Why You Shouldn’t Give Up
Author Ande Pliego shares success stories that would've never happened without persistence and why writers shouldn't give up.
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If you make these kinds of choices based on "what someone says", you're doing it wrong. No one is suggesting that.
I am (slowly) moving from Debian to Devuan for all the obvious and well-documented problems with systemd. No need to recite that stuff in detail.
Observing that Ubuntu is going all-in on autoslop, and being able to connect the dots and project into the future, moving from Ubuntu to literally anything else (that isn't on the same problematic path) is also pretty darn obvious.
But throwing up a nihilist hypothetical strawman to try to convince others it's not worth trying to fix problems? That is GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY LIFE territory. Plonk.
#plonk #nihilism #nihilist #futile #GiveUp #strawman #problem #FixThings #DontGiveUp
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Of course, I'm tempted.
Giving up might set me free,
free of all my dreams.
But I choose to keep going.
I choose my true self, always.
-Phillip J Rhoades
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#poem #poetry #haiku #senryu #tanka #shortSong #shortFormPoetry #dreams #GiveUp #ChooseMyTrueSelf
(2-103)
Of course, I'm tempted.
Giving up might set me free,
free of all my dreams.
But I choose to keep going.
I choose my true self, always.
-Phillip J Rhoades
#poem #poetry #haiku #senryu #tanka #shortSong #shortFormPoetry #dreams #GiveUp #ChooseMyTrueSelf
Unable to wake Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop 43 from monitor sleep
Hab heute weiter reduziert.
Gebe 2 22" Monitore ab.
Gerne im Tausch gegen eine Packung Heftklammern und/oder Briefumschläge.
https://dresden.deals/~giveUp/6b3865ad-2184-42ec-8d35-383950204438
A quotation from Satchel Paige
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.Satchel Paige (1906-1982) American baseball player [Leroy Robert Paige]
Quoted in “Hal Boyle Says –” syndicated AP column, New York Post (1959-10-04)
More about this quote: wist.info/paige-satchel/3063/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #defeat #endeavor #giveup #prayer #problemsolving #surrender #tryagain
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. Boyle was a Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist working for the AP. This is usually cited to the New York Post appearance.…