind NAT) using tunneling -- it's not
hard, don't worry, you don't have to mess with DNS or firewalls
-- check out e.g. the [139]localtunnel project,
http://localhost.run/ etc., you can find these by looking up e.g.
"public localhost", "hosting behind NAT" and so on. Usually this
works by you running a program which connects to someone else's
public server which will assign you some subdomain and accessing
that subdomain will make the public server redirect the traffic
to your computer (the catch may be e.g. in that your subdomain
will be randomly generated and may change each time you restart
the program).
* You may also pay for a web hosting (i.e. a server computer a
company runs for you and which you access remotely) or a [140]VPS
(basically renting a server for more generic use). VPS has
basically the same advantages as having your own home server
(i.e. you can often do many things like host game servers,
dynamic websites, [141]gopher sites etc.), but it's a lot more
expensive than just web hosting (i.e. renting a hosting space
only for a website); if you ARE looking for VPS, look for
UNMANAGED VPS (unmanaged means they won't handhold you and it's a
lot cheaper). Price of really basic web hosting may even go as
low as $2 or $1 per month, however an issue arises if you want to
host controversial and/or NSFW content, for example politically
incorrect site, criticizing mainstream politics, questioning
soyence and history (covid vaccines, Holocaust, 9/11, ...)
supporting "conspiracy theories", having gore or porn etc. It is
really hard to find a host for that, keywords to search for are
free speech offshore web hosting; however though many boast by
hosting free speech, they actually don't or are scammers, ALWAYS
read their terms of service and see what they allow etc. You may
be forced to host at home here, but then your ISP may start
bullying you in the same way, so really you may even need to use
[142]Tor or something. We won't cover this here much more, it's a
pretty complex stuff.
* Optionally buy a domain name (search web for domain registrars), for
example mycoolsite.party. If you are using a free hosting service, you
will get a subdomain for free and don't have to care about this (but
can still also use your own domain if you have it and want to). If you
have your own home server, you probably want to buy a domain because
otherwise people would have to connect to your site by literally
typing an IP address to the browser. Once you have the domain, you
want to edit the [143]DNS records of your domain to point to the IP
address of your server (i.e. you want to add an "A record"): how
exactly to do this depends on the registrar (they will have some kinda
online system to edit the records).
For starters try to go the easiest way: use some free static site hosting
without a domain name. Later, once you get comfortable, you may transition
to self-hosting with your custom domain.
Now you have to make the actual website in [144]HTML. For that create a
new file and name it index.html (the name has to be such as this is the
default page name for websites). In it copy-paste the following:
My Awesome Website
This is really a bare-minimum testing website -- to expand it see the
article on [145]HTML.
Now you have to upload this html file to the hosting server -- check out
the details of your hosting server on how to do this (you may e.g. need to
use [146]git or [147]ftp to upload the file). And that's basically it, the
rest is just expanding your site, making scripts to automatize uploading
etc.
How To Make A Wiki Like This One
Do NOT use wikifarms (sites that allow you to easily set up your own wiki)
like fandom: all are [148]bloated and most importantly [149]censored. Also
you will tie yourself to their shitty formats, clouds and databases and
won't be able to easily migrate. Just avoid this.
First step to do is set up some kind of independent "online presence" like
a website or gopherhole described above. Then you may either go the
mainstream way and set up e.g. MediaWiki (the software used by
[150]Wikipedia) OR, better, do something like our [151]LRS wiki does, i.e.
[152]keep it simple and start writing articles in some super simple format
like [153]Markdown, plain [154]HTML or even [155]plain text. To convert
these articles into a wiki you basically just make a small [156]shell
script that just converts the format you write the articles in to a format
you publish them in (so for example Markdown to HTML pages) and possibly
automatically creates things like a list of all articles or a simple
navigation bar on top of each page. You don't have to know any advanced
programming at all, the script can literally be like 5 lines that just
invoke [157]CLI utilities that convert formats and copy files.
If you want, just literally take this wiki and make it your own, you can
get the source code (there is link to the git repo somewhere nearby) and
it's completely legally [158]public domain. It works basically as just
described -- you write articles in markdown and convert them to HTML or
TXT with a bash script, then you just upload this all to you online
hosting (possibly with another script) and voila, it's done.
How To Make Yourself An Independent Solar Powered Computer
On the path towards freedom a significant leap is made when one acquires a
computer that's independent of the dystopian system that will sooner or
later [159]collapse, a computer working offline and without power from the
grid -- this is always very useful, even when it's very low-spec, a
programmable calculator can do things that old civilizations would kill
for. Of course one way is to set up a complete solar (or
wind/human/water/etc.) powered electricity generator that will replace
your wall plug -- this is a topic for its own tutorial because that may
get a bit complicated (you have to get various voltage convertors,
protections for your devices, get the voltages/currents and wiring right
etc.). To make just a simple solar powered computer can be much simpler if
that's all you need. See also [160]mechanical computers, like the old
Soviet calculators etc., they can serve similar purpose.
