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  • I wasn’t asking for guidance, I’m just pointing out that these are all things that reduce usability.

    I wasn’t giving you guidance, I was jut pointing out that you are making it sound like some insane struggle to get and install programs on Linux. Usually it’s even more straightforward than in windows, especially if you already know what you are doing.

    I’m just pointing out that these are all things that reduce usability.

    Those are all examples of things that increase usability. Having multiple different ways to install a piece of software is only a problem if you allow choice paralysis to consume you. Right now you know just enough to know those options exist, but not their purpose or function. Literally less than 1/2 hour of googling would answer all of those questions, and with the benefit that you now better understand the useful functionality of your operating system. You only have to spend that 1/2 hour one time, and for the rest of your life you wouldn’t stress out over a flatpak vs a binary, or whatever. And again, for a new user they are probably best served by just opening the app store and hitting install. Easy, breezy, beautiful.

    While you’re right that some of these issues also exist on the windows side, it’s not as prolific.

    That’s just not true. Linux has had app stores for decades. Windows didn’t. Until recently, if you needed an app for Windows you had to trust ‘random online sites’ to get software. Now that Windows has it’s own app store, you can use both ways install apps in Windows- no different than in Linux.

    I think that a lot of technical people forget that the average user is quick to give up and has a knack for breaking things. Many of the restrictive elements in Mac and Windows are to protect the average user, usually to the bane of the super user.

    I just remember being a new Windows user and having to learn what a .dll and a .exe was. What the registry was, what installer ‘wizards’ were and how to properly use them, how to find the place in the control panel where you uninstall programs, how to update my system, what ‘fragmentation’ meant how how to solve it, how to not get viruses and how to remove them if you did, how the file system was set up and how to navigate it- There was a lot of stuff to learn, and you either learned it or you weren’t able to properly use your system. Same when I briefly switched to OS X.

    It’s no different in Linux. People just don’t want to take the time to learn how things are done in Linux. The reality is it’s really not that hard to get up and running in Linux at all. And while you can always go deeper and learn more- its typically not necessary nowadays. I put Linux on my moms old computer when she was in her 70’s. She was not a techie person at all (extreme understatement). It took about 5 minutes max to get her up to speed. It was never an issue.

    Many of the restrictive elements in Mac and Windows are to protect the average user

    It’s simply a matter of readjusting your mindset. If you are about to do a simple and straightforward task that you already know how to do, chances are in Linux there are 10 other ways to accomplish the same thing- but you are in no way forced to know what they are or how to do them. If you are curious and want to know- that’s great. Take a little bit of time and learn them. If not- don’t.

    Choice is good.


  • I’m a technical person and even I struggle with what/how the hell I’m supposed to even install applications on Linux:

    On my distro it’s 1) Open App Store 2) Search for Software 3) hit “install”.

    Should I download the binaries? Should I use snap/flatpak/etc?

    That’s a matter of personal preference, but once you understand the difference, which is really not that complex, then the choice should be practically automatic.

    If I do one vs the other which is more up to date?

    You can check the version number.

    If I can’t find it in the software store can I trust random online sites?

    You have the same issue in Windows.




  • Yes, never said that was socialism, only that’s how a fair society can only operate.

    Ok, well it’s confusing how you worded it then because you start by saying “It’s not socialism”, and then you describe communism. It made it sound as if you were saying that it was socialism.

    It might not even be a transitionary period

    Sure, and some societies already act as if the end goal is socialism. Even so I think it’s valuable to try and work toward socialism because even if it doesn’t ever fully transition to communism (or is extremely slow about it), that state of being is still preferable to Capitalism.

    The market forces workers to exploit themselves, given how the primary way cost cutting happens is through decrease of wages

    Sure, under Capitalism that’s true- I doubt the first thing a collective of workers would think to do is cutting their wages. They would probably cut the CEO’s and the Middle Managers pay to make the pay fair for everybody.

    I just disagree with your definition of ‘exploit’. Agreeing with your fellow workers to take home less pay to keep the factory viable is not exploitation. A CEO cutting workers pay so that hey can pay himself $40,000,000/yr IS exploitation. It’s not the same thing at all imo.

    Yes, but if they pay a portion of value of their labor, they don’t get the full value

    Again, the definitely DO get the full value of their labor. A worker is a member of the community. A worker pay’s taxes for things that benefit the community. As a member of the community, the taxes benefit the worker.

