Eldritch

Yep. Apple hardware is generally fine. The basic software is more or less solid too. The problem arises from not actually owning the hardware or the software on your system. And being locked down into a tightly controlled ecosystem. For someone that just wants a computing appliance it's not too horrible. Maybe even preferable. But for someone that wants full control and the ability to upgrade change or alter it. It's very stifling and confining. And only getting worse as Apple and Microsoft continue to try to lock down their captive consumer bases. Rather than focus on improving to draw new customers.

Tennant reminded me a lot of Tom Baker. Similar chaotic energy. Just not enough jelly baby.

Biggest complaint about Tennant's series. And much of new who is how sloppy and reliant on senseless babble, techno and otherwise as a crutch for sub par writing. The arc with Donna Noble got real bad. And it's cropped up elsewhere.

Sure old who had their briode nebulizer or some other techno mcguffin that gets mentioned. But it was always just a bit of extra flavor or a point in a much larger plot. And not some far too small Band-Aid thrown over a gaping plot hole.

Not just big tech. It's the story of capitalism as a whole. When we suffered the one two punch of decoupling the cash supply from a tangible asset, and the tax brackets for the Uber wealthy dropping from 90/100% to less than 10% in some cases. We were always destined for this.

And keep in mind I'm not arguing against Fiat currency. But combined did not being locked to a fixed tangible asset. And the basically supreme Court decided profit above all else ruling. It's turned it all into a giant unrelated untamed game of abstract numbers.

Doubly so considering it was a redditor That started imgur specifically to handle this. It was a completely self-inflicted wound.

Just for a point of reference. Intel is only just now releasing and creating an uproar over their new core s x86 processors. Which drop hardware support for 32 and 16 but instructions. The newest of which is 30 years old. If people are this upset about a move like that yeah it will be a while till it's replaced.

Which is both sad and hilarious. That anyone could be that stupid to actually believe that. And then to realize that this is how poorly people in Western nations are educated.

Because they are separate communities on separate instances. And despite having the same name can serve highly different purposes. You might start an instance relating to your local city or town. Then if you had a technology sub on that it might be more specifically geared towards talking about technology in your city or town. Others might be more general in topic. But all are just as valid. And you can subscribe to all of them or none of them.

I tend to qualify big C and little c communism. Usually that's enough to slow someones roll to try to understand what you mean by big and little. Well as long as it's a good faith discussion. Using the authoritarian bolshevik style communism as the big C named ideology. And something like a hippie commune as the more generalized concept of little c communism. To illustrate the difference.

Yes it's not a marketing problem. The marketing is doable. The bigger issue is that there isn't the resources or ability to mass market in Western nations the way capitalists and the more fascistic members do. Combine that with a lack of education in Western nations regarding the subject. Which is the only reason they're able to "soil" the terms. Combine that with the constant association of socialism solely with leninists and Bolsheviks etc. Those are the real problems.

Most citizens of western nations couldn't accurately identify more than one actually left wing or socialist ideology. And it's always the most dubious one. It isn't by mistake. It would come as a shock to many westerners to realize that libertarians aren't just some selfish right-wingers. But actually has its origins and resides mostly on the left of the political spectrum. That anarchism isn't chaos etc. I know that for the first 40 years of my life I didn't. And I don't think I'm all that special.

Choice can be one of the huge strong suits and weak points of Linux. I know over the last 30 years I've switched distros a lot. My first was a two floppy slack distro. One for boot and one for root. There was no pretty X server on top of it lol.

These days for my personal systems I definitely like the rolling releases. Currently have endeavor OS on a few systems. But I still have debian Ubuntu or Fedora running on certain systems for specific tasks. They aren't always the most up-to-date. But they are some of the more stable and secure. And when you're serving that's typically what you want.

EndeavourOS and KDE on my laptop atm. A couple servers running debian and ubuntu and a fedora box. Variety is the spice of life.