NOTE: Possible middle ways exist between full solar powered system and
single solar powered device, it is e.g. possible to power your laptop
directly or "almost directly" from a solar panel because your laptop
already has a battery in it (so you don't need a big battery for the
panel, you just charge your laptop) and it works on DC which is what comes
from the solar panel (your laptop's charger has to convert AC from the
plug to DC, so you just remove this middle man). Please don't just go and
plug a solar panel to your laptop, you may destroy it :) Read some
tutorial on this first, they can be found on the net. Here we'll go yet
more simple.
{ The following is a summary of a simple setup I made and tested.
~drummyfish }
Firstly consider that many tiny devices are powerful enough to run some
[161]GNU/[162]Linux and even much weaker [163]bare metal devices or
calculators can still be very useful -- you can take a look at various
[164]free hardware computers, [165]open consoles, Chinese "retro gaming
consoles", programmable [166]calculators, single board computers etc.,
even a modified "smartphone" (i.e. with some non-shitty OS installed) can
probably do a good job at replacing a computer, you may experiment with
all of these. To get a true "desktop like experience" one of the best
choices for this is probably [167]raspberry pi, it's a single board
computer capable of running an OS and replacing your laptop, it is powered
from USB, "[168]just werks" AND it has super low power consumption (maybe
like 5 to 10 watts?) which will make it last very long, compared e.g. to a
true laptop. The model tested here was 3B+. You'll plug in keyboard and
mouse and then you'll just need some kind of display -- look up portable
displays, you want some that's powered from USB as well (mustn't drain too
much power though, so go for something small and simple), for example
zenscreen MB165B is quite cheap and was tested to work with this setup.
Then buy some kind of power bank, for example Xiaomi Redmi 18W 20000mAh
was tested to work well here. This will serve as your battery, the nice
thing is that power banks aren't that expensive and can easily just be
replaced if they break or die and they're flexible -- you can unplug them,
carry them somewhere to be charged in many different ways (if there is no
Sun you'll power it up from a wall plug on some public toilet or something
:D). Finally you just buy some kind of solar charger to charge the power
bank -- you don't need a "real" solar panel, any kind of pocket charger
that can power a USB device will probably do; again this won't be that
expensive and can be easily replaced or complemented. One possible
hardship may be with installing the USB display drivers (if you can get
your hands on a similar display that works through HDMI instead of USB, it
will probably be better because you won't need special drivers) -- they
are usually proprietary, the driver for zenscreen caused some trouble here
and crashed the OS sometimes, but it finally worked like this: install the
old Raspbian OS (NOT the new Raspberry pi OS); it has to be the lite,
command line only version, i.e. without GUI. Then update the system.
Install some simple GUI system (e.g. lightdm plus dwm) but DON'T make it
start automatically after boot. Then install the zenscreen driver; now the
display works if you boot the raspberry with display UNPLUGGED and once it
boots up (wait like a minute), plug in the display and start X server
(sudo systemctl start lightdm, you can make a script named e.g. just a, so
that you just type a on keyboard and press return). This is not ideal but
it's a way. Also decrease the display's resolution and refresh rate to get
better responsiveness and maybe even lower power consumption. Also turn
off wifi if you don't use it, save power. The things will actually last
very long, the power bank has great capacity and RPI consumes very little
power, so it's much better than a laptop in this sense. You can now
download pages and books from the Internet for offline browsing, install
some simple games (even Freedoom seemed to work well), set up your
programming environment and so on. Enjoy respobsibly :)
How To Learn Compsci/Programming
TODO: some kinda way/plan to learning this from start to finish
Some articles with tutorials and how tos related to this:
* [169]programming
* [170]C tutorial
* [171]exercises
* ...
How To Live, Dos and Don'ts
This is a summary of some main guidelines on how an LRS supporter should
behave in general so as to stay consistent with LRS philosophy, however it
is important that this is shouldn't be taken as rules to be blindly
followed -- the last thing we want is a religion of brainwashed NPCs who
blindly follow orders. One has to understand why these principles are in
place and even potentially modify them.
* If you want, get in contact with like minded people, for example
[172]us :) It's OK not to, not everyone is social, but it's nice to be
part of a group where people understand each other, support each
other, inspire each other, ... Even lurking helps many times. Where to
find such people? Definitely not on mainstream platforms, they are
mostly in the [173]underground: as a tech minimalist search for
"platforms" you would yourself use -- that's where you will likely
find people like yourself. Good places to start are for example
[174]gopher, [175]wiby, [176]suckless, [177]IRC, [178]mailing lists,
obscure online libre [179]games etc. If you set up a website (or
gopher hole) where you publish nice stuff, people will find you and
contact you themselves. { I found many friends in [180]Xonotic and
[181]OpenArena, as well as thanks to writings and programs I put on
the internet. ~drummyfish }
* Do NOT [182]fight, do NOT say you fight something. Fighting and
rhetoric centered around "fighting something" is part of harmful
[183]fight culture, most people don't even realize they take part in
it. It is important to unlearn this. We do not want to defeat anyone,
we want to convince by means of rationality, nonviolence and love.