    It’s an involuntary payment that is good and necessary

    It’s only ‘involuntary’ if you are stuck in a capitalist mode of thinking and aren’t willingly pitching in to help the community. If socialism ‘forces’ such a person to help- that’s only going to benefit the community. Under communism no one could force such a person to contribute.

    the point is that getting full value is impossible under bourgeois state and commodity production society

    I really don’t think most socialists are as hung op on getting the ‘full value’ out of their labor as you are making it sound. It’s not about squeezing every last penny of ‘profit’ from your labor as is humanly possible. It’s about being fairly compensated for your time and effort- that’s it. If we “have” to pay taxes- fine. If we “have” to accept a slightly lower compensation for a time fine.

    CEO’s cutting benefits and pay to pay themselves more money- not fine. Wage theft- not fine.

    If we could snap our fingers and go straight from a Capitalist hellhole to a Communist utopia- I’d be snapping right along with you. We can’t though and as you can tell it’s hard enough to get people on board with socialism. There is no way most people will just accept jumping straight to Communism. They have to be shown that sharing resources is a viable strategy first- because they definitely don’t believe that now.


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    it’s impossible to have “fair compensation” without uprooting commodity production, doing away with money completely and instead producing things to fulfill everyone’s needs. Only then can things truly be “fair”.

    That’s Communism, not socialism. Sure, socialism has some similarities to Capitalism, that’s because Socialism was never the end goal, but a transition period between Capitalism and Communism.

    workers have to exploit themselves by reducing their wages

    Workers don’t ‘exploit’ themselves, workers decide if it’s worth doing the work for what they can reasonably expect in return or not. If they decide it is worth it, it’s something they chose for themselves, not even close to the same thing as a Capitalist squeezing every last cent of ‘profit’ from you as they possibly can and basically forcing you to do it by making it impossible to survive if you don’t.

    A person under this system also can’t make full value of their labor, simply because there’s taxes that are used to fund public sectors such as education, healthcare, etc (it’s necessary though).

    They still get the full value of their labor. Taxes used to benefit the community benefit workers as well, because they are members of the commuity. Capitalists under capitalism still (are supposed to) pay taxes- and so do workers. Workers who are more fairly compensated for their work and have to pay taxes are better off than a wage slave who isn’t fairly compensated and still has to pay taxes.

    That is the comparison to make, is Socialism better than Capitalism? Yes. Is Communism better than Socialism? Yes. It makes little sense to tell workers trapped in a Capitalistic system that Socialism isn’t good because it’s not as good as Communism.

    People also are different, some can work more intensely with higher tempo due to how they’re built, and others might not be able to put in the same amount of labor

    That’s exactly why you don’t try and be little capitalists. You can and should still care for people who are in that situation. Workers who receive a more fair share of their labor will be better equipped to help out the members of the community who are less fortunate than them, not less.

    it doesn’t abolish capital

    No, and it’s not supposed to. It just transfers it to the people and takes it out of the hands of the ruling class. “Capital” in an of itself isn’t a bad thing, It’s when Capital exclusively owned by a small ruling class and used to exploit and siphon wealth from the working class (Capitalism) that’s when it becomes a problem.


  • There used to be this cashier at the local bodega. Always such a huge grump. I tried to be extra friendly to him because he was clearly not enjoying life.

    One day the video store I worked at got these bomb ass fancy lollipops I bought a bunch and happened to have some in my pocket the next time the cashier waited on me.

    He was in one of his moods of course so I spontaneously decided to offer him a lollipop. He looked more pissed than ever and just said “I’m Diabetic” between gritted teeth. I stopped trying to be extra nice to grumpy people after that.




  • Can anyone recommend a good Lemmy client for Linux? Bonus points if it works well in portrait mode.

    I am on Pop!_OS 22.04 and the only apps in the COSMIC Store are Interstellar and Lemonade.

    Interstellar seems fine but if there is a way to tag users in it I can’t seem to figure it out, it also seems designed for Landscape mode and it’s a little cramped on my second monitor.

    Lemonade hasn’t been updated since October of 2023, so I’m a little wary of trying that one out. I can’t even tell if they are still developing it or something called Ouch Browser, if its the same project with a new name, or just abandoned alltogether.

    I know there are other Lemmy Apps but I am a little lost tbh.


  • being rich exempts you from the law and being poor and being non-white is a crime. Oh wait, that’s what diaper Donny is already working towards. Fucking dystopia we live in. Supporting genocide and apartheid, breaking down the judiciary system, creating an even bigger gap in wealth and power enslaving the general public.

