very true and i would have been better insulated by purchasing older hardware, but buying electronics second hand has always made me regret it.

that logic was my exact reasoning for buying linux-first laptops and it gave me an ultra smooth sailing for almost a decade meanwhile this is how i felt learning about everyone else’s hibernate/wifi/nvidia/battery-draining problems that system76 solved for me:

imagine that this is how mac people feel. lol

I still have issues with an Nvidia card computer I own …

who doesn’t? lol

i intentionally avoided nvidia this time around because of my experiences w it in the past.

i used mine to build an everything server and i kept cannibalizing parts from other “dead” systems from e-waste collection dumpsters intended for landfill to keep it running for many years until it died recently.

it’s amazing what people throw away sometimes; i once got a macbook air from one and ran fedora on it for many years as well.

i’m coming at this realization from the opposite direction; my experience w linux made me believe you had to be VERY disciplined about your hardware purchases or you’re stuck having something that doesn’t work until you fix it.

so i’ve spent the last decade buy linux-first laptops – aka generic tier laptops with mac laptop price tags.

i needed a new laptop and my circumstances forced me to buy a cheap/off-brand windows-first laptop and i was dreading having to fix whatever didn’t work like i had to do circa 2002; but no, it’s just worked.

the people of lemmy made me realize this and wo them, i would be stuck trying to do my thing on broken hardware.

@machine2918@lemmy.world came here to say this and sometimes it’s not fun when you see that others have beat you to it. lol

– on civilian populations

there are morons for sure, but i believe that the overwhelming majority are just not informed and my own experiences with studying american propaganda thanks to things like the freedom of information act has convinced me that they were intentionally not informed to benefit the epstein oligarchy.

they’re stuck on the beta version of english. lol

part of me wishes that this guy wore a yamaka to ramp up the absurdity of the national interviews where they accused him; a jewish man; of being antisemitic. lol

the closes i’ve ever come to it was retrofitting intel’s e100 driver to work w offbrand hardware and it took me weeks and i had access to the source and memory addresses of the hardware; i can’t imagine how hard it would be to start with less.

i’de have a careers, money in the bank, and a family. lol

the truth of the matter is that they just aren’t aware and only they can make themselves aware; a truly bitter pill.

i suppose it was considering the libertarian-esque knee jerk reactionary impetus that came a result of the influence of its initial creators. e.g. stallman.

“They can set up a smear campaign office against our government in Honduras, using resources from a friendly nation. It won’t affect us, not at all. There may be days of confusion, but if we remain true to our principles and know what we must do, within the framework of our Constitution, the laws, and with respect for sovereignty, no one will be able to undermine the transformation project. It’s that clear,” Sheinbaum stated.

sometimes i genuinely wonder if the politicans to the left of the democrats are stuck in a mental ivory tower that makes them unable to respond to the moment in the west.

Or just use Markdown files in a git repo IDK

my pleas to my new management to do this fall on deaf ears, but they’re gung-ho about ai.

the definition of “easterner” also seems to have a hegemony of its own. a majority of latin americans likewise have an undeniably strong american influence; but they share this eastern definition of the word “american”.

however a majority of the world who share the non-anglocentric definition of the word “american” are literally in the east; so it defaults to an eastern-centric definition despite a sizeable minority share of its subscribers in latin-america being more closely aligned w the west.

i was thinking how i have to code switch the name “american” based on the audience and it made me wonder if this was one of the defining characteristics of all westerners.

the anglosphere is probably the primary driver of the definition of “america” as you described it in your comment and your culture’s sociopolitical alignment depends on how much in common your idea of “america” matches the anglosphere’s definition of “america”.

in other words, the less your definition of “america” has we the anglosphere’s definition of “america”; the more eastern you are.

my professional experience in this field for the last 22 years has taught me that a overwhelming majority of the professionals of this community are members of the american/yankee aligned labor aristocracy; that should inform you of their perspectives when it comes to individualistic behavior and shared gains.

nevertheless – as it is in the real world – there are still many who believe in collectivism and also believe that we can apply our craft to build helpful/needful technology-based improvements to the human condition.

linux and it foss ecosystem was one of the most recent achievements of these efforts and my comment was intended to lament that it’s taken it’s first step towards becoming another capitalist tool.

i understand what yankee means and my use of the word “american” here was intentional.

yes, the yankee gov’t has captured linux.

a significant portion of the people in this community don’t know the word “yankee” but they’re capable of understanding it and to express the idea to them, you have to use words or expressions that fit the context this group’s frame of reference so that they can fully understand the idea you’re trying to express without it getting lost in translation; the people who exist at the intersection of multiple identities call it “code switching”.

I believe that the intention was to buy time for Gaza/Lebanon and outlast Iran.

Now Israel will have diplomatic cover for their crimes until 2030 at the very least and they’ll also end up w access to resources that the United States will become dependent on in the future.