sevenapples @ sevenapples @lemmygrad.ml

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Dude, I'm not even from the US. My question is, in my opinion, an obvious one, at least to an outsider to the US political system. Why do you have to vote him again, when he's in power now?

Why can't Biden do something to safeguard abortion in his current term?

If he can't do something on his current term, why will he be able to do something on his next one?

Is this supposed to be a jab at linux? Because it's wrong. The kernel is updated at the same intervals as Windows / Mac updates, if not more frequently. Popular DEs are also maintained and frequently updated.

About popular programs: Firstly, this is not strictly a problem of the OS, because they can't force developers to build their apps for Linux. However, developers can do that, and with the advent of flatpak they can build for that instead of hiding behind the excuse of not wanting to support multiple distros.

Secondly, this is almost irrelevant because the majority of people use computers to either browse the web, or use office suites, or play games. In linux, you can browse the web just fine, use browser-based office suites that are becoming increasingly popular (or LibreOffice/OpenOffice) and, with steam, you can play most games that don't have a linux build.

All in all, the minimum everyone with a semblance of computer literacy should do is dual boot linux alongside windows and use that for their daily driver.

Do you also consider remembering to take your wallet and phone with you a hassle? You're creating an issue where there isn't one.

But OK, have a smartphone and use it to take photo-notes, I do that too. But I also try to use libre alternatives for software even if they are not as good as their proprietary counterparts, because that's the right thing to do for a lot of reasons.

Also funny that you're mentioning lawnmowers, because tractors have a huge issue with proprietary software, with farmers having to resort to hacking their (bought!) vehicles in order to repair them, to avoid paying thousands of dollars to John Deere for "authorized" (read: extorted) repairs.

You agree that the corpos are "evil" and yet you do nothing to avoid using their software, you're not willing to be discomforted in the slightest for a good cause. That's worse than Stallman's approach, in my book.

Why didn't you bring a small notepad, easily fitted in a pocket or small bag to take notes of things to remember, instead of a camera? Dumb phones may have had note functionalities too, I'm not sure.

Stallman gives plenty of alternatives instead of just forbidding technology, but you're gonna brand them 'non-viable' so there's no reason to give you a list.

What's your point? Monopoly does not imply innovation.

If it's simple then it has been asked tens of times in SO

What do you mean by socialism? Because the goal of socialism is to gradually arrive at communism. I don't know a lot of Marxist theory but what you say doesn't make much sense. No one (except for anarchists and maybe "new leftists") wants to jump to communism directly.

Unless by socialist you mean social-democrat.

I believe that even in the current state of affairs they'd be hit with an anti-trust lawsuit if they do that -- plenty of companies who would enjoy hurting Google.

What they can do, however, is make their services run slower on other browsers, as they're already doing.

I use the "Bypass Paywalls Clean" extension for Firefox. I'd post a link to it on mozilla's add-on store, but I found out they had to take it down.

You can still install it manually by downloading the extension file.

You can also achieve the same thing with ublock filters, instructions here (in the "How to bypass paywalled articles using uBlock Origin" section)

Socialism is the step before the communism you describe, and the people who support it are communists. Go read Marxist theory instead of relying on hearsay arguments like that.

He's not asking if or how he should charge them, but if he's supposed to return the money (since the guests have paid beforehand)

When you make fun of “Gamers” for being a smelly neck beard too addicted to video games to showers. (notice the unkempt beard and the glasses on those memes just to add some spicy insults)

If you go out then it's your responsibility to not be smelly. You want others to respect your characteristics but in the process you don't respect their reasonable expectation of you not being stinky.