    With the possible exception of the judiciary system, literally all of that has been true for a long time now.

    Even in cases where the rich can’t just pay someone off (rare), In the cases where the rich are actually charged (also rare) if the ‘punishment’ is a fine, it’s not really going to inconvenience a rich person. Typically the types of crime the wealthy get away with (Wage Theft, Corporate malfeasance etc) are punished by fines. This is by design.

    There are numerous ways the being poor is criminalized, perhaps the worst example are ‘vagrancy’ laws, where being poor and/or unemployed is literally a crime.

    “Non-White” people (with the exception of Asian people) are incarcerated at a much higher rate than white people.

    Trump supports genocide, Harris supported genocide, Biden supported genocide, Hillary supported genocide, Obama, Bush Jr, Bill Clinton, Bush Sr, Regan…

    The wealth gap has been widening since before I was born, and I’m 51 years old.

    We never got rid of slavery. The 13th didn’t eliminate slavery. I would even count Wage Slavery as a type of slavery.

    Trump isn’t some radical departure from ‘American’ values. Trump is American values turned up to 11.

    I would like to think that the Trump administration will wake people up to the fact that the vision of America we were fed as children is a lie. We NEVER treated all people as if they were created equal. As long as Capitalism rules the day the Rich will always be the ruling class. There will always be different rules for them. The workers will always be exploited to make them rich.

    The truth is so many people refuse to question the propaganda, that it will take a miracle to wake people up. So many people think if only we had elected the right people things would be different. It’s not who we elect, it’s the whole damn system that needs to change.



  • A. I clarified to find me one of the same size as a 1990 model.

    Good for you.

    B. Isnt this exactly the same argument your making?

    No, you don’t carry Ford Rangers around in your pocket all the time making them easy vectors to spy on people.

    The bagtery tech was not there to allow thinner phones without comprismising capacity.

    And if people really gave a fuck about thinner phones they would have accepted smaller “bagtery’s” to get them. Clearly capacity was more important. So I guess people weren’t chomping at the bit to get thinner phones now were they?

    But people also want smaller phones.

    Phones have been getting bigger not smaller.


  • The new ranger is just a tiny bit smaller than the f150 It absolutely is not the same or even close to the size of ranger 20 years ago.

    You said you couldn’t buy a small truck, not that you couldn’t buy a truck the same size as 20 years ago.

    Sure… if there was enough demand for replaceable batteries… but there is not. Basically the vast market is content with the cheaper option.

    There was a demand, we weren’t given a choice. I’m not sure how this so hard for you to grasp.

    Again… smaller battery smaller capacity…

    Again…Just making the batteries non replaceable makes them able to be thinner, and they always had that ability. They also had the ability to put in smaller batteries if everyone was clamoring for super thin phones. They just weren’t.


  • I said smaller battery and connecters allowed for thinner phones.

    Just making the batteries non replaceable makes them able to be thinner, and they always had that ability. They also had the ability to put in smaller batteries if everyone was clamoring for super thin phones. They just weren’t.

    And mass production is cheaper than low production.

    True

    So if all phones are designed the same, then the factories can be tooled all the same accross all models.

    Uh, no. That would only be true if all models of phone from the same factory were made exactly the same way with the exact same machines. That’s not the case. They make different models of phone. They could easily make one model with a user replaceable battery and a different model without one.

    But you said they exist… it should be easy. Unless… you were talking out of your ass again.

    They do exist, and it was super easy. They still make Ford Rangers. Try google, it’s the first thing that pops up when you type in New Ford Ranger. I guess you were talking out your ass again.


  • thinner phone requires a smaller battery. Smaller battery is smaller capacity.

    Yes, smaller batteries of the same type generally have lower capacity. Very good. That’s not what we were talking about though is it? YOU said that having a non-replaceable battery allowed them to make phones thinner. That is what they had the ability to do for the decade that they were still making phones with replaceable batteries.

    Noone asked for phones to copy the iphone

    Peter Noone, from Hermans Hermits? Fun trivia. You know who else asked for it, everyone else.

    So close to getting it…

    Oh, you think you are close to getting it? Well maybe I can help you the rest of the way. If School Text Book manufacturers who were forced to come up with a dumber version of their product to fit the requirements of one large market found it was cheaper just to sell everyone the dumb version instead of making two different versions, it follows that Phone Manufacturers would likewise find it cheaper to sell the dumber version of phones to everyone if one large market required them to make phones dumber. Do you get it now? I can try to dumb it down even more for you if you need me to.

