Can you imagine the possible eventual net gain to society as a whole?
(Eventual and possible because ex-cons need jobs, and chances, and investment in their futures)
Without the whole prison industry ?
So many more people that could be doing so much more ecologically sustainable work?
This problem is why Arch Linux is both harder and easier to use: harder because you have to configure everything yourself. Easier because there's very little magic that's invisible until it's not.
LOL imagine moving from Windows to MacOS because of Microsoft's AI fuckery. Almost as shortsighted of a decision as moving from Github to GitLab when MS bought the former.
Worse, really, because Apple's been progressively locking down MacOS for over a decade in the name of "security" but by sheer coincidence that also happens to shepherd people into their app store.
If you @ me with Apple defenses I will block you. I have no time for people who think it's a good use of their time to carry water for a trillion dollar company.
When I was arriving home this morning from dropping the kids off at school, I was driving at about 5 mph in the alley behind my house. A bird in the road kept taking off as I approached and landing about 10 feet farther down the alley. Which meant it kept having to flee over and over.
That's basically what people are doing when they move from one proprietary silo to another because one got too shitty for them.
Linux has its share of enshittification these days, primarily via Red Hat and Canonical. I use an Ubuntu derivative (PopOS) on my laptop, but if Canonical were to vanish off the face of the planet they could pretty easily switch over to Debian as a base, because Ubuntu still uses Debian as a base. I use Debian on my desktop, and if I ever reinstall my laptop it's what I'll use (it came with PopOS preinstalled).
AFAIK Debian is the only noncommercial Linux distro that has a well-funded nonprofit organization behind it. It's not necessarily the easiest to use, but it's been around for over 30 years and could well be around and still unenshittified 30 years from now. I can't say that about any other Linux distro. Slackware has been around that long, but it is still developed by its original developer, which is a huge risk factor.
$0.10 for a thin paper bag with no handles that broke before I got to my car. The bag obviously won't be reused and probably won't be recycled because of the likelihood of contamination in the shared bin & truck. Making the bag ban nothing but a tax on the end user that helps nobody, least of all the environment.
Funny how "Let's get as many people as we can hooked now and figure out how to monetize them later" has never worked out well for the people getting hooked.
I think Go must be part of a conspiracy to get us all using AI to do our programming. Because what human wants to be typing "if err != nil" blocks all day?
It's a programming language for machines, not humans.
#Fediblockhttps://mstdn.social/@Smith007 bot or sock puppet account. All its posts that aren't pro-Israel are bland nonsense accompanied by an unrelated image with nonsense alt text.
Redistribution can only have so much of an impact on inequality. We have to eliminate the things that are producing the inequality in the first place: financialization, rents (in the economic sense, of which finance is a special case), and barriers.
The wealthy will fight this tooth and nail. If making them give in requires bringing out the guillotines, so be it.