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Before Obama, I could still remain quiet when people said "voting for anyone is implicit approval," or whatever - and for the most part, they're right - voting is a pretty low level of change.

I voted for Obama because even if he is a bit of a tool, he's black, and now a huge group of minority kids saw someone who looks like them in the white house. I voted for him not because of the "HOPE" on his signs but literally to give black kids hope. (And yeah, for the most part, it's false hope, just like it is for white kids, welcome to the club.) He was a positive symbol and, if it's a symbol who is also a centrist Democrat, that's better then a centrist Democrat that isn't a positive symbol. And a shit ton better than Mitt Romney or whoever the other guy was.

And then Trump happened, and any respect for the "don't vote" viewpoint drained out. If you still think both parties are the same at this point, you might want to start asking yourself what else is going on with you - because "not great" is not identical to "fucking terrible"...

Biden isn't doing what I want him to do - health care, income inequality, corruption in Congress, etc - but the infrastructure bill isn't a bad thing. It's actually a good thing, we need it. We need a lot more, but 1 > 0.

It may or may not be natural, but it doesn't change the economic reality - if there are more people who can't work (the olds) than who can, the economy is fucked.

It seems like lots if boomers are retiring older - I have no data for that but that's the vibe - but that's not going to last forever, they can't (shouldn't) work until they literally die. The burden on the young (paired with pretty reckless tactics from the capitalists) - the olds are going to get left in the street.

Look, if you didn't want to be price gouged, you shouldn't have paid those high prices! Vote with your wallet!

(For those who think I might be serious, I'm not. Voting with your wallet isn't democratic, it's literally plutocratic.)

Kidding aside, there's a clip of some grocery store chain CEO talking about how they will raise their prices as high as the market will bear - it's chilling, but, like, in the USA, it's the law - it would literally be illegal if they didn't.

All of this. The reason why the "trans debate" is so problematic is because of the "debate" part. I don't give a shit about whether gender is a performance or a genetic thing - i care that trans people are murdered at an alarming rate, and that their rights to health care are significantly under threat - or gone already. My concern is that trans and gay people still have to worry about their safety when they come out of the closet.

I care about providing safety and normal human treatment for people who aren't getting it.

The "debates" can happen after these people stop being murdered and abused. You can tell me all about your religious doctrines and how god made Adam and Eve or whatever after we agree that humans need to be treated like humans.

I was going to get out the big Cody Logo to shine it in the nighttime clouds to alert him, but, then I realized, he already knows.

I'm not sure if there is a "good time" to buy - not as a blanket timeframe for all things. If you want to save money, use camel camel camel and patience.

However - it all depends on how much you're talking about trying to save, how substantial that amount is to you, and how much your time is worth - because if you make $20/hour and you spend 16 hours in order to save $5, that's not a great investment.

Black Friday is almost always a scam. Maybe once upon a time it wasn't, but, capitalists gotta capitalize.

Oh you mean the IBM Enterprise Linux upstream? Is that ok to use on a desktop computer?

(I'm just kidding, Fedora's great.)

That's Wikipedia's approach, arguably one of the most successful "open source" projects in history - certainly not without its problems, but overall it's pretty great

Idk if I would say it's looks > usability, and it's certainly not gaudy... There are theming styles that are much more unusable and gaudy than the "riced" look.

It's an aesthetic that idealizes a kind of barebones utility, and while it often will lean towards the look over the usability, the look itself is like a "beautiful utilitarian" - minimalistic, uncluttered, etc.

Fwiw rice is a backronym, it originally comes from just "rice burners" which were the kind of cars & motorcycles that got "cosmetically enhanced"

I hate to say this, because I know how cringe it is, but... Windows 7 actually removed a lot of features that made Windows fun. And yeah, I'm talking about ricing and I'm unironically saying ricing is valid.

The mid 2000s was an awesome time to be in the ricing community - between litestep, blackbox, foobar2k, rainlendar/rainmeter etc, you could actually make your experience look however you wanted.

And, litestep in particular, for me, was a gateway drug to openbox and therefore Linux - when you finally hit The Windows Wall, where, to go any further, you had to step into Linux, Ubuntu was there, and then Mint, and then..idr what.

I still have my 2007 Ubuntu installation cd that they mailed to me for free. Sure, you could just make your own installation cd rom, but, if you couldn't, they would happily mail you one - or, as in my case, you felt motivated to evangelize, they'd send you a bunch that you could give out to people. I gave mine to friends and left some others at the local anarchist bookstore (I don't remember the name of it but this was Washington DC just north of Chinatown).