However note that what is unacceptable to do to a living being may be
completely acceptable to do to non living object (for example
destroying a corporation is OK, in fact it is very desirable). We
often take actions that common people would call a "fight" (for
example we may organize a strike), however it is important that we
don't call it a fight -- a point of view is sometimes as important as
the action itself as it will determine our future direction. Remember
that [184]naming is important. Watch out for [185]A/B fails.
* Do NOT worship or create [186]heroes, don't become one. Watch out for
[187]cult of personality. It is another common mistake to for example
call [188]Richard Stallman a "hero of free software" and to even
worship him as a celebrity. The concept of a hero is [189]harmful,
rightist concept that is connected to war mentality, it goes against
[190]anarchist principles, it creates social hierarchy and given some
people a power to deceive. People are imperfect and make mistake --
only ideas can be perfect. Respect people but don't make anyone your
moral compass, you should rather subscribe to specific ideas, i.e.
rather than worshipping Stallman subscribe to and promote his idea of
[191]free software.
* Do not [192]identify with specific groups and organizations -- this
one is tricky because there is a fine line between many people
together agreeing on an idea (good) and those people creating a formal
hierarchical group which sooner or later inevitably becomes
[193]fascist or at the very least corrupt, eventually to the degree of
betraying its original beliefs (bad). Remember principles of
[194]anarchism: loosely associate with others but do not create power
structures and hierarchies. An example here may be supporting
[195]free software (good) vs supporting the (now greatly corrupt)
[196]Free Software Foundation (bad). Free software as an idea is pure
and good, in merely supporting the idea we will not create any
hierarchy of people, power structures or attach other unrelated ideas
to ride on the free software wave (e.g. that of [197]political
correctness now promoted by the FSF). They say there is strength in
unity, that is true, but there are different kinds of unity, and if
perhaps one kind of unity (the bad one) is momentarily stronger, it is
so because it's the "dark side of the force": yes, it may be stronger,
but it is evil. Resist this urge. For this we also don't want to start
any formal [198]LRS group.
* CREATE, do NOT waste your life on [199]bullshit, do NOT get too
obsessed with tools and hopping such as [200]distrohopping,
[201]githopping [202]audiophilia, hardware consumerism, 100%
minimalist perfectionism etc. The perfect is the enemy of the good.
Remember, the goal of your life is to create something new and better;
too many people just get stuck doing nothing but switch distros, rant
about which editor is best, making sure their OS has zero bloat and
zero proprietary code etc. If that's all you do, it's completely
useless, your life is completely wasted. Dedicate time to creating art
that will last, e.g. programming [203]LRS (creating source code text)
or making free cultural art -- it doesn't matter whether you create it
with Ubuntu or Gentoo.
* Lead an example, this is the best way to spread our values, however be
also extremely careful not to become a worshipped [204]authority. Know
the difference between a humble intellectual authority and an
authoritative self-centered celebrity who uses his fame for deception.
The more famous you are, the more humble you should become.
* Be [205]loving, even towards opposition -- remember: hate and revenge
towards people perpetuates the endless circle. [206]Love leads to more
love, understanding, good deeds, friendship, happiness, collaboration
and all the other positive things. Do not confuse love with
[207]political correctness. You may get angry or frustrated, just
don't get violent against, rather try to break something, write your
anger out, play some video game etc.
* Don't be [208]politically correct, never use gender neutral pronouns
(always use "he" as the default pronoun), don't be afraid to say
forbidden words like [209]nigger, never use any [210]code of coercion,
"personal pronouns" etc. Even if you think you're moderate in views
and that it "can't hurt" to just "play along" a little bit, IT DOES
HURT, you are approving of fascism and carrying its flag, remember
that Nazism only got so big thanks to a nation of moderate people who
just "played along" to avoid trouble. There is always only very few
true extremists, a great evil relies on masses of people who just want
to get by and will make no trouble in conforming. Remember that
staying silent often means supporting status quo, so the more deceit
you see in society, the more you should try to not stay silent and the
more you should try to tell the truth.
* Try to do [211]selfless things -- TRULY selfless ones. Help those in
need without expecting any kind of repay, do not even seek attention
or gratitude for it, only your good feeling. Create selfless art,
whatever it is you enjoy doing -- computer programs, 3D models, music,
videos, ... put them in the [212]public domain and let others enjoy
them :) Try to make doing good things a habit -- some people smoke,
drink, overeat and do other kinds of things harmful to themselves and
their environment as means for relieving stress. If you exploit this
natural human tendency and rather develop GOOD habits, such as writing
free software or helping charities as a means of relaxing and
relieving stress, you have won at life; doing good and feeling good
will be natural and effortless. The thing you dedicate your life to
should be the thing you love, not the thing that earns you money or
benefits you in similar ways -- try to maximize doing what you love
(which may and probably should be more than one thing) and also try to
love doing what is good so that you can do it a lot. If you love
something, never do it for money; then it becomes business and as we
know, business spoils everything.
* Protest in non-violent ways -- this doesn't mean you should be
passive; you should be exposing the truth, propaganda, corruption,
boycotting corporations and state, promoting your values and
expressing disagreement with certain ideas, but do not aim for
destruction of those who stand in opposition -- if you're attacked, it
is best if you do not fight back; not only is this the morally ideal
thing to do, it also sends a very powerful message and makes the
aggressor himself think.
