It’s almost as if they’re trying to sell as much as possible now, at what is likely to be the peak price for a long while …

Buy now! Quickly! Things will only get worse if you wait! I’m telling you this because I’m such a nice guy!

– Salesman

The kernel in Android is Linux but the rest of the OS is not.

In my previous post I meant Linux as the whole OS rather merelly the kernel.

Even in the embedded space Linux is not just the kernel but also at minimum the common libraries and utilities (for example ARMbian is a distro for ARM-based SBCs).

Don’t look.

If you look the train wave collapses.

It is very easy for those who know Portuguese to learn Spanish and vice-versa because the grammar is the same and most words are the same.

However the spoken Portuguese from Portugal has a very strong accent (which makes it sound almost like an Eastern European language for those not from EE, unlike Brasilian Portuguese) which makes it harder for Spanish-speakers to understand.

It’s probably the cheap generic.

“Proximo” (or “proxima” which is the version of the word use for females and, since in Latin languages there is no “the” and everything is either “masculine” or “feminine”, objects which are treated as “feminine”) is actually slightly tricky when translated to English because it means the “next” or “following” something in a list (hence here the doctor literally saying “Next!” in the very same way as you would in English) but it also means something that’s “near” or “close (to)” but not actually “next (to)”.

It’s one of those funny things you often find between languages in that a word in two languages means the same kind of thing (in this case related to distance between things) but the intensity/amount of the property it’s about isn’t quite the same in both languages, which can be tricky to figure out when you’re first learning a new language as what’s seemingly a simple translation turns out to have quite a bit of subtlety.

It’s the same people making or not both the Laws helping specific really wealthy companies who are known to provide gold-plated “opportunities” to friendly retired politicians and the Laws that would stop such obvious conflicts of interest, so of course they don’t make the latter and thus it’s perfectly legal to, after favoring certain companies and industries as a politician, retire from politics and go get paid a couple million a year from some company that the laws you made and measures you enacted helped.

This is why Democracy is supposed to have 3 independent pillars - Politics, the Press and the Judiciary - which watch over and keep each other in check: if the Political branch allows most forms of what in practice is corruption to be legal, the Press is suppose to hammer them for it.

Sadly, the Press is a lot less independent nowadays, ever since the same people who own the companies that benefit from “friendly” politician lawmaking bought most of the Press, plus specifically for the EU, its politics naturally get way less coverage than national politics in all EU countries (plus EU structures like the EU Commission are far more opaque), so naturally under such reduced visibility and understanding the crooks that manage to get themselves into lawmaking and executive positions in the EU get away with far more funny business than they would otherwise.

My own feeling is that if measured in terms of the amount of negative impact on EU nations and citizens, what people would consider to be corruption (so, all situations where politicians benefit certain economic interest in the expectation that they themselves will personally financially gain from having done so, even if they’re actually legal), the EU structures are probably the most corrupt political structure in Europe, not because of having more corrupt people in it that elsewhere but because the measures enacted there have the most impact of all hence in that process benefiting certain interests by adding costs or limiting freedoms of others causes much more damage that it would if it was done at a local or even national level - a single corrupt EU Commissioner can cause far more damage than a single corrupt government minister in an EU nation.

Also the EU Commission are not elected, they’re nominated.

The only part the EU Parliament has in there is a confirmation (take it or leave it) vote on commissioners other than the head.

It’s a perfect setup for moneyed interests to buy themselves whatever laws they want for an entire block of nations with 470 million people and which has a Gross Domestic Product close to the US.

So most of the EU crap comes from the EU Commission (though recently the EU Parliament itself renewed Chat Control when its head used a procedural trick to do it at a time when many parliamentaries were already on vacations and without needing a majority of parliamentarians to approve it, so shenanigans are an EU Commission monopoly).

I get the impression that, just like it did on the server-side, Linux has also taken over most of the embedded computing space (except for the smaller microcontrollers that don’t even have an OS).

So that just leaves the Desktop and Mobile Devices.

The problem you point out has been known in the Linux community for literally decades and is the reason why Red Hat Linux was created and any company can, right know, get an Enterprise version of it with an Enterprise support contract.

That said, over the years I worked in seriously large multinational companies which used Linux and other open source products like Apache extensively on the server side (pretty much all such machines had it) so at least on the server side things did change massively from back in the day when companies would get Sun servers with SunOS or IBM server with Minix rather than generic server PCs with Linux due to that rationale you stated.

In fact, it has also become a common thing in much smaller companies, though maybe not the small and micro-sized ones.

The reality on the ground at least on the server side and for infrastructure software is that companies did find a way to deal with the problem of not being able to get support contracts from many of the OSS apps makers, and did so either by just paying some company specialized in supporting it or by having their own developers - after all, it’s exactly the thing with OSS that any developer can change it hence you’re not limited to paying for support from a specific company that makes the software.

ftp://demo:[email protected]/

Mate, you do you.

Reddit started in 2005, well after the Net boom and crash when the Internet became comercialized, and did not exist in the 90s.

