Linux again

I recently did some experiments with “old” hardware – a Skylake i5-6500T mini pc running Debian 12 with KDE Plasma, configured so that I can use it either as a stand-in replacement for my home server, or a fully set up Linux desktop for myself in case I need it for something; I don’t know, if both Microsoft and Apple make their operating systems non-functional at the same time for some reason. I intentionally left the machine with 8GB RAM just to see if it’s enough, and it seems to be more than enough for the server, where it uses up 1.4GB, and barely sufficient for desktop, where it uses up almost all the RAM when I run all the things that I normally do. It’s all quite snappy, but I did notice one thing; when I play videos on YouTube on full screen, or even when I’m using one of the high-bandwidth modes such as 1080p@60, it frame drops like crazy and is as smooth as a country road in Siberia during the melt season. My first guess was that the Skylake iGPU doesn’t support the modern codecs used by YouTube for those high bandwidth modes, but then I thought more about it and decided it might be a Linux issue. I didn’t feel like installing Windows on that machine just to test my hypothesis, so I took out the second device I recently got on ebay, the Thinkpad T14 with i5-10310U, a Comet Lake CPU with support for all the modern codecs. Played that same 4k video test on Win11, with perfect results, zero frame drops. Then I rebooted into Ubuntu 24.04, same test, and it frame drops almost the same as the Skylake machine.

I did all the recommended stuff on Linux; tried different browsers, tried to toggle GPU acceleration on and off, and the only thing I managed to do is make it behave worse, not better.

Switch to Linux they say, you’ll solve all your Microsoft problems they say. Well it’s true, you’ll solve your Microsoft problems, and instead of Microsoft you’ll have problems caused by thousands of pimply masturbators with attitude issues who can’t agree on the colour of shit, which is why there are hundreds of Linux distros and they all have the same issues, because polishing the GPU drivers and the window manager is hard. But the important thing is that the Linux community is getting rid of “nazis” who think there are only two genders, and at the same time they get rid of Russian developers because “stand with Ukraine”.

Yeah. The frustrating thing about Linux is that so many things work well, and then you run into something important like this. Maybe Huawei will rework Linux into something that actually works well, and give it wider hardware support and localisation, doing for Linux desktop what Android did for mobile. Maybe. However then America is going to block it because they won’t be able to install their spyware.

Government of Heaven

I’m thinking about the systems of government that have been tried in this world, and trying to conceptualise the system of government that exists in the real world, the one created by God, that’s usually called heaven or something similar in a religious context.

So, is heaven a democracy, a monarchy, a republic, or what?

I was thinking about that, and concluded that the best way to put it is this. Imagine the entire world as a corporation. Everybody in it has a job, a purpose. Also, everybody is a shareholder, with a single kalapa being one share, and, basically, the more kalapas in your spiritual body, the more influence you have over the company – in fact, over the created world – because it means that you are more “of God” than other beings, because each kalapa is the most fundamental manifestation of God’s spirit in the relative. It’s not a linear thing, because kalapas aggregate into larger structures, which collapse into structures of greater density but lower volume when they reach complete purity, and then those larger structures grow in size and collapse into structures of even greater density, and so on. So, basically, the company is run by a board of directors, who run different “departments” and represent different aspects of reality and spiritual evolution, and they both rule and represent because they are, by the virtue of their spiritual magnitude, the greatest manifestations of the transcendental God in the relative, and as such they contain the best available perspective on what is important, what is real, good, and leads to greater knowledge and manifestation of God. So, those big shareholders speak for a huge number of “shares”, and the concept of “one person, one vote” doesn’t really exist. The Christians would say that the Heaven is ruled by God, and great saints and angels, due to their better and deeper communion with God, have greater responsibility and power, because the power and authority of God works through them. I could actually be more precise in my description, but I will intentionally leave it vague so that some surprises remain for those who get to witness it in person. 🙂

Social thermodynamics

People periodically ask me for a cause of all kinds of terrible things that are taking place on an almost daily basis in the recent years – whether it’s something some global script designed by Satan is targeting them with specifically, or something of a more broad spectrum is at play.

