TBH I feel like many IT people are employed because they’re “microsoft certified”, not because they know anything about linux. This kind of gatekeeping is a big part of why windows is so entrenched.

Wear a kilt?

TBH I’ve never tried and nobody told me it was gay. But I’m a sweaty person and I would love to air out my crotch except for fear of social criticism.

they represent you

Are you 8 years old?

Yeah usa is also not supposed to ship weapons to war criminals. Guess which principle wins out though?

https://www.propublica.org/article/gaza-palestine-israel-blocked-humanitarian-aid-blinken

Because I live in one of the many many states were my vote doesn’t matter at all.

What’s the point of casting a worthless vote in favor of genocide?

People here act like we live in some kind of actual democracy lol.

Crypto is past the hype cycle and into the actually useful phase of that phony graph.

It’s all too common when anti-crypto people don’t understand crypto101.

For the crontab I think maybe: “apt-get update && apt-get upgrade --assume-yes”

But what about flatpaks?

Are people writing “she” instead of “they” misogynistic and transphobic too?

There’s no such thing as “reverse racism”, “misandry”, etc. That’s not how systemic oppression works.

This comment really hit me where it hurts.

TBH the problem is the PDF format. It was created as proprietary trash. It’s just more adobe software so ofc it doesn’t support linux.

How are communism and fascism the same? What definitions are you using?

AFAIK communism advocates for a stateless, classless, moneyless society, while fascism advocates for imperial nationalism and the violent class hierarchies of capitalism, racism, misogyny, xenophobia, etc.

They seem much more like opposites under the standard definitions. I don’t understand doublespeak.

One of the best things about ditching Ubuntu for Debian was losing worthless snaps and gaining UI support for flatpaks.

2 more weeks to install any other distro!

How much energy does Windows waste on serving ads and other useless nonsense? What’s does the glut-o-meter say?

After like 15 years of ubuntu, I got so sick of their bulllshit that I switched to Debian a few months ago. It’s endlessly better.

I still have ubuntu on a raspberry pi(hole). Whenever I login to update, I get this message about “premium updates” or whatever they call it. It makes me want to barf but I haven’t motivated to switch the pi yet.

Yeah agreed 1000%.

I’ve installed Gnome for people in my fam. It’s kind of absurd when they want to change the text size and we have to get into installing Gnome Tweaks, installing browser extension, installing the Gnome extension, configuring the extension.

I just use Plasma now.

Excellent explanation (and disclaimer). I might just add another 2 cents…

It’s not just that “the market fails” to account for many “externalities”, but also that the market is systemically incapable of ever accounting for very many, very important externalities.

IE. The space of externalities >>> the market space. For example if the market priced in the suffering of labor (by paying living wages+, etc), that alone might make the market unaffordable. Similarly with climate justice, etc. The exploitation of these externalities is largely the basis of “profit”.

You can “sideload” apps outside the google store.

For example I’ve been using myinsta instead of IG. It was very easy to download and install.

I’m not so worried about stormtroopers using linux as much as guns, bombs, prisons, cops, torture, genocide, nukes, etc.