leave then, it’s a net positive

I will switch to Hurd as soon as it is in a usable state but so far my experiments unfortunately never really worked out.

“old”

1. Thinkpads are popular, well supported, generally well built and sturdy. The indie startups may or may not provide proper support, have the proper experience to build a good product and are harder to find resources for.
2. Thinkpads are cheap and easy to get for the power they contain. Devices like the Purism phone are extremely expensive for just a tiny bit of the power and plenty of problems in tow.

“What does that mean?” “It means strong opinions scare him.”

I dunno, the more I am here, the more “typical Redditors” I see around.

Leave it to Redditors to compare themselves to victims of racism.

You think Biden is a leftist and have an elementary school understanding of the American party shifts? Surprising.

There is no “actual meaning”. There is no “using words wrong”. You do not understand how human language works. Language is defined by its users, not by you, or a dictionary, or a historian.

But you don’t have the authority over words. Words don’t have innate meaning given to them by some God; their meaning is defined by usage. And it’s very obvious that people use these terms very differently.

They do not have a meaning, since almost each native speaker uses them differently. You are not the authority over their meaning, no matter how righteous you think yourself, and neither do I. Meaning is defined by popular usage.

You know what, that sounds super enjoyable. I’m going to do that.

It’s a front-end project written in C++; a desktop environment for Unix-like systems.

Okay, cool, those are your opinion. There is no common ground on these definitions. I may agree with many of those, I may not agree with others, but after all these are just our opinions.

We both know that different people use these terms differently. The German political education ministry for example defines extremism as any anticonstitutional movement, and goes on to mention “caring too much about anti-fascism” as a form of left-wing extremism: Source Meanwhile, they define radicalism as an ideology unwilling to compromise their positions… or someone who seeks to combat the root of a societal ill. Source

On the other hand, the ADL defines extremism as any belief outside of the mainstream, and even “conflate” it with radicalism: Source Meanwhile, the British government considers extremism to be anything opposed to “British values”, whatever those are, along with specifically mentioning people who condone the loss of British soldiers: Source

I am sure that many, many people would disagree with these definitions both inside and outside of these countries, let alone across political ideologies. No matter how strongly you feel about defining these words to your liking, fact is that they do not have clear definitions and are useless in any kind of serious debate. As long as a pro-capitalist queer activist is considered left-wing by about half the population and right-wing by the other, there cannot be common ground.

On my computers, it always starts off as black for some reason.

I did use xsetroot. That’s why the background is gray and not black.

xsetroot -gray is in my xinitrc.

SourceForge went to shit when it was the de-facto location for free and open source software, now GitHub is where Sourceforge used to be. When will people learn?

Why not just use a GNU/Linux system?

It’s somewhat infuriating because the LARPers that run both lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml really have nothing in common with the rich history of Marxism. They’re the same people who thought it was the peak of humor in 10th grade to put on a ushanka and blast “ear rape soviet anthem ten hours” in class. All of their opinions are based on “triggering the libs” or whatever country has a red flag and cool aesthetic. No Marxist literacy whatsoever.

Nobody can be 100% sure of some program’s security. However, the fact that anyone can look into the internal workings of a FOSS project means that a lot of people much smarter than you and I have their eyes on every detail of the code at all times. Plus, these projects are maintained by competent people who monitor everything that gets added to it thoroughly, so there is a very little chance of something malicious getting into a major project like that.

In comparison, nobody but the people working at Microsoft knows what Microsoft projects really do, since nobody can look inside. We just have to “trust” them. Which I do not want to do.

But the same people who coined that term made some software “open source” but under licenses that only allow looking, not touching.