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  • It seems to me that quite a lot of people want flies and that’s why quite a lot of resources are put into that type of shit.

    I was trying to explain to this dude in the pub - who didn’t understand my explanation that I don’t have a hairstyle - that I thought vanity was a waste of resources, and he looked at me like: “but everyone wants to look good, right?” He was confused. I was confused.


  • I disagree that it’s conservative. It’s nazi/ authoritarian/radical. For 50 odd years afer ww2 the cons knew this was a daft tactic. Prior to that (well prior to 1790 ish ) con/feudal/landowners managed their serfs and peasants, they didn’t want infighting. (outfighting, thats a different , maybe lucrative albeit lottery).

    Cons are just common or garden cunts. populists are serious, they can mobilise labour .

    The traditional cons wil ride the wave because they have no choice and no friends. until they realise they’ll be expropriated eventually, which the nazis won’t do until after they have critical mass. Fucking con Niemollers


  • oo1@lemmings.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlIn regard to Hyprland and Fascism
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    12 days ago

    I don’t see it as a paradox, but as rational. But there are people who I think do hold tolerance as some sort of moral compulsion, and get offended by the notion that it might just emerge from people figuring out how and why to cooperate, without any high and mighty guiding morality.

    These people will also object to using rational models to understand/describe human behaviours, because they can point to many examples of people acting irrationally. Many of these examples are psychology lab “experiments” so are irrelevant to the real world. But plenty of real examples of things like loss aversion and risk (mis)percepion, sunk costs, time-inconsistent decisions and so on where individuals clearly do behave “irrationally”.

    I often come across people who believe that this undermines anything any “rational model” has to say. And so I do try to use such reasoning with those people, or even challenge those observations with examples where collective rationality does seem to emerge as a social (not individual) phenomenon, then I’ll be derided as some sort of neo-conservative capitalist fascist or whatever.

    So I find that it’s generally good practice to chuck in some insult about one type of political zealot or other every so often, so as to quickly establish where I stand. I’d rather be vague than waste my breath with zealots.


  • oo1@lemmings.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlIn regard to Hyprland and Fascism
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    12 days ago

    Social contract not a moral imperative.

    Or seen as a repeated prisoners dilemma, play tit-for-tat, or maybe (N*tit)-for-tat (where N gives a ‘punitive’ damages expectation for breching the accepted norms).

    Quite a lot of lefties don’t like thinking about what is “rational” though because “people aren’t cognitively rational” so rationality based social equilibia can obviously never have any relevance.





  • You have to be careful to get a phone and model supported by one of the projects. Check all compatibility and install instructions before buying a phone. And if you need a manufacturer supplied unlock code, make sure the manufacturer still gives them out . Some will discontinue that service after a few years.

    For graphene os you need one of the gogle devices - i’ve never tried it but i think its the one most people like.

    lineageos supports more devices usually older.

    I recently got lineageos working on sony experia xa2 - very happy with it. But to get there i had to go try like 6 computers before one of them sucessfully sent the bootloader unlock code over the ADB. For some reason usb is temperamental when doing stuff like that

    It is a lot easier on really old stuff like samsung galaxy s3 or s4 if you can tolerate something that old. Maybe you’ll lso end upon an old version of lineage.

    Once you get the bootloader unlocked it is generally straightforward. but modern phones make that fist part awkward.







  • oo1@lemmings.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlI have an Asus laptop from 2007
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    22 days ago

    Objectives of learning and fun?

    You do not state noobliness, ease of setup or time to install, number of failures/retries or anything like that.

    **EDIT: you did state noobliness later on in comments so . . . i’d go stock debian +lxqt. ****

    or all that I’d recommend arch. Do not use archinstall script , that reduces both learning and fun. Resource? follow the archwiki and go through lots of linked pages at each step. If you do wuss out and install stock debian (+lxqt)

    maybe partition off a spare 10-20GB so you can play around with an arch install after you realise how boring and uneducational the others are (joke)


  • oo1@lemmings.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlThe power of Linux
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    I imagine patient records wouldn’t be encrypted either

    If computerised, they freaking well should be.

    In general they’d be in a database with it’s own accesss control to interfaces and the databases data store should be encrypted. In my country there are standards for all healthcare IT systems that would include encryption and secure message exchange between systems. If they breached those they’d be in trouble.

    If your doctor has a paper file in a filing cabinet on premises, written in English, then yes. The security is only the physical locks, just like your hme pc.


  • oo1@lemmings.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlThe power of Linux
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    Yes, my sister bought a laptop it had windows and bitlocker installed.

    She doesn’t know what any of those things are nor does she have an encryption key.

    So she was not able to resize her partition to try to dual boot linux - she’d have to totally kill windows (which I suggested, of course, but you know. . . ).

    It stops her doing what she wants because she was given something she doesn’t understand by people who didn’t explain it. At least she is “safe” though according to someone else’s definition. I guess coud’ve just said “Basically, microsoft” for short.