I’d love if Linux could do everything but I still keep a Windows laptop. Mostly because I don’t want to go forum diving to update the firmware on my synthesizers or exert effort into something that should be thoughtless and trivial.
Windows has more minor problems that are superficial and easy to fix, Linux has less problems but when it does they’re more significant and detrimental.
Yeah I’m a Linux and Windows sysadmin for almost 15 years and don’t really care what it is in practice, just disagree with Microsoft on many things. People have actually argued to me here why I shouldn’t use Windows Server in an enterprise setting, as if a sysadmin who doesn’t prefer Windows would have any bearing on such things. It’s also funny how people seem to think managing Windows is very different than managing Linux, you’re basically doing the same things, I really only interact with Windows in the same manner I interact with Linux it’s just remote powershell instead of ssh. Building Windows server is just running a powershell script, building Linux server is just running the playbook.
Also I disable mostly everything through group policy on Windows and remove all the dumb stuff with remove-appxpackage. Use both for workstations too.
Weird meme… is it making fun of how neoliberalism is capitalism, or excluding right-wingers from neoliberal by supposing it’s anti-capitalist? Neoliberalism is a capitalist consensus. If we’re talking US politics, both of the main parties represent factions of neoliberalism. It started with Carter’s deregulations but neoliberal Reaganomics is basically the full-in commitment. Arguably we’ve moved past the neoliberal era since the 2008 crash and are now left with the mechanisms of neoliberalism minus the sincere belief in it.
Doesn’t look too bad in this light, it’s the even daylight where the idea of it doesn’t show. I think it’s ugly but can look cool in certain light like this, the top section bright and the lower shadowed. Should have been a concept car cause of obvious reasons producing it at scale.
Part of me respects a design that can be so provocative. It shows how people care about design, and reminds me how boring and “nothing” a lot of the objects we interact with on a daily basis are.
Just the phrase “both sides” on it’s own can get this ridiculous charade going. Both sides are political parties in the US, both sides further America’s geopolitical interests, both sides are largely financed by corporate donors who donate to both parties, both sides are economically right wing, both sides engage and amp up the post-political partisan spectacle. “HEY THIS RUSSIAN TROLL SAID THE BAD WORDS!”
Oh look an American “adult in the room.” This is SERIOUS guise don’t even talk about Biden, you let him smell your hair and talk real solutions or you get Trump! And no dunks allowed if I see you dunking you’re a Russian troll!
The way I see it in America is any real left political representation was destroyed during the cold war and the liberals co-oped the language of the left while cleansing it of it’s economic ramifications. When you think of how many activists and organizers in the 60s were openly socialists vs today it tells a lot. MLK Jr. and Rosa Parks for instance are these liberal heroes but their significance as socialists is completely whitewashed, they’re “courageous individuals” now who “inspire,” not radicals who had a wholly different vision of American society.
Phil Ochs summarized a liberal as “ten degrees to the left of center in good times, ten degrees to the right of center if it affects them personally.”
Elect Dems: get invasions and genocides but don’t worry we love you <3 uwu >.< (this message is brought to you by the CIA’s EDI “Authentically Me” program, we ensure each and every bomb dropped on you was manufactured in Raytheon’s inclusive workplace)
Elect GOP: get invasions and genocides but were mericuhh so deal with it bishh