    Show one new model that is the same size of a 1990 ford ranger.

    The still sell Ford Rangers I’m pretty sure. I’m going to let you do your own Truck shopping.


  • A. They did not have the ability because doing so would reduced battery capacity because the tech is battery still maturing.

    That makes zero sense. How the phone is connected to the battery has no bearing on capacity.

    B. Apparently people are asking because people are still buying. Just because me and you arent asking doesnt mean the greater market isnt.

    That’s silly. They removed the ability, they didn’t give people a choice. No one was asking, no one chose this.

    A. That would mean the entire world is in on the conspiracy.

    How would it mean that? The U.S. is a Huge market, China is a huge market It would only take one or two. Plus countries all around the world spy on their own citizens, so it ‘benefits’ their governments even if they weren’t directly responsible. Did you know that in the U.S. Texas makes all of our school textbooks worse because it’s easier just to print the stupid textbooks than print separate ones for just Texas because Texas is such a big market. This is not a conspiracy theory, you can look it up if you are interested.

    B. I cant buy a small truck in america.

    You can buy small trucks in America. What are you talking about?

    Does that mean there is a grand conspiracy?

    You are the one that keeps calling this a ‘grand conspiracy’. There are only a handful of phone manufactures, it wouldn’t be that difficult to get them all to agree to something, especially if they were rewarded in some way for it. Corporations only care about money.


  • You know its a really easy to prove against, right?

    Why would I need to prove it? You didn’t read any of the articles I linked to did you? The fact that they have the ability to do this is not even a question. The government admitted that it was able to do this all the way back in 2006.

    Just have some basic radio spectrograph to detect any signals coming from a turned off phone.

    The claim isn’t that the FBI/NSA/CIA/ICE whoever is doing this constantly to everybody, it’s that they have the capability to do this to anybody, which again isn’t even a question. I’m not really worried about being spied on personally (yet) and even if I were I’d just leave my phone at home or put it in a Faraday bag, I’m not going to carry around a ‘basic radio spectrograph’ and whip it out every time I want to have a private conversation.

    In reality, the correlation is phones continue to get thinner

    Lol, that’s like saying I lost weight because I bought smaller pants. Yeah, designers are able to make phones thinner when they are able to design around non-replaceable batteries. Was anyone asking for thinner phones? They had the ability to make thinner phones by disallowing replaceable batteries for a decade and did not.

    Were consumers demanding that phone manufactures make phones worse by removing useful features like replaceable batteries or headphone jacks- or was these anti-features foisted upon us?

    If it had been just some manufactures that switched, or if those manufacturers that did switch had offered the option of different models, some with replaceable batteries and some without, and then consumers chose the worse phones- I might not be as convinced.

    As it is now with 99.9% of all phones you can buy not even giving you the option, I’m not buying it.

    It’s not like this is some crazy off the wall theory. I’m not saying the Earth is flat or we didn’t land on the moon. We know that the government is using our cell phones to track us, we know they have the capabilities to do so. The only question is did governments (I guarantee it’s not just the U.S) make deals with/ask/or put pressure on manufactures to incentivize the switch. That’s not really far fetched at all.



  • You can believe what you want. I didn’t hear it from a conspiracy theorist, I heard it from Edward Snowden, and this was actually old news when he mentioned it, but his revelation on national TV made it even more widely known. “Coincidentally” it was right around the time Snowden blew the whistle that Android manufacturers started switching over to non-replaceable batteries.

    Yes Apple are greedy fucks and it’s obvious that forcing iPhone users to get their phones repaired by a ‘genius’ was a part of their strategy from the beginning. But Android manufacturers who didn’t have a repair store they could force their users to use and wouldn’t benefit from that were happy to continue letting users replace their own batteries, because it was a legitimate benefit for the consumer and way to differentiate themselves from Apple.

    I’m sure that phone manufactures save a few pennies by forcing users to either buy a new phone or pay an expensive repair bill, but I’m pretty sure that isn’t the only reason it’s done.

    Edit: Even if you ignore their ability to wiretap you when your phone is ‘powered off’, the fact remains that the government can and does track you by you cell phone and removing the battery is a great way to stop that.

    Of course, it’s not the only way- If you feel like you don’t want to be tracked for any reason a Faraday bag is a decent option. It makes your phone less useful, but so would removing the battery.