* Try to be so that if everyone was like that, the society would be good
(in agreement with [213]LRS) -- this is a good general [214]rule of
thumb (and as such may also possibly fail sometimes, be careful) that
can help you make some difficult decisions. DO NOT confuse this advice
with the [215]"do unto others as you would have them do unto you"
advice, that is indeed a [216]shitty one, supposing everyone likes the
same things, i.e. for example a man who enjoys being [217]raped is
advised here to go and rape others -- that's of course bad.
* Do NOT support [218]pseudoleft ([219]LGBT, [220]feminism, [221]Antifa,
[222]soyence ...), don't become [223]type A fail. Of course you should
equally reject [224]rightism, but that goes without saying.
* [225]Free yourself from the system (and generally from as many things
as possible) -- similarly to how you free yourself technologically,
free yourself also socially, live frugally and minimize your expenses.
Stop consuming, stop living in luxury, stop spending money for shit
(gyms, sports, clothes, car, streaming services, games, cigarettes,
...), use free things that people throw away and enjoy hobbies that
are cheap (programming, reading books, going for walks, playing chess,
collecting [226]rocks, ...). Stop watching news (it's just
brainwashing and distraction, what's really important will get to you
anyway), stop engaging in fashion, stop talking to retards and
watching tiktok manipulators. You need very little to live, you don't
even need internet connection; with good computing you can hack
offline and only connect to the internet once in a while on some
public wifi to download emails and upload your programs. Stop using
[227]cellphone (if you need it e.g. for banking, just use it for
banking and don't carry it around with you, don't make it something
you need with you). Make yourself self sufficient, prepare for the
[228]collapse. If you can live somewhere in the woods and would enjoy
it, go for it.
* Adopt [229]defeatism; [230]optimism is harmful, learn to be
[231]pessimistic -- this stops you from engaging in [232]fight culture
and makes you free to behave morally, you will seize to be the slave
of bullshit necessary for winning the capitalist game and you'll no
longer be working for [233]capitalism.
* Search for the [234]truth. You won't find it easily, real truth is
always censored and hidden (though often in plain sight), but you can
train yourself to spot propaganda and see the red flags. You won't
find truth through Google, use different sources, read old books,
[235]encyclopedias and different points of view (e.g. contrast
articles on [236]Wikipedia with those on [237]Infogalactic). Learn
foreign and old langages such as [238]Latin so that you can read
untranslated and first hand historical accounts. Question EVERYTHING
(absolutely everything, even this statement). Do not fall into traps
such as [239]pseudoskepticism. Train your mind to think critically,
avoid [240]shortcut thinking, question your own biased beliefs and
wishes.
* Reject harmful things like [241]proprietary software, [242]capitalism,
[243]copyright, [244]bloat, [245]work etc. Use and promote the ethical
equivalents, i.e. [246]free software, [247]free culture, frugality,
[248]anarchism etc.
* [249]Don't argue with retards with the goal of convincing him or
winning the argument so that you feel good (the meaning of retard here
is simply someone disagreeing with LRS). It's literally wasted
time/energy and it's bad for your mental health, it leads nowhere and
achieves nothing but make your more suicidal than you already are. You
literally can NOT convince anyone who is not open to being convinced,
it is impossible, even if you have 100000 mathematical proofs, real
world evidence, literature supporting you and anything you can
imagine, you cannot logically convince someone who doesn't know how
logic works or someone who simply emotionally isn't ready to change
his mind. In 99.999999999999999% cases you can tell if it's worth to
talk to someone after his first reaction -- you present an idea, such
as LRS, and if he just expresses disagreement, there is no point in
communicating further, by the disagreement he has taken a defensive
stance and will hold it for the rest of his life now, you have to go
find someone else. NO, not even if he's an "intellectual", has PhD and
thirty Nobel Prizes, if he doesn't wanna see the truth, you cannot
help him. As it's been said, trying to argue with an idiot is like
trying to win a chess game against a pidgeon -- even if you're the
world chess champion, the pidgeon will just shit on the board and
think it's won. If you spot a retard, just leave -- don't try to have
the last word or anything, even admit him "victory" in the argument
and leave him in his world of delusion where he is the unappreciated
Einstein, just do not waste an extra second on him, just leave and go
do something better. { So many such idiots I have met I can't even
count it -- pure stupid peasant aren't even that bad, the wost are the
"above average" intelligence reddit atheists who think they're smart.
I literally had such people argue like "you like games therefore
competition in society is good because games are part of society
therefore society equals competition". Truly I'm not sure if those
bastards are just trolling me into suicide or are really so fucking
dumb :D ~drummyfish }
* Similarly avoid [250]toxic communities, don't argue, just leave, it's
better to be alone than in bad company. Basically anything with a COC,
language filter, SJW vibe, rainbow etc. isn't even more worth checking
out.
