So I tried to find DJ Stryker voice clips and it turns out a couple of years ago plenty of people made AI-gen parodies. Some of them are a good laugh.

Yep. And also for bonus points, learn the basics of asking for help. Even simple things like writing a useful subject for a post, being respectful and how to share useful error codes or logs.

They also won the 1999 prize, and are famously the peace prize winner who were bombed by another peace prize winner in 2015 (Barack Obama).

Depends on your instance and the community you’re posting in.

For example, on lemmy.world a user might get warned or banned for openly celebrating the shooting of Brian Thompson. (I forget exactly where they draw the line, but it’s an “advocating violence” thing)

Or here, a user on lemmy.ml might get banned for bigoted statements, even normal things that plenty of people don’t even notice are bigoted because it’s “common sense” in their own country.

But you’ve got to be pretty damn intolerable to get banned from more than a few instances. Like, actual Nazism.

It’s nearly useless unless you TRULY need the highest levels of privacy.

Absolutely not. My main adversary is simply commercial surveillance capitalism tracking and I daily drive Tor Browser. Most of the time, it’s fast enough for my browsing and video watching.

That’s why it’s annoying when people say “just use TOR”

I’m more annoyed when such people treat it as a panacea. See: https://medium.com/@thegrugq/tor-and-its-discontents-ef5164845908

Tor is not a VPN, so something calling itself “Tor VPN” is ringing alarm bells. Is it official? Who developed it?

edit: Yes, it’s official - https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/vpn/

I was confused since I didn’t understand the difference between it and Orbot, and misunderstood its name.

A government or state, like a corporation, will always act in its own best interest.

I can’t think of any human structure, or any person, who doesn’t tend to act in their own perceived best interest. The issue is when self interest contradicts mutual interest.

Self-interest is an important concept in understanding why capitalist corporations are consistently antisocial and why most states act against their citizens, but self-interest isn’t a reason in itself.

It was just called thoughts before governments weaponized it.

Government propaganda definitely predates the modern English language. e.g. Roman Empire

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)