I suppose people younger than 20 didn’t experience it.

That’s how Bitcoin-libertarians describe themselves, too.

This is unironically how every power structure in the entire human society in the entire history of the world works.

Adam Smith wrote about how much he hated landlords because they are feudalism.

Every alternative is worse.

Grew up with programming, Windows, and Visual Studio. That was fine, back then. After Microsoft released Windows 8 I knew this was so stupid and would only get stupider, that I said my next computer will have Linux. Never looked back. It’s not as good as Windows 7 unless you have really specific needs. It’s miles better than Windows 11.

At the same time it was necessary for the federalization to happen in the first place. States wouldn’t sign up if there wasn’t an equal vote per state. It’s like the European Council - you probably wouldn’t get Slovenia to sign up to the EU, if Slovenia got half a vote while Germany got fifty votes. But if the EU progresses farther down the federalization path it will face the same thing where the states become less important and equal representation per state becomes stupid.

Tough problems, man.

it’s hard to know who to vote for if the Democrats and Republicans are both off the table

Since China is making most of the world’s solar panels at an alarming rate, if the majority of people do want to die to climate change then we might have to invade China to make them stop making solar panels.

Refusing to manufacture solar panels because the people living over the whatever refuse to let us mine the whatever would lead to us burning more fossil fuels and killing the planet sooner, and it would even be worse for the people living above the whatever.

Some people are scared of talking about Israel because they can be at great personal risk if caught talking about it. They also might not know how rabid or not rabid the online community they’re posting in will turn out to be.

Which invading aliens are you speaking about? Are you trying to say Mexicans? Are you saying what if Mexicans coming to the US say it’s theirs and they want it back?

Most shit just dissolves in acid, it doesn’t explode.

So is the subreddit

he means Russia because that is the country that was banned from the Linux kernel mailing list

the UK, USA, France, Israel and NATO were not banned from the Linux kernel mailing list

the topic of this discussion is people getting banned from the Linux kernel mailing list

hope this helps

There is a compatibility issue too. Every Windows 11 is almost identical, enough for software to run, but Linux encompasses a lot of different systems. Valve makes it work on Ubuntu and then if you’re not using Ubuntu, makes it your problem to go the rest of the way (usually pretty easy) which is a fair tradeoff but also not the plug-and-play you get with Windows. And don’t even mention X11 versus Wayland.

It’s usually not malicious. Hardware is that way by default, and it takes effort to make it not be that way, and then someone still has to write the driver.

Technically all the info you need is inside the Windows driver, it’s just a bit difficult to get at. It’s on us to git gud so we won’t need the cooperation of the hardware companies.

ALSA works better than Pulse Audio. Fite me irl

All the time but then I remember it’s my fault because it’s open source and I am not fixing it either.

We call them libertarians

Think of the woke tone policing thing, 10 years ago “leftists” got upset if you used the wrong words while ignoring the actual bad things that were happening.

If you said “Trump is a fucking retard” the left goes “ok” the stupid-left goes “you can’t say that word! You’re as bad as Trump because you said that word!”