oh dont worry event security and LEA are neutral unbiased entities who can be trusted unlike the public

That would be far more provocative.

Yes, but depending on the country that could be (public + illegal) if it lists [what is legally considered] personal sensitive information or accidentally reveals someone’s secret like the Coldplay incident.

It would be fascinating, but IMO unnecessary and unethical.

extreme ironer

I did come across that hobby when I was trying to list examples of productive sports. Yeah, it’s a thing.

You have to understand, it just wouldn’t be fair to put inclusion over exclusion ! You care about equality, don’t you?

I don’t think many anti-capitalists suggest abolishing currency entirely.

Why don’t you think that? You’re right that abolishing currency isn’t implied by abolishing capitalism, but plenty of anti-capitalists advocate for eventually abolishing money in any form (I assume that’s what you mean by abolishing currency, although there are other interpretations), and some others advocate to abolish it as soon as possible (I believe, although I can’t prove right now, that many intentional communities/communes have done this).

Communism’s long-term aim is ultimately to create a communist society. That is, a public, stateless, classless, moneyless society - goods are distributed by need rather than for wealth.

We don’t want people filling swimming pools with cheese and diving into it.

I actually had to check to make sure some e-celeb hadn’t done this stunt for content. I don’t think currency is what stops people from doing that, just like how for-profit healthcare systems aren’t what’s keeping people from injuring themselves.

The term of the day is: Artificial scarcity

“If we allow your flag, then we have to admit also other similar political flags, both supporting and opposing diversity.”

Consider the following: no, they don’t.

Worrying about any kind of surveillance is pointless if you dont leave your ph9ne at home every day.

It’s not quite as simple as that. The overall point has truth, but one can still use a phone and reduce surveillance, especially if you’re just trying to avoid surveillance capitalism or police surveillance at certain times (e.g. protests). Privacy isn’t binary. Security isn’t binary.

No spoilers and punchlines in the title pls!

To answer the main title question: it definitely can get better, especially if you’re using common hardware with maintainers working to improve the code to handle them.

I’m one of the people with a mostly smooth Linux experience on my devices (I have similar values to other nerdy programmers and naturally purchase more similar or popular computers/parts, and I haven’t really had brand new bleeding-edge computer parts, so that might give me better odds at a smoother experience), no weird audio/WiFi/GPU issues that you often see here. The only issues I have are so inconsequential they’re not worth mentioning. And I’ve used the two OSs you’ve used.

You should unironically read Mein Kampf though, at least once

The funny thing about that book is if you tell a neo-Nazi you’ve read it and have a criticism, they’ll immediately ask which translation and claim most of them are a “Jewish trick”.

Olivier Mannoni, who translated the 2021 French critical edition, said about the original German text that it was “An incoherent soup, one could become half-mad translating it”, and said that previous translations had corrected the language, giving the false impression that Hitler was a “cultured man” with “coherent and grammatically correct reasoning”. He added “To me, making this text elegant is a crime.” [snip]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mein_Kampf#Criticism_by_translators

(historically, the equation generally doesn’t change when there are more guns or bullets)

Reminder that multiple co-authors denounced the book when they saw how ludicrous the other sections were, such as tallying millions of Nazi soldiers as victims of communism.

https://xcancel.com/VoCommunism/status/1747646935429677554

Officially US the good ones which won Nazi Germany, despite that is was Rusia and the allied, the US only enter when almost everything was done

The Soviet Union (and I say that to emphasize that it was not simply Russia) and other Allies also played an important role in the Pacific Theatre too once they had some breathing space. I suppose the US glorify it so aggressively because it’s one of the few major wars they were on the winning side of, but when they rapidly promoted former Nazis to high political positions and launched Operation Gladio, one can’t help but realize their troops were only sent there to stop those Nazis, not Nazism.

How easily the US’s friends are forgotten… [1][2]

“Eyes left” moment

That’s nothing. If you’re going to bring up the US and their tanks, here’s how they behave with them

If any of you have a spare laptop, maybe you can run a live OS for people to play around with?

Community rule 1.

That’s alright, and I’m also a little bit sorry for nitpicking! I just saw it as an opportunity to illustrate how complex this whole software mess is.

I’m not sure if you’ve come across it yet, but there’s a well-known copypasta posted to satirize the way many Linux users will nitpick terms.