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Capitalist development vs Socialist development
  • Educate yourself on the Korean war. https://youtu.be/XJ0kBLCCE7c

  • Real Heroes
  • That's so cooooooooool

  • What is your favorite movie of all time?
  • It's a tie between The Motorcycle Diaries and Howl's Moving Castle.

    The first I found extremely touching, the second is just incredibly magical and charming.

  • Which Moo Deng are you today?
  • 3, 7 and 9.

    Why does he have to be the most precious thing ever πŸ₯Ή

  • Never touching Linux again
  • I'd recommend you test Bazzite, Nobara and Solus and see which one you like best.

    As far as I know screen resolution issues usually comes down to outdated drivers and/or kernel, at least for newer hardware. Using a distro that's very up-to-date usually solves that, any of the 3 ones I cited above are regularly up-to-date.

    I'll briefly explain the differences between them.

    Bazzite:

    "Atomic" distro. Basically means it updates like Android, where it downloads an image of the system and uses that to update, instead of updating every single package individually when you try to update. It also means some parts of the system are read-only, making it impossible to mess with the more critical parts of the system, which helps a lot to mitigate user breakage and issues.

    It is Fedora based, comes with KDE Plasma and a lot of of useful gaming stuff pre-installed. Just use the software center to install anything you need. It has a forum and Discord server if you ever need help with something. Also, it auto-updates on the background by default and only applies the update once you restart you computer.

    I use it daily since the last 3 months at least and has been the smoothest, most plug and play experience I ever had on Linux. It is also the only one of the 3 that I recommended that supports Secure Boot and easy TPM2 setup, both which I need because of an external drive with Win11 I barely use and because I encrypt my system.

    Nobara:

    It's not Atomic, so it updates "normally" and doesn't have the read-only protections.

    It is Fedora based and comes with KDE Plasma by default, but have options to use other Desktop Environments. There's a Discord server to ask for help if needed.

    I used it for a year before I moved to Bazzite and it's pretty good. The only 2 caveats is that on major upgrades you need to upgrade through the terminal following specific instructions, and I had to manually intervene in the system a few times, which I only knew about because I was in GE's Discord, otherwise it would be a pain to find how to fix the issues I had.

    Solus:

    It's not Atomic, so it updates "normally" and doesn't have the read-only protections.

    It's not based on any other distro, it is it's own thing. Comes by default with Budgie but there's also a KDE Plasma option. There's a forum to ask for help if needed.

    Used it for at least 4 or 5 years I think. Was the first Linux distro to actually get my attention and one of the best computer experiences I've ever had. I only ended abandoning it because of some issues with the team behind it that resulted in months of downtime without a single update, to the point I thought the distro was dead. It ended up coming back after some restructuring, but I never tried it again. I still recommend it because of how good it was, I found nearly everything I needed natively on their app store. The biggest problem other than the one I already talked about was outdated apps here and there.

  • Thinking about getting off of twitter once again. Its even more full of fascists than before.
  • You should do it. I had to stop using it after the ban here in Brasil and it has been a blessing. Been using BlueSky ever since and I'm yet to see a single Nazi or Nazi content. I had to manually block like 5 people only.

  • Thinking about getting off of twitter once again. Its even more full of fascists than before.
  • You should do it. I had to stop using it after the ban here in Brasil and it has been a blessing. Been using BlueSky ever since and I'm yet to see a single Nazi or Nazi content. I had to manually block like 5 people only.

  • Hexbear Linux users are the deep state of China
  • I get what you're saying and I would definitely agree in the case of Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite. I specifically said Bazzite because it is specifically made to be as hassle free as possible while also providing a lot out of the box.

    If someone needs help there's a dedicated forum for that, documentation and also a Discord server. It can be more complex in some areas for troubleshooting, but it is also big enough to the point where you can get help if needed.

    Bazzite has been the smoothest experience I ever had on Linux since I started using it in 2018 when Proton launched. I even use it on my main computer and laptop.

    If I had to recommend a non atomic distro the only ones would be Solus and Nobara, but on Nobara you need to keep an eye on their Discord because of manual interventions every now and then.

