raven

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[–] raven@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It isn't just programming. There are literally hundreds of desktop environments to choose from which let you customize things much more in depth than windows can.

XFCE for example would let you put your task bar dead center in the middle of your monitor if you wanted to, no programming required. Another reply links to a guide that requires no programming.

[–] raven@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

It forced me to sign up so my brother could play minecraft bedrock. I had had it disabled but had to reenable it because windows threw a tantrum that I was using a non-microsoft windows account.

[–] raven@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

It doesn't for me. I just have to alt-tab around it until my next reboot if I'm stuck using windows.

[–] raven@hexbear.net 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

That's the beauty of Linux, it isn't "they should make" it's "you can make"!

[–] raven@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is that true? I thought if you had bought java before a certain point you automatically got bedrock when it launched, but it's still just one license?

[–] raven@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

Clearly I'm not communicating this very well, and I only meant it as an off hand comment not a world changing statement. No, I wasn't concerned about efficiency, just pointing out that we know how to do voting, but bourgeois democracy chooses not to.

[–] raven@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

My point is that we know what introduces sample bias, that's it. it's already gamed to the point that it's hardly worth talking about.

[–] raven@hexbear.net -1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

If you actually wanted to do democracy (and I think one day we will want to do democracy for many if not most things, once the average person is not quite so steeped in false consciousness) you would treat it the same way you would treat a survey. I don't think each and every person voting actually matters, just like you don't have to ask every soul in America to find out, say, America's favorite pie. If only 1% were sampled to vote and it was done so in a reasonably unbiased way, your results would be 99.999% in line with the average American's opinion/wants.

Takeaway: We've been doing studies and combating sample bias for hundreds of years, including before "democracy" began in the US. We know how to do it, it's genuinely never been tried.

[–] raven@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago

Israel should have put a moratorium on genocide that day too. Pretty tone deaf tbqhsmdhmdh 🤔 😔

[–] raven@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Maybe we'll have a double leap day some year in the next millennium, and since no mass shooting events will have happened before on "that day" you can do a protest then.

[–] raven@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I accidentally discovered that super glue is a useful temporary callous. Don't apply too much in one go because it reacts instantly on contact with your skin and it gets hot.

[–] raven@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago

Doing things is political. Doing and changing nothing is not political and therefore good.

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