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  • DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoScience Memes@mander.xyzbeans 🫘
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    Fascists are the most degenerate people, I’m not sure how you could possibly take that from my statement unless you literally didn’t read what I wrote.

    To make it clearer, I’m saying humanity is degenerating because people are no longer free and our society rewards the wrong things, like conformity, submission to authority, duplicity, selfishness, evil politicians and giant corporations. Your average American today is voting for mass surveillance, millions of cops, and corporate finance of politics and the eraser of citizenship, brainwashing, censorship, disarming the population, giving the rich not only low taxes but access to unlimited nearly free loans that don’t even match inflation, and they still can’t make the economy good. This is what American voters vote for, they are incredibly stupid. In fact I’m going to start telling Americans how stupid they are when I see them for voting for mass surveillance and bot farms and algorithmic brainwashing, horrible economics, complete technology serfdom by having everything in their nation corporatized. I think you should tell them too. I don’t think they realize what they vote for election after election they are too distracted with the extreme fear based politics of the corporate media.


  • Many of these don’t work in the U.S and the best option they really have in the U.S is to get something like a pixel and put Linux on it, but I ordered a pinephone and a bigger battery. I should have it in a month. I’m going to try my hardest to use it as my daily so I can break out of the android/iPhone monopoly. The enshitification of operating systems has become ridiculous. They make it as hard as possible to do these things in the U.S. (zero regulation from the government) zero antitrust or pro consumer laws. Zero thought from the government to actually protect citizens right to use the airwaves and infrastructure that is probably majority funded by tax payers, especially after you account for inflation and fake stock market growth. The U.S is in a terrible state when it comes to tech, and I see why China is starting to surge ahead of us. Also the nickel and diming U.S companies do and get away with, while not even offering decent options for anything no matter how much you pay. Not even counting the mass surveillance and propaganda via algorithms and bots they do, is destroying American society. There is so much false advertising and corporate finance and bribery of elections. I think the U.S might be even more corrupt the Russia at this point. We can barely make anything anymore. My dream is the flee the U.S someday and come to one of the free countries in Europe where a person can own devices without corporate lawyers and pedos gatekeeping everything.



  • No you can pretty much do everything the same. The biggest difference is the distro it’s based on, bazzite is based on fedora, you use “sudo rpm-ostree install” to install packages. Fedora has a system where it layers packages onto an ostree so if you have an issue you can boot from an old one.

    Rpm is only needed for system packages, most packages can just be installed via a flatpack in the package store, which is all free and open source software.

    Bazzite is a great starting point. It is pretty much turn key, while having the best performance and proprietary drivers. It already has everything installed to get emulating windows apps working easily out of the box. Wine, proton, steam, the proprietary drivers. These are all things you are going to want probably and this will save you a headache and several days of trying to get the system setup.

    Make sure you disable UEFI and choose legacy boot in your bios if it’s available and also disable the TPM in the bios if available. It will work with those enabled, but it’s buggier and the TPM causes performance issues. Linux doesn’t need these and they are artificially imposed by Microsoft and the big corporate OSes, but they suck compared to the original simple standards for bootstrapping. I’m not 100% sure how well this works on everything. It’s possible some newer cards might require UEFI boot, but you can just turn it back on before you install.

    I recommend KDE as the desktop environment, especially if you are used to windows. It will feel the most natural and familiar to you. I also recommend asking chatGPT to help you with basic tasks like installing system level software. Make sure you specify that you are using bazzite. Once you learn to use Linux its so much better than Windows. The performance is much better in nearly every regard. You can do anything you want with Linux, where windows is extremely locked down nowadays. It also prolongs the life of your hardware, especially drives, since windows spyware isn’t constantly scanning your files and stuff. With proton you will likely see a 5-15% performance jump over gaming on windows natively. The downside is that many popular games won’t work in multiplayer because of the anti heat, and also some trash software like Photoshop won’t work, but the vast majority of windows apps will work just fine, even multiplayer. The developers have to go out of their way to make multiplayer games not work on Linux, so it’s pretty rare, even if many of the bigger studios do it. You can dual boot windows for this if you really want to, but windows will constantly try to screw up your boot and stuff so you have to be careful. I would say just not support those companies which go out of their way to not support Linux. They are anticompetitive and anti consumer.

