alteropen

Fighting the surveillance capitalist project.
All things open-source and commie

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RevK :verified_r:revk@toot.me.uk
2024-07-23

@decodedlegal Whilst I don't like percentage or indexed pricing in contracts anyway, this sounds more like dumbing down things, like a customer will not understand 1% or inflation+1% somehow.

I suspect it will mean price increases set higher than inflation or whatever they are now as a result.

Or "Your price will increase by £0.01 for each £1.00 that your previous price is" which is pounds and pence, isn't it... 🙂 (or the phrase used in news for things like tax, "1p in the £").

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amos is reflectingfasterthanlime@hachyderm.io
2024-03-30

it's called a man page because it won't shut up about stuff you already know and doesn't actually have the answer to your question

2024-02-07

@jackpot Then they ask what's a bios? what's a product key? how do boot from USB? there is huge details your missing maybe for a Linux native 15 minutes seams reasonable but my first install took maybe 45 mins, and I'm tech competent.

Also people will be asking how do they copy over their data already on windows. The other question for many is why would I want to? sadly the general population doesnt care about open source

2024-01-26

@jesterchen I need to give it a try again, I don't think I'll make the switch but having a go can't hurt. it's annoying having to reboot when going from productivity to leisure

2024-01-25

@acrypthash this is what I thought was the case as well. Anytime there has been a "HUGE BREACH OF MULTIPLE COMPANIES" its always just a breach hoarder posting their collection

2024-01-18

@DangerousInternet vivaldi is closed source though, brave I've found in my expirrence to be slow however do use their mobile browser. Fact is though V3 will become more prevalent as support for v2 drops from google it turns into a ticking time bomb. Overall relying on chromium is a ticking time bomb with all of googles web DRM bulshit.

Idk i just find chromium browsers to be slower and fear the all chrome future

2024-01-18

@DangerousInternet what browsers are you referring to, the only chromium based browser that I know blocks ads without an extension is brave. apart from the rest need extensions and the major ones (chrome, edge etc) plan to end manifest v2 support

2024-01-18

@DangerousInternet @vrighter not with manifest v3 rolling out though. I can still block every ad and block ad blocker blockers meanwhile my chromium friends seem to be crippled in this regard.

2024-01-17

@TruthSandwich @paulhellyer @phil_stevens what's not true? that the entire system is fascist? if we can't even agree on that then this conversation needs to head towards why the fundamental system is fascist not whether or not voting enables facsism

2024-01-17

@TruthSandwich @paulhellyer @phil_stevens You fail to see the bigger picture this system you play along with is the same one that put a facist like trump in the running to control the country. Biden is just as much a fascist the only difference is he doesn't say "I'm a fascist" they both end up with the same outcomes just a different face on the same fascist system

2024-01-17

@markmetz @CivilityFan @paulhellyer @phil_stevens If your completely unwilling to even consider my points why are you even commenting replying with "I am suffering from cognitive dissonance with this topic" would of had the same effect

2024-01-16

@TruthSandwich @paulhellyer @phil_stevens voting enables the system that enables facism

2024-01-16

@CivilityFan @paulhellyer @phil_stevens I am real people to, also working to make our world better. the difference is a reformist attitude compared to realizing the very foundation of our systems directly opposes our goals for them. Each to their own though

sadly I think we miss common fundamentals to be able to discuss this issue properly

2024-01-16

@CivilityFan @paulhellyer @phil_stevens outside your political cycle it helps to generate a counter hegemony that can eventually be used to weaponise a true liberation movement against such tryanny. This becomes increasingly the case since the rise of surveillance revenue and intramantarian power

Obviosly I approach this whole issue from a Marxist perspective and if you come at it from a more centrist point of view my ramblings may just seem insane.
4/4

2024-01-16

@CivilityFan @paulhellyer @phil_stevens the only thing in history that has ever contributed to a more left leaning government (in the long term, not 4 years) is activism and direct action. You can't vote out capitalism nor vote out equality it exists as the very foundation of the political system. And when you vote and play along with that system built upon legitimacy all you do is just that play along, allow the game to continue.

In the short term this can hurt, but in the bigger picture 3/?

2024-01-16

@CivilityFan @paulhellyer @phil_stevens then they finally have the tools to overthrow said ruling class. Supporting the "best option available" continues to lend legitimacy and strength to the ruling class power. The arguments and false consciousness produced via politics only seeks to distract from their maintenance of the power structures. How can you possibly seek to destroy an old system by playing entirely within its rules. The best option possible still continues to head to the right. 2/?

2024-01-16

@CivilityFan @paulhellyer @phil_stevens Legitimacy is what any collective power is built on. If the entire population believed the ruling classes power to be illegitimate then the ruling class is put in a very precarious position where their entire workforce is ready to overturn their power. This is where ideas like Marx's "false class consciousness " and Gramsci's ruling class hegemony come from. If a proletariat class can produce a counter hegemony (gain true class copiousness) 1/?

2024-01-16

@paulhellyer @phil_stevens there absolutely is. Participation lends legitimacy to the system. Nonparticipation degrades the ruling class habitus and allows that time to be used to strengthen on the ground anti-cap organisations

2024-01-16

@phil_stevens by participating you lend legitimacy to the system. the system we can all agree is entirely illegitimate. The time you spend voting would be better spend educating yourself

2024-01-13

@Hazmatastic @theredcaps I think it is a bandwidth concern, especially if multiple people will be streaming from the server. WiFi is unstable too its part in parcel, wired is just required if you need something that's stable

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