orioler25
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- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 2 days ago:
Jesus, I see that word so misused on here but someone using it when I ask where I said something two comments above is pretty hilarious.
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 2 days ago:
Where do I say that?
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 2 days ago:
Jesus how dramatic. Please explain liberalism for me so that I know what I’ve gotten wrong here.
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 2 days ago:
What’s “righteous” about this?
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 2 days ago:
American liberals would sooner say that the nation is impure than that nationalism is pathological. Many of them literally identify with the state as part of or representative of themselves. Guilt and shame are American rationalisation staples, “I feel bad, but I’m not going to stop.”
- Comment on How could you do this to me? 2 days ago:
Bazzite’s been working pretty good for me. Was honestly easier to set up too, and fights me less, and runs smoother, and also doesn’t spy on me.
- Comment on Feeding my family alone is expensive. I can't afford to feed all of y'all. 3 days ago:
Joke’s clear, it just only makes sense if you’re privileged.
- Comment on Feeding my family alone is expensive. I can't afford to feed all of y'all. 3 days ago:
Lovely, romanticizing gendered labour. You guys know poor people have always been around, right?
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 6 days ago:
You’ve assumed that I’m in a tech knowledge bubble. I use Linux for work, but I am not in the tech field even remotely. Even though I have some professional training and a hobby interest, which prepared me better, I had to use textbooks and online forums to learn how to use my Linux desktop comfortably. I regularly deal with students and am therefore very familiar with low tech-literacy, let alone others in my own life that I have helped. I know there is a skill barrier for entry into Linux.
What I am much better equipped to handle is broad social and economic developments historically, with a particular concern for capitalist erosion of community wellbeing and mutual aid. As I have said, I do not doubt there is value for consumers in this service and I do not doubt that this service appears to be reasonably priced to those consumers. My concern regards the potential attraction that such profitability could generate and that same tech-illiteracy would make users more easily coerced into capitalization. Those conditions are exactly why there is a social as well as skill barrier of entry into Linux. As you said, many consumers have been primed to accept convenience over skill-building, which in turn makes them less capable of choosing when something is not worth the price and abandoning a convenient user experience.
Again, it is good that more people try to make this switch – Microsoft’s near monopoly is undeniably a social detriment – but we do not benefit from suspending criticism of how this switch happens just because we are happy it is happening.
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 6 days ago:
I think it is very purposeful that Zorin has expansive marketing and frames features in terms of price value.
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 6 days ago:
My concern is more oriented toward how capitalization of consumer-facing Linux will look if it proves to be a profitable site of expansion with Windows’ decline in popularity. I don’t care about licenses or the utility of the feature, though I do question its value when there are free options. The support is the more valuable thing, but again I worry about this success given that other distros have communities that serve the same purpose for free with only a little more labour from the user. It’s a good thing this is happening at all, but we should be critical of how it happens.
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 6 days ago:
This is a good point, particularly in the context of value for new users. My comment is more regarding the precedent of framing desktop environments as some sort of premium feature. I do question how much value users still get out of that though, since so many Linux distros have communities that provide essentially the same service for free with a bit more labour on the user.
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 1 week ago:
I really hope these people don’t accept that it’s normal to charge for different desktop environments.
- Comment on Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk 1 week ago:
Yeah exactly. Sucks if you have a job that forces you to use Windows though, which is largely how MS has this stanglehold on PC share. Once this becomes an expensive security risk, maybe more businesses will switch to paid Linux OS’s.
- Comment on Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk 2 weeks ago:
Consumers are not the main driver of profit, speculative value is. Microsoft knows that Windows is guaranteed to be on the majority of PC’s, which means they can afford to implement hostile features that increase the speculative value on data collection and AI investment.
- Comment on Just seen the latest American Opinion polls. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, libs have been very open about homophobia and ableism since Trump was elected and they had a crisis that warranted a suspension of the performance. Statistically, we know most men in the US are complacent or perpetrators of sexual violence and a significant amount – even the majority in some places – fetishize youth and teen women. For Americans, it really is more reputation destroying to have done queer shit than to be a rapist pedophile (this includes “ephebophiles,” sorry).
- Comment on They Wylin' 2 weeks ago:
It actually makes more sense tbh. Being queer is far worse to fascists than being a pedophile rapist. This is especially damning when the person he sucked off is prominent in the conspiracy theories he depended on for the past decade.
