I’m surprised they’re not adamantly against it, since AI code so frequently spits out garbage code, yet Debian is known for its stability. How can they not see the conflict here, especially to their reputation?

There used to be a GIMP plugin that changed everything to be like Photoshop, not sure if it still exists.

PhotoGIMP, and yeah it’s still around.

Personally I tend to just use Krita for most photo-shoppy things since I find the interface nicer to use, but I have to admit gimp has been making some solid improvements lately.

Three Days of the Condor

Excellent 70’s paranoid thriller.

I posted it to !fullmoviesonyoutube@piefed.social a while back, if you want to watch it.

EDIT: Agh, it was taken down from Archive.org. It’s available for free on Pluto though.

I post funny animations to !animation@piefed.social sometimes, and there’s !sillydrawingrequests@sopuli.xyz for some other fun stuff :D

There’s also !mealtimevideos@lemmy.cafe.

On the second point, Lemmy/piefed have the ability to export your profile to be imported into any other instance. It allows you to keep your subscriptions, favorites posts/comments, and blocked users/communities.

You can find the export and import section in your account settings page.

Ah, my bad. Thanks for letting me know! Edited my other comment to reflect that.

From what I understand, Piefed instances will have better support for Mastodon posts, and I believe it supports subscribing to Peertube channels already (something that Lemmy still doesn’t support…) Edit: It does support Peertube!

This article is confirming the extreme merit of Citizen Controlled Media, which has only become more and more important as an essential form of prefiguration as time goes on, since these alternative citizen controlled sources become virtually the only way to communicate truth to others that is otherwise censored in state or corporate controlled media.

It’s definitely a taste thing too. Unripe avacados have very little flavor.

Related to Movim; it just received Discord-like spaces a couple days ago! So it’s now a pretty effective decentralized Discord that can do group audio/video calls, screen share, and even has blogging built in.

Highly recommend anyone thinking about ditching Discord to give it a shot. It doesn’t even require an email to use, just a username and password :)

Traditionally, the business class T-series thinkpads were always easy to take apart and replace parts. All of the used lenovo thinkpads I’ve ever owned had marked screw holes on the bottom for the keyboard, which would let me slide it out without having to remove the case or anything.

The consumer Lenovos that weren’t based on the older IBM thinkpad designs were more standard designs like you describe.

Humanity can’t be fixed, will always be selfish, greedy, discriminating against other people who differ enough, since a bunch of these things are pretty much hard coded.

According to recent archeological evidence, the style of humanity that gives you that impression is actually quite a recent phenomenon in our species. This is explored quite thoroughly in David Wengrow’s and David Graeber’s book The Dawn of Everything, which gives very strong evidence that for most of human history, human societies were egalitarian as the norm, where as only about 8,000 years ago did we seem to get into the hierarchical exploitative rut that we’re still in today.

However, it appears to be quite possible to reawaken that old egalitarian impulse that has been suppressed in us for so many thousands of years, as demonstrated by the egalitarian mutual-aid focused society formed in Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War, of which tens of thousands participated in.

It would probably be at least somewhat determined by what you’re physically close to, and what a person’s capabilities and interests are (one that opted for medical training could be rotated into needed medical roles), plus what they’re personally willing to do.

we’re still in the position of a dystopian “today it’s your turn to work in the salt mines, comrade” decision being made by a higher power, and imposed by law.

There would be no state government in a libertarian anarchist society, and no institution that could force anyone to do anything against their will (if anything like that began to form, it would be in society’s best interest to dismantle it).

Ultimately the 2 to 3 months of work would have to be entirely voluntary, otherwise it would be dystopia.

You may then think that the whole concept comes crashing down in a house of cards, as there’s simply no way anyone would engage in that essential work without some coercive force above them making them do it, and thus everything becomes unmaintained, and everyone tries to free-ride on it until the the whole system collapses on itself. But this issue has been pondered for over 100 years now, and there are compelling counter-arguments that it’s still extremely viable.

As an example, this aspect was discussed at length by Peter Kropotkin in The Conquests of Bread (specifically Chapter 12: Objections).

It also breaks down why the Authoritarian Marxist argument of forcing people to work will only lead to the same conditions we’re trying to escape from:

“But the danger,” they say, “will come from that minority of loafers who will not work, and will not have regular habits in spite of excellent conditions that make work pleasant. To-day the prospect of hunger compels the most refractory to move along with the others. The one who does not arrive in time is dismissed. But a black sheep suffices to contaminate the whole flock, and two or three sluggish or refractory workmen lead the others astray and bring a spirit of disorder and rebellion into the workshop that makes work impossible; so that in the end we shall have to return to a system of compulsion that forces the ringleaders back into the ranks. And is not the system of wages paid in proportion to work performed, the only one that enables compulsion to be employed, without hurting the feelings of the worker? Because all other means would imply the continual intervention of an authority that would be repugnant to free men.” This, we believe, is the objection fairly stated.

It belongs to the category of arguments which try to justify the State, the Penal Law, the Judge, and the Gaoler.