* Be a [251]generalist, see the big picture, study the whole world,
educate yourself -- tantum possumus quantum scimus, what we can do is
given by what we know. Do not become overspecialized in the capitalist
way. Sure you may become an expert at something, but not for the price
of making your view of the world too narrow. You may spend most of
your time studying and programming computer compilers for example, but
still do (and enjoy) other things, for example reading fiction,
studying religions, languages, psychology, playing [252]go, making
music, building houses, painting, doing sports, ... Learn to enjoy to
educate yourself! Education (not necessarily formal) is one of the
most valuable things you can get -- no one can take it away from you,
it makes you see truth more clearly and though this itself makes you
more depressed, it also frees you in many ways, for example knowing
languages enables you to read more books and live in more places and
talk to more people and you can get a comfy job as a translator if you
need money, knowing chess makes you able to entertain yourself without
a computer, knowing programming enables you to write your own programs
if good ones aren't available, and so on. Education makes you see
through other people's lies. It is fine to be retarded, remain
ignorant and just play video games all days, your value as a living
being will lower that way, but you will forever remain among the
retarded majority manipulated by the tides of society, even if you
have good opinions and correct views, you'll stay just another retard,
you won't be able to help others, you'll be paralyzed, leaving the
burden and joy of helping the world on others -- just decide if that
is what you want. Have you always admired that someone can play a
piano? Why not learn it then? Get some cheap keyboard and make it a
habit to practice playing it at least 20 minutes every other day, see
how good you become in a year. Were you always bad at chemistry? Why
not fix it a bit? Get some chemistry for dummies book and read it
every day before sleep, you will go from absolute chemistry retard to
well above average soon. You can learn about start constelations,
biology, history, train card games, memorize pi digits, run half
marathon, learn juggling, write your own small book etcetc. A nice
life hack is to see life as an RPG game, see yourself as a character
you are improving, by improving skills you are unlocking new
abilities, enabling new options, increasing your stats -- however be
very careful to not become competitive or fall victim to the
[253]"self-improvement" cult! The key is to not start comparing
yourself to other, or rather to not have it as a goal to be better
than someone else, the goal should be just your happiness of becoming
a higher level living entity that has more abilities for helping
other, enjoy the universe and so on.
* Limit your meat consumption. If you can, become [254]vegetarian or
even [255]vegan; if you can't go as far it will still be awesome if
you just reduce meat consumption to let's say once or twice per week.
Purpose of this isn't physical health, it's avoiding harm to other
living beings -- consider that a living being who could live a long,
happy life has to die just for you to have a few slightly tastier
meals. Just don't do that. If you are still worried about negative
effects of vegetarianism on your health, know that eating too much
meat is probably more dangerous than eating no meat, AND if you eat
meat every day, you are already eating too much of it, humans aren't
built for that -- until very recently meat was kind of a luxury and
people ate it only on special days, so reducing your meat consumption
will likely improve your health. { I personally knew two butchers who
basically had to have meat in every meal, one had a heart attack
before the age of 30, the other one died in his 40s. Again, we choose
vegetarianism for ethical reasons, but if your argument is health,
it's probably not a good argument. ~drummyfish }
* Stop just bitching around and DO SOMETHING -- don't get this wrong,
bitching around and ranting is great, this whole wiki is just one huge
wall of rage bitching, however if it's all you do, it literally
achieves nothing, it won't convince a single man, no one will read
that shit, you are just wasting huge part of your life by being angry
on the Internet. First thing you have to do is DO SOMETHING, e.g. if
you promote minimalism, go and make a minimalist game, show others it
works, prove (even to yourself) the thing you believe in is good,
bitching about the world is only to come as a supplement to your main
work -- your rants aren't there to convince anyone, your art does
that, your writings are there for the people who are already convinced
to help them educate themselves further. Consider this: you may spend
whole life writing 100 books about how minimalism is awesome, you may
examine the whole history in detail, provide mathematical proofs of
everything and suggest a completely working system that could be
established to solve all the problems in the world -- no one is going
to read this. Literally not a single man will give a shit. On the
other hand you can take a year to program a minimalist operating
system, one that is 1000 times smaller than Linux and is 10 times
faster and is completely public domain and basically rapes Linux in
every other way, you just post that somewhere and people just can't
ignore it, you put before their eyes something they can literally see
is infinitely better than what was there before, you instantly get
thousands of people hooked and they start creating more art like this.
You just changed the world significant for the better in just one
year. Note this isn't an argument for chasing popularity at all, on
the contrary, your actions will likely contradict the popular and even
cause a lot of hate, however realize that words are just words, there
are too many words everywhere, words can lie and they never achieve
anything by themselves, good is achieved and proven by actions.
