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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

Indeed, it kills me how much perfectly hardware is constantly thrown out because Windows refuses to run on it.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

I think the trick has to be that somebody who has a bit of technical skill sets the laptop up initially. I did this for my mom a while back, and once I set it up once, it just worked from there on. Non technical users tend to have a fairly small set of things they need to do like check email, browser the web, and play media. Once that's working, they never need to change anything. In fact, they don't want to change anything because they get used to the workflow, and they're comfortable.

It would be great if people set up community centres where people can bring their old laptops, and somebody switches them over to Linux for them.

 
[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 points 12 hours ago

it's good to be ahead of the curve :)

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 4 points 12 hours ago

Where do you think 5% military spending is going to come from. It's gonna be funded by austerity and cuts to science.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 3 points 12 hours ago

I think if the proletarians were able to read it back at the start of the 20th century when literacy was far worse and information was much harder to access, there's little excuse for people not to read it today. It's the one proven way to improve conditions for the working majority. We are in a privileged position where all the theory and practice is available to us having been won by prior generations, and we're too lazy too bother learning it.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 1 points 12 hours ago

lol yeah it's in the name

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

that's a very similar scenario now that you mention it

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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 day ago (5 children)

The key part is that the overall European budget for science is microscopic in comparison. Very few scientists will actually be able to move there.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 day ago (5 children)

That's by far the most frustrating aspect of the whole thing. It's not like they were hiding this. You can literally read articles like this, published in mainstream press explaining in detail why the US wanted to have a proxy war with Russia. It's all in the open, and yet we're still having these struggle sessions with people adamantly denying that this is a proxy war.

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/strategy-avoiding-two-front-war-192137

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

Yeah, like how do they not see this project as being strategic for them.

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