Awww, thank you 🥰

I don’t get it 🤔

If America will not even bother to stand for its own working class, let alone the working class of other countries, then America needs to die.

If America, a supposedly democratic nation, will not listen to its people, then America needs to die.

And if it cannot exist without exploitation of any people, including its own, then America needs to die.

Truscape’s answer is pretty comprehensive but to recontextualize it: In some places there’s functionally zero risk, in fact degrading the US entertainment/media economy might actually be seen as a national benefit. In most western countries it actually is sticking their neck out, though how much depends largely on the location. I think Sweden (or Iceland?) actually had a political party called the Pirate Party which espoused it on some philosophical grounds.

Valid question, I’ve heard of people just dumpster-diving and getting computers with working components but I’m sure there’s places that just wholesale old PC’s from schools and businesses for cheap, presumptively after wiping them (one hopes).

The decentralized nature of torrenting plus being in a country that doesn’t care counts for a lot. After that, you pretty much just get the cheapest storage you can, maybe even use reclaimed e-waste drives. You’d be amazed what some people just toss.

My favorite was the one where a “former” member of Al-Qaeda was invited to kick his feet back in NYC and play a nice relaxing game of basketball with US generals at the White House. Really building bridges, you know?

Well, at least 60% of both, but probably more

Eh, AI is only as bad as its user, use case, and efficacy. Yogthos has voiced their thoughts on it before, and I’m not inclined to disagree with their position. The meme is still accurate.

Average Japanese: Nanjing Massacre? What’s that?

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Honestly amazed no one answered Disco Elysium

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Finally, that’s a very common reaction I see online and all I can think of it is that it is very feminine in nature, lol.

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So adorable when Brits think they have a moral high ground

In fairness that’s what they get for using unmodified Deepseek for their toys

(except I’m a Snap hater)

TBF snap is the fucking worst

but any distro that is primarily associated with a company doesn’t really fit the Arch ethos of a fully community developed project. So a lot of anti-corp and freedom maxxers use it.

That makes sense. In theory Debian is my favorite just because of their form of organization but in practice Ubuntu or Mint are much easier ways to get people out of the Microsoft pipeline because of accessibility and significantly better ethics. Debian and Arch are more practical after some Linux experience is gained.

I believe that Debian is the most community oriented distro. Debian was founded on the principles of giving freedom to software users. I always recommend that people use Debian rather than Ubuntu or Mint.

Oh strong agree, for sure. I just think “corporate” typically implies publicly traded (the most explicit bourgeois), but think Canonical (to my memory) was private (petit bourgeois), which isn’t great but miles more tolerable than publicly traded, and capable of ethics that the former is incapable of. Happy to be corrected though if I’m wrong.

It’s really funny to follow some of various LLM’s sourcing sometimes. I remember one occasion when half the sources didn’t exist and were made up entirely.

Is Ubuntu a corporation? I thought they were a private company that functionally operated like a non-profit? I disagree with a lot of their decisions but haven’t yet seen reason to doubt their intentions.