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  • Try installing nvidia drivers on Linux and then report back in a few days

    Windows is shit but it’s more convenient and reliable and works way more easily out of the box for 99% of people. This is not even debatable

    And for the record I use all 3 major OSs. They all have their uses and Linux is great for a lot of shit but you 100% have to thinker with it way more than with other OSs.

    WiFi performance is iffy, same with Bluetooth. We have a ton of data from the company I work it so it’s not even just 1 machine. It’s a few dozen.




  • I think it was the most useless movie to watch/record in IMAX. The trinity test was visually extremely disappointing (Nolan’s fault for not wanting to use CGI and rely on practical effects to mimick a nuclear explosion was just stupid…) and also Oppie as a character in the movie is extremely bland and shallow

    And finally once again the only relevant female character is laughably bad.

    IMO from barbenheimmer, Barbie was the best movie or at least the one I’d more easily rewatch



  • Severance S1 and S2 are vastly different in quality

    The first one is very very good. Gripping, with the right amount of suspense and plot advancement.

    Season 2 had sooo much filler, useless plot arcs and a lot of stuff that was only included to make it MYSTERIOUS.

    I was super hyped for S2 but it didn’t live up to the wait.


  • There’s definitely education (or lack there of) and propaganda, but the main issue is wealth inequality in this neo liberal, capitalist world

    Wages have stagnated and everything is much more expensive. The quality of life of the majority of the population is massively worse than before. Yes we have cool gadgets and better healthcare due to technological advancements but the crux of the matter is that exploitation is tru the roof. People work 2 and 3 jobs and can’t make ends meet. Meanwhile billionaires get richer and richer in increasing pace.

    Public services get cut, people get ask to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and they look for someone to blame and are told to look down (to immigrants) instead of up (to the ultra rich).





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    toMemes@lemmy.mlHappy Birthday, Karl Marx!
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    2 months ago

    So as a leftist that I think identifies with Marxist-Leninist ideology but that didn’t find the communist manifesto an interesting nor easy read (it was small but not really approachable) are there any books that you recommend? I’m no economist but I do like reading logical arguments as to why capitalism doesn’t work, or better said, doesn’t work for the good of the majority but instead for a small minority (for whom it works very very well)



  • See my other comment.

    Russia can’t even conquer Ukraine after 3 years. They are only a bully to the little guys.

    Europe could easily demolish Russia and their old and tired military. I’m not saying that europe should invade Russia. Ofc not. But this Putin bluff is long gone. And ofc it’s Russia that can end this anytime they want but until they are forced to they won’t. Which bully do you know that returned the lunch money that they stole out of what? Compassion? Just because it’s wrong?

    And you are talking about WW3 but the EU is planning to triple their defence budget in preparation for war, so you tell me who wants WW3


  • The EU needs to put actual restrictions on Russia, Russian oligarchs and Russian allies/goods, not just a not even fully opaque curtain that is easily circumvented like it is atm (even by EU members).

    They also need to properly support Ukraine’s military so that they can repel Russian troops back to Ukraine’s borders instead of just giving them enough ammo and guns that will allow them to continue this war of attrition. Maybe they could use all the resources that Germany sends to Israel for example.

    And then they need to do what was said above. Actually come to the table with Russia and negotiate the end of the war.

    But atm that isn’t possible because Russia is not being forced to. They made their ground and ofc aren’t keen on giving it back and Ukraine is also not willing to give part of the country to Russia (as they shouldn’t). And the EU politicians are happy to be profiting of this war and shift their economies to war economies in order to fill their pockets further.

    We haven’t done shit for climate change and it’s not even being discussed anymore. And it will only get worse.



  • JimmyMcGill@lemmy.world
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    toMemes@lemmy.mlJerkoff
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    i.e. you want to give the companies the guns to go hunting for food, except you still want to tell them what they can hunt, but you don’t have any guns yourself. But surely they will obey you and not point out that they have the guns so you should make whatever rules they want

    In this case “you” is either the OP of this this thread or just a general you