    The learning curve for Linux isn’t quite a cliff now, it’s still steep, but with bazzite it’s much easier then it ever has been. It mostly just works from a simple gui install, and there isn’t really anything you need outside of this base install. Perhaps you want to install, protonup-qt so you can install proton GE, which has better support for some games that rely heavily on .net code, like space engineers.





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    I kind of believe it. I think before monotheism people were much more free and diverse in their thinking. They were more just natural to their own beliefs and human nature. The greeks and Egyptians loved culture. They loved to see about how other humans were living in the world. The most celebrated people in Athens for example were often travellers because everyone wanted to hear their stories from far off lands.

    In modern times the culture is extremely strict. Everything from your beliefs to your clothing to who you are supposed to love, is heavily policed by the culture. I think this is the main reason you can hardly find a person anymore that has any original ideas or can think rationally, or see the bigger picture. Our DNA is degenerating.





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    He also died because when he was being chased, he refused to run through a bean field, trampling on the beans.

    He used to also lecture by dressing like a girl, and sitting behind a curtain so that only his shadow would appear on the curtain. I love stories of ancient trans people. Yes they also believed in silly things sometimes, but they were just as intelligent and creative as we are. They were human in every way that we are today.



  • I haven’t received it yet but apparently not good. It’s a $200 phone. I mostly want it because it runs Linux natively, has a regular unlocked bootloader that isn’t designed to be frustrating like android phones, and can send display over USB-C so it’s like a regular computer. You can run anything like emulating windows apps, you could install steam on it technically by putting it in an emulation container, but the chipset is very old at this point, and so you aren’t going to be emulating anything remotely modern on it. It is just a PC in your pocket though. You have a package manager, you can install many different Linux distros on it. You can get a LoRa radio mesh case for it, a physical keyboard/battery case, which I will probably get eventually. I think it’s worth the 200 dollars. I really want to get away from android. It’s hard because everything from Arm CPUs to the modems are completely proprietary. The only reason this device exists is because the design docs got leaked.

    It does have phone, sms, and your standard phone stuff. You can get several different desktop environments like plasma mobile or gnome mobile and several others. It has 3 GBs of ram, and the OS usually takes up around 500 MB. It has dip switches to disable the hardware like the camera, cell modem, wifi, bt, etc. It would be a great device for taking to defcon.


  • I just ordered a pinephone, haven’t received it yet. The pinephone is the best native option in the U.S right now but you can get some unlocked smartphones with better hardware and install Linux it’s just a bit of a headache.

    The general consensus is that it’s pretty low power, being one of the only chipsets that has publicly available design docs for it. It’s a mid tier 2015 era chipset. It a bit slow but works as a phone. You can probably emulate android apps in it.




  • I think Microsoft puts the minimum possible effort into windows. It’s a very small piece of their cloud, investing, data selling, propaganda, and AI company. They just make so much money off of speculation nowadays. Inflation is really high so the stock market grows really fast even if the economy is shrinking. A company like Microsoft is positioned to make so much money just in growth because they hold billions of dollars in the stock market.

    They absolutely will ruin windows in every possible way, until people jump ship and start using other operating systems, at which point they will just kill the brand or sell it, and focus on their other sectors that make profits. They like many people know this is the right option. Keeping an operating system going is extremely complex these days and even with all the money in the world, microsoft could never find enough talent to actually pull it off. When you get to that level, most programmers aren’t motivated by money so much as working on projects they like. Most actually intelligent people also would refuse to work for a company that spies on its citizens and sells them out to the worst people on earth, which are politicians. At this point Microsoft probably makes way more money selling servers to the IDF to capture all phones calls from people in Gaza then they make off windows in 10 years.