This is my recent answer:

Honestly, on some deeper level, this no longer feels as if anyone is “doing” anything, it looks like some kind of a thermodynamic event, for instance ocean cooling down by evaporating into the atmosphere and making a hurricane.

Basically, the same as the ocean producing a hurricane merely as a consequence of its inability to hold on to the level of energy it has, the global astral field can’t hold on to the level of energy it had while Sanat Kumar was managing the system, and we are facing a spiritual equivalent of a major temperature drop.

Also, I need to add this, because people who aren’t trained physicists tend to have wild misunderstanding of those things.

An energy drop sounds like a low-energy event, but in fact it’s a high-energy event. When an atom drops in energy, it emits a photon, basically produces radiation when you look at it from the outside, and to you it appears like a high-energy event. Ocean dropping in temperature is a hurricane, a very violently high-energy event. Gas that drops in temperature/pressure emits large amounts of heat. Battery going from high energy state to a low energy state is a very energetic event.

Likewise, the global system cooldown, its descent into a lower-energy state, appears extremely violent and energetic – hysteria, violence, wars, genocide and so on. An energy drop usually means a very big “boom”.

I used to think about the causes of the terrible self-destructive world wars, especially the first one, which looked as if the whole civilisation just threw itself into the meat grinder. One explanation was that the balance of power within the civilisation changed from feudalism to capitalism, while political power remained very much feudal, and the whole war thing looks like a social thermodynamic event that destroyed this obsolete system and brought the formal power structures more in line with the actual ones. Also, the whole concept of politics, economy, war, religion and purpose had to be reshuffled to match the industrial, modernist era. The second world war looks pretty much like a continuation of the first one, and ended with the British Empire destroyed and America and Russia assuming the position of first-tier powers. Then those first-tier powers had a battle for primacy, and that one is still ongoing, where the apparent fall and dissolution of the Soviet Union represents merely one phase, and now Russia under Putin is back, and America and the entire West are having what looks very much like the late-Soviet civilisational crisis. The way things look now, USA didn’t really win the cold war; its collapse just lagged somewhat behind that of the Soviet Union.

At the moment, America looks like the last big remainder of the satanic experiment of some kind, of a country without God where people join together in democracy and take charge of their own destiny – essentially, modernism that started with the French revolution. This same experiment had many branches – European secularism, American free market capitalism and a republican constitution, Soviet Union, and the Third Reich. Third Reich is gone, Soviet Union is gone and Russia is trying to find its reason for existence which currently looks like some mixture of tradition and religion, Europe is a decadent cesspool, and America looks like it’s in late stages of turning into a hellhole. The champion of the West against Russia, Ukraine, looks like something between Satanism and Fascism; basically, the most ridiculous chimera of all Modernist and Postmodernist failures patched together as a weapon against Christianity and Reason, a weapon that treats human life as utterly worthless in the name of human rights and humanism, completely in line with the trend that started with the Guillotine orgies of the French Revolution.

As a conclusion, no, Man is not the measure of all things. Also, human life is not the ultimate value. God is the measure of all things, and Man without God is an empty shell devoid of anything worthwhile to live for, and if human life is the ultimate value, then there’s nothing so great that it’s worth living and dying for, making human life ultimately pointless and worthless. This concludes the godless experiment of Satan – in total, absolute failure.

PC lineage

I was watching some YouTube videos about old computers, thinking: which ones are predecessors of our current machines, and which ones are merely extinct technology, blind alleys that led nowhere?

