Vittelius

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[–] Vittelius 18 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Can't I just not update the microcode beyond what the manufacturer provides, and instead keep updating the kernel and userland and in essence keep updating my android version?

You can't update the kernel because your phone isn't running mainline Linux. The device manufacturers (which in this case mostly means chip manufactures) don't upstream their code. All the device specific kernel drivers are only in special device specific branches. You can get the code for the drivers (because GPL) and do the work to mailine it yourself. In fact that's what Postmarket OS does to get "proper Linux" running on phones.

[–] Vittelius 9 points 3 months ago

Because I am a believer in death of the author. That means that a developer doesn't get to decide what their game is or isn't about.

A dev could have put in a theme unintentionally. Does that mean you are not allowed to talk about it?

Why do they get to decide what a work of art means to me?

[–] Vittelius 5 points 3 months ago

Sure, but you get rewarded, they would get punished. The outcome might be the same, but for a ideology built on grievances, the vibes matter

[–] Vittelius 3 points 3 months ago

Yes they would. And yes they do. And yes they are

BUT...

Incels also hate the cruel world that made them and the politicians upholding it. The problem with women isn't, according to incel ideology, that they refuse to pick a partner. It's that they pick the wrong partners. That's where the dreaded "nice guy" comes from.

So according to incels this doesn't harm women enough but rather creates a tax on "normal men" for being "normal". (And then they turn around and call themselves degenerates because their ideology isn't the most consistent)

Also if you are in these communities for long enough, then it becomes part of your identity. That's how we get stuff like wizardchan. (People who believe that still being an incel at 30 makes you a wizard). And this is an attack on that from the outside.

[–] Vittelius 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Plasma is the desktop environment developed by KDE. It's for example desktop environment used by SteamOS 3.

As to how you learn this stuff: looking things up on the search engine of your choice helps. Not trying to be rude here, but you could have found all of that out yourself by searching for "plasma Linux": https://lmddgtfy.net/?q=plasma%20linux

Also the arch wiki. There you can find all the info you could ever ask for.

" just use Linux" is a great piece of advice for most people because most people don't care about the OS they use. They just use it. And they shouldn't need to take a course to do so. Of course you are missing some things with this.

If you want more than you will need to go out and actively look for it

[–] Vittelius 2 points 3 months ago

Also the Dutch angle in cinema, named after the expressionist German film of the early 20th cinema (think Nosferatu)

[–] Vittelius 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (7 children)

Of course the incels don't like him. He argues that childless people should pay higher taxes. How did anyone think that would go over with the "never even had sex" constituency?

[–] Vittelius 13 points 3 months ago

We keep assuming conservatives defend the rich because they think they’ll be rich someday, and, sure, they would love to be. But it’s more nuanced than that: they defend the rich because they believe the rest of us need the rich. We’d be lost without them. There should be no shame in being beneath the rich, not if the right people are rich; no shame in being a cog in the machine so long as the machine produces something beautiful. There is a real fear that everyone filling their proscribed role is the only thing keeping us from complete and total not-the-fun-kind-of anarchy. There is honor in being in your place and doing your best with it. Most especially if your place isn’t at the very bottom.

https://innuendostudios.tumblr.com/post/183630833477/new-episode-of-the-alt-right-playbook-called

[–] Vittelius 5 points 3 months ago

I mean that's established political wisdom: establish yourself as a progressive in the primaries and then move towards the centre for the general. That has been the democratic playbook for many elections. And it kinda makes sense: You need the base for the primary but those voters alone are not enough for the general.

Biden was actually an outlier in that regard. He actually moved left in his campaign rhetoric after Bernie dropped out.

[–] Vittelius 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm not sure which of the videos of Ross (the initiator of the initiative) you have seen, but in the FAQ video linked above he addresses the half baked complaint. An EU citizens initiative is not the equivalent of a ballot initiative in the USA. It's not actual proposed law, not even a first draft of a law. A citizens initiative only describes a problem and why the EU is the right institution to solve the problem (rather than the individual member states). And it does all of that while meeting a strict word count limit. So it kind of has to be vague to give the European politicians some space to do their job. They are going to consult relevant parties (including representatives of the industry) and then draft the actual legal text.

I therefore find Thors argument of "it starts the wrong discussion" pretty disingenuous because he argues for weakening the initiatives initial position before negotiations with the opposing side have even begun.

His videos are also full of frankly baffling arguments. At one point he argues for example that the initiatives goals would make DDOSing legal.

Since Thors original video a couple of people in the games industry have come forward in support of the initiative. Indie dev and unity tutorial YouTuber codemonkey for example made a video to that effect. But the highest profile supporter from within the industry so far is probably Running With Scissors, the studio behind the Postal games. Also high profile, but not actually a game dev, is Louis Rossman, who also endorsed the effort.

There have been some people, who support Thors line of arguments, but those tend as far as I can tell to be mostly friends and acquaintances of Thor. Generally speaking i have yet to see a European content creator critical of the initiative (not saying there aren't any, just that they don't seem high profile enough to come to my attention).

[–] Vittelius 17 points 3 months ago

Sorry this one is EU citizen only

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