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  • I mean, one of the central goals of communism to abolish ownership of the means of production.

    Software used to produce something of value is a resource that in a communist society should not be owned. The only way to achieve this is to let everything be opensource.

    So communists clearly like the free software movement, whether inverse is true is a matter for debate.


  • This once again shows how stupid the idea of copyright is.

    The mentioned library genesis project is such a great idea and i use it extensively. It makes scientific articles, papers and cultural works available for everyone, regardless of income.

    I understand where these writers are coming from but in my opinion they are working against their own interests here.

    I mean currently most of the profits go to the big media coorperations anyway, are we sure ther isn’t a way to fairly pay the artists AND make their works publicly available at the same time?



  • A group of people who call themselves anarchists and can be reasoned with does exist

    I think we both agree on that. I just wanted to point out that that does not mean every anarchist can be reasoned with.

    instead yelling what you perceive to be The Truth at them until they agree with you

    Again I am with you on that, but no one here advocated that. If I say “they don’t want to hear the truth” I am not saying that I tell them they are straight up wrong. If I debate politics with someone I try to point out logical flaws or present my reasoning. If they don’t find my reasoning relatable that’s fine, most of the time we still agree on a lot of other points.



  • No, I’d say you have to look at it more like eating habbits. You won’t convince someone who’s in his 50ies and all his life only ever ate fastfood to eat healthy. It’s objectively better for them, deep down they might even know it, but the force of habbit is just to strong.

    There is a best choice, but not everyone want’s to hear it. You can’t convince everyone and have to pick your battles.





  • If you’re new to linux and want to stay safe I have a couple of tips:

    Never run commands you don’t understand. Research what they are doing before you run them. Try to become used to doing everything from the commandline. It may be daunting at first, but it helps understanding what the GUIs do and hiw to fix things if they break.

    Use the packagemanagement of your distribution where possible. For example in ubuntu use the “apt” command to install software from the commandline or the software center to install them from the GUI. I’d avoid .deb files from random internet sites as installing them is the equivalent of installing random .exe-s on Windows. It could be safe but you don’t really know for sure. tar.gz-files are the compressed source code of the application so while technically more transparent as a newbie i’d still avoid them.

    Choose a widely used distro. Especially as a newbie it can be difficult do assess what’s wrong. It helps if there are a lot of other new users googling the same problem.

    To start I’d suggest Ubuntu on a Virtualbox-VM. Make frequent snapshots so you don’t have to reinstall your whole system if you break something.

    For most older windows only offline games someone usually has already created a bottle or made an installer on playonlinux. With online games anticheat might act up (I tried valorant and LoL, both didn’t work)