uuu thx

TwT

I’m in my early 20s 💀

Do you disconnect your EOL machines from the internet then?

Bc using an OS that doesn’t get security updates is just asking for trouble, especially if you connect it to the internet

I just looove how ppl believe that switching from one VC-funded centralised corpo platform to another VC-funded (slitghly less) centralised corpo platform is a good thing /s

Just because it’s (partially) OSS doesn’t make it good. The corp still hold all the power and might sell out, but at least they got free volunteers to program for them so the C-level could get more money!

(Now don’t tell me that Bluesky is “federated”. They still hold all the power over site rules and moderation. The only little concession you get is that you are allowed to host your own data)

Apparently virtue signaling about pseudofederation is enough for libs to “get hope for the future of the internet” while they happily lick the boot of yet another centralized “trust me bro this isn’t going to enshittify itself, not this time” corp

nothing in particular, I was just taken by surprise that a Roblox meme was in my feed lol

This is the first time I’ve seen a Roblox meme template 💀💀

So ppl switching from one VC-funded centralised corpo platform to another VC-funded (slitghly less) centralised corpo platform is a good thing?

big X

just because it’s OSS doesn’t make it good. The corp still hold all the power and might sell out, but at least they got free volunteers to program for them so the C-level could get more money!

(now don’t tell me that Bluesky is “federated”. They still hold all the power over site rules and moderation. The only little concession you get is that you are allowed to host your own data)

I will always choose Windows over Mac, if I have to. Using MacOS is infuriating on so many levels, I’d rather give myself the bullet (which doesn’t mean much tbh). At least I can ameliorate Windows for my VMs (in case of apps not working on Wine) which makes it ok to use

I know that this is irrational and I try to not let it influence my perception of people, but my brain is usually wired to “Mac user detected: technical opinion discarded”

One of the rare absolute Ws for RMS

they closed off Port Forwarding

I can’t believe that the soviets didn’t just vote Hitler out of office smh

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love the technobabble

not rly, you don’t have studio level funding if you don’t optimize (the content) for revenue. same with large/aaa level games

edit: according to George Lucas, filmmakers in the USSR had more artistic freedom than he had when making Star Wars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWqvaMEFIdI

A few (good and one time buy) games off the top of my head (is that how you use the expression/idiom?):

Obviously commie games:

• Disco Elysium
• Cruelty Squad

Might or might not be commie, but definitely progressive:

• Bioshock series

honourable mentions:

• Vitoria 3 (who would have thought that a democratically controlled and publicly owned economy would be meta? does have a nasty dlc policy tho)
• Partisans 1941 (you play the story of soviet partisans on the eastern front, what more is there to say?)
• everything from the studio “Kremlingames” (they make political sims about eastern block countries, without glorifying them)
• Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic (eastern block “City: Skylines”)
• VA-11 Hall-A (good vn in a cyberpunk dystopia, does not rly have a political theme tho iirc)

If you and your co-workers cut out the middle man…

The thing is: just owning the means for someone elses work is not a service you provide to others (ie. employment). That whole position (the private ownership of the means of others work) is redundant and leeches off of society

That’s why it makes me livid when landbastards talk about “passive income”… it’s just extorting money from working ppl (who actually create value) for the “privilege” of having one’s basic needs met

not rly, market machinations force co-ops to behave like for-profit capitalist companies regardless. The hell of capitalism is the firm, not the fact that it has a boss. Even if you have great conditions as a worker-owner, your privilege is just built on the backs of non-owner (aka. 2nd class) workers and outsourcing (see Mondragon in Spain for example)

Don’t get me wrong though: co-ops are still virtually always better than “standard” corporations imo. What I mean to say is that the systemic problem of capitalism is not solvable by just creating companies “of a new type”