mfw the US government can perform secret assassinations and kidnapping on foreign soil with high precision, but can’t for the love of god distinguish between Latin Americans and Native Americans.

Did that and all I’m getting is kernel panic.

mfw I don’t know most of the required information.

I mean the modern web is mostly made by college nerds and maintained by underpaid underappreciated obsessive open-source developers.

I think you might be confusing socialism and state capitalism here.

Socialism. Production and distribution is owned by the community (government).

This is a somewhat inaccurate definition. Socialism is the social ownership of means of production that does not necessarily mean the government. It comes in many forms such as democratic ownership by the employees (worker cooperatives), community ownership like utility providers being owned by the town and townsfolk, or state ownership if the state is democratically elected and accountable to the working class.

The concept of democratic and social ownership would be lost in an authoritarian state.

It has nothing to do with “Handouts”. Or helping your neighbor really.

There is no redistribution of wealth. That is communism.

Socialism with handouts is communism.

Both socialism and communism are concerned with redistribution of wealth. They just disagree on the method. Socialists believe that by eliminating capitalism and with progressive taxation wealth redistribution becomes inevitable, whole communists thinks this will only be achieved with a powerful state to oversee the redistribution process.

You could have a completely Socialistic society that let’s some of it’s people starve because it benefits the majority.

This scenario contradicts the core moral and political goal of socialism which is ensuring the wellbeing of all member of the community by ending the exploitation inherited in capitalism. A system that allows this scenario is just unethical authoritarianism regardless of what people call it or think it is.

A great example to look at socialism is the nazi party creating Volkswagen.

The nazi party was socialist in name only. It was essentially a fascist regime that crushed actual socialist and communist movements, and imprisoned and murdered labour leaders. They also didn’t nationalize the majority of industry and relied heavily on forced labour.

Again this fits state capitalism better than socialism. It’s essentially the state controlling corporates instead of the social and democratic ownership by the working class that socialism seeks.

A large government can easily have a monopoly on a good or service.

For example, say America was 100% Socialistic.

Government would gain access to all satalites and towers and issue the Volkstelefon. Affordable phone and internet for everyone!

Imagine if tomorrow Trump issued his phone in that style.

thats a valid point but primary against state control not socialism itself.

In an ideal socialist system this Volkstelefon would be owned by a democratic entity rather than an elite group of politicians in a flawed democratic government. This entity would probably consist of worker and consumer representatives with the common goal of providing affordable high quality service that’s also fair to both the workers and consumers.

Your concern here is also shared with most socialists.

While yes socialism can some time manifest itself in the form of state ownership that’s never the ideal situation since it can easily transform into state capitalism if the state decisions weren’t representative of the workers’ will (which is usually the case in non-direct democracy systems).

I’m also not against automation or making machines “smart” it’s just that what companies are marketing nowadays is just mostly overpriced shit.

And by consuming bandwidth I didn’t mean for the indented usage I was mostly talking about the ads which will probably be filled with unnecessary metadata, trackers, unnecessarily large CSS files (if it was web based) and maybe high quality images. All of these things I find completely unnecessary.

Also coming from a computer engineering background if I was living in a “smart households” I would probably want to set up my own firewall. And like I said while I like the idea of home automation I don’t want a corporation to be able to control or access my appliances too.

I tried to find the article again but all I can find is stores selling smart fridges etc. Search engines are broken.

I was able to find some links using duckduckgo including the same article from “Tomshardware” so at least that still works.

Again I don’t know why a washing machine would need an internet connection it’s not like you can remotely load it.

I mean I do understand the appeal and usefulness of smart homes and some IoT devices but companies are pushing AI and internet connectivity like it’s some kind of magic that makes any product better. I mean it would be nice to have a centralised panel to view your usage patterns and consumption but even then you don’t need all this overpowered tech stuff.

Wouldn’t that just be a modded server?

Wait why the fuck would a fridge be connected to the internet?

Edit: where I come from we don’t have unlimited internet plans so this would just be taking up expensive bandwidth and monthly quota.

I feel like some people think Linux is only for hackers and cybersecurity professionals

To me the word has always had some bad connotations. When you mention Settlers one of two things come to mind. Either European colonials in Africa or America genociding native populations, looting resources and spreading colonial propaganda, or whatever these brainwashed Israeli terrorists are.

while I agree it might not be descriptive enough hence I like to use the term “occupiers”, the word was never neutral to begin with at least where I come from.

Btw the Arabic word for it originally meant to settle in but nowadays it became synonymous with invasion.

I think what they meant is that the technology exists since steam frame is an ARM based device it’s just a matter of running it on different hardware and adding firmware support for things like phone calls and touch screens.

I’ve already switched my pc to Linux. I’m willing to switch my phone to Linux too. My only problem with current alternatives is that none of them feel like a finished product Software-wise. And hardware-wise I have a galaxy ultra so the downgrade would be a lot especially in the performance and cameras.

We need a Linux based/Open-source alternative that could compete with the likes of Apple, Google, and Samsung. It’s not impossible especially with current available technology, but I can see why the market incentives are very low.

I was hoping new laws could at least keep the status quo for a bit longer but it turns out as always relying on politicians is a bad idea.

If this how the outside of my window looked in the middle east, a national emergency has probably been declared with hundreds dead or lost and the military dispatched to the streets.

Respect the player hate the game, unless the player is just another narcissistic bigot. I often like to make the distinction between my opinion on the system and that of individual human beings in said system. I may say “fuck the police” but also have respect towards a polite police officer that believes he’s doing a good thing.

Dude has the most English sounding name ever.

The war in Gaza has proved that Israel can do whatever the fuck it wants and break as many laws and treaties and nobody’s going to do anything about it other than some useless words of condemnation.

I’m not that familiar with video editing but community presets come with a strong community so as open source software becomes better there’s a good chance a community will develop with it and make custom presents, plugins, and forks.

I hate that Adobe has almost a monopoly on a lot of different kinds of programmes.

Westerners also seem to forget that the UK, France, and US are mostly to blame for all the instability and war in the middle east, forgetting (intentionally or not) the colonial and imperialist past of their governments when they were committing war crimes and dismissing the will and needs of entire populations for decades before the idea of non-europeans also having rights became popular.

Mine ended with something like “and everyone who is still alive and didn’t die yet lived happily ever after”