* Should you go vote? The safe answer is no, most likely you shouldn't
vote, not voting is in 99.99% cases the best thing as you can just
avoid all noise and stress of watching politics at all, you won't
waste your time and you also actively vote against the current system
by not voting: you decrease the voter turnout, decreasing trust in the
system -- there is a reason all politics agree on the one thing that
"you should go vote" -- they do because that sustains trust that gives
them power, so as it's mostly the case, mainstream clearly pushing you
to something basically means it's the one thing you should almost
definetely NOT do. A deeper answer to the question of voting is again
that you should weight all pros and cons, but you will conclude the
pros are so unlikely to prevail that only in an extremely rare
situation it would make sense to go vote. You should go vote only if
there appears a "party" that's extremely based -- this party should be
extremely aligned with LRS, wanting to end all work, military, money,
police, all by strictly peaceful ways and eventually end even state
and itself too -- something we have practically a zero chance of
seeing in the next few hundred years, and even if such "party"
appeared in theory and you went vote for it, it almost definitely
won't win as normies just won't vote for it, so you change nothing
anyway. Definitely do NOT go vote for lesser evil, that's just
strengthens the system. Just stop watching politics and let the system
destroy itself, you won't be able to influence it by voting in any way
no matter what, even if your voting power was multiplied by one
million, it just doesn't even matter which party is ruling nowadays.
Stop caring about current politics, spend the time on better things.
If the base party appears, the news will get to you anyway.
* Live your life as you want, don't let someone else control your life
and manipulate you, e.g. with feelings of guilt -- this often happens
with your parents, partner, friends, culture, laws, ... This isn't an
argument for self interest! On the contrary, most people nowadays will
try to push you to following self interest or fascist goals that will
also benefit them. You only have one life, others have theirs, so
listen to advice but remember to always make your own decisions in
important things. If you feel you don't want to go to school or that
you don't want to work or that you want to do something that people
despise or you want to do something that you've read is wrong, just do
what you feel is best, even if it's a let down for your family or if
it contradicts what the whole society is telling you.
* Publish everything immediately, don't wait for your project "to be
ready" for a release, make it public right now! You don't have to
advertize it, just make it public. Some reasons are for example: you
aren't behaving strategically like a capitalist, you get early
feedback from others (important so you don't spend a lot of time on
shit), you let others know what you're working on so they don't waste
time working on the same thing, even an incomplete project may be
useful to someone (parts of it may already be useful to someone), and
also, very importantly, if you hesitate YOU WILL NEVER RELEASE THE
PROJECT, you will become obsessed with perfectionism and ashamed to
ever release the project. YES YOU WILL, I have seen it about 10000000
billion times. You think you will release it but you won't, every
additional day you hesitate the chance of release decreases by 10%, so
after 10 days it's already certain you will never release it, further
on the chance even gets negative.
* NEVER, NEVER go into debt: Even if you should live under a bridge, if
you aren't in debt you're still good -- better than most people
probably. Debt is how the system enslaves you, so never take any loans
or make unplanned children you would be obliged to pay for etc., it
will force you to bow to the system, take unethical jobs, forget your
morals. If you're already in debt, make it number one priority to pay
it off ASAP. If you're in debt that would take too long or forever to
pay off, your only option is just to burn your ID and run off to the
woods, the system will now see you as a free slave, someone who can be
forced to labor without sleep or just killed, you can no longer rely
on any help from it.
* PRO TIP: A great [256]heuristic for making life decisions is to
usually do the exact opposite of what the society tells you to do --
it works because society only wants to exploit you, so it pushes you
towards bad decisions. This doesn't hold always, of course, don't just
blindly act in opposites (there may be "double bluffs" also..., but
mostly there aren't as most people just follow direct orders), but
it's a good decision helper in about 99% cases. For example if society
tells you "increase your social media presence", you should really
completely leave social media, if it tells you "boost your carrier",
you should stop working, if it tells you "go vote", you shouldn't go
vote etcetc.
* PRO TIP: Get yourself [257]banned on toxic platforms like
[258]Wikipedia, [259]GitHub, [260]Steam, [261]4chan etcetc., it has
many advantages -- you gain [262]freedom (no longer having to care
about platform you are banned on), the platform loses one user/slave
(you), you stop being abused by the platform, it's also [263]fun (just
find some creative way to get banned, possibly cause uprising on the
platform, make mods angry and waste their time on cleaning up your
mess), it will make you become more self sufficient and you help
decentralize the Internet again (can't edit Wikipedia? Just make your
own :-]), it will make you find better places, you may also help bring
the toxic platform down (others will see the platform utilizes
censorship, some may follow you in leaving...) etcetc.
* Accept [264]death -- no, don't kill yourself, just accept death will
come, maybe tomorrow, maybe in one hour, for you or for anyone you
love, everything you ever made will become dirt. Constantly live with
thought of death and get comfortable about it, you have to be ready to
die at any moment and stop being too adraid of it, then you become
really [265]free. Nowadays most people have panic fear of death which
is similar to e.g. having panic phobia of germs -- no one wants go get
sick, but if you're so gravely scared of catching any disease, you're
enslaved, crippled, your life is limited, you can't do what you'd like
to do. With death it's the same: try to live but don't let death scare
you so much as to limit you in what you can say or do. Take a look at
men who firmly stood behind their beliefs such as [266]Einstein,
Seneca or Socrates, they all accepted death when it came and took it
even if they could have avoided it; they are examples of highest
mental freedom. Again, do NOT fucking kill yourself, that's a bad
idea, just be ready for death and don't get dreadfully scared of it,
it's not far away, it is probably just behind the next corner. {
Regularly watching gore videos helps with this a bit. ~drummyfish }
* Try (almost) everything: getting experience, even unpleasant one, is
good. We won't advise you to try dangerous things so that you can't
sue us, but it's not bad to have been through hardships, voluntarily
or not. Firstly it helps you build the big picture view -- if you know
what it's like to do hard manual work as well as suffer stressful
intellectual work, if you know what it's like to feel great physical
or mental pain, to be hungry, very fat or skinny, alone, popular and
hated, abused and so on, you'll have more empathy, you'll know how
people feel and you'll see through probaganda that paints you a
distorted picture of what things are like, experience and pain make
you wiser and also more loving. Don't risk your health or hurt
yourself too much, but maybe don't be scared of taking a blow.