It’s an interesting question. I used to assume that home computers from the 1980s are predecessors of the current machines, but then I saw someone work on an old minicomputer running UNIX, PDP-10 or something, and that thing felt instantly familiar, unlike ZX Spectrum, Apple II or Commodore 64, which feel nothing like what we have today. Is it possible that I had it wrong? When I look at the first Macintosh, it feels very much like the user interface we use today, but Macintosh was a technological demonstration that didn’t actually do anything useful yet, because hardware was too weak. But where did the Macintosh come from? Lisa, of course. And Lisa was the attempt to make Xerox Alto streamlined and commercially viable. All three were failures; the idea was good, but the technology wasn’t there yet. The first computers that feel exactly like what we are now using were the graphical workstations from Silicon Graphics and Sun, because they were basically minicomputers with a graphical console and a 3d rendering engine.

It’s almost as if home computers were a parallel branch of technology, related more to Atari arcade machines than the minicomputers and mainframes of the day, created as attempts to work with inferior but cheap technology, which evolved from Altair to Apple II to IBM PC, which evolved from 8088 to 80286 to 80386, when Microsoft copied the Macintosh interface and made it into a mass market OS, as technology became viable, then Windows evolved from 3.00 to 95 to 98… and then this entire technological blind alley went extinct, because the technology became advanced enough to erase the difference between the UNIX graphical workstations and personal computers, and so Microsoft started running a mainframe kernel on a PC, which was called NT, at version 4 it became a viable competition to Windows 95, and Windows 2000 ran NT kernel, and the 95/98/ME kernel was retired completely, ending the playground phase of PC technology and making everything a graphical workstation. Parallel to that, Steve Jobs, exiled from Apple, was tinkering with his NEXT graphical workstation project, which became quite good but didn’t sell, and when Apple begged him to come back and save them from themselves, he brought the NextStep OS and that became the OS X on the new generation of Macintosh computers. So, basically, the PC architecture was in its infancy phase and playing with cheap but inferior hardware until the prices of hardware came down so much that the stuff that used to be reserved for the high-cost graphical workstations became inexpensive enough that the graphical workstations stopped being a niche thing, went into main stream, and drove the personal computers as they used to be into extinction.

Just think about it – today’s computer has a 2D/3D graphical accelerator, integrated on the CPU or dedicated, it runs UNIX (Mac OS and Linux) or something very similar, derived from the mainframe NT kernel (Windows), it’s a multi-user, seamlessly multitasking system, but it all runs on hardware that’s been so integrated it fits in a phone.

So, the actual evolution of personal computers goes from an IBM mainframe to a DEC minicomputer to a UNIX graphical workstation to Windows NT 4 and Mac OS X, to iPhone and Android.

The home computer evolution goes from Altair 8800 to Apple I and II to IBM PC, then from MS DOS to Windows 3.0, 95, 98, ME… and goes extinct. The attempt to make a personal computer with graphical user interface goes from Xerox Alto to Apple Lisa to Macintosh, then to Macintosh 2, OS being upgraded to version 9… and going extinct, being replaced by a successor to NEXT repackaged as the new generation of Macintosh, with the OS that was built around UNIX. Then at some point the tech got so miniaturised that we now have phones running UNIX, which is a mainframe/minicomputer OS, directly descended from the graphical workstations.

Which is why you could take a SGI Indigo2 workstation today and recognise it as a normal computer, slow but functional, and you would take the first IBM PC or Apple II and it would feel like absolutely nothing you are accustomed to. That’s because your PC isn’t descended from IBM PC, it’s descended from a mainframe that mimicked the general look of a PC and learned to be backwards compatible with one.

Outright failure

I wrote two replies in the comment section that deserve to be an article, so here goes.


I assume that if SK were alive, he’d be eagerly updating the scripts to adapt to the current situation.

