orioler25
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- Comment on Why are americans taking health advice from a former heroin addict ? 3 days ago:
I’ve gone zero days since the 2024 election without seeing a liberal target fascists with insults that are oriented toward vulnerable groups. Jokes about old people being valueless, queer people being weak and deceptive, fatness as a sign of poor moral character. People who make these jokes also incomprehensibly claim that they challenge fascism fundamentally and not only when it comes for them.
This man is going to be singlehandedly responsible for an incalculable number of deaths (many of which will be addicts who are disproportionately excluded from access to medical treatmen) and he is in the position to do so by capitulating to an infamous pedophile, rapist, and failed business man. What kind of person would take the opportunity to assert that addicts aren’t to be trusted when talking about a man who is already RFK Jr.?
- Comment on Microsoft Windows 365 goes down the day after Microsoft celebrates 'reimagining the PC as a cloud service that streams a Cloud PC' 1 week ago:
Jfc, they’re really going to attack private PC ownership when the AI boom falters.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
My guy, I hate to break this to you, people were making these criticisms of capitalism over 150 years ago. I was referring to Black Liberationist critiques of privatized media expansion in the mid-twentieth century US, but liberal/capitalist ownership over media and space that can be used to challenge this sytem has been a fundamental mechanism in its reproduction for much, much longer.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
You gotta pay more attention then. Many of us have expected this for nine years, some sixty years.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Though this is all motivated by capitalistic expansion, it’s also worth noting that liberals have been trying to eliminate the dissent facilitated through online activism and information campaigns for a few years now. Ownership over our PCs means that there can always be an internet operated and monitored by us.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
They should have more game sales if they don’t want me to use an emulator.
- Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again 2 weeks ago:
Claims Adjuster.
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 3 weeks ago:
Wow, a whole unionized and competent studio now free to pursue internally chosen productions? I sure hope they don’t get some of those “Canadian Heritage” media subsidies. Seriously though this is the shit the state should be funding, it’d be a shame to have this kind of resource squandered.
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 3 weeks ago:
I can make LibreOffice Writer look like word 2007 🤗
- Comment on Linux Distros Designed for Former Windows Users Are Picking Up Steam | Linux Journal 4 weeks ago:
For beginners? Totally; but snap gets annoying over time.
- Comment on Linux Distros Designed for Former Windows Users Are Picking Up Steam | Linux Journal 4 weeks ago:
Tumbleweed with KDE is honestly the smoothest work environment Ive had since Windows 7.
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 5 weeks ago:
Wow, I can’t believe my plan for a cheap motherboard worked.
- Comment on Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments 5 weeks ago:
This is why graduate student and teaching assistant unions exist. I’d dare this student to contest a zero on a paper that is flatout plagiarism.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 5 weeks ago:
I mean, I’ll never give it a shot to play. It’s too long, I have a job, and I have games I want to play more that will certainly be more. I never played this game, as I said it’s not even remotely my taste. That’s also why I need to have someone explain what makes it supposedly good for what it is.
Most of these remarks are circular though, “it’s good because it’s good/I liked it.” Which is fine, but doesn’t really speak to the game. Gameplay seems to be where you’re better at articulating what’s actually good here. I don’t know this genre, so it’s exceptional that there is a combination of active and passive combat tied to the player’s experience? This is something exclusive or executed in a notable way here, or it’s just something that’s been done before that you feel is elevated because you like the story production?
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 5 weeks ago:
I’m actually curious to why this is. It is completely outside of my taste and people keep saying. What makes it exceptional?
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 5 weeks ago:
Ahhh okay this makes sense now I fully could not understand the buzz around this game and it always felt a bit…off.
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 1 month ago:
Because it sucks up more power and water, and creates more pollution than what an intern would if they made the same mistake. Doesn’t help that capitalists have used this tech to create a run-away valuation that we’re going to have to pay for while threatening the value of labour to make humans cheaper and worsen our living conditions.
Hope that explains it.
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 1 month 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? 1 month ago:
Where do I say that?
- Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault? 1 month 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? 1 month 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 months 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 months 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. 2 months 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. 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
I really hope these people don’t accept that it’s normal to charge for different desktop environments.