Agreed. It’s a conversation topic, I fully agree.

What’s the cheapest way to gaslight these data points?

Let’s say one has $10 to spare, what would you buy to ruin their model?

It’s great to see actual examples shown in their videos, like the exiftool output. I really appreciate how well they integrate and present info, like the editor note being shown on the simulated Mac screen.

I managed to get one second-hand from a friend who had upgraded. It was my first entry into self-hosting and running 24/7 automations, like public media archival scripts. Due to the popularity and forum support, it was pretty low-friction which allowed me to dive in easily without a mentor or excessive barriers. I had no hardware experience beyond assembling a PC from parts, so the accessibility was what gave me confidence to start.

A mini-PC would have been far more than needed, to the point it’s wasteful for this kind of work, and the better embedded options (I’m sure there are plenty, and cheaper) were just too intimidating or manual to have drawn me in.

I see many problems with it echoing those of mainstream mass media. Especially with the advent of billionaire-owned social media and the increasing viability of automated posting, we see the same inequality present itself - the richest can pay for bigger microphones and astroturf the place. Even just places like Lemmy and connected tools show what a world of difference it makes to be a little further away from the mass bot armies and the profit motive.

I do believe there are some types of social media which can be constructive, but these are not like the general-audience mass social media we see (facebook/insta/tiktok/youtube/reddit) or even the more direct derivatives, like most of the well-known Lemmy instances. But one must have an idea of why the social media is being made and design it around that purpose. Lemmy is ultimately a reddit alternative. And its most popular communities were/are either bunkers for banned communities or clones of subreddits, hosted on very general instances. There’s no defining vision. It’s an improvement, yes!, but it’s far from what a digital social space can be.

I do not know that, am speaking out of my asshole

It would be helpful to the community if you didn’t.

Towns who have kicked out police and instituted a democratic system had their crime rate drop massively. See Cherán: “in the last year there have been no murders, kidnaps or disappearances.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37612083

It’s disappointing to see only one reply (so far) challenging your request. Why do you want a unique distro for day to day?

I’ve used a variety of unique distros simply to explore them, or for specific purposes which the OS uniquely fills. And it’s great that some non-unique OSs have workflows that change the ways a new user may be familiar with (e.g. tiling window managers). But I’ve ultimately had a great time picking a stable, popular daily driver and creatively customizing it to look and act unique and personalized.

Logged in to say this. They’re one of the biggest boots in the world, countries included.

My initial reaction is that automated posting, even if moderated, fits into the spirit of the Bot tag. If it’s not a human creating the posts, votes and comments, then it should be flagged.

I honestly don’t personally know any real-life person who acts like that - they’re either just not scared of cool infrastructure, or they’re the occasional ‘patriot’ freak who’s nationalist/racist enough to consider Japan a threat too.

Leave the straw-man circlejerking to the rightoids, comrade.

Off-topic but related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Epstein (born 1915)

Excessive for my threat model, one more thing which could break something (even if by no fault of its own).

I like it as a concept, but many of my devices don’t use it.

Linking to a reply I posted in this thread because it talks about a relevant aspect, which other (correct) comments haven’t named: hypodescent.

https://lemmy.ml/post/47987898/25930253

Blackness/Whiteness is an interesting concept - it’s remarkably fluid, especially with changes in time and place. Race isn’t the same as ethnicity or genetics, or a direct result of it, although racists often try to claim it is - a stark example of this in Western societies like the US and Australia would be how they categorize Italian and Greek peoples, Slavic peoples, or ethnically-Jewish peoples - the idea of whether or not each of these is White has largely shifted over time, often as a group stops being the current biggest immigration demographic. The USA even had a concept of “Black Irish”, which originally meant a post-Famine Irish refugee. Human races are ultimately just social classes, not a biological concept.

Another aspect, related to this thread, is hypodescent. In some societies (it’s not a universal thing!), if a child has a Black parent and a White parent, is the child Black or White, or another label entirely? As mentioned in that article, some US states used to legally define someone as Black even if only 1 of their 16 great-great-grandparents were Black.

Send an email to their webmaster if you haven’t already. The more of us, the better.

Tempted to try the Traffic Light Reactuon, but I don’t know how safe it is to store something that alkaline in a regular glass bottle long-term

The proper stuff is expensive (~$1USD/ml), NileRed’s recipe is 2chem4me, but the cheaper ferrous suspension methods might be workable…

Anything in the ballpark of “working class ownership of the means of production”.

Any more examples of socialist democracies?

Since you mentioned India, Kerala is does not currently have a socialist mode of production (that’s a specific way of saying, their economy isn’t socialism) but they have been led by socialist parties (parties which are trying to implement a socialist mode of production), and it shows.