I don't think a planned economy can be good. East Germany had a planned economy when it was managed by the soviets and we are still recovering from that.
The problem with our current economy is not capitalism per se but more neoliberalism. Neoliberalism is what has allowed megacorps like Google and Amazon to exist and to take massive influence in politics.
The free market needs to be regulated, businesses shoudn't have as much influence on politics and there should be more social programs to help the weak.
While it is easy to hate capitalism and seek for other ideologies it will end up creating more harm. I don't know if the current system is fixable or if we would need to overthrow the gouvernment to bring meaningful change but it currently looks like the latter is needed.
Meta plans to work with ActivityPub, a vendor that already partners with Mastodon and is currently working on a deal with Tumblr. The agreement isn’t finalized yet, but has been referenced in press releases announcing Threads.
Lol. The author of this article is braindead and has no Idea what he's writing about. ActivityPub is an open standard not a vendor. There can't be an agreement because there's no one to agree with. All they will do is implement the standard
Personally. I don't need an Ethernet port. If I'm getting a cheap laptop I won't be doing any gaming on it and don't need low-latency or maximum bandwith internet. Just use WIFI
Ubuntu is bad privacy-wise because it has opt-out telemetry. The telemetry is not very invasive though and I wouldn't really call it a privacy risk.
There are other reasons to prefer other distros over Ubuntu though
I think this is actually a good thing. Right now a lot of companies are using Alma Linux instead of paying for RHEL. If Alma Linux becomes unfeasable they might switch and bring more money for RedHat, which they can use to improve Linux
I don't think a planned economy can be good. East Germany had a planned economy when it was managed by the soviets and we are still recovering from that.
The problem with our current economy is not capitalism per se but more neoliberalism. Neoliberalism is what has allowed megacorps like Google and Amazon to exist and to take massive influence in politics. The free market needs to be regulated, businesses shoudn't have as much influence on politics and there should be more social programs to help the weak.
While it is easy to hate capitalism and seek for other ideologies it will end up creating more harm. I don't know if the current system is fixable or if we would need to overthrow the gouvernment to bring meaningful change but it currently looks like the latter is needed.