Secondly this conveniently makes normies shut up because they can no
longer use their favorite arguments (which are invalid but they will
still use them) like "u cant citicize this if u havent tried it
lolooololol!!!!!" and "loloolol have u even ever done X lol? then u
cant talk about it" -- usually normie lives in a world of dichotomies
like "you are either an intellectual or work manually", if you've done
both his brain just freezes and he's like "ummmm but... but that
cant... wait... so u say... mmmm... fuk u i have to go now".
* If you need to rest then fucking rest, don't be a [267]productivist
pussy, take as much time as you need before you feel like doing
anything, it's okay.
* ...
How To Look
You should look like this:
* Absolutely NEVER get any [268]tattoos or piercing. That's one of the
stupidest things you could ever do. If you have any, remove them ASAP.
Never dye your hair, never make fancy hair styles or beard styles.
Don't wear any decorations like rings, earrings or necklaces whose
purpose is to make you look better.
* Minimize your body [269]maintenance. It's [270]bullshit that's taking
your time in this world which could be spent better. It's good if you
wear long hair so that you don't have to take haircuts which also has
a nice side effect of hurting the barbershop economy. If you have to
cut your hair, do it yourself, NEVER go to barbershop. It's also good
to never shave, it saves you time, electricity, water, money on
shaving cream, razors and so on.
* NEVER wear any makeup. That's extremely stupid, it's ugly and wastes
your life.
* Wear only cheap clothes and only for practical reasons, never for
fashion, persuasion etc. If those clothes have any brands on them,
tear them off, you don't want to be a walking ad. Absolutely NEVER
wear [271]suits or dresses, suits are expensive, uncomfortable
capitalist bullshit whose sole purpose is to deceive by looks and show
belonging to an upper class -- you want to do that? Wear old and cheap
clothes, wear it until it literally falls apart, buy only second hand
clothes, never support the cloth industry. Be naked whenever you can,
for example in your house and in your garden (not in public -- it
would be good but you'd get into jail) -- if someone gets
[272]butthurt just ignore him, don't even talk to him, if they put
some clothes on you by force just wait 5 minutes and then take it off
again. If you can't be naked at least be as naked as you can, for
example you can mostly walk topless or at least barefoot.
* You CAN alter things about yourself for practical reasons of course --
for example if your hair goes to your eyes, you can cut it.
* Should you get [273]fat or skinny? Well, there is no specific advice
here, try both and see what works for you, it's probably ideal to have
ideal weight anyway. Focus on health.
* Don't even think about things like plastic surgery -- if you ever
thought about that, there is probably no hope in saving you, so we
won't even go on here.
How Not To Get Depressed Living In This Shitty Dystopia
I don't know lol, you tell me. Becoming more independent of this system
really helps, just accept everything will get destroyed in a few years --
yes, all you ever liked is practically already dead and gone, just deal
with it and find new things to like such as reading books and watching the
nature instead of scrolling through facebook etc. Unconditional [274]love
and [275]altruism helps just as well, just let go of the hate and
[276]fight, help people [277]selflessly without expecting rewards. One of
the big challenges is also dealing with the Cassandra complex, i.e. that
only you know the truth but you can't communicate it to others, they don't
listen, it's like a nightmare but real, you have to deal with this by
meditation, social isolation, reading and other forms of [278]coping.
Other
Here are links to some other articles that may contain their own how to:
* [279]how to make living
* [280]C tutorial
* how to learn [281]programming
* how to learn [282]3d modeling
* how to play [283]chess
* ...