- Comment on Stop stressing my GPU and start hiring artists 2 weeks ago:
Jesus god and more pre-rendered graphics.
- Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 2 weeks ago:
They have to because the capitalist imperative of infinite, progressive growth forces them to constantly seek out additional speculative avenues for profit. The potential for a valuable product (stock) is more valuable than a good product and is cheaper to produce than a good product. Also, important to note that you are also a product in a surveillance capitalist state thaf commodifies every second of your day. The speculative value on more profitable avenues to source and sell your data has more speculative value than any value your patronage would generate.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race 3 weeks ago:
Wow, they really are just gonna make you kill them eh.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows 3 weeks ago:
That was a major motivator behind my switch. If I had to fiddle anyway, might as well use something where the fiddling has more payoff. Also don’t want to whack-a-mole AI surveillance from a company close with the fascist regime.
I’m honestly more concerned with them misrepresenting its ease of use than anything else. I ran into a lot of guides and videos that wanted to make it seem more aporoachable so as to not discourage potential users that significantly downplayed the amount of extra work it would take to use Linux. Bash is typically sidelined if they’re promoting Mint or Zorin for example. I study humanities, but I have a good amount of experience with terminals and so learning a new CLI wasn’t s big deal, but I know that’d be a deal breaker for a lot of new users who would likely feel bamboozled by the insistance that it’s “just like Windows.”
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows 3 weeks ago:
Yes, I know there are queer people and women on Linux, it wouldn’t exist otherwise. Their use of it doesn’t explain why it’s so prominent on Lemmy though. Most evangelists are STEM men and I used the word “libertarian” very intentionally as most also would not consider the surveillance bad because of its danger to vulnerable groups but rather because of a discomfort with any challenge to private ownership. I do agree with them that the user experience is significantly better on Linux and that alone is a good reason to switch.
I agree, the ability to better control my visibility to an increasingly fascist state is a major benefit of Linux. With that in mind, I think it is very important for antifascists to practice internet sovereignty and build infrastructure that exists independently from the interests of capital.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows 3 weeks ago:
I reckon a result of its reputation as an alternative to “mainstream” sites like Reddit, which is also a STEM-oriented gamer-nerd site disproportionately represented by men. So, tons of dudes on here use Linux professionally and are also of a libertarian mindset that is conducive to Linux evangelism on the basis of an ever-encroaching capitalist authoritarianism.
They’re not wrong, Linux is honestly the best route to a decent desktop experience at this point now that Windows is caught in an AI deathloop and the Linux community is expansive enough to support casual users (I don’t care about Apple stuff, but the cost would detract from the experience certainly). I made the switch when it got to the point that Windows literally took more work to use on a daily basis because of how hostile it has become to the user.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Another good thing to point out. If you have the time to interact with those communities, it’s demonstrably populated primarily by bot-like content. Even more, moderation tends to be more opaque and aggressive against leftist comments or posts.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
You sound so desperate for me to not block you dude.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Very important to point out with this that Reddit has gotten markedly more fascist in these past three years – which is saying something – even while there is inexplicably a large number of people who call it “left-leaning” on the platform itself. It is safe to say that a high amount of “user”-content is bots of some kind, and that platforms that have high numbers of bots tend to become more conservative and fascist.
- Comment on Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce ads to its Maps app 4 weeks ago:
“Secret cabal” as in capitalism and its imperatives sure, pretty out in the open though.
- Comment on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 4 weeks ago:
Read the comment bud.
- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 4 weeks ago:
Except, John’s enlarged Dodge Ram makes him statistically a greater danger to everyone and their kids. In daily life, John is a more relevant danger to me than pretty much anything else. If John is in the USA, the children at this school are most likely to die of a car collision – with increased fatalities correlated with popularity of trucks like John’s – or a firearms incident, funnily enough also subject to a statistical correlation with light truck ownership. Between 19 and 24, vehicle collisions are the number one cause of death regardless of gender; only beat out by poisonings and suicide as you get older. Again, light trucks are correlated with higher rates of fatalies. If you’re in those age groups and don’t have a substance abuse or mental illness disorder, John is the most likely thing to kill you in your life.
People like John are apathetic about the casual brutality of such a vehicle, that is in fact the point of the hypermasculinity molded into it. I don’t want him around me, and I don’t want him around my kids. He chose to be dangerous and individual rights doesn’t mean you can threaten others with impunity. That’s why neglect can land you with murder or manslaughter charges.
