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  • folaht@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlAm I wrong??
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    11 days ago

    I actually don’t know. I’m not that well-versed in communism, but I’ll try to make a suggestion:

    Marx never said to force communism, an envisioned futuristic system, to happen, the same way that one shouldn’t force capitalism in the year 900, during the time of fuedalism if some visionary would predict such of type of governance to happen in the year 800. Even if you think capitalism is better than fuedalism, trying to implement it by introducing ballot boxes, constitutions, parliaments and such, likely would get you killed by the nobility and/or clergy, because you forgot to increase the increase the power of the merchants first, so that they could revolt, with lawyers by their side, or better said in front of them, against the old powers.

    Trotsky wanted to implement a world government or capilalists will do everything in their power to try to destroy it.
    Stalin wanted to develop socialism further in the Soviet Union into a better working model for other countries to emulate.

    Furious debates ensued on who was on the right track.




  • It’s been my experience throughout the years.
    I haven’t personally heard “I have nothing to hide”
    since Huawei phones started to become banned in my country.

    The moment they became popular they went from
    “I’ve got nothing to hide” to “I’ve got nothing to hide, but this is different. Huawei is subject to the Chinese State.
    Those other phones are made by our allies. We may have found time after time again that all phones of all our politicians have been tapped by the US and it’s true that no matter how hard our best security experts searched for listening bugs in these devices, they found diddly squat, but if you own one of those Chinese phones and think you’re not being listened to, than you’re being naive. Naive naive, !be scared!, naive national security naive.”.


  • folaht@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlWhich distro should I use?
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    1 month ago

    Yes and the manual install taught me how to deal with DEs refusing to start without having to do a full reinstall.
    It’s such a pleasure to be able to save your setup no matter what the issue, apart from the time I accidentally erased my hard drive with a sudo rm -rf * command that was supposed to wipe a USB drive.






  • The US response (media/police/even some of the public) to anything in protest is the most authoritarian response I have ever seen every single time, but I guess that’s understandable when you’re busy fully supporting a genocide and about half a dozen regime changes attempts per year.

    “This is absolutely unacceptable and understandably scared travelers,” said US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy[1:2]. The airports quickly shut down affected systems and searched aircraft out of caution, though no security threats were found[1:3].

    Does the computer in your living room get hacked? Check for explosives your basement!
    And while we’re at it…

    The hack targeted cloud-based audio and display systems through a software provider[3]. “Nobody informed us what was going on, there was no crisis response. Everyone was just really confused,” one Kelowna passenger told CNN[1:4].

    bring in the guns!
    Let’s have an army of ICE goons walk in next time and have them shoot random passengers
    who may look like they could be part of the terrorist hackers!



  • US still has an abundance of coal. Together with the weak monarchic but oil rich Saudi Arabia, the oil rich, but coal poor Soviet Union collapsed. Now there are two alternatives, China’s weaker, but socialist coal industry and the much much much stronger solar photovoltaic industry completely dominated by China again.
    It’s both of these developments that are causing the situation to be normal instead of the weird events of 1989-1992 and 2008.


  • folaht@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlWhy?
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    2 months ago

    Homework.

    College used linux because I did computer science.
    Topic: concurrency. College then gave us a programming assignment that required adding a code library, which I had never done before or even heard of, and thus did not understand.
    Since this was a library that was platform-specific, they had made one library for linux and one for windows.
    Way too late I got the gist of it but still couldn’t install the library.
    Since the question contained the linux directory structure I was convinced that the windows library was broken and every other college student finished this task in Linux.
    Thus I installed Linux.
    Ten years later I understood and finished the assignment.



  • That’s been argued before, saying that the French revolution was just a fluke and we’ll go right back to monarchy rule, replacing the Capetian dynasty for the Bonaparte dynasty.

    The fossil fuel revolution has replaced fuedalism with capitalism and so will the ground solar revolution replace capitalism with socialism.



  • I went from Sailfish, to Ubuntu phone, back to Sailfish,
    then bought a Pinephone due to the war,
    not knowing if the Finnish company would survive
    before going back to Sailfish.

    Pinephone, despite it being the most linux of phones, used up too much battery power.
    Ubuntu phones were already miles better.