The primaries that definitely happened and had a diverse range of positions on Palestine.

please take me to the gay factory

Ignoring all your weird patronization of the global south…

If you don’t like America, then get off Lemmy. Because guess what? Lemmy was largely developed by an American. Yes, I know it involved collaboration with developers from other countries, but the primary origin is still American.

No idea if the main developer, comrade dessalines, is American, but they have a Che Guevara profile pic.

Here’s a snippet from the US atrocities section of their essays repo:

“If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don’t care for human beings.” - Nelson Mandela

Two of the other original devs are Nutomic and SleeplessOne1917. Nutomic has a Fidel Castro pfp, and SleeplessOne1917 uses the year of the October revolution in their username. Safe to say the devs of Lemmy do not like America. They also admin lemmygrad.ml

Might want to check your assumptions (and western chauvinism)

If you don’t like America, then get off Lemmy. Because guess what? Lemmy was largely developed by an American based communist revolutionaries. Yes, I know it involved collaboration with developers from other countries the great satan, but the primary origin is still American Marxist-Leninist.

FTFY!

“My obscure hardware setup doesn’t work out of the box on Linux, an OS where the OEMs have made no effort to make drivers compatible with or support in any way.”

“Linux is broken because I have to run a shell command to install a package.”

(you don’t actually have to, but they think so because that’s what the tutorial on page one of Google recommended.)

They need help with the basics, and Linux people, who are more comfortable with the system, recommend running some command because it is the quickest way to get what they want. The noobs then believe this is the only way to do the thing, and then believe Linux isn’t “user friendly” because nobody posted a walkthrough of how to do it graphically with up-to-date screenshots that works for all distros on all desktops.

This isn’t a Linux problem. It’s an education and communication problem.

Most Windows users refuse to do anything to install software besides mashing ‘next’ after running some random .exe they found on the internet. The same people will defend Windows by saying it’s easy to work around one of Microsoft’s 900 horrible decisions forced on you by opening regedit and creating like 5 DWORD registry keys in some meaningless path. They will not see the irony here.

Running a terminal command is not required for half the shit they want to do, but they believe so, because they haven’t bothered to familiarize themselves with how things work on Linux. They never learn this because they throw their hands up the first time their Windows workflow breaks down.

These people would have a million fewer complaints if beginner distros

• Included the Dconf app by default.
• Included a graphical util for editing JSON, YAML, INI, etc. files by default.
• Included a systemd service manager app by default.
• Published their packages as downloadable links on their website so that installation can work like running .exe files (security concerns aside)

no the best is UngoogledChromium (at least on desktop)

yeah but your average user is gonna install some shit that they won’t vet. someone will 100% putting malware there

*letting a corporation decide how you’re gonna use your computer

Notice these same people don’t come out of the woodwork upon the mere utterance of “El Salvador” or “Bukele” like they do with “Venezuela” and “Maduro” even as Trump is deporting legal citizens to CECOT.

The words “dictatorship” and “authoritarianism” are clue words for followers of western publications to turn off their brains. They want to sort countries, parties, and leaders into neat little “good guys” and “bad guys” bins. These words allow them to do that with minimal effort, circumventing the need to understand the societies involved. Questioning that framing takes research effort and “sympathizing with authoritarians” so they never do it.

Naked in my neighbor’s Suburban

Literally one of the few problems that “AI” is actually really useful for solving.

Turns out that when their little marketing gimmick comes at odds with implanting a rootkit on your machine, they choose the latter. The whole hype around “AI” is excitement about subverting your agency in favor of their own. Kernel level spyware directly injects their own agency without the expense of training and running cheat detection models.

All the useful applications that can really benefit people have been neglected in favor of LLMs that can more easily serve as data mining SaaS platforms.

If they are running ramdom commands from the internet in a privileged terminal, then this will quickly stop them doing that.

does this

“omg Linux is not user friendly”

They just buy the data en masse from data brokers. All of the process is civil rights theater.

I have seen this exact list posted under the title “things that don’t require talent” so it was probably a typo that got overlooked.

Under feudalism: Left is about abolishing feudalism and the monarchy. Right is about preserving them.

Under capitalism: Left is about abolishing capitalism and the bourgeoisie. Right is about preserving them.

The state is the mechanism through which one class exerts its dominance over the others.

Bourgeois states are the enforcement arm of capital. When it offers improved conditions, it is merely a carrot to prevent you from taking actions that may jeopardize its power.

In a similar vein, proletarian controlled states can do the same, but the concessions go towards capital and the day-to-day ruling is on behalf of the workers.

If we want concessions that cannot be revoked, we must overthrow the bourgeois state and replace with a workers state. We cannot reform our way into a society where capital does not have near complete power.

Get deleted in a concentration camp for me.

Average “anti-authoritarian” when presented with actual left wing views.

yet you never seem to condemn the USA for it. Should be easy for you. Maybe next time you read an article about the USA you’ll bring it up?

No need to apologize. I can differentiate disagreement from attack.

However, consider that this action raises the bar to run FOSS apps from:

1. Disable the toggle.
2. Install the app.

To:

1. Purchase a phone that can run an OS that allows you to do the above.
2. Disable bootloader unlock.
3. Connect your phone over USB.
4. Flash the OS.
5. Do the above.

OR:

1. Do the above.
2. Connect your phone to USB or enable wireless ADB.
3. Run a command to install the app (repeat for every app install)

The new barrier to entry is going to inevitably catch a whole lot of people who would otherwise be willing to go out of their way to install FOSS apps. Development will also suffer as a downstream consequence of this.

I use postmarketOS too, and it is a much more pleasant experience to use than having to break out a second device to update or install software. It has a large number of issues, but it’s more comfortable to use than your comment implies.

This nerd, while being led into the camps at gunpoint: “resisting would only give them pretext for what they want”

Because the network effect makes it so we all are forced to use this shit at work.