Just a person who likes media that you actually can hold in your hands and computers that only do what you tell them to.
Humans are inherently evil. Communism is a beautiful thought experiment that works really well in small select groups, but fails to tolerate the inherent evils that befall it when it begins to scale.
I love it as an idea. I’d love for it to work. Unfortunately, it’s just yet another experiment that falls victim to the “imagine a spherical cow” kind of thinking.
It’s inspired many good ideas, though, that do work. Marx had many good points.
I just tell people “It’s free and I don’t get twenty thousand ‘license term updates’ in my email every month”
Writing month is exactly just that. Just an excuse for those looking for one :) I hope the new community does well, since none of the writing communities on the fedi are especially active.
I can’t speak to pre-1950s, but before the modern internet (not counting ARPANET), I spent most of my time hiking trails and reading.
Linux support trails, mac support is nonexistant.
After a set period of time, they expire. Life +50 to Life +90 or so, depending on country.
Fingers crossed, right?
That’s a good suggestion, and I will look
I feel that. I’m currently using a laptop from like 2017 (with a 1050) and honestly… if it dies, I’m pretty well hosed.
See, that’s real prep, not buying 2,000 cans of beans and 20k in ammo :D
I can’t afford to get any real last-minute stuff, unfortunately. What I did do was stock up on rice and the spices that I largely use, and got some new shoes from walmart earlier than I normally would.
I put off the things I had been saving for (like a vero v), canceled everything but my basic phone service, and I’ll be seeing how much stuff I can get by with repairing/cobbling.
What’s sad is that the billionaires who control the only grocery options for 90 miles will be getting a LOT more of my income, and the small businesses (music stores, thrift stores, things like that) will be getting left. Thereby amplifying the wealth extraction already happening.
F this, and f everyone who voted for it.
Ars technica ProPublica BBC (US) Joan Westenberg XKCD Questionable Content Fireside Fedi
Probably my faves. There’s a few others on pixelfed/mastodon that I follow as well, but more special interest
KDE. I’ve been using it as my daily driver for roughly 10 years now, and barring any unforeseen excitement, it’ll stay that way indefinitely. Proably until I stop using Linux, anyhow.
The study: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/brv.12730 for those not interested in a cracked pop-sci article.
Table 5, I think, is what the pop-sci takeaway is coming from, which is quite an oversimplification. The idea that “150 people” is what humans can understand is, IMO, a misinterpretation of the study. The study refers to multi-tiered groups ranging from ‘Band’ (~45.5) to ‘Tribe’ (~1350.4) based on the degrees of intelligence, cooperation, etc of the members.
If it’s even relevant, it supports the points I raised that communism is a theory that works well only in small select groups, though I would argue it’s probably correlation and not causation in this case. At least until we have evidence of other primates practicing political theory.