Links:
1. bloat.md
2. shit.md
3. windows.md
4. suicide.md
5. capitalism.md
6. tranny_software.md
7. bullshit.md
8. censorship.md
9. shortcut_thinking.md
10. everyone_does_it.md
11. axiom.md
12. rms.md
13. gnu.md
14. devil.md
15. ubi.md
16. doom.md
17. lrs.md
18. tech.md
19. free_software.md
20. open_source.md
21. bloat.md
22. minimalism.md
23. kiss.md
24. capitalism.md
25. capitalist_software.md
26. suckless.md
27. lrs.md
28. less_retarded_society.md
29. anpac.md
30. fail_ab.md
31. fight_culture.md
32. hero.md
33. work.md
34. modern.md
35. gnu.md
36. linux.md
37. operating_system.md
38. windows.md
39. mac.md
40. bsd.md
41. dual_boot.md
42. vm.md
43. raspberry.md
44. distro.md
45. just_werks.md
46. gentoo.md
47. devuan.md
48. lrs.md
49. free_software.md
50. debian.md
51. systemd.md
52. mint.md
53. bloat.md
54. ubuntu.md
55. puppy.md
56. cli.md
57. unix.md
58. bash.md
59. facebook.md
60. google.md
61. youtube.md
62. reddit.md
63. microsoft.md
64. photoshop.md
65. smartphone.md
66. search_engine.md
67. searx.md
68. dumbphone.md
69. free_software.md
70. smartphone.md
71. thinkpad.md
72. foss.md
73. gimp.md
74. libreoffice.md
75. invidious.md
76. peertube.md
77. youtube.md
78. wow.md
79. modern.md
80. minetest.md
81. suckless.md
82. foss.md
83. distrohopping.md
84. lrs.md
85. c.md
86. c_tutorial.md
87. posix_shell.md
88. script.md
89. python.md
90. license.md
91. vcs.md
92. git.md
93. history.md
94. hacking.md
95. web.md
96. gopher.md
97. html.md
98. javascript.md
99. git.md
100. free_culture.md
101. lrs.md
102. living.md
103. mastodon.md
104. www.md
105. corporation.md
106. smol_internet.md
107. free_speech.md
108. gopher.md
109. torrent.md
110. ipfs.md
111. static.md
112. html.md
113. markdown.md
114. encryption.md
115. bloat.md
116. certificate.md
117. plain_text.md
118. geany.md
119. vim.md
120. emacs.md
121. ed.md
122. rich_text.md
123. git.md
124. gitlab.md
125. codeberg.md
126. github.md
127. pubnix.md
128. neocities.md
129. wiby.md
130. ftp.md
131. ssh.md
132. cli.md
133. rpi.md
134. apache.md
135. ip_address.md
136. nat.md
137. isp.md
138. router.md
139. localtunnel.md
140. vps.md
141. gopher.md
142. tor.md
143. dns.md
144. html.md
145. html.md
146. git.md
147. ftp.md
148. bloat.md
149. censorship.md
150. wikipedia.md
151. lrs_wiki.md
152. kiss.md
153. md.md
154. html.md
155. plain_text.md
156. shell.md
157. cli.md
158. public_domain.md
159. collapse.md
160. mechanical.md
161. gnu.md
162. linux.md
163. bare_metal.md
164. free_hardware.md
165. open_console.md
166. calculator.md
167. rpi.md
168. just_werks.md
169. programming.md
170. c_tutorial.md
171. exercises.md
172. lrs.md
173. underground.md
174. gopher.md
175. wiby.md
176. suckless.md
177. irc.md
178. mailing_list.md
179. game.md
180. xonotic.md
181. openarena.md
182. fight_culture.md
183. fight_culture.md
184. name_is_important.md
185. fail_ab.md
186. hero_culture.md
187. cult_of_personality.md
188. rms.md
189. harmful.md
190. anarchism.md
191. free_software.md
192. identity.md
193. fascism.md
194. anarchism.md
195. free_software.md
196. fsf.md
197. political_correctness.md
198. lrs.md
199. bullshit.md
200. distrohopping.md
201. githopping.md
202. audiophilia.md
203. lrs.md
204. hero_culture.md
205. love.md
206. love.md
207. political_correctness.md
208. political_correctness.md
209. nigger.md
210. coc.md
211. selflessness.md
212. public_domain.md
213. less_retarded_society.md
214. rule_of_thumb.md
215. do_unto_others.md
216. shit.md
217. rape.md
218. pseudoleft.md
219. lgbt.md
220. feminism.md
221. antifa.md
222. soyence.md
223. fail_ab.md
224. right.md
225. freedom.md
226. rock.md
227. phone.md
228. collapase.md
229. defeatism.md
230. optimism.md
231. pessimism.md
232. fight_culture.md
233. capitalism.md
234. truth.md
235. encyclopedia.md
236. wikipedia.md
237. infogalactic.d
238. latin.md
239. pseudoskepticism.md
240. shortcut_thinking.md
241. proprietary.md
242. capitalism.md
243. copyright.md
244. bloat.md
245. work.md
246. free_software.md
247. free_culture.md
248. anarchism.md
249. cant_argue_with_idiot.md
250. toxic.md
251. generalism.md
252. go.md
253. productivity_cult.md
254. vegetarianism.md
255. veganism.md
256. heuristic.md
257. ban.md
258. wikipedia.md
259. github.md
260. steam.md
261. 4chan.md
262. freedom.md
263. fun.md
264. death.md
265. freedom.md
266. einstein.md
267. productivity_cult.md
268. tattoo.md
269. maintenance.md
270. bullshit.md
271. suit.md
272. butthurt.md
273. fat.md
274. love.md
275. altruism.md
276. fight_culture.md
277. selflessness.md
278. coping.md
279. living.md
280. c_tutorial.md
281. programming.md
282. 3d_model.md
283. chess.md