purplemeowanon @ purplemeowanon @lemmy.ml Posts 0Comments 35Joined 1 mo. ago
The article was about Windows. And, no, I'm not on Windows. i use GrapheneOS on my phone and triple-boot Arch/Debian/Fedora on my laptop. I'm just making the point that the article was about Windows so replying with UNIX commands doesn't really make sense.
Yeah and it wasn't a super clear death threat. Definitely rude but I think terrorism is a clearly excessive charge. I don't think it's right to target individuals, especially lower level ones when it's the corporate "entity" as a whole, especially the higher-ups at fault.
You really had me until you claimed workers are in charge of the DPRK. it looks like a hereditary monarchy to me.
for Windows?
For people who are beginners when it comes to computers in general, yeah. But for people who are new to GNU/Linux but experienced with CS/math, it'll really not be that hard to run archinstall and configure from there. It's not that different than many other distros, which also have an installer and then post-install configuration to contend with. I'd just argue arch has newer packages and better documentation which some beginners (in the sense they're coming from macOS/Windows but know how basic software concepts) might appreciate.
I don't think archinstall is drowning sysadmins/programmers/CS students. What it will do is teach them to swim.
I think they may have said that because the state of Florida sought terrorism charges when a lady told a healthcare member they’d be next after the Luigi thing.
That wouldn't fall under the purview of hate-crime law I.M.O (disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer) because neither the intended nor the actual target was targeted on the basis of an identity category (ethnicity, gender, creed, race, religion, nationality). Not unless you include occupation as an identity. I don't.
To be clear, I don't recommend it. But it was once favored over KVM for a variety of applications and it works in a fundamentally different way. I'm just surprised how quickly it's lost favor among techies.
I'm not saying the US is a perfect democracy. I'm stating that they're relatively more democratic. I don't think the US is a democracy. But I do think that it's relatively less democratic than the ROK, which appears to be headed vaguely in the direction of democracy, unlike the US or the DPRK. But we'll have to wait and find out as to whether they actually make it there. Good point about the concentration of economic power. Which obviously means political power as well. But their right-wing aspiring dictator seems more likely to be held accountable for his crimes than the US's. And maybe that says something about their relative degrees of democracy.
Not every implementation. Maybe every state implementation (widely recognized states tend to be at least somewhat authoritarian, and the existence of a state isn't compatible with the ultimate goal of a state-less, class-less, & money-less society). But there are some not-as-recognized examples of somewhat successful, somewhat decentralized leftist organizations. (They tend to be in a constant state of war with surrounding right-wing death squads, though.)
To be clear, it makes sense that it's easier to handle disagreements within an army or party without resorting to outright authoritarianism; people who disagree enough to lead to real conflict are more likely to join a different army/front/party than create chaos inside of it. Still, there might be one last example of a pseudo-state or pseudo-country that seems consistent with anti-authoritarian leftist values:
- (Revolutionary Catalonia)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Catalonia]
There was a variety of leftist political activity in the region and no clear leader or authority, at least not in a definite singular sense. Unfortunately, the right-wing nationalist death squad got to them after only about a year. I wish that someone had intervened in nationalist Spain the way there'd been de-Nazi-fication in nationalist Germany.
Good point, honestly. But, if worst comes to worse, I expect continental Europe to stand with other continental Europeans and their interests before it stands with the likes of the US and UK.
When did Xi Hinping get rid of term limits? 2018.
Yes, Russia also did this. And it's possible that the US will do this. And the US does support some monarchies. But that doesn't mean that we should steal-man one regime and straw-man another. Instead, we should be critical of all authoritarian governments. The enemy of your enemy is not your friend.
When did ethnic cleansing start in Xinjiang, China? 2014.
Does the US support ethnic cleansing in Israel? Yes. Is the ethnic cleansing in Israel worse? Quite arguably, it's much worse. Is the US doing it externally and China internally? Yeah, but so what? The Biden/Trump can't say "well other countries have done ethnic cleansing in the past" to normalize theirs. Likewise, Xi can't say that what's happening to Muslims in China is justified because the US also has internal racism. That would be whataboutism. We should acknowledge all atrocities without insisting on comparing them and only condemning the worst while excusing all lesser forms of discrimination.
Is China the biggest polluter? Yes.
Yes, the US is a larger polluter per-capita. But China is hardly the world's role model for sustainability. I think Cuba might be an example of a country with a fairly good lifestyle and state of development relative their per-capita environmental footprint (although they have other problems).
I'm so tired of the oversimplified thinking you people display. Authoritarianism is wrong, red or blue, Black or White, right or "left" (I don't think authoritarianism in peacetime can be justified by any true leftist).
Oh, and Does China censor LGBT? Sometimes; it depends.
And before you say, “The US does these things, too, but worse,” reach for a glass of nuance. The US does some things better and others worse. We arguably have greater freedom of expression/speech and more turnover in leadership. Not to say we are totally free and democratic. Just that China seems to be farther from freedom and democracy with respect to censorship and elections.
I think that's loosely true of the party in general, especially the higher-ups. But it's worth pointing out that at least some people within the party, e.g., Ilhan Omar, who differ from the mainstream and who are genuine leftists.
Yeah, he's obviously using the US government to attack regulators and boost his own businesses. Tesla-made automated killing machines coming to Panama and Greenland soon, I guess.
it's a good beginner distro because getting thrown into deep water is how one learns to swim. archinstall makes it easy enough to install. some configuration may be needed, but that's the point of Arch as a learning process! still, i'd recommend Fedora, Tumbleweed, or even Debian (it's out of date but some people prefer UIs that don't change very often and it still offers 32-bit for your grandpa and his old laptop that's now too slow for Windows 10/11) over Arch.
Arch is good for beginner sysadmins/programmers/CS students. Fedora and Tumbleweed for enthusiasts who want the latest software but aren't trying to be that hardcore. Debian for people who have old laptops and only want to learn GNOME/XFCE once and never have to re-learn it with every update.
Gentoo is a good example of a distro that's absolutely not for beginners. Arch, on the other hand, really isn't all that bad.
It's not censorship; it's content moderation — how hard is it to not make racist jokes on an ostensibly ML forum‽
I think hate crime would be the most appropriate charge.
I be zipping up the directory and uploading my save files to the internet
A useful distraction to prevent class warfare and protect their wealth with a convenient and reliable scapegoat designed to ensure a divided working class.