I’d send them to the builder if my beach house to finally finish, but in sure he’ll still ask for more.

The reason of the confusion is clear.

The US propaganda has always equated Communism and totalitarianism.

It is bonkers that people in the USA cannot distinguish between an economic system and a political system.

Those two are distinct things. True communism is very democratic. But reading the Communist manifesto is heretic in the US and you are left with what your leaders tell you.

The Russian Revolution was communist but the USSR was never communist.

Right wing totalitarian dictators also use starvation of their own people as means of control.

What you are experiencing in the US is totalitarianism and while it hasn’t gotten to USSR levels, it is going on that direction.

Food for thought: study the political system in China, you’d be surprised how it’s actually more democratic than the current USA. Yes, the CCP controls the nominations. Now, tell me if there is true plurality in the US, two right wing parties selecting their candidates without any real popular input.

Really you’ve been bamboozled to think there is real democracy in the US.

What i did in my last road trip (19 months) was:

• Configure the camera to record in 1 minute segments
• I wrote a script to use ffmpeg concatenate all the videos for a particular day while accelerating them e.g. 8x

It’s still a large amount of data but I can remember my trip day by day throughout 49,000 Km. (Well, less than that because I wrote the script half way)

It’s not only commercial software.

We’ve come to expect more from our computers and as our processors gain more power we find ways to use it. I’m running things on a laptop that before would have required a workstation. I wanted to run an LLM on an old desktop, and 8GB RAM wasn’t enough.

We know totalitarian aren’t above starving their own people. History has many examples.

The whataboutism going on on a single direction is easily explainable.

If we live in a “western country” criticism of surveillance in our country is our focus. If you mention surveillance in China. Still surveillance in our country is our focus. As in “we live here, why are you focusing there”.

How do you differentiate whataboutism from highlighting the antichinese hypocrisy?

Us a surveillance state good? No. Is a commercial surveillance society good? Also no.

Is targeting minorities for dedication good? Not from my perspective.

Is targeting minorities for incarceration keeping said minority poorer? Also not from my perspective.

It’s not whataboutism is that many people forget they are living in a distopian society with out realizing it.

When you have a charger owner and a charger and the only smart thing is the charger 🤣

In that thought experiment there are more scenarios. Remembering that stepping on a butterfly can change… This is, small input changes can have big repercussions down the line.

You cannot assume what Linux would be in that scenario.

Who knows if it would have been colored by a main corporation.

Capitalism would have found a way to leverage it and new computers would be sold.

More, if you read between the lines.

So, you really think that a new CEO will act any differently? No lives were saved. The problem is the system. Not an individual CEO.

“Misterious”?. In that same line of thought, there have been some misterious décapitations of cartel members in northern mexico.

Let me repeat, a big part of the success of windows is due to piracy. In developing countries, poor people rely on it. Eventually they may become educated and well, they know how to use windows.

If windows/office becomes annoying with the ads then people will look for alternatives.

“CCTV footage has been misconstrued.”

Don’t believe your eyes or the woman! Say the rapists.

“I was doing an alcohol test with my fine tongue while my hands were looking for drugs or weapons. I was multitasking!”

I mean, their lawyer can argue all they want. If there is video, it will have to be heavy law contortionism.

Designate a concept as a terrorist organization, and then you can label anyone you don’t like as antifa so you can prosecute them.

It’s ridiculous how far the US is now into fascism. If the frog knew any history it would know what it means to be in a nice pot with warm water on top of a stove.

This feels like those theatre plays for children where the wolf is hiding behind the main character and all the children are shouting “the wolf is there!!” While the main character remains oblivious.

How is no one mentioning the abuse on r/conservative where spewing all kinds of falsehoods, and xenophobias and you are gold, but trying to provide factual information gets banned?

I think there are more things to worry about than the number of groups someone helps moderate.

And alsothere is no recourse against improper bans. I was banned from my corresponding country sub because a moderator misinterpreted something I said.

Oh. Smart and pedantic about an autoincorrect. I’m not going to say I know more about computers than you because… One never knows. I just started in 1982 and have only worked in IT my whole life in pretty much every role, in more than 30 languages and many different platforms plus contributing as a developer in a small distribution around 2006-2010 and ending up as a lead entreprise architect providing advise on the technological direction of 300+ systems. But again, maybe I don’t know much.

Your answer confirmed my original comment. You are commenting without fundament. “I used it 15 years ago” qualifies for speaking about Linux in past tense. Not in present tense.

By the way, I don’t know if you used virtualisation or WSL to run Ubuntu inside windows (I remember the Ubuntu cd had that executable) but it’s not the same as running a proper installation and back then WSL was lacking.

For me talking about WSL also qualifies as past tense as I haven’t used Windows at all since 2019.

Good for you that you like Apple. It doesn’t mean that Linux is not stable or is lacking though.

I have a problem believing he thought is wholesome. to celebrate violence or lack of empathy.

I said “you” generic as a knowledgeable person.

The people you are talking about didn’t install windows either. I’m talking about comparing apples and apples.

There is no more difficulty installing or using windows or Linux, but in Linux there are less problems.

Starlink needs regulatory permission in every county they provide signal to.