I guarantee, most new users coming to Linux from Windows/macOS are going to laugh and look at you funny if you try to justify entering your password again and again and again.

That’s nice, but this ain’t MacOS or Windows. This is Linux.

Sorry but 20 years of “but this isn’t exactly like Winders11!!!one!” starts to grate on me. It’s a different OS with a different philosophy and a different workflow. Everbody coming from Windows had to learn to deal with the nuances of that OS as well, nuances they’ve completely forgotten about because it’s second nature.

I don’t WANT Linux to be exactly like MacOS and Windows. I want it to stand on its own, with its own ideas on how to run a computer.

“Forks of the project are welcomed. Nobody can stop the code from living on.”

That’s a tear jerking quote right there. o7

The ISS is one yard short of the length of one American football field!

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HDMI only had about four good years to itself before DisplayPort showed up. In contrast, the RCA port stuck around for damn near 100 years.

Yeah, space software is crazy restrictive. I read they don’t allow you to allocate ANYTHING on the heap. It’s all static stack-based all the way.

A 10 year long memory leak on the way to Pluto isn’t a good thing I guess…

THANK YOU

Software pirates still love it for some reason. You’d think they’d use non-proprietary archival programs.

I realized a long time ago that Ubuntu, Mint, and like almost half the distros out there are all just Debian-based. I can literally just turn one into the other if I want. To me they are about as different from each other as different system themes, all just Debian in various outfits. (Astronaut gun meme: it’s ALL Debian?/Always has been…)

So I figured why not just go with the OG? I’m not a gamer, so I don’t need the hottest new GPU drivers every week.

The people who have the means to just uproot everything and move to another country on a whim are probably not the same people who are struggling to live here, and so the incentive there is to not really care because they’re comfortable where they are.

We aren’t really taught to give much of a shit about our fellow citizens here. There isn’t any kind of social cohesion, it’s everyone for themselves. We saw the US’s true colors when we tried to get everybody vaccinated.

Throw in a little whimsical wizard while you’re at it.

Toothpaste + M&Ms 🤢

Don’t pretend like you weren’t implying Soviet style collectives.

Why do you believe this? I’m a fuckin’ anarchist for christ sake. I already mentioned libertarian socialism once.

Why do you think a co-op can only ever possibly exist in an authoritarian soviet type system? My power company is a co-op.

Here, I’ll help you:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative

Nothing in there except a tiny blurb about the Soviet Union as far as I can see. A soviet “worker’s council” is not a cooperative.

If you’re going to continue to insult me and gaslight me, we are done here. Have a good day.

I said nothing about a planned economy, now you’re putting words in my mouth.

Ever hear of libertarian socialism?

Edit: I get the feeling we are talking about the same thing using different terms…

The flip side of this is waking up on your day off, and you mindlessly start going through the motions of getting ready for work. Then halfway through brushing your teeth it hits you.

There are specific definitions and I’m sticking to them. If your economy has capitalists controlling companies with workers trading their labor for a wage underneath them, then it is capitalist, full stop.

Unless your economy is full of co-ops or something. I don’t know the common typical structure for a nordic company.

By “socialism”, are we talking:

A. Worker-controlled economic system, or

B. What American liberals think is socialism, which is just a capitalist system with welfare.

Yeah, notice how it’s still up, people are having a rational discussion, and nobody is getting annoyed with anybody. Unlike whatever it is you’re doing.

This is called a paranoid delusion.

Nobody. Cares.