  • Hexbear Linux users are the deep state of China
  • Just use Bazzite, works out of the box, basically doesn't break, is very up-to-date, comes with KDE which is similar enough to Windows but can do so much more and install anything you need from the app store. It also has the ability to install from other ways and the documentation for it is decent enough on their forums.

  • Musk vs Brazil: Elon decides to doxx the 7 accounts he "protected" over free speech and got twitter banned in brazil as a result
  • Elongated Muskrat strikes again lmao. I didn't know we were the 3rd largest group of Twitter users tho, I always thought we Brazilians were a lot smaller on there because Twitter is one of the least used platforms here.

    It's cool seeing a lot of Brazilians, specially artists, migrating to Bluesky, at least there are good tools to deal with bullshit and bigotry there, I have yet to see something awful on that site.

  • What are the three most recent pain points you have encountered on your primary system?
  • I used Nobara for a year and my main partition got corrupted after a hard reset because my RAM is faulty. Decided to try Bazzite, everything has been smooth sailing and the best experience I've ever had on Linux, but if I had to list three things that would be:

    1. Can't install xpad drivers from git because the Desktop is atomic.

    I used a pending PR for xpad under Nobara that allowed access for the extra buttons for my Flydigi Vader 3 Pro under Linux. Right now I'm just using a VM with Windows to configure it as I want, it's a hassle but it works.

    1. I don't know why the Steam client likes to freeze so much under Wayland every time a Steam spawned window is closed, it honestly gets on my nerves sometimes, wish it would just have native support by now.

    2. Kernel level Anticheats that block Linux.

    Not that much of a problem but it's annoying when some game I really want to play just doesn't work. I wanted to play the 2XKO alpha on Linux, but for some reason Riot decided to use Vanguard for it and I now I have to play it on a separate Windows install I did on an external SSD.

  • Some unexpected leftist commentary from Nier: Automata
  • Not really, I have played it years ago without playing the Drakengard series and only a couple things late game didn't click for me because of that.

  • HuMaN NatUrE!
  • People will always suffer. There’s a multitude of variables as to why people around the world suffer.

    Let's take a step back. Why does the majority of people suffer under capitalism? Because they have to live in a world where they don't get good, free healthcare, don't have a right to a house, don't earn nearly enough to live comfortably, don't have enough vacation, can't afford to take a trip, don't have time to enjoy their lives, are alienated from their work, have shitty jobs, work too much, etc, etc, etc.

    That creates a necessity for charities for all the basic stuff everyone should have, but doesn't currently have. If we give free good healthcare for everyone, the need for charities to threat people disappears. If we give everyone a home, the need for charities for homeless people, disappear.

    Okay, so how about they don’t donate to charities… no more technical advancement in medicine, so people can be poor and die from disease.

    What??? You do know that most breakthrough advancements doesn't come from the private initiative right? It comes mainly from public, government expending, into research. This idea that private entities advance society is just a liberal propaganda lie that is peddled to us all the time since birth.

    Charities isn’t something you enforce or eliminate. It is a free choice to give. Mandate it and you’re just legalizing theft by the authority.

    I'm not talking about making charities illegal, I, like every other communist in the world, am talking about solving the issue at it's roots, eliminating capitalism, and that requires eliminating exploitation through labor and eliminating the rich and insanely wealthy as a class.

  • HuMaN NatUrE!
  • They donate not because of the goodness in their heart, but because they get tax cuts from it.

    Furthermore, what does donation really accomplish when:

    1. People are still suffering, regardless of how many charities there are and how much money they get;

    2. Those wealthy donors are the reason people continue poor since they are only wealthy by exploiting other people's work.

    Charities shouldn't need to exist in the first place.

  • The ringed city vs the old hunters vs shadowow of the erd tree. Best souls dlc?
  • All three are absolutely fantastic.

    For me I think I would put Shadow of the Erdtree at the top, because of the sheer volume of content and ambience it added to the game. I absolutely loved all the main remembrance bosses and the new locations added. Rauh was so different from previous locations From did and so good that I now want a jungle themed game from them so bad. I also love the last boss fight, it was challenging as hell.

