He just hired an Obama advisor, so it’s not looking good.

Cracking up at the downvotes on this post. Just what you’d expect from progressive reformists.

Primary tool of the Reagan Democrats/Clintonism. Gotta weaponize identity, and hopefully no one notices your policies are identical with the Republicans.

There it is. They compromised him.

Yeah, report them to the people already ordering them to illegally invade their own country. Genius. /s

Absolute victim blaming, capitalist bullshit. Go fuck yourself.

These kind of changes will go a long way towards making it more accessible for the less technically inclined. Glad to see some actual progress in that direction, instead of the standard ‘git good’ style of Linux gatekeeping.

Maybe “easy” for an individual to switch. Quite another thing to shift an entire culture and society to vegetarianism. And completely unrealistic for the short term.

While ‘convert everyone to vegetarians’ may be a desirable resolution for you, it’s not realistic. And certainly not achievable in the timeframe needed to reduce climate change impacts.

Not saying those efforts can’t be done in parallel, but subsidizing vat grown meat is necessary as well.

Yeah, those options are available. And people largely don’t want them.

We need significant subsidies invested into vat grown meat. But now Big Ag is getting it banned in every state it can. Texas and Florida have already banned it.

This could go a long way towards fighting online censorship. One less issue when an authoritarian overreach gets your domain seized. Pretty awesome.

The premise of your question is all wrong. It centers western control of Taiwan as a natural status quo, and so paints every challenge of that control as a provocation or threat.

Advocating for Taiwan’s sovereignty is not the same as advocating for Taiwan’s continued fealty to the west.

What are you talking about? They have elections all the time, and the workers exercise a tremendous amount of power.

That’s exactly the attitude of most Linux people, and it’s completely out of touch.

You don’t win people over by telling them what’s good for them. You do it by appealing to what they want. It doesn’t matter what you think they should care about.

The aesthetics and the menu access/organization is straight out of the 90s. Hell, many of the customization options require a third-party tool to edit with the gui, or you’re stuck using the cli.

Where Apple products and UI are clearly made by designers, Linux environments are clearly made by techies who consider a gui optional. And what’s worse is all the techies gatekeeping to keep it that way.

Most of them don’t. The vast majority of people interact with their devices using a touchscreen or controller. They don’t want to repair it themselves, and they’ll turn it in for another one as soon as their payment plan is up.

Most people could use tablets/phones and have a superior user experience. PC’s in general, whether running Linux or Windows, are becoming a niche product again.

I disagree. Using a Linux desktop always feels like a trip back in time.

But it’s not just a question of Windows vs Linux anymore. For web browsing and basic apps that the vast majority of people use the internet for, tablets & phones are offering a superior user experience.

This is a big driving force in the decline of desktop computer sales. A desktop or laptop is overkill for what most people need, so it’s become specialty equipment (again). And if you’re going to need a pc for specialized needs, the Windows os is going to cover all of those. Linux probably will cover your needs.

But a Linux machine can only handle most special use cases, while a Windows machine can handle all special use cases. If you’re going to have a machine set up for specialized needs, it might as well be Windows, unless you’re someone running multiple machines.

The problem with this pro-Linux argument, that only specific use-cases need Windows, is that also now applies to Linux. Probably 90% of people can do everything they need to with a tablet or phone. Even your listed day to day tasks are fairly specialized.

I personally prefer to run my daily driver as a vm, so I can remote into from all of my frontends. I tried to tough it out with Linux for over a year like that, using multiple different remote solutions. Every single one felt like using a machine from the 90’s. Just not anywhere close to acceptable by today’s standards.

Thanks to the steam deck standardizing support, Linux is probably fine for most pc gamers. Doesn’t work for me, but I use some very specific third party tools and hardware peripherals for simulators.