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No? That’s not what it means.

Let me try an analogy: suppose you got out in a snowstorm, God is someone who loves you and got after you to light a fire so you can be warm, what happens if you still insist on going away?

Yes, that’s why hell isn’t already the current reality, despite humanity rejecting God, He still lends us life and good things out of love and doesn’t instantly smite those who use His gifts to act outside of His will.

Depending on the interpretation the “I was” should be “yourself”.

As God is the source of all life and good, choosing to turn away from Him means hell is self-inflicted.

I’ve managed to run some old games on Linux with Bottles/Wine that didn’t work on Windows anymore.

IMO the “year of the Linux desktop” will come when distros are designed for people who shouldn’t even be allowed to use sudo.

The copyright thing doesn’t bother me much, but the absurdly inflated hype and pushiness from the companies does, and using it at this moment only feeds into it. Probably after the bubble bursts I won’t feel bad about using it.

I recently used one “agentic ‘AI’” to help writing unit tests. Was surprisingly productive with it; but also felt very dirty afterwards.

The Dune books.

OK, not boring, but nowhere near deserving the praise they get.

I’ve only managed to get through the first two.