    Ringed City and Old Hunters are tied for me. Like I absolutely love Ringed City, the last boss fight with Gael and how it finished the series, but Old Hunters made me fall in love with Bloodborne, even tho I was so over leveled for it I demolished the DLC. I absolutely love the Fishing Hamlet, it made me feel like I was inside a Lovecraft book.

  • Does one have to be an iconoclast or revolutionary these days to be validly left? I consider myself to be left of center, and very much in favor of progressive policies.
  • Yeah yeah, continue to spout your anti-communist propaganda. You already live in a dictatorship, you're just to propagandized to realize it.

    The only dictatorship we want is that of the proletariat, as opposed to the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. That is, a true popular democracy.

    Maybe listen to what other people have to say and go read communist theory before saying anything you don't know about.

    As it stands your position is not left in any stretch of the imagination.

  • What are the best games to mod?
  • I don't know any that are as big as Bethesda games or Minecraft modding scenes, not even close, but FromSoftware games tend to have some really big mods that changes lots of stuff, never got to play any of them other than a bit of one that recently came out for DS3, but is something I want to do after I'm done with Shadow of the Erdtree.

    Other than that Valheim seems to have some interesting ones too. Guilty Gear Strive have a lot of alt colors/costumes you can mod into the game.

    Oh a big one is The Binding of Isaac, there is a shit ton of mods on the Steam Workshop, I tend to use a lot of non-gameplay mods there. The modding scene in this one is unique and tends to be quite friendly. There's a lot of fun and quality work on there.

  • It's over. Games will be political with Chinese characteristics.
  • It's absolutely great! I don't mind the noise cause I really like the feeling of the buttons. My gripe with it is that their software only runs on Windows, it sucks to have to boot a VM to be able to configure the buttons, at least it lets me configure 4 different profiles. I also saw they just released the Vader 4 Pro, looks cool but doesn't seem like a big upgrade.

  • It's over. Games will be political with Chinese characteristics.
  • Can China clone a controller with hall effect sticks and decent build quality because the build quality of controllers PS4/XB1/Switch and up has been noticeably worse.

    They already do. I bought a Flydigi Vader 3 Pro at the end of last year and it has been amazing so far. Still feels like new and I use it a lot. There's also other highly regarded controllers like those from GuliKit and from 8bitdo.

  • Vietnam bans Valve's monopolistic game platform Steam
  • I'd say it's rather common from what I see. Making new accounts for every launcher/store becomes a pain fast just because of the sheer number of those that exist.

    The family sharing thing could very well be to encourage people to remain on the platform, I doubt that it is done just to provide a better experience.

    The existance of Proton and the focus on Linux is just a backup plan for them. Sure, the material reality is that it is improving gaming on Linux for everyone, but I would keep that in mind, there is monetary incentive for them to do this, specially since Microsoft can become a walled garden whenever it wants to.

    Besides they are not single handedly creating a market for Linux, this ignores all the work that was being done before Valve joined in, and ignores everything else going on too. They are a very big reason why, no doubt, but they aren't the only one. If they were truly serious about it all, much more money could be invested on the Linux side and Valve could be advertising it, but they aren't, the closest you get is the Steam Deck and that isn't even available in most of the world.

    The problem is that any time somebody other than Valve makes a game store, the only selling point for it is "you can't play this game if you don't download our store." Nobody ever tries actually making something good.

    Even if they did, which I doubt is gonna happen, Valve is a de facto monopoly.

    No matter how much money Epic throws at the issue, they still don't really compete with Valve. Other solutions like GOG and Itch.io are also not able to compete, and these last two are actually somewhat good.

  • How to deal with bigotry?

    Hey comrades, how do you deal with bigotry irl?

    I'm really sick of so many people around me just saying some LGBTphobic, misogynistic or racist shit. It's bad enough seeing it all over social media everyday, but irl it's even worse. And I can't bring myself to confront anyone about it, be it in person or in a voice call. I don't even know how to confront this type of behavior, what to say, what tone to use, which expressions to make. The few times I managed to do it I was either mocked or met with verbal resistance.

    It also doesn't help that my city is very right-wing to say the least, it's like no one I know even think about any of this. It's honestly so tiring.

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