Honestly, I don’t know what he’d do, because what he was doing wasn’t working even when he was alive and apparently winning. In fact, he got himself killed by winning too hard.
But let’s do some guesswork by assuming he’s logical.
I don’t think he would update the scripts. The scripts are doing the best they can considering the circumstances. Modifying the standing rules or introducing new ones wouldn’t do anything useful. The problem is absence of energy in the system, and it’s a big problem, since everything is at absolutely critical levels and the systems have been failing for years due to the lack of energy to drive “positive” mechanisms of motivation. So, he would have to stop the process of energy depletion and add more energy to the system at all cost, but that’s easier said than done since it would require attracting very highly evolved souls here, deceiving them by his standard means – “recognise” him as God and pledge themselves to him – because the current state of the world makes it exceedingly unlikely for that to succeed, and also he’d be out of time, which would limit him to working on the souls that are already here. The problem is, the energy deficit he’s facing is such that the number of suitable matches is very low. Also, all of them are his sworn enemies and all past efforts in seducing them have failed. So, since that won’t work, he’d attempt tricking them into activities that would disrupt their spiritual structure and basically kill them, leaving the high energy crystals in his possession. The most likely approach would be to tempt them to attack critical systems and take on more karmic mass to process than they can handle, but there’s already a standing order to that effect and the scripts are implementing it, as it is one of the most effective things he’s been using against yogis since forever. They tend to be overachievers and egomaniacs who want to show everyone how great they are, and it’s easy to get them to kill themselves.
So, since this process is already in effect, I think he would be doing absolutely nothing, and no additional moves would be either possible or helpful. It does, however, show why he was so desperate to get rid of me when he did, to the point where he slipped on tea in the process. In fact, he already seems to have exhausted the timeline tweaking by that point – essentially, project into the future to see what happens, and tweak things to make them worse for me and more likely for him to win. However, winning more was a fatal move.


Am I getting this right? Are the social strings, the glue of community and interest in it, weakening due to SK’s final downfall?

The complexity of the global system is such that it might not be possible to answer such questions in a manner that makes any sense. It’s like asking whether more plastic in the oceans is due to global warming. Likely no, but it’s not like those things are not related, because humans dump plastic, shit and CO2 into the environment, but that still doesn’t mean there’s an actual anthropogenic global warming, so the question includes so many faulty premises one can’t just answer it.
The more direct cause of the failure of the young generations can be found elsewhere; first, the introduction of social media and mobile always-on devices for attaching to them seems to have more attraction than, basically, anything else for them. It’s like providing them with something that both promises a strong dopamine hit, and threatens them with very powerful negative consequences – social ostracism, ridicule etc. – so they just can’t leave it alone and it has priority over things like real-life social connections, reading books, walking in nature and so on. Since they got hooked on that very young, their entire neurochemistry was built around such dysfunction, like being addicted to some drug since birth. Also, since the smartphones and the nature of social media limit what you can actually do effectively, there was a race to the bottom in trying to attract maximum attention and praise with minimum text, and so memes and emojis replaced conventional human languages. At this point, if a human tries to write coherent sentences and express actual thoughts, he will be accused of being a chat GPT bot, because, apparently, AI fails the Turing test by being thoughtful and coherent, while humans have devolved into mime-emoji regurgitating imbeciles.
Sanat Kumar contributed to this, because he motivated the development of social media and interpersonal networks, trying to manifest an alternative to personal spiritual evolution by manifesting the oneness of brahman through oneness and interconnectedness of mankind. Like all his plans, this failed, and produced a collective animal-zombie-idiot.
Would this possibly have a different outcome were he here to inject some kind of a positive energy vector into this collective entity and guide it? Maybe, but if it needs deception and external energy source to give it a sense of meaning it would otherwise be unable to find, then it basically proves that such idea won’t work, even if it for some reason were not obvious from the start. You can’t manifest God by networking humans. What actually manifests is human emptiness without God. If you wanted to manifest God, you need to start with an individual connection with God, which is what you get with exactly the kind of spiritual evolution he had a problem with in the beginning, because he failed at it and had to watch those who succeeded.
So, as a conclusion, I would say that the social and civilisational decay and degradation is not a symptom of Sanat Kumar’s absence, but a symptom of failure of his actual plan, which is developing as it normally would without someone to tweak and prod it into faking some outcome that mimics non-failure.