His followers know he’ll deliberately cause instability, that’s what they want.

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Linux is still mostly US-dependent as a project.

It’s different between countries, I suppose.

Also people want different things. For me customizable desktops (say, FVWM however I want to script it) are important, because I easily get distracted and overloaded. I also can’t ignore aesthetics, and in my subjective taste Apple style is concentrated bad taste combined with arrogance. Also there’s something in their UI design making me feel nausea and get tired faster. I don’t know what it is.

Other people want something else.

It comes from subjective experience in a country where Apple is traditionally not very popular.

I also can’t separate their disgusting advertising from their products, subjective again.

I’ve met some folks who’d use an Apple laptop as part of their general attempt to look more competent than they actually were, for managers and such. Or maybe just for their ego.

If your choice is between Windows and MacOS - I dunno. Depends on how AuDHD-tolerant one can make MacOS. What I usually see doesn’t inspire confidence.

We have some client’s engineers who use MacBooks. I’ll just say that I’m wary of anyone technical using MacOS at this point.

Though some of our devs use them too, but from what I’ve seen, they could just as well use Linux.

If you insert yourself as a side of a war and also imply that people doing this should be on the front lines, then apparently you are?

And I don’t.

What a bullshit argument. Oh yes, untrusted software from random sites in any other top-level domain is safe.

… for the very reason that Fortran you can grasp in an evening.

It’s aesthetically nice. Just when you don’t make compromises, the practical cases will be few.

That’s true even for using OpenBSD as a daily driver. No Stallman there (and they don’t like him), but some principles have to be followed. Thus no Wine and no Linux emulation.

Would like to try using Guix for a long time some day, but it would be an interruption.

I dunno, I have some workout trousers with a Chinese logogram on them. Dunno what it means. Hope I won’t ever

I agree. We should realize the following:

1. There are things we are not entitled to.

2. There are things we are entitled to.

3. There is Nintendo’s opinion on which is which.

4. There’s someone else’s opinion on which is which.

5. There’s law which should be a dignified compromise between these.

6. The law may or may not be such a compromise.

7. Our obligations before law mirror our rights.

8. Our engagement with law mirrors our participation in forming it.

9. We have been robbed of that ability and raise our voice where it matters.

10. Hence Nintendo’s opinion and said law don’t matter shit.

Another stereotype busted for me. I really thought it’s an ex-Soviet thing. “Скажи-ка, дядя, ведь недаром в кустах ты прячешься с радаром?”

I think this is intentional. Call me paranoid.

Elaboration: we have seen in the past how RedHat’s and others’ policies would always not reach some part of Linux users, and those users still wouldn’t feel as second class citizens - it was just a matter of choice and configuration to avoid PulseAudio, systemd, Gnome 3, one can go on. That was mostly connected to escaping major environments and same applications working the same with all of them. Wayland, while not outright making Gnome the only thing to work, creates a barrier and doesn’t make that a firm given anymore.

It won’t be too long until using Linux without Wayland will cut you off from many things developed with corporate input - and that’s developers’ time paid as opposed to donated for or volunteered, so much more effort.

Now, there was a time when there weren’t that much corporate input and still things would get done. But it will be hard to fall back to it, when the whole environment, one can say, ecosystem, is so complex and corporate-dependent.

I would say this is the time of all those corps whose investment into Linux was so nice in 00s and 10s reaping what they sowed. This wasn’t all for free or to profit on paid support. And people who thought that it’s GPL that was such a nice license that “forced” corps to participate in FOSS projects they benefit from, with those projects remaining FOSS, are going to have to face reality.

Fat years are ending, so they are going to capitalize on their investments.

This has already happened with the Web 10 or more years ago, when Facebook, Google and others have suddenly gone Hitler, while now they are in terminal stages of enshittification.

Same process.

You can disagree, no need to insult me.

Cheap ARM Linux laptops with all the gamez, GPIO, RJ-45, interfaces and space for 2-3 SSDs plz. And battery that holds 4 days (without gamez). And a choice between amoled and e-ink display options.

Having typed that, I suppose I won’t live to see that. Still, something like RPi or OPi, but with 2 M.2 interfaces, would be sufficient to assemble a convenient enough laptop. EDIT: and upgradeable memory

That small proportion of situations is those where it was simply impossible to live oppressed, because there only were options to fight or die. A much larger proportion of people in this world live oppressed.

It’s the exact same as we had before. What Israel and Turkey and Azerbaijan and China and Russia are doing is exactly the same as Nazi Germany before it got its head broken.

Or maybe it’s better for those not affected because the world war is not happening - instead such things go completely unpunished.

I dunno, maybe I should go out and behead a few people, what if that’ll elevate my status?

You got it ass-backwards. The point of the UN as opposed to LoN was that it can enforce shit. And do that very heavily. The only problem was that the chosen group of wise and powerful to decide this now includes Russia as the heir of the USSR (why the hell) and China (which is not the China that got the place initially) and UK (which is collecting cannibals to suck off all over the globe) and USA (which just arbitrarily invaded Iraq and didn’t even apologize) and France (seems kinda normal, but CFA etc were not nice) and the situation really sucks.

or anybody else: the whole point of the place is as a diplomatic talking shop for everybody

Except Artsakh and Tigray and Rojava and … Cause UN membership has been coerced to be used as some “proof of sovereignty” while it’s not even in UN’s own founding documents. So a non-UN member state won’t get accepted to UN (cause everybody voting likes their elevated status through such a situation) and additionally can be militarily attacked, even wiped out, and everybody acts as if that were normal, while, again, even in the UN charter it’s not.

I’d argue the harm from that is bigger than the purpose you named. After all, diplomats can already talk wherever they want and they do.

Iran, if compared to most big countries except maybe India, Egypt and Latin American ones, is a paragon of humanism. They are at war with so many other countries because they behave like they are supposed to, while those others behave like Israel right now.

Of course murder, torture and rape of protesters is not something I’d sign under. It’s just that some things come down to numbers and make Iran better.