It’s weird, like the whole point of saying “it’s not because of corporate greed” is to rehabilitate their image and not look like soulless ghouls, so then he chases it up with something that makes him sound like a soulless ghoul.

Money and power really do make people stupid.

I assume this is objective truth then, something that definitely exists and we can definitely know. I’m sure they have plenty of science to back it up.

They wouldn’t just hear a bunch of thinly disguised bullshit built on the back of junk science and take it at face value without checking if any of it is real, not this person with their special objective truth brain.

Oh wow, it’s Christopher Lloyd in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. That’s a deep cut.

Another concise and simple answer to Denuvo and DRM is “exterminatus”.

Yup, I had this in mind as another example of the same thing when I was writing my comment.

When you try to explain that the general jankiness of linux is a big problem and a barrier, you get a lot of people very upset and defensive, but it’s just a simple, obvious fact, and only by facing that fact can anybody actually fix it.

I think the reasons for it are perfectly understandable - software is hard, and anyone able to volunteer could make serious money in so many different places. Capitalist enitities have gobbled up the vast majority of the talent for their own projects, even if they make them spin their wheels in bullshit jobs rather than make good software. The only people left to make FOSS are some combo of ideological, stubborn, and incapable of working within capitalist orgs, or just extremely tired because they already do work in those orgs. That’s not to mention the probably-non-zero number of saboteurs and psyops in the community.

Those people either don’t have the time or don’t have the inclination to spend their precious efforts making features for newbies who can’t just CTRL+ALT+T and start hammering out console commands like a 90s movie hacker.

Now that may not be the fault of honest linux devs who are doing good work, but it is linux’s problem. I don’t know what the solution is, but it’s got to be more than just pretending “linux is easy now” then pivoting to “if you’re not an expert you have no business here” the moment anybody points out how wrong they are. These exact same conversations were happening 15 years ago when I started linux, and the experience is still painfully perverse.

1984 was partly about how consent is manufactured using language. It’s a reality that the powerful systems exploit every single day very effectively to drive us towards extinction so the lines keep going up.

There’s nothing wrong with using those tools for good. Too many leftists are so concerned with the substance of the message that they forget how important the presentation is. I’m sure a lot of people think it shouldn’t be important, but because we’re social animals and not analytical engines of pure reason, it does matter.

You’re right, it’s not, but ignoring him doesn’t get rid of him either. That’s not how capitalism works.

Well we already deal with a mixed system, so they could relabel where possible and just phase out any machines where not, and in the interim just hand out slide rules with conversions on them.

Okay that’s kind of amazing, you found an easter egg in an out of bounds area.

So if you read it cover to cover, what did you think the instructions were about? What about the “turn to page X” parts?

I’m not judging - this is exactly the sort of oblivious thing I would’ve done as a kid too - but I’m curious how it happened.

See I knew it was probably about minors, but I don’t understand how that notation equates to a minor scale in any way.

It’s not being mainstream that causes enshittification by itself, it’s corporate control.

That’s the beauty of federation, there is no easy way for a single entity to become dominant.

I’m not saying it’s impossible for the fediverse to enshittify, but it seems to me that it probably won’t. We’ve already shown that we’re resistant to corporate “embrace, extend, extinguish” strategies.

By making broad general assumptions and also missing the entire point? If you want to point out irony or what sounds like is better characterised as hypocrisy, it helps to actually understand the position you are criticising. Then you can critique it correctly and not just throw out banal, meaningless whataboutism, which is what you did.

I take it from your general attitude that you’re not actually curious to understand what the problem we have with the police is. Is that accurate?

Andrew: Xander!

Xander: Matthew Broderick did not kill Godzilla. He killed a giant green lizard thing that was not Godzilla.

Not to mention contra-spiral cloacas.

“Yet you participate in society.”

Edit: in case anyone wants to understand, which this person doesn’t seem to, the problem with “you hate the cops yet you call them” is twofold:

1. A lot of us don’t call the cops. They’re useless at getting anything stopped or fixed, they tend not to care when it’s reported and often will only make your life worse. However, sometimes due to how the law and money work, sometimes we have to call them. Which leads directly into…
2. The cops have a monopoly on the legitimate use of force. That means that anyone trying to get justice in any other way than that sanctioned by the state will be in trouble with the state. The police’s monopopy alienates us from our own means of defending ourselves. We have to beg for scraps of justice from the table of our masters.

I’d honestly like to hear your response to that person’s comment here: https://lemm.ee/comment/13412452

They replied with their rebuttal to this comment to me and not to you, apparently because I admitted you know more than me, which is a frankly bizarre chain of logic that makes no sense to me. Apparently they know everything about what’s going on inside our minds and they can therefore make all sorts of judgements about who is worth replying to, but I’m more interested in the actual facts.

I use my words to communicate my thoughts the best I can. If you think you can read my mind and tell me otherwise then I believe you don’t understand how reality works on a very basic level and thus your assessment of reality is worth very little to me.

If you want to teach me something you can prove it by linking me something verifiable. I’m not trusting the word of someone who thinks they’re psychic.

I don’t hold out hope for your reply, sorry to say. You went on the offensive so fast and I’m not being terribly friendly about it, so I doubt you’ll change course.

My KingKong 3’s are good, my only advice is don’t switch the triggers into digital mode while pressing the trigger, it breaks the internal mechanism.

However I managed to convince them to send me a repair kit rather than doing a replacement, which worked out really well. They’re very easy to repair.

“Rich people made money” is a given under capitalism, it’s just a question of how.

In this case it’s called disaster capitalism. Any disaster or crisis, no matter how small, creates an imbalance and flow of resources, and capitalism is set up to funnel that flow to the already wealthy.

As to the details of the specific case, the other answer you got seems to know more than me about it.