Back in 2000, we had RedHat at school. I bought a boxed copy of Mandrake Linux from a software store back then and installed it on my home PC back then because I didn’t know how to get it otherwise.
It was a great distro with tons of great applications and graphical tools. Then eventually moved to Ubuntu in 2004 and I’ve been with them ever since.
I feel targeted. I commented somewhere last week saying someone should use OpenOffice when I meant LibreOffice.
It’s just old reflexes.
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We can’t give up. We just can’t. We don’t have a choice. I’m doing my part here in Canada. I hope you guys do yours. Because there’s so much at stake.
Point being: good or bad, violence is the only thing that works here. We’ve dipped our toes into it, but we haven’t gone full guillotine, which is what desperately needs to happen. Protests aren’t going to accomplish shit until the ruling class has a healthy fear for what happens when the protesters’ demands are ignored.
You know what? I motherfuckin’ agree with you 1 000% on this.
That’s the thing… NOT the majority elected him. A lot of people abstained from voting because they didn’t like Kamala. The majority didn’t vote for Trump.
Besides, even those who voted for Trump have remorse.
As for the black panthers, you can still form local armed militias to protect protesters. This is a second amendment right. I’d love to see the republicans go against that.
No. Absolutely not. The ship ain’t sinking. It’s being hijacked.
No! What the fuck kind of defeatist analogy is this?
THEY are the captain of their ship, but it’s being hijacked. It’s up to them to regain control over it.
Bro just let’s his hands down saying “what do you want me to do?” Fucking fight! Organize protests. Go to town halls and yell at them. Run them the fuck out of building. Others have done it.
The French do it all the time. Are you saying you’re not as capable as those you call “cheese eating surrender monkeys”? You keep making fun of them, but if you don’t act, they’ll be making fun of you.
Fix your own damn country. You actually have power to fix it over there. The rest of the world doesn’t.
You’re right. Sorry, my age is showing showing. LOL
Install Linux. Use OpenOffice. Problem solved.
Through legal actions probably. They’ll sue and the volunteers who manage these instances will cave in because they have a mortgage/lease to pay and possibly a family to take care of, etc.
Oh man. I don’t know how many tmes I got caught by that fast startup fake shutdown bullshit. Good thing you brought it up.
Windows is getting so enshittified that even regular non tech users are noticing all the crap features that are being force fed.
A lot of people find MacOS fun. I really haven’t used it enough (or barely) to have an opinion. But it seems to be a powerful OS when you know how to use it. Especially since its based on BSD.
I think “fun” is very subjective.
(I do think Linux is more fun though.)
Democorporation
You’re thinking of coops.
I’m thinking of starting a grocery co-op in my neighborhood to provide low cost food to everyone. A co-op is a democratic organization where all its members have av equal say on how to run things and how to manage profits.
It can be a financial institution, a store, a housing complex, etc.
Co-ops are the answer to escape corporations and capitalism.
Good point.
I use Mastodon and Pixelfed mainly. But I also have an account on Friendica and Loops.video, but I rarely use them. And does Matrix count?
Oh and I forgot about Funkwhale for putting your music collection online.
Yoo thanks for sharing the link on peertube!
Oh yeah dav files can be played with vlc easy.
No. I swear it doesn’t matter.
I’m in Québec. Here we have 6 years of elementary school, 5 years of high-school, 2 or 3 years of Cegep (college) depending if it’s pre-university or a vocational degree, then 4 years university to get a bachelor’s degree.
I was pulled back from advanced math to regular math back in my last year of high-school because the teacher hated my guts for some reason, and had to redo my advanced math to get into Cegep in computer science. Then, when I graduated after 3 years, my degree wasn’t good enough and I had to go to university. At uni we had 3 semesters a year instead of 2 because it was an engineering degree and because of internships. But I worked in the summer to get some money to pay for my school expenses. Ended up finishing uni in 5 years instead of 4.
Yeah I got set back a couple of years, but it’s okay. And honestly nobody cares if you failed a year in high school. As long as you finish, that’s all that matters.