mimichuu_ @ mimichuu_ @lemm.ee

Programmer, writer, mediocre artist. Average Linux enjoyer.

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Absolutely agreed. I just don’t think many non-IT businesses would consider using Debian.

Really? I'd assume the opposite case, no? If a business is not related to IT, it doesn't really need to be compatible with the RHEL environment or tech support, whereas an IT business would prefer those. I also use Debian for my server and have never had any issues with it. Just upgraded it to bookworm recently and it was boringly seamless.

In my eyes my problem with moving to SUSE or Ubuntu is that it's the same thing. A corporation backed or straight up corporation developed and owned distro still has ONE failure point. Right now SUSE are "the good guys", but what if they get bought? What if there's a new CEO? What if they suddenly just decide to abuse their power? Then you're simply screwed. Red Hat were also seen as "one of the good guys" some months ago, but the way things work, companies always end up pivoting towards what makes them more money. Them being ethical is nothing but a luxury that happens if they can afford it and if we are lucky.

I'm moving to Debian once I get my new PC.

You could use a SearX instance. It includes google's results.

I'm not sure they can make them FOSS because they don't make their desktop motherboards AFAIK. They're much harder to make than laptop ones.

PSP is not the same thing as IME. Not even close. PSP doesn't even have network access, much less remote computer control like the IME. Still proprietary, but if OpenSIL allows you to turn it off then we might actually be able to run a fully 100% libre modern desktop computer which is honestly pretty awesome.

Firefox isn't slow, you just want an excuse.

I prefer startpage or Qwant. Protonmail is great though!

This is sadly just true. At least I as an artist could decide to bite the bullet with Clip Studio and learn Krita instead which is not THAT inferior. But to tell a Photoshop professional to switch to GIMP is simply stupid. If only Affinity ported their crap to Linux...

Hopefully with China moving to openKylin, there may be more adoption for the Linux desktop, and it hopefully maybe will incentivize corporations to port their stuff. But for now, yeah.

This is only for laptops by the way. System76 desktop BIOSes are still closed source. It's such a shame that there's no FOSS BIOS for desktop PCs, hopefully AMD OpenSIL changes that.

This is very true. As soon as I get a new PC I'll switch to Debian.

Not that I know of, AMD is also soon going to make their own FOSS bios with OpenSIL so they're generally the better option if you're a privacy/libre software junkie.

Man I love using Firefox.

I rest my case. Have a nice day!

I hope you realize my initial point now. Direct confrontation doesn't work. The other person will get defensive, probably immediately, and try to look for any possible reason to not listen to you, even if it has nothing to do with what you're trying to argue. I wonder what you'll say to deny it next, given that you've gone through that exact process right now in this very conversation.

I'm not telling you what to do. I'm telling you it's a shitty thing to do and it doesn't work. It didn't work in this thread, and if you've found instances of it "working", I'm 90% sure people just followed along with you so you stopped nagging them. Shaming someone doesn't convince them, at most it may convince third observers.

This is bollocks mate and just tells me you literally do not participate by highlighting that you have absolutely no clue what anyone is doing. You’re mad at me for chastising you because you feel that it applies to you.

You can ascribe any feelings you want to me, the truth is the same. Most leninists in here don't do anything, they just whine on blogposts about stupid bullshit. As a matter of fact I do have a clue, because I keep the article as a great reminder: http://www.pmli.it/articoli/2015/20151015_scuderiletussupporttheislamicstate.html

Instead of being part of them, as I previously said, I focus on improving and sustaining my own community. In that I've done way more for the proletariat of my country than any smug authoritarian cuck has done in years.

The "kick up the arse" doesn't work. You're just going to make people get defensive. You being rude gives them an excuse to not listen to you - now they can strike you off as a madman radical and move on with their lives.

This person was just advising to not get overwhelmed with anxiety and panic for the future because it's just going to make the present suck before that future is even here. They never said "don't take any action at all" or "it'll all magically be okay". Going to that person to try and overwhelm them with anxiety and panic for the future and calling them names for not being overwhelmed with anxiety and panic for the future isn't any kind of rhetorical "tough love" thing you're trying for it to be - it's just a dick move.

Trying to overload people with fear doesn't work. It's actually a denialist tactic, when your brain is so overloaded with fear it can't function with it, everything turns into a blurry mess as a self defense mechanism. You stop thinking about it, that's what most conscious people have done. Very, very few people have genuine faith and trust in today's political authorities. But regardless, in that state it's very easy to fall for a counter narrative just to be more calm with your life.

Also, I'm not a liberal. Not every country has an organized and effective radical left. In here the most radical leftist parties are leninists who only sit on their asses writing articles on websites that look from the 90s about how we should support ISIS in their anti-imperialist struggle. I focus on improving and sustaining my own community.

Wonderful political strategy, insulting everyone you're trying to reach out to.

To give you the less complicated answer, communism is an economic system, not a form of government. Communism can and has been authoritarian, but it can also be libertarian or anarchistic. There's nothing inherently authoritarian about an economy without money and without classes, based on need. It's just the ideologies that want to (or say they want to) implement it in authoritarian ways that got to run the more famous socialist experiments. If you want to see how non-authoritarian communism worked, there are also historical examples of it, they're just smaller and lasted less.

Answering your question - in the period where most countries that called themselves communist existed, no capitalist countries accepted trans people either. But you are a capitalist nonetheless no? Huh, I wonder why.

Not every ideology is equally deserving of respect.