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Valve derangement syndrome

He is, and he knows it. Throughout the book he references a “terrible purpose” that has been thrust upon him, which is the slaughtering of trillions (and may also refer to the Golden Path, which is mentioned more in Children of Dune and later books).

The in-universe translation for Kwisatz Haderach is “Shortening of the Way.” The BG basically wanted a male Reverend Mother who could bridge the gap between the shared memories of the BG (the past), the present, and the future using the KH’s prescience. Paul wasn’t supposed to be the KH, nor was he supposed to be a male. Jessica was instructed by her BG teachers to produce a girl, but she fell in love with Duke Leto (she wasn’t supposed to), and gave him a boy (BG can control these things).

The theory is they were likely looking to control the universe with this One who could see everything with their prescience. Paul could, and carried out his great jihad to control the empire, but not for the BG. The BG also fucked themselves over by planting the prophecy amongst the Fremen thousands of years before the events of Dune, which heralded the arrival of Paul and his mother, which the Fremen believed and allowed Paul to rise to power.

that’s a lotta words too bad I ain’t readin em

They’d figure out a way to turn it into an online live-service hero-based pvp extraction shooter.

So you’re looking for a way to facilitate sign-ups to a Matrix server without using one of the big centralized services (Google, Apple, etc) to authenticate your Matrix account against. Right?

At least for the public, developer-run server, you can just use your email to sign up. People who are concerned about not using big tech’s services probably use a privacy-respecting email service anyway, like Proton or Tuta or just self-host their own email.

I’ve never looked into self-hosting Matrix, maybe there’s a way to disable “big-tech authentication” on an individual server and just use username/password sign ups.

!jokes@lemmy.world seems mostly text based.

I agree with your post 100% I think. Removing oneself from big tech/data services like Google and Microsoft is resisting the regime. It’s especially useful for folks that may not be able to get out and protest, meet with their representatives, etc.

As for me, I’m running my *arr/media stack for myself and my close friends and family. Fuck Disney, Netflix, and Paramount. For our household, HomeAssistant keeps the lights on and SyncThing backs up our files to the NAS.