You know, when i originally read this, the way i interpreted it was that he was saying that if you need to earn money to live you don’t deserve to live.
I much prefer the version that is an indictment of the phrase “earn a living” as implying you don’t deserve to live if you aren’t “working” in the modern sense of earning money at a modern job vs doing what’s necessary to stay alive like all nature’s critters.
I can agree with that.
Yeah, that’s what I was doing… /s
I guess you’re on board with demonizing people based on the location of their homes. They don’t deserve to be treated like decent humans? You’d spit on them just because they came from America? Interesting.
At what point did doing things for yourself become cringe?
Methinks this is what the collapse of civilization looks like.
And how do you react when someone spells it R U S S I A? If that’s hurtful or “propaganda”, check yourself.
I agree Trump is evil. America is not. It is a nation, and because it is run by humans, it does nasty shit just like most others. I hate it, but demonizing a whole population is not helping.
Oh, yeah, and holding the right mouse and dragging to resize the window.
Came here to say this. Basically, the same way it’s used in Windows. I hit the key, type a few characters and I launch the app I seek.
Paperweight? Oh, wait - too small and light.
I understand where you are coming from, but in my experience, the people I talk with, most just don’t care about privacy. When the situation is explained in plai terms, it’s like talking to a wall. When a simple means to reclaim some privacy is presented or offered, there is no interest.
I happen to currently fit into the discription you offered above, and I do find it challenging to improve my privacy. I’ve been putting off ditching google android on my main phone because I expect it to take hours. I even have a working prototype in my old pixel 2xl with LineageOS + microg. Maybe today I will take the plunge.
People who don’t care about their and their friends and family’s privacy until they are directly impacted are being willfully stupid. At least have the balls to see reality, even if one cannot entirely fix it.
So… The answer us (willfull) stupidity. Those same people say “because I have nothing to hide” with reference to their devices.
Just like he gets to keep his immigrant wife while everybody else’s families are ripped apart, the piss hits his “subjects”, not him.
I suspect it just isn’t well known. I used it for a while in my early days in Linux, which was back in the late 1990’s, and i honestly haven’t heard much abiut it over the years.
I do remember being impressed at the time. I think most people stick with the defaults for whatever distro they first choose. Since i was using Slackware back then, there was not a default choice, so i searched and experimented.
Exactly. Just like they never tracked and stored our movements when we turned iff location history.
The class action suit they lost on that was fake news /s
It also means you are presented with a Faustian chouce: walk away, or give up any hope of privacy. “You wanna see this? Give me full access to your metadata, and a way to hack your system”.
Qubes is starting to look like an everyday use requirement rather than a security nerd tool.
I had the 500 and 3000. I finally got rid of the 3000 3 years ago. I saw no reason to install linux at the time because it was already almost the same from my perspective, except the Amiga also had sterio sound 4096 color output, and pull-down screens. The console commands were substantially similar and several enthusiasts ported linux comands to AmigaOS.
Plus, we now can run more modern versions of AmigaOS on Linux though I have never done it myself.
Amiga still exists as a reasonably modern OS and hardware as of a few years ago. It was bought by small businesses and updated a few times.
Well, I was an Amiga user. That was already unix-like, preemptive multitasking, etc. It was fading fast in the early nineties, and while i was already working in I.T., I was not interrsted in using Windows 3.11 and 95, so I began playing with Slackware Linux. I figured it was a good way to get comfortable with “real” I.T…
I learned Bash and had to compile most of the software i wanted to try. Since, like all programmers, I’m lazy, I wrote some simple scripts to build the code and make them into packages (tgz) for Slackware. This took tedium out of the work, and i could use the packkage manager to install and remove them.
Those were rough days for desktop users, though. I really had to use windows when i needed to pass output to “normies”. I tried several window manager and desktops, and eventually landed on Ubuntu.
Classic movie! It was commenting on the Regan era trickle-down, job exporting, tax-cutting agenda and the people behind it
Go to a science fiction convention. Seriously. There’s some wild live music. I wouldn’t be surprised if you heard it there.
I used to go to several in the Northeast US, like Arisia, Lunacon, Philcon, Boscone. Of course yor best bet would be WorldCon.
For clarification, I initially read it to mean that anybody “poor enough” to have to work to earn money does not deserve to live. I.e., rich people are human, everybody else is subhuman.
Your interpretation I saw a few moments later, and that the post was criticizing that phrase. Basically, the polar opposite of my first impression.