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Taylor Swift.

I have broken and repaired many distros in the past and most package managers were able to handle it.

This is why I always keep the last 3 installed package versions around.

In Arch based distros you have to install downgrade. Idk why it doesn’t come with the base pacman tools, as it can seriously save your ass.

The most resilient package manager I found to be dnf. I once messed up an upgrade from Fedora 20 to 21 or something and many packages were 20, some were 21 and some were rawhide. Boy did I think I needed to fix this manually. I fixed the misconfiguration, made internet available in a root shell and dnf magically repaired every dependency hell I found myself in.

Fedora is now my work desktop and Arch with snapper runs on my personal devices.

Immutable distros or things like NixOS seem fine if idiots need to use them. However, I’m not an idiot and usually don’t give idiots root rights.

If you want your system simply to work and never customise it beyond what the maintainers thought out for you, NixOS and Silverblue etc. might be cool. But for me there always was a point where I had to do hours of work thinking “good Lord Linus the Creator, this would be so much easier with a regular distro”.

Went so far to ragequit NixOS three times now and everyone who uses it nowadays gets the same look as these weaboo Arch supremacists way back when. Maybe NixOS is good in 10 years but at the current rate, I’d just burn the project honestly. So wasteful, both for the environment and man hours.

Schmitt (Germany)

Or Müller (=Miller)

Weird al explained it well

Where?

Well, this is why I suggested we’d start to eat the rich™ globally.

brb, editing our politician’s photos

Yeah, I think that’s mostly it, isn’t it?

Why would it be not the year of the Linux desktop?

For me the year of the Linux desktop has been every year since 2007.

There probably would to be a kernel API to check for anticheat measures. Even then, the OS being FOSS means that you can easily create rootkits, obviously. So secure boot etc will also be a requirement for Linux anticheat.

The real issue is devs not wanting to pay for hosting server side anticheat. I’d much rather have Valve convince them VAC is a good idea than to have them use intrusive anticheat measures or make Linux worse.

Ah, got it. That’s oversimplified. Obviously the money needs to go to education etc, and money isn’t the only instrument of class warfare.

Socialism isn’t taxation under capitalism like you seem to think it is

I never said that.

I didn’t state Switzerland is purely socialist, but that I prefer concordance democracy as a subtype of socialist democracy, which is the prevalent in Switzerland, in contrast to the type of socialism prevalent in China.

Obviously China is consensus based as there is only a single political party. But China does not employ concordance democracy, which I prefer to a single party system.

Can you please also define what “liberal” means to you?

I covered all the usual bases liberals use when declaring China isn’t socialist.

But I’m neither a liberal nor declaring China isn’t doing some kind of socialism. It’s not a socialism I personally like but that’s my preference, I prefer the so called concordance democracy over a party system in general. The only country I know who are doing this often is Switzerland, but they have other issues (like high cost of living and xenophobia/lack of diversity).

Thank you, I see where your definition differs from mine 😊

Yeah, I also got confused by the recommendation of southern Germany in particular based on the mentioned criteria.

Germany is great in many cities in most, if not all of the criteria, but awful in others. I’d specifically try to avoid southern Bavaria (Nürnberg and Bamberg are fine), southern parts of Baden-Württemberg (apart from e.g. Freiburg) and most of Eastern Germany (Leipzig counts as “eastern” but is very progressive, for example).

There’s quite a good overview of the values and issues of most Bundesländer by Brofessor Stein.

Then how do you define imperialism? What criteria need to be met exactly?

Please make it a simple list instead of an essay.

But where did I say China and the West are equal? I didn’t even pass any judgement.

You can’t compare whole countries objectively, it always depends on your values and criteria. I just asked for clarification on the initial statements made by Cowbee.

You made the unbacked claim of “Chinese imperialism.” The onus is on you to prove it.

I read all my comments again and no, I didn’t. At least I can’t see where I did. I simply disagreed with your definition of imperialism and noted that the definition I disagree with would fit China aswell. I’m of the opinion neither the EU nor Germany nor China are purely imperialist in my understanding of the word, apart from the aspects I already stated. This is basically an appeal to purity by myself, but I know I’m being pedantic and that’s fine with me.

I never claimed the US wasn’t imperialist, or that China was imperialist, I just disagreed with your initial claim Germany is participating directly in imperialism, while they aren’t, in my opinion. If your opinion differs, that’s fine, but stop trying to misrepresent my actual arguments. 🙄

If we’re going by the burden of proof laying on the initial commenter: the onus is on you to prove what you said initially.

China is in the developing stages of socialism.

Let’s hope for the best! Currently it looks like there’s a single party system devoid of meaningful opposition and capitalism is running rampant as long as it serves the party’s interests, but maybe they’ll eventually become a real democracy.

Inevitably, this will lead to de-globalisation and I think this can be a good thing, as long as the world powers including China finally do something about climate change and other man-made horrors.

Thanks for all of the links, you did great work and provided interesting food for thought. I looked at some of them and choose to not engage further with this. I don’t really understand where you’re coming from as you refuted points I didn’t even make – like equating the existence of billionaires with the absence of socialism and similarly, conflating outsourcing as the single criterion for imperialism.

I disagree but you have nice graphs, I hope China keeps developing into the right direction.