“As there are people, a feeble minority, who will not submit to social customs,” the authoritarians say, “we must maintain magistrates, tribunals and prisons, although these institutions become a source of new evils of all kinds.”

Therefore we can only repeat what we have so often said concerning authority in general: “To avoid a possible evil you have recourse to means which in themselves are a greater evil, and become the source of those same abuses that you wish to remedy. For do not forget that it is wagedom, the impossibility of living otherwise than by selling your labour, which has created the present Capitalist system, whose vices you begin to recognize.” Let us also remark that this authoritarian way of reasoning is but a justification of what is wrong in the present system. Wagedom was not instituted to remove the disadvantages of Communism; its origin, like that of the State and private ownership, is to be found elsewhere. It is born of slavery and serfdom imposed by force, and only wears a more modern garb. Thus the argument in favour of wagedom is as valueless as those by which they seek to apologize for private property and the State.

Oh, right. Sorry, easy to confuse the meaning in this particular case 😅

I still think that it is important to standarize a canonical Linux core

If you’re not aware, Ubuntu Touch is no longer operated or developed by Canonical, they abandoned the project in 2017. UT was then picked up by UBPorts, a community effort to keep alive what Canonical left behind.

Personally, I don’t have a very high opinion of Canonical due to their use of CLAs, which also appear to be present in some fashion with UT and UBPorts as well:

I agree that some standardization would likely be beneficial in some areas (such as focusing on a single Phone UI and polishing it up). PostmarketOS is making the most progress on getting real Linux on mobile, so if I had to pick one project to support monetarily, and one that could become mainstream, or partner with a manufacturer like GrapheneOS did with Motorola, I think that would be the project to back, IMHO.

It is certainly not usable for the average person in it’s current state, hence why I suggest donating to it to help with developing it.

With proper funding and full-time devs, it would be able to focus on adding proper support to more phones, or potentially partner with a manufacturer like GrapheneOS just did with Motorola to get first-class support on a smaller handful of devices.

Postmarket is our only long-term mobile option that will remain FLOSS and in the users best interest, we just have to support it and help build it up into something we can all use :)

Theoretically, yes. Since everyone would share in both the unpleasant and pleasant work equally (the different jobs would likely be rotated out, to prevent one person permanently doing the really unpleasant work while another person always gets the easy work), it wouldn’t really necessitate that they are paid more than someone else on an easier work rotation.

In exchange for that base essential work being performed, every individual would receive free access to healthcare, education, basic housing, food, electricity, internet, and transportation. The tokens could then be used almost exclusively for luxuries created by other people in their now abundant spare time, or for an usually scarce resource.

This setup would entirely eliminate poverty, homelessness, hunger, debt, wage slavery, and economic classes.

However, that’s only if we want to retain a market system. An alternative is a gift economy, where there are no tokens at all (which is what The Dispossessed explores, and what was used in some parts of Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War).

In either case, those unable to perform certain jobs or any work due to disabilities would not suffer any reduction in benefits, and would still receive all of the same benefits/tokens as those who can do more types of work.

The issue with Ubuntu Touch is that unfortunately it’s not a genuine alternative to Android, as it actually relies on Android quite a lot to function as well as it does.

It generally uses an outdated Android kernel (which is also usually not receiving security updates) and a Halium abstraction layer to access the closed source binary blob Android drivers for the phone’s hardware. It also requires that it be installed on top of an existing Android install, so in all it’s more of Linuxified layer on top of Android, which means it’s not truly escaping the control of the Android/Google ecosystem.

PostmarketOS and Mobian are genuinely Mobile focused Linux distros that run the mainline up-to-date Linux kernel, right on the bare metal, meaning they are not subject to any influence from Google.

Both projects often collaborate and benefit from each other, they just use a different base distro (Alpine for PostmarketOS, Debian for Mobian), but that doesn’t result in any wasted effort, as ultimately any new developments, drivers, or new phone support are mainlined into the kernel itself, so both projects benefit.

They’re not as usable as Ubuntu Touch is right now, but they are ultimately the better solutions long-term to ensure that all the code is under community control so we aren’t reliant on outdated unsecure Android components.

Hm, the article I linked to about the foodbank system wasn’t ideal, here’s a better one (replaced the old one in my previous comment with it too).

The difference between pur current system and the foodbank system is every foodbank bidding for the limited resources are all given an equal amount of fake money before every bidding session without having to do anything for that fake money.

You could entirely eliminate wage labour if this system was adopted country wide. If profit motive was removed, all the bullshit jobs would no longer be done, leaving us with just the essential work to keep society running, like food production, housing creation/maintenance, medicine, utilities, etc.

If we then collectively spread the load of those essential things, especially combined with automating as much as we can, each person would only need to work roughly 2 to 3 months out of the year, with the rest being totally free time they could do anything with.

To see an extremely fleshed out version of how a moneyless society could look like in practice, I highly recommend reading Ursula LeGuin’s The Dispossessed.

For anyone reading this, please consider donating to PostmarketOS or Mobian if you have the means, as it will help us escape the Android ecosystem which is getting more and more anti-user due to google controlling it.