Eldritch

All states do ultimately. Unfortunately too many states have far too many cheerleaders.

Just wait till 6.9

Sadly no. But having just their government to deal with, instead of being squashed starved and slaughtered between the two is a minor improvement.

When ever you think something sounds too stupid even for trump. No you didn’t.

His stupidity is his defining characteristic among his voters. For the wealthy and powerful, he’s an easily manipulable rube. For the poor saps he says the same stupid things they think and say. He’s just like them, so relatable!

Is this from a recent Ryan stream?

All laptops I own are upgradeable. I didn’t buy them with that in mind. I just bought most of them cheap and used on eBay. The most recent one I got I upgraded the m.2 WiFi to wifi6 a few years ago. Bumped it from 16 to 32GB of ram. 256Gb Nvme to 1Tb.They even sell 4k panels for them. Though that is a very Advanced upgrade. The only thing I can’t upgrade is the CPU and the Apu inside.

All modern apple silicon desktops or laptops have soldered in Ram and proprietary storage. All of them. Unfortunately this seems to be a trend that other manufacturers are looking to follow. The storage is technically kind of upgradable. But you have to jump through massive Hoops to do so compared to any standard computer.

Maintaining a system? Apple has many pieces hardware locked to a system. Going to get a replacement board for your apple silicon laptop? Good luck. If you get lucky it might not be hardware locked. This was one of the major bullshit things that got Louis Rossman on his right to repair campaign specifically.

Durability? Yes Apple Hardware is way more durable than your standard 200 dollar cheap chromebook. But if you look at similarly priced devices. Most of the time they’re just as durable. I would actually like apple silicon if it wasn’t for all the anti-repair anti-competition lockdown that they performed. If Apple would just provide basic device trees Etc allowing the BSD and Linux communities to build their software for their devices. They would be my preferred Hardware. But they and Qualcomm are notoriously bad about that. Leaving everyone to feel around in the dark reverse engineering things needlessly.

The one positive with flatpak is that it allows for universal deployment. A lot of projects are providing official builds. But you are still relying on them to vet what they put in.

Yeah, Python has been a massive vulnerability for a long while. And the AUR has similar issues. This is only getting widespread coverage now. But it’s always been a risk.

A lot of that comes down to user error. Either in not managing/understanding expectations or using it on proper hardware. If you buy from a system integrator like system 76 tuxedo etc etc etc. You’re going to have a good Hardware experience. If you try using some random old laptop. There’s almost always going to be parts of it that don’t work or at least don’t work well.

The other part is down to use case. If you are deependant on Mac only software and try to transition to windows you are going to have a hard time. It’s no different with Linux. Windows has ways of doing things, Mac has ways of doing things. Linux/BSD has many ways of doing things to. If you are not a new user. You’re adjusted to a specific ecosystem. Change will take time and effort.

As to your stability problems. The biggest issue I’ve had in recent years was the upgrade to Wayland. There were issues around getting KDE switched over initially. But it was easily handled and smooth ever since. I have even switched over my entire immediate family and I have far less tech support issues than before. I will say though that post covid and definitely in the last 10 years there has been a dramatic sea change in everything. If you haven’t tried it in a while it’s definitely worth trying again. Linux is a better alternative than it’s ever been depending on your use case.

My only complaint Hardware wise is all the extra lengths that Apple go to to make sure that things are less upgradable etc.

Uuuuuh, well Firefox has bad management. Always chasing pointless trends like AI rather than focusing on the browser itself completely. But the browser itself is solid as far as I know.

Yep, as an eldergoth man. It was very entertaining and well done. Well out of my wheelhouse but still good.

3 and 4 much less so. I hope the Asahi team can keep it up. But there’s no guarantee.

True but also sadly as all the new models are a struggle to get working. So locked down they will likely end up much more in the landfills.

This. The petite bourgeoisie cannot coexist. They must prey on society by their very nature. And they know that. As such they know that any actual socialist government is going to be set against them and will oppose it. As you have no doubt seen. The Lambs do not lay with the lion.

Unfortunately the only thing they have to offer you is equal but opposed state dogma. Excusing all repression social and otherwise because of the current infrastructure being built and the temporary uplift it brings to the people there. Once the infrastructure is built it will stagnate just like it did in the United states and elsewhere. A fact that they love to ignore. The United states for all its problems raised the material conditions of many people across the globe not just at home. Just like China currently. None of which justifies the bad they do. It’s ultimately not left vs right, or the west vs everyone else. It’s us vs the state. And anyone simping for a state is rightly suspect.

Well it has to be said, Hitler’s was blatant malice and incompetence projected outwards. Had he just slaughtered every romani and Jew in Germany. I don’t think the world would have collectively batted an eye if he’d stopped there.

Mao was largely incompetent internally. Though those attitudes have only metastasized in the country and turned towards malice which is now being set for export.

That depends on implementation. But “technically” could be, though I think the reality more often than not is that it isn’t.

Indeed. That would be far too reasonable though.

.world has a solid segment of unthinking leninist. Who substitute theory for thought. There isn’t an overarching ideology imposed on .world however. So you will find plenty anarchist/communist, democratic socialist, and even liberals too. But many of the leninist are very online and much more organized in imposing their dogma. Much to the detriment of discussion and the fediverse as a larger entity. A number of their politics specific instances are defederated from many exactly because they were known for brigading discussions. And while it can no longer be done directly from those instances. They still use accounts on other instances including .world.

100%

You can point directly to people and individuals impacted. And they will deny it to your face or find a way to attack the messenger without addressing the message. They have the word of the state. And as we all know. No State anywhere has ever lied or misled. Or any non Western State at least. /s