Windows 7 was a big step backwards. You could still do a lot of ricing, but less - and it was very clear from the direction that Windows 7 went, that whatever came next would be worse.

As a librarian irl, if I could make a horribly reductive characterization of the difference:

Librarians' top priority is providing access Archivists' top priority is preservation

Do you seed? You're a librarian Leech and no seed? Archivist

be a librarian, we're better

I was under the impression Chrome doesn't let you use ad blockers anymore? idk I use arch firefox btw

which is why everyone I like to watch content of posts their stuff on YouTube

I'm not sure this is exactly true - like, first off, I am not a YouTuber and I only watch a very specific kind of content there (breadtube), so idk if my opinion is valid, but

From what I've heard creators say, it's not that YouTube is great, in fact it kind of sucks in a lot of ways, it's just that the alternatives don't do it better, and obviously don't have the size & reach. All the things that YouTube does badly or not at all, the competition doesn't do well either, so why bother.

You're 100% right tho that Google's success at this point hinges almost entirely on their convenience. Google drive/docs/sheets/etc are kinda garbage, but they'te fast, simple to use, and the integration is incredibly smooth. If there was any alternative that was as simple to transition into from email or whatever, I'd jump ship in a second.

I'm no apologist but literally the country of Germany let that dude do all that shit but we've kinda let the whole country off the hook for that at this point, seeing how it was a really long time ago and the people involved aren't in charge anymore.

Have you seen their offices from the 1970s? It's like wall to wall Eames chairs. IBM deserves another chance.

I mean, if this is a package manager challenge then a distro is just a package manager

And in a lot of ways, it kind of is - now that most distros are using systemd and most distros have all the same stuff in the repos, a distro - in the sense of how different they feel to use - is basically just swapping package managers.

(Distro maintainers, don't misunderstand! You folks do way more than just zip up a package manager! Your work is crazy hard and we appreciate you!)

So if a distro is more than just the package manager, what would that mean:

1. Default desktop env; obv a big one for Fedora since RH drives both Fedora and Gnome;
2. Community; another big one for Fedora since it has one and it's a pretty great one
3. ...? Idk this isn't like an essay I had planned, I can't think of anything else off the top of my head ;)

Point one, yes, OP has betrayed the spirit of Fedora because Gnome isn't featured in the screenshot - but if we didn't know better, there's not actually much in the screenshot that can't be done in Gnome

Point 2: any time you're using a smaller-community WM or DE, yes, you're going to have to reach beyond the distro's community - but for a lot of stuff, you're still in the Fedora community;

Point 2.5 - and, when posting screens to unixporn communities, the F is what matters; it's representation, it's demonstrating what's possible, it's showing that Fedora is a viable choice for new ricers that aren't aware that you can rice any distro; and - maybe most important - it's cool - OP is literally improving fedora's reputation by posting something awesome that uses it

This isn't a comment to argue, it's meant as a discussion - what would make it more fedora-ish and less of a package manager challenge?

I'm no bearings expert but my gut tells me that if I were to start making cheap toys for kids that centered around bearings that had no significant durability or precision requirements, I would probably not opt for a bearing design that was rare or expensive or unique.

In fact, I'd probably go knocking on doors of those companies that do have strict requirements and be like, gimme all the ones that failed inspection.

In fact #2, if i wanted to retire and make everyone in Lemmy threads like this one jealous, I'd start thinking about what other high precision parts probably get thrown out if they fail inspection, that I could buy for next to nothing, and how I could make that into a toy.

Parts of machines are cool. Parts of machines that are crafted to high standards of precision are cool. The toy probably invents itself. Going viral and getting as popular as fidget spinners tho... That seems harder.

I had no idea delivery drivers were paid like waitstaff - that's fucked up

Your broad generalization on employee salaries is also dishonest of course.

Hey now, be nice - Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Really? I didn't know that. Everywhere I've worked (which isn't everywhere but it's 4 states in the East coast and the deep south), the waitstaff got $3.10 - but I admit it's been over a decade.

There's a faulty assumption in here that I was to call attention to: it's the it's that capitalist companies are charging less than the market will bear.

100% of the time, prices are as high as they can possibly be. There's no situation where a company says, "we could charge them $5, but let's charge them $4".

If we stopped tipping and people got raises, the balance would have to come from CEO salaries (etc) which is what they're really saying when they say they can't do it.

That said, for situations where tipping has become kind of expected but not required (eg baristas, who are paid minimum wage, but not eg waitstaff who are paid less than minimum wage), the expectation that prices have to go up to account for raised wages will raise "what the market will bear."

Maybe not for deliveries? Since everyone already thinks delivery fees are tips? Idk.