Daniel Quinn @ danielquinn @lemmy.ca

Canadian software engineer living in Europe.

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Ubuntu. They've managed the worst of both worlds: like Debian, everything is old (though admittedly not as old), but unlike Debian, everything is broken/buggy/flakey. It's the old-and-busted distro that I'm routinely told is "the only Linux we support".

It's an interesting idea, but the differences between copyright and contract law present quite a hurdle.

Either you release something publicly, licensing it under certain conditions (you can use it this way, but not that), or you cut a contract with a 3rd party for them to use it a certain way -- something that only makes sense in a context where the wider public doesn't already have those rights, otherwise a contract would be unnecessary.

You see it in some Free software projects: they're licensed under something aggressive like the AGPL, but for a few you can buy a proprietary license. This of course limits community participation though, as to contribute, you must agree to these terms. I think React does something like this, forcing you to sign a contract to submit a patch.

He points out a number of problems that I'd like to see solved, so I'd love to hear his ideas, so long as they're similar in spirit to the goals of the FSF.

Of course not. No, you vote for parties who want the same things you do, to remind Labour that your vote isn't a forgone conclusion. So long as they can count on your vote by simply being "not Tory" that's all you'll ever get.

Why do you watermark these images like that? It's not like you can claim copyright on them as the AI has been trained on billions of copyrighted images already.

That's a lot of faith to place in a leader and party who have shown zero evidence of principle or conviction.

You mean the guy advocating for changes this country desperately needed? You're right, let's only have leaders bent on doing nothing.

Um, no. It's the very opposite of that. Solarpunk addresses inequality and bigotry directly.

As an outsider, I offer the following theory: it's cultural.

Brits are conditioned by the media and each other to suffer and wear that suffering like a badge of honour. This is the country that pioneered the battle tactic of having soldiers just line up in an orderly fashion to get shot and have their countrymen just step over them to take their place afterall.

I'm still in awe of a conversation I found on Reddit when I first came here. A Polish guy was asking why the homes were so poorly insulated: "I'm Polish", he said, "I'm familiar with cold weather. This is deliberate suffering". He was berated at length for being "weak", that he should "just put on a jumper and shut up". In the same thread, someone actually referred to carpeting as insulation.

Worse still, you seem to have no idea who to properly blame for that suffering. You keep electing kleptocrats and aspiring fascists and turn your nose up at anyone who points out that your suffering is the direct result of said kleptocrats. You passed on one guy 'cause you fell for lies about him being "extreme", "a communist", and "antisemitic", and you passed on the one before that because he ate a sandwich funny.

What you do excel at is scapegoating. It's the immigrants. It's the poor. It's anyone but ourselves and the kleptocrats we elected.

This is why you can't have nice things. Recognise that you're part of the problem, demand better leaders, and stop being so fucking stupid at the polling booth, and maybe then you'll get better results.

We should be reading/watching/sharing more solarpunk then!

Corbyn has joined the South African contingent in defending Palestinian civilians against genocide. Starmer won't even condemn Tory prosecution of Just Stop Oil protesters.

People on the Left reward conviction and principles. We show up and fight for leaders who inspire us toward a better future. Maybe Starmer can still win without our support, but what indeed will any of us "win" if he does?

What exactly is the appeal of Docker Desktop on Linux? I can run docker just fine without it, so what's it doing for me?

That's funny. I feel the same way, except that it's Tilly that I care about and no one else.

Labour: prioritising the real problems.

Wait, when is Windows 10 hitting end of life? If Windows 11 doesn't support devices without aTPM, that's a huge swath of insecure machines.

I started working for a video game company in 2000. It was dominated by Linux nerds (including the CEO) and they indoctrinated me into their cult. My first distro was SuSe, then Redhat for a while, then Gentoo for about a decade, then Arch, which is where I am now.

My last Windows "daily driver" was Windows 98se.

Can we install Linux on M1 machines yet? Last time I tried it was a nightmare and I failed miserably.

"Install this blob of data that you just download from this random URL" isn't something I'm ever going to do on any computer I own. Doesn't Emudeck support something more reasonable like a flatpak?

Oops, sorry I didn't notice that part. I've never seen anything like that to be honest. It kinda violates the whole "do only one thing and do it well" UNIX ethos. As a decent work-around, you can just open the resulting images in Gimp?

GNOME has one built in. Just hit the "print screen" button and it should appear.

The Conservative party is no place for principled people. Good for him.