what are you interested in? what do you find that you always end up doing, when youre alone? what do you think about? creative things? have any ideas about solutions to problems you find?

here is a random list of skills that ive developed since around that age:

• cooking (working restaurants of various types and doing Food Not Bombs direct action stuff)

• naturopathic medicine and herbal remedies (studied and worked with/for a family business that produced, marketed, and sold homeopathic/naturopathic medicines, tinctures, etc.

• sustainable residential construction (started with learning building Earthships, moved to high-end custom carpentry, to conventional remodelling and construction)

• Trail building and forestry (spent 2 years doing forest thinning for wildfire management and trail building on the Continental Divide)

• edible landscaping/local agriculture (Nashville Foodscapes designed and implemented landscaping that used native plants and fruit bearing and edible plants as beautiful landscaping)

• Music and art (im self taught musician and artist using various medium. woodwork, pen and ink, graphic design)

• IT, software development, systems building (self taught and AI assisted projects building production apps for various business ideas, building tools to help me in my day to day, etc.)

• Currently pursuing a Bachelor of Science Information Technology (I need the peice of paper that says im worth 100k salary)

Just do shit, dont think so hard. Follow your heart. If theres something youre interested in, go seek it out and immerse yourself. Then see where it takes you.

Ive travelled the world and USA building Earthships, met people from all over the world doing different things and the broader your experiences are the more oppurtunities you will find.

Vibe coding.

Garuda, Bazzite, Zorin, Pop OS…and get a seperate machine for work. Hell no, I’m not letting my employer on to my personal machine.

install KIO packages if tou do t have them dolphin needs these for network shares to behave like local files:

sudo apt install kio-fuse kio-extras ffmpegthumbs

then log out and log back in (or restart)

dolphin should mount network paths under

/run/user/your-uid/kio-fuse-somerandomshit

check it

if the path starts with /run/user/… you’re good. If it’s something like smb://, it’s not using fuse

gpt explainstion for education

What’s going on:

Your server has files. Dolphin can look at them, but it’s not actually pulling them down to your computer in a normal folder.

Because the files aren’t really on your computer, other programs can’t just “open” them — they don’t know how to talk to the server like Dolphin does.

How it should work: If you use FUSE (with kio-fuse), Dolphin secretly makes a fake local folder that pretends the server’s files are on your computer.

Now, when you double-click a file, your computer thinks it’s opening a local file — so any app can work with it.

Why Nemo works but Dolphin doesn’t Nemo automatically mounts network folders in that “pretend local folder” way.

Dolphin can do it too, but only if kio-fuse is installed and working.

Without it, Dolphin is basically just showing you a picture of the files instead of giving them to your apps.

The fix: Install the thing (kio-fuse) that makes the fake local folder.

Restart your session so Dolphin uses it.

Now Dolphin acts like Nemo — server files will just work everywhere.

intel macbook air works good for me, with debian and xfce

theyre whatever, they have their place in my system, but inprefer installing debs from the repo

but can you run excel on linux :(

debs