PopOfAfrica
@PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world
- Comment on Using Ubuntu may give off a hipster vibes to the average PC user, but within the Linux community its has the opposite effect. 5 days ago:
Im of the opinion that the distro is far less important than the Desktop Environment. Ubuntu only really “feels like Ubuntu” because of GNOME.
- Comment on Sony gives up on forcing PlayStation Network for Helldivers 2 1 week ago:
It bothers me less due to the nature of backups. You can back up a DRM free PC game. You cant back up a console game without jailbreaking it.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Half the people upvoting you are exactly who Adams was making sub of. Of course you and I know that, but these people are dense.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
At this point I think we deserve our clusterfuck of a system. Neoliberals and conservatives have really made a mess of it all. One is malicious and the other is inadvertently enabling.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
You act like Biden can literally not capitulate on this. Why does the voice of the voter no longer matter?
I dont like this trend of demanding votes without having to earn voters. We are creating a culture of zero accountability to the voters.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Nobody even brought up Trump, but you.
That is what is so infuriating to me is that nobody is allowed to criticize Biden at all without Trump being brought up.
- Comment on Fairbuds are Fairphone’s proof that we really could make better tiny gadgets 5 weeks ago:
LG phones used to come with a DAC. I still use mine as an MP3 player even though it’s not my main phone.
- Comment on Fairbuds are Fairphone’s proof that we really could make better tiny gadgets 5 weeks ago:
Heck, I don’t even care about having an audio jack as long as there are two USB-C ports. I’m a down for a unified connector. There just needs to be enough ports for it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
We haven’t just the last few years Sped run a lot of these types of events.
George Floyd, the imposing threat of World War III, COVID.
We seem to have a lot better coping mechanisms than the older generations had. Mostly through memes and nihilism.
- Comment on Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users 3 months ago:
The problem with Apple is that it’s not your computer. It’s their computer and they get to dictate everything you do on it.
- Comment on We live in a post scarcity information society and we still haven't moved on from capitalism. 3 months ago:
Shhhhh, im trying to lead then to that conclusion without the big scary C word.
- Comment on We live in a post scarcity information society and we still haven't moved on from capitalism. 3 months ago:
I think the argument is that creating these definitions ruins class solidarity. You are working class if you have to go to work every day to live period.
- Comment on We live in a post scarcity information society and we still haven't moved on from capitalism. 3 months ago:
A post-scarcity society doesn’t mean a post-resource society. We have enough resources to make sure everybody has what they need. None of it is scarce in the slightest. We just need to distribute it equally.
- Comment on We live in a post scarcity information society and we still haven't moved on from capitalism. 3 months ago:
Even Socialism seems transitory to me. Much better than Capitalism, but once labor can be more broadly automated, we need to think of something other than money quickly.
- Comment on We live in a post scarcity information society and we still haven't moved on from capitalism. 3 months ago:
Part of the reason Capitalism sort if worked in the 60’s was because it had to globally compete with communism. We seem to forget how hard the red scare had to be pushed to silence the growing American Communist constituency.
Wages were high for low education workers because they had to be to stave off the communist politcal movement.
The second the Soviets collapsed, capitalism started its more evident decline. Capitalism only works with competition, even from a meta perspective.
- Comment on We live in a post scarcity information society and we still haven't moved on from capitalism. 3 months ago:
We absolutely have enough to shower every single person in lavishness. Its just not distributed. We agent post resource, but we are posy scarcity.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi is now manufacturing 70,000 Pi 5s per week, will surge to 90,000 in February 3 months ago:
I suppose looking at it from a gaming/emulation perspective. While the Pi4 was fantastic, there are definitely out there foe that usecase
- Comment on Raspberry Pi is now manufacturing 70,000 Pi 5s per week, will surge to 90,000 in February 3 months ago:
I bought an old thinkcentre for $50 on ebay that trounces the Pi’s performance.
Reduce, REUSE, recycle.
- Comment on Thousands of Software Engineers Say the Job Market Is Getting Much Worse 4 months ago:
Im saying of we are going to be making radical changes, which I am in favor of, why stop there?
Its like we cant even conceive of a world without capitalism.
- Comment on Thousands of Software Engineers Say the Job Market Is Getting Much Worse 4 months ago:
I was responding to the idea that our jobs are going to be automated away.
Which is exactly was I said the “productive” (those with the means of automation)
Will live lavishly while the “unproductive” ( the rest of us) will not.
- Comment on Thousands of Software Engineers Say the Job Market Is Getting Much Worse 4 months ago:
Wealth redistribution. The problem is that we funnel is directly back through purchases providing an inordinate amount of power to the owner class.
In a bizarre way our existence will be allowed only to subsidize the wealthy.
At that point we should ditch money all together.
- Comment on Thousands of Software Engineers Say the Job Market Is Getting Much Worse 4 months ago:
Universal Basic Income to mean sounds like trickle up economics with extra steps.
What we need is a society that takes little stock in currency.
- Comment on Pika Labs new generative AI video tool unveiled — and it looks like a big deal 4 months ago:
Like… That was bad too. What we need to do is ditch capitalism before we automate everything.
It doesn’t function if nobody has jobs.
- Comment on Pika Labs new generative AI video tool unveiled — and it looks like a big deal 4 months ago:
I am also an artist, and I frankly think you are a shite artist if you need to steal other peoples work.
- Comment on Pika Labs new generative AI video tool unveiled — and it looks like a big deal 4 months ago:
All it means is that at art as a career is dead.
Guess we want everyone working in retail or something
- Comment on Pika Labs new generative AI video tool unveiled — and it looks like a big deal 4 months ago:
Tell that to Disney, for example. It wouldn’t replace artists in a world that cared about artistic quality… we don’t live in that world.
For capitalists, easily generated shit is good enough.
- Comment on Nerds of equal standing. 4 months ago:
I must say the biggest problem with Star trek is consistency. TNG oscillates from the best television I’ve ever seen to worst from one episode to the next
- Comment on Nerds of equal standing. 4 months ago:
Its more of a philosophical space drama then an action packed space opera.
I just appreciate how the prime directive limits the characters. They almost always could militarily dominate the enemy, but that’s never the goal.
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 4 months ago:
Bruh, the Steam Deck is Linux.
- Comment on KFC be like... 4 months ago:
The US is huge dude.