90s internet was things like Usenet, IRC and Geocities. In fact in the early part of the decade the WWW hadn’t even been invented yet and people used stuff like FTP and later the Gopher protocol.

The 90s on the Internet was a period of inventiveness and explosive technological growth and Reddit came in the coattails of all that, already by the time every grifter and their dog thought they could get rich from the Internet, and added nothing of real value to it: just another social media site trying to exploit business networking effects to lock-in users same as plenty of already existing sites.

Congratulations on discovering that Racism is a good way to switch off the effects of empathy - if you see others as less than human, it’s easier to look away from their pain.

That said, you do have a point - morality and social norms do influence each other.

That said, most of those examples you give are wonderful examples of things that Abrahamic Religions did absolutely nothing at all to change. Specifically Salvery, death penalty, acceptable conduct in warfare, domestic violence and corporal punishment.

You’re arguing for religion to have shaped the moral values of modern societies whilst at the same time giving examples of ancient values that the main religions said nothing about or even approved of (for example, polygamy is still perfectly fine for Islam, with the Prophet himself having had several wives) so clearly modern day society didn’t change those values because of religion.

If lots of modern day society values don’t match the values of religion, whilst lots match those of some and not others and yet others do match, that shows low correlation between the two which is the very opposite of “the moral values observed in many societies (including Western ones) stem from religious ones” unless you meant just “some” or “a few” and even then you imply a causal relation by using “stem” (i.e. that modern society values derive from religious values) which you do not prove at all. “Both sets of values hail from the same ancient origin” (i.e. that religion picked up existing values over time and some of those lived till modern days, hence why they’re the same in religion and modern society) is a more logical explanation and actually for some values has evidence backing it (for example, read what Ancient Greek Philosophers wrote way before Abrahamic religions).

So your claim is HUGE whilst your arguments keep using examples which actually go against it in doing so disproving the high correlation between one set of values and the other, and on top of that you have zero proof for the causality part of the claim that one set of value stems from the other.

To use your own words: “That’s a claim that requires evidence.”

Sure mate, and Biden (whose politics on Israel Kamala explicitly said she approve) didn’t send 2000lb bombs (that the US Military themselves don’t use because they have too much collateral damage) to Israel to bomb Gaza with.

On the Israeli Genocide, by their own words Kamala and Trump were very much the same.

On Iran, probably not.

On Fascism in America itself, definitely not.

I think you’re confusing Morality - things like “I shall not harm others” - with social norms - like your polygamy example.

Morality derives from Empathy - the higher a person’s Empathy the less likely they are to do things to hurt others because due to Empathy they actually feel bad (mainly guilt) when exposed to the hurt in others which they caused.

Social norms on the other hand are things which we in society have agreed are better done that way for the good of all. Some do indeed overlap with Morality, but others are just the product of figuring out over centuries that societies are more stable and last more if those things aren’t done (for example, polygamy as a widespread practice - rather than when only done by very few and very rich men - yields societies with lots of angry young men unless such a society is constantly at war and hence most young men die in it, so generally being against polygamy is just logical). In simple terms, societies with social norms that don’t work or without some social norms quickly self-destructed or were destroyed by other societys which were more prosperous (or even more violent)

There is no necessity of people being told not to hurt others - it’s a natural thing for people who aren’t high on the Psychopathy, Sociopathy or Narcissism spectrum and hence have empathy, plus even for those there is the fear of reciprocation by others, which is why most hurting of others is people with more power doing it to those with less power (something, which by the way is inconsistent with the “Morality comes from Religion” theory - if that was the case, the powerful being just as Religious would do no more harm to others than the powerless).

Mate, if the only reason you won’t cause suffering or even murder others is because religion told you so, you have deep, deep personal character issues, being either a Sociopath or Psychopath - normal people feel guilty when they see the hurt they caused to others and thus refrain from doing it further because it feels bad, no need to be actually told not to do it.

It would be hilarious if this led to the resurgence of 90s-style internet.

Ironically your instance lemmy.world is one of the instances more tighthly controlled to stay on message with the United States political view, with even one of its bigger forum moderators there being openly a Zionist and is source of a ton of pro-Liberal (US-style Liberal rather than more leftwing interpretations of it such as Social Democracy) messaging (still today a lot of people go around hammering the “Kamala would’ve been better” key on the Genocide even though she was openly an unwavering supporter of Israel plus in a World scale of politics she’s barelly to the left of Trump mainly differing in that Trump wants Fascism at home and abroad whilst she wants the Fascism to stay abroad).

Hell, back when I had a lemmy.world account one of the admins even leaked my registration e-mail to Israel and I started getting “learn about Israel” e-mails on it IN MY NATIVE LANGUAGE.

Not that I disagree with you when it comes to most lemmy instances, it’s just that lemmy.world along with the tankie instances is very much “shaped” and controlled, though in a more “modern western propaganda” style rather than the heavy handed ban hammer way favored by the tankies.

I can totally understand how the previous poster reached their conclusion about Lemmy even if I disagree that it applies to Lemmy in general.