You’ve discovered the power of a niche social platform. I single-handedly provided content for a classic car community for over one year before realizing that it was less of a community and more of a blog. If it’s not political or technical, a lemmy community will most likely die when the single provider gets tired of the wall of silence.
Would be more aptly named the suicidedozer.
This was incredibly informational, thank you.
We are not rational actors; humans do incredibly illogical and irrational things all of the time. Many of the popular models championed by supporters of neoliberal capitalism completely fail to account for this, instead, assuming rational self-interest.
I think this has made more sense to me than anything else I’ve read so far as of late. If I am understanding it correctly, Capitalism is sold under the guise that companies will only prioritize profit to the point at which it begins to harm some part of society but no further because we all know that would be bad and we’re not bad people when in reality there are bad people that are ok with doing exactly that.
This seems to me like less of an oversight and more of a “we, as tobacco CEOs do not believe that smoking is addictive”, right? The masses may believe differently but those at the top of these systems, companies and law making entities have to know that what they’re doing is putting profit over humans. Were Europeans any better at implementing Capitalism before or is the system impossible or nearly so to protect against this?
That’s an incredibly accurate way of describing what looking at dating today feels like.
My IQ continually dropped while reading this summary and anyone that knows me would tell you that I can’t afford that.
I definitely was due to ignorance, it was not intentional.
That being said, the economic system in place is always at the mercy of those in political power, is it not? I’m not being fecicious, it just seems to me that no matter the conomic system in place, human nature seems to be to find a way to exploit it. I just can’t think of a scenario where that can be protected against.
I guess what I mean is that it seems like it’s the entities in power and not the political system is what’s causing these atrocities. I imagine they could do just as well if you told them today that they’re doing it under a socialist umbrella. I’ll try to give the linked book a read.
Is there something unbreakable in socialism that keeps it from being exploitable?
I agree. I used Debian for a very long time but found a move to Sid for fresh packages to be a frustrating experience so I just moved to an ubu based system.
Well, in fairness, I didn’t name it.
When they say base, they’re talking about the distro it’s built off of(Debian, arch, slack, fedora, Ubuntu, etc.). As an example, Mint is built on the Ubuntu base, Bunsen is built on Debian, etc. These are often called flavors as they’re not considered distros but rather something built on top of a distro.
The major visible differences in distros are the package managers and tools provided for it but they also have different goals. Debian aims for rock solid stability, fedora puts FOSS first, Arch is designed to take up your free time by making you build everything from scratch and pointing you to a wiki when you’re stuck (I kid).
The flavors then customize the experience, usually muddying the distro goals in the process. For instance, someone might take a fedora base then pack it full of proprietary software and release it.
I wouldn’t say what you use is irrelevant but you can truly make every base look and perform the same if you do some work. People that don’t like a particular base usually don’t want to do that work, they want to use it. I’m one of those people. Where I used to love tinkering in Linux, now I just want to get it up and running so I can do my stuff on it.
You can easily fine tune what requires a password in Linux by editing the /etc/sudoers file.
Debian stable will always prioritize stability and provide you older versions of applications. Even Debian Sid(their testing/rolling release version) gives you less than bleeding edge versions of apps. You can always install your own versions by downloading from provider or building yourself but if you’re wanting more current software, I’d consider another flavor of linux.
You can always install other themes, icons, etc. to get the look you want, Debian is just the underpinnings of the desktop. Using XFCE there is no different than using it in another distro.
The size difference is because of preinstalled applications, as you suspected. Some call it bloat, others just understand that Ubuntu is trying to cater to “set it and forget it” user.
Can I ask what you consider “spamming ads” to be? That could be relevant to suggesting alternatives.
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Like anything else, can be, depending on your needs.