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TSG_Asmodeus (he, him)

@ TSG_Asmodeus @lemmy.world

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  • You know Windows is exactly the same right?

    Cool whataboutism; I was told 'you never need the command line' and then the installation instructions for Mint have you using the command line. Plus you regularly need it in Linux, and you don't in Windows. That's the point.

    Windows is just too difficult for normies to use. All that command line stuff, PowerShell, registry stuff.

    Do you actually think, sigh, 'normies' use the command line, powershell, or registry in Windows? The whole point is you can use it but don't have to. On linux you're forced to use it at times.

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    How embarrassing

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  • I’ve been really pissing off the libs since they lost the US election by being insufferable

    (Coming from the left)

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  • I don't speak German, but it sounds like what happened is that a lawyer pointed out that liking that post could be illegal under new laws, and is trying to get it struck down. So yes 'could' is carrying a lot of weight in this case.

    And to be clear I'm as left as possible and anti-authoritarian, I just fail to see how being a massive racist and calling for people to be killed (and how to hide your identity, in posts following it) and then forwarding those messages to the police is somehow a Big Brother situation.

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  • He also said "every man and his dog should smash [the] f*** out of Britannia hotel (in Leeds)", then he took his posts and:

    After being warned by another Twitter user that he could be jailed, Kay tweeted: “I can categorically tell you now, I will not be arrested by Northants Police.”

    During the posts, Kay said he was a Reform voter, accused police of two-tier policing and told someone who said the screenshot and posts could land him in jail that they were delusional.

    He also copied Northamptonshire Police into one of the messages after being warned he could face court action by another user.

    He didn't just go to jail for a couple posts, he made a bunch of them and then after being warned they were illegal forwarded them to the police.

    This guy is a dangerous if moronic racist, and really only has himself to blame.

    You're talking about being 'silenced' as if it's being done by some monolithic organization; it's not a government action, they can make whatever rules they want. You are free to make your own instance with your own rules.

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  • thin line. many people got sent to jail in England for celebrating too enthusiastically online during the anti-immigrant riots.

    The only thing I ever saw about people online being sent to jail were these two .

    Parlour, of Seacroft, Leeds, who called for an attack on a hotel housing refugees and asylum seekers on Facebook, became the first person to be jailed for stirring up racial hatred during the disorder.

    Kay was convicted after he used social media to call for hotels housing asylum seekers to be set alight.

    So if you consider that 'too enthusiastic' I uh... have a different definition of that.

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  • Ultimately, I don’t think it’s acknowledged enough that it requires a vast amount of privilege to have the time and energy to devote to such endeavors such as learning how Linux, the command line, and Computer Systems more broadly, work.

    This is an incredibly thoughtful and well said point, thank you for making it. It's important to remember to empathize with users because we didn't all start in the same place, or have the same time or money, and so on. The comments about the privilege to have time and energy to learn it are spot on.

    So again, thank you :)

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  • Here's step four of Mint's installation guide:

    Integrity check

    To check the integrity of your local ISO file, generate its SHA256 sum and compare it with the sum present in sha256sum.txt.

    sha256sum -b yourfile.iso

    Then we get this:

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  • you still have to have a decent familiarity with the command line

    I think this is, for most people I've spoken with (including coders in games, my kids, etc) the major issue -- they don't want to have to use the command line for things. It's fine if you can, but that alone is a massive wall for some people. People are exhausted right now, and having to learn a variety of command line prompts instead of just clicking on icons is too much for some people. That can be argued till you're red in the face, but I think a major reason so many people bounce off linux, myself included, is that it's not 'as easy as windows.' We need to stop telling people it is, because that means they won't try again later.

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  • https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/3758652-here-are-the-gop-senators-who-voted-against-the-same-sex-marriage-bill/

    https://newrepublic.com/post/169392/full-list-republicans-vote-against-same-sex-marriage

    https://www.cpr.org/2020/02/14/why-4-colorado-republicans-tried-and-failed-to-ban-gay-marriage-in-2020/

    and here's some anti LGBT-youth stuff https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb20-1144

    You'll notice that in each and every case, the anti LGBT stuff is all Conservative, because Conservatives have that 'call to the past' or whatever; where 'the way things were' in the past is always better, and in the past women didn't have rights, LGBT people couldn't marry, etc.

    Liberals don't actively fight against rights unless it's an overall popular voter opinion. Conservatives do regardless.

    I say this as someone who's about as far left as one can go. I think you're A. grossly underestimating how useful 'letting change happen' is when it comes to popular opinion on rights, and grossly underestimating how much damage Conservatives clawing and gnashing at allowing rights for more people is.

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  • Gay marriage was legalized under a majority conservative court system way back in 2003.

    Again, under a Liberal government. And I keep saying over and over -- I know they phone it in and constantly give bigot 'swing voters' things they want. I've never said anything against that. It had a 60% approval by the public in 2015 when it was fully legalized. So again, for like the fifth goddamn time -- Liberal governments can be forced to do these things by popular will. Conservatives won't (I'm sure there's like two examples someone will bring up, again, exception proves the rule.)

    To sum: Liberals have to be forced to allow LGBT rights by popular opinion. Conservatives do this.

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  • I'd say it was liberals that made it happen once there was overwhelming public support, which again, is performative, but drastically different from actively suppressing it. Someone has to pass the things into laws, and in the US it's either Republicans or Democrats, and across the board any services those poor people do have was introduced through Democrats.

    Again, under duress, I don't argue otherwise. Up here in Canada it was the Liberals being forced to put Healthcare as a 'universal'* right by the NDP (our Left wing party), then the NDP again to force Liberals to put Dental care through. But they actually did it, and the Conservatives don't.

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  • Liberals never actually fix what conservatives screw up.

    They do, it's just they mostly concern themselves with the economic screw ups, less-so the rights ones.

    Think 'gay people can marry and have kids to give us more economic slaves' vs. 'gay people can't marry, can't have kids, and we're going to use them as a scapegoat for our issues.'

  • Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch 8, Due Out in 2025, Adds 12 New Subclasses and Loads More

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  • I think the storytelling alone it manages to get across makes it top 3.

    That said I always liked this one:

  • Baldur’s Gate 3 Patch 8, Due Out in 2025, Adds 12 New Subclasses and Loads More

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  • Swords Bard/Swashbuckler Rogue, I'm finally going to be able to make my favourite swordsman.

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  • I am so psyched for Swashbuckler, oh man.

  • R U Ready?

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  • And who cares about that?

    I mean in reality. Will that be enforced?

    It definitely won't if you don't report it.

  • Ken Burns is in your future

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  • Summer of Blood: The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381

    This looks fucking amazing, thank you for the recommendation!

  • Ken Burns is in your future

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  • I decided to focus on wars of leftest and/or peasant uprisings. Often heart breaking, but man if you've ever enjoyed cheering for the underdog, they are definitely that. Plus, you're automatically learning about the Class War at the same time :D

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  • Man this is, I am pretty sure, the most irony laden post I've seen on Lemmy.