jkrtn

jkrtn , vor 2 Monaten

It's wild how the right to form a well-regulated militia includes leaving semiautomatic handguns where children can get them, but what can you do?

jkrtn , vor 2 Monaten

I agree. A viable long-term economy needs an organized working class that isn't sleepwalking through life. Would be cool to make the economic system not inherently hierarchical also.

jkrtn , vor 2 Monaten

Somehow I assume you don't associate capitalism with chattel slavery and apartheid. But you do associate corrupt authoritarianism with economics when it is system that you don't like.

jkrtn , vor 2 Monaten

That's different, because of reasons. When someone dies within a communist system that is communism's fault. When someone dies in a capitalist system, that's their own fault for not tugging on those bootstraps.

jkrtn , vor 2 Monaten

I think they are very much capitalist. And then surely the Civil War that poors fought on plantation owners' behalf should also be blamed on capitalism?

jkrtn , vor 2 Monaten

1. Pay for the hardware

2. Pay for the software

3. Subscribe to your own machine

Get your wallet out, serf. The landlords renting your computer to you need another yacht.

jkrtn , vor 2 Monaten

I wish our indolent government would do its job breaking this shit up.

jkrtn , vor 2 Monaten

"To make my computer do as I wish I simply need to lie about my country of residence. I am very technically adept."

TBF I do find that confusing. I'm used to human-readable conf files that persist across updates. But I can see how non-technical users might think understanding a collection of tricks is knowledge of their OS.

jkrtn , vor 2 Monaten

I used to be cynical about the findom stuff, but I guess some people really get off on being forced to subscribe to their own machine.

jkrtn , vor 2 Monaten

Ubuntu is the Windows 11 of Linuxes.

jkrtn , vor 2 Monaten

Everyone is a slave to systemd. But they seem to kinda like it, whereas Snaps are just raw garbage.

jkrtn , vor 2 Monaten

The dual booting problems are enraging. I somehow have the opposite problem, that it will always boot from the SD if the SD is present during power on. How hard is it to make an alternative boot method button?

I wish I had known this beforehand, I'm sure there are other SBCs with sane booting. I am never buying an Orange Pi again.

jkrtn , vor 2 Monaten

I hope so. From what I read, my problem is burnt in on some boot ROM, so it may not be fixable. I'm willing to try a different vendor using the same chip.

jkrtn , vor 2 Monaten

Oh, interesting. Worth a shot, thank you for the tip.

jkrtn , vor 2 Monaten

Shouldn't people familiar with integer arithmetic should be able to struggle to something like x == 2 * (x/2) to test if it is odd or even? Or just bitwise x & 1?

jkrtn , vor 3 Monaten

"Name one reason, I would like to try Linux."

"[Names some reasons]"

"[Argues forever]"

People like you are so irritating. What's the point of doing this? If you wanted to argue about it then why lie to lure people into responding?

It's Linux, fuck's sake, if you want to argue about it just make a top level post writing anything at all about Windows or any distro and you'll have plenty of takers.

jkrtn , vor 3 Monaten

Look at how mad you are on Microsoft's behalf. So according to yourself, you have deep problems to attend to. Go get some help, then, good luck.

jkrtn , vor 3 Monaten

He's pretending he doesn't want to argue so that people will respond so that he can argue. I don't give a damn what he uses.

The two of you are in linuxmemes unhappy about how Lemmy linux users are being unfair to Windows. Good luck with that, I guess?

You don't need to pretend to want a genuine discussion "oh I do want to try Linux so much" to get an argument. Just be direct, plenty of people will oblige you. You're doing fine, BTW, your position is clear, nobody responding to you about OSes will get anything they weren't expecting.

jkrtn , vor 3 Monaten

Wow some clowns spent nearly half a million on some of the laziest JPGs ever drawn. Wish I had been in on a grift like that. If someone can afford to spend that much on a PNG they don't need the money so it is basically victimless.