“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)

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.

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?

Stupid masturbatory fantasy exactly like you’d expect by the morons with those resumes. Equal parts delusional and racist.

You are correct, but you failed to understand the comment you are replying to.

Linux. The mobile ecosystem will have to mature fast though.

Never tried SourceHut, but it definitely seems lightweight from browsing repos hosted on a SourceHut instance. UI is different from other code forges to say the least.

There dies the last remaining reason to use Android.

if you’ve ever sent a nude, they probably can.

Pacman has the worst CLI flags I’ve ever seen.

Lots of useful stuff here. Taking all of it.

Does nh use fast-nix-build (or whatever the fancy nix builder CLI is called) to build your system?