If we take the goal for long term stability of a civil society as the normal, then many current economic, civil and environmental policies are very radical.

Well I worked for a while at a large international corporation that maintained (and AFAIK is still continuing) a managed Linux system, which worked well enough. And there where a lot more people, especially the people that were the most productive, interested in it.

Sure that might have just been a nice island inside the larger company, but the people there were the internal consultants, which often had to pull other projects out of the gutter.

If you over your specialists ways to use the tools they need, you will improve the whole company.

But it is not a “Linux Subsystem”, it is a “Windows Subsystem”.

If I write a hypothetical Driver for Linux to support windows, it would be a “Linux Module” not a “Windows Module”.

I guess they could have called it “Windows Subsystem for Linux support”

Linux on a corporate desktop is mostly about how well you know the IT guys and do they trust you. And of course the software stack.

I would say it depends more on the commitment of the IT admins to support and manage a fleet of Linux workstations. There are Linux “Active Directory” servers, configuration provisioning tools, ways to centrally and automatically rollout updates, etc. It really depends on if the IT guys invest the same amount of effort to support them or not.

Nun, ich wäre sehr erstaunt wenn das Gericht entscheidet das die Abgabe von Informationen für Serviceverbesserung oder zur Missstandsaufklärung notwendig sind…

Wie funktionieren den Restaurants oder öffentliche Toiletten, wo nicht jeder danach gezwungen wird eine Bewertung abzugeben?

Aber wenn die Bahn schon anfängt einen Crashdumpübermittler als den Kleber, der deren schlecht geschriebene Anwendung abhält abzustürzen zu framen, kann man sich bestimmt hier auf einiges gefasst machen.

Vielleicht mal damit anfangen: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vauban_(Freiburg_im_Breisgau)

Bestimmt können dort auch noch Dinge verbessert werden, und es gibt auch noch andere Inspirationsquelle weltweit für autofreie Städte. Barcelona, Oslo, Gent, etc.

I just tried this on LO 25.2.3.2 and could not reproduce your issue.

I am against the concept of individuals or legal entities owning property, it belong to everyone. However, if you take something from the society in order to be allowed to used it exclusively for a while, you ought to give something back, that is what tax is for.

If you see propaganda everywhere, the it was successful on you. One purpose of propaganda is to erode the fundamental trust in society and sow distrust about anything and anyone, that way people become politically ineffective and easy to manipulate.

Propaganda doesn’t necessarily need to convince people, but can instead attack the peoples ability to differentiate truth and lie by sowing mistrust about the most mundane and conventional things. When people stop believing their own eyes or following logic, they become easier to manipulate. A bit like gas-lighting, where you sort of turn the critical thinking against them, but on a large scale.

I don’t really understand what it is I would be wrong about. Is it about the word “shareholders” in the wiki instead of “owners”, what I called them?

Shareholders of a private company is often a small group of individuals or just one person, and they can also be called the owners. “Private” means the shares are not traded publicly.

A shareholder (in the United States often referred to as stockholder) of corporate stock refers to an individual or legal entity (such as another corporation, a body politic, a trust or partnership) that is registered by the corporation as the legal owner of shares of the share capital of a public or private corporation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareholder

Valve is private and already takes a 30% cut.

Yes. That is rather high, but AFAIK the same on Xbox, PlayStation and GOG. Itch.io is on 10%.

It’s not possible for valve OR epic to enshit according to the definition of the word.

What do you mean by that? Enshittyfication is when companies try to offer a good platform first to reach many content producers and consumers and then, once the consumers and producers depend on the platform, it goes bad for them in order to favor profits of the company owners or stakeholders.

Just because a company is private, it can still change to favor short term money extractions from all their customers.

GOG doesn’t need a launcher, because the games don’t have DRM. It is just nice to have, in order to keep games up to date.

Steam, Epic, Origin and the Microsoft thing needs a launcher, because DRM. The non-optional part is what is annoying, it is not a choice, if you buy something there, you have to use their launcher software, that needs to run in the background all the time (Sure it doesn’t need to run all the time, but just having to start it in addition to the game, is annoying).

With Steam being the first one to require a launcher, it was annoying at first, but became useful and people started considering it the standard game delivery solution. Now we need another one for Epic and all other stores that peddle DRMified games.

If Epic would be just another store, where you buy and download games, nobody would complain, but Epic created (reinvented) an additional incompatible game delivery solution that required their launcher, that is what people are mostly annoyed about.

If the industry would come together and create a vendor neutral and compatible software and game delivery mechanism, where people are free to choose where to buy their software and games, and with which launcher they want to keep it up to date, that would be awesome, but sadly capitalism favors short sighted, wasteful and monopoly building competition instead of cooperation.

I am against monopolistic competition practices and that includes exclusivity deals and predatory pricing.

And as far as I know, Epic does this more than Valve or GOG. Granted, Valve doesn’t need to, because they are already the main player, but they also mostly avoided enshittyfication for now.

Granted it is hard to enter a market that is already dominated by another company, but instead of doing those business practices they could offer a better service.

Codeberg is great, but it is hosted in Germany, and subject to their laws. AFAIK, Germany has laws against tools for “circumventing copy protection”, or “hacking”.

So I am not sure that they can provide a save haven for tools, where some lawyer could argue these points successfully in front of a court.

• Sometimes you need to move a thing that is oddly shaped and doesn’t fit within the confines of an enclosure

Like what? And is that a common use case?

• Depending on what you’re hauling, you may want separation between the cab and the payload. Like if I’m moving dirt, I’d rather not have it rolling around my cabin

Or just put down a nylon sheet, put the dirt on top, fold the nylon sheet over it and bind it down. Now it is covered under and over and will not fly around.

In most cases I guess people will just buy prepackaged earth in bags. That also doesn’t fly around.

Sure, if you are one of the very few people that work in the woods or on a field, where this common use case, then alright. But that would not explain why those cars are so common.

• Easier to clean, just take a hose to it without needing to worry about soaking the cabin

Buy a bus with removable carpet, then you can just hose it down as well. Many buses have a small step, which separates the cabin from the back, so water will not flow into the cabin.

• Access isn’t limited to just the door, which can be useful when unloading something

There are many different rear door types and sliding side doors on the side that provide ample and easy access. This isn’t difficult or complicated.

That didn’t convince me that pickup trucks are not a very specialized vehicle for just some uses, while transporters and mini busses are much more useful for all kinds of purposes. Be it furniture, tools, sport equipment, electronics and other sensitive equipment, and people. While also being good at hauling the occasional dirty stuff, if you just put something underneath.

Yes, but apt-get is missing search for instance, because that relates to the cache, so apt-cache provides it.

apt combines all those often used commands, and provides a nicer shell presentation.

Well, there are a open source games, which are also free to play without microtransactions or other manipulative financing scheme. 0AD, Beyond all reason, Luanti and many more. Free games doesn’t necessarily need to implement bad stuff, but some chose to do so.

What is up with those pickup trucks anyway? Why do so many people in the U.S. (and elsewhere) buy them?

Everything that you put in the back is subjected to weather and one of first additions people buy is a cover.

Compare that to a mini bus or transporter, you can transport as much or more than with a pickup truck, protected from weather, and you can add or remove chairs, if you need to transport people.

If you have a transporter, you can also much easier furnish the inside with racks etc, to improve space use.

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