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  • Camelbeard@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldKapitalism
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    14 days ago

    Exactly, this is why strong laws are needed. In the end we (the people) all benefit. Maybe a small example but when the EU started to push for usbc as the only standard, it made things lot better. If you are older and still have a drawer with 15 chargers all with different plugs, voltages and amps you known what I mean. Back in the day before cheap chargers from aliexpress, just replacing a simple charger from the manufacturer could be a pretty expensive thing.



  • In a classic example you have a village with 2 bakeries, one of the bakers came up with a machine to kneed the bread, so he can make more bread and sell it cheaper. This is sort of the story people tell to show how great capitalism is.

    But we have reached a point where that one bakery now owns a chain of bakers, adds ingredients to the bread to make it more addictive, skips on actual ingredients needed for bread and replaces them with sawdust, made donations to the current political party so any competition has to jump through hoops to get a bakery license, etc.








  • The best advice I heard in my 20s don’t spend your raise. If you can live of X and now you make Y, still live of X and put everything you don’t spend in a few ETFs. Don’t try to be smart en beat the market, don’t buy stocks, etc.

    Just 3 or 4 ETFs that cover the world. Or if you want to be smart read up on the permanent portfolio or all weather portfolio.

    You don’t need a more expensive car if your current car still works, you don’t need a new phone every 2 years, etc. Buy what can’t be fixed, don’t pay for upgrades that are not really going to improve your life.

    Also buy things that don’t expire (toiletpaper, dishwasher soap, etc) in bulk when the offer it really good.

    You don’t have to live as a bum but you can still make sure you don’t overspend.


  • Mint is great I use it on my desktop and laptop and have been for years (I switched when Ubuntu has that unity desktop period). For Linux it’s the most “it just works” distro for me. My second choice would be manjaro, but mint also has the advantage that there is so much help for Ubuntu you can find online, that usually also works for mint.




  • Camelbeard@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldNo one suspects a thing
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    1 month ago

    I have been using Linux for 20 years now, as a main OS for at least 15. Linux isn’t perfect in any way and I have fucked up my system many times. But in those 20 years I maybe have felt to need to ask for help 2 or 3 times, because al the other 999 times with some searching I found someone with the same problem and a solution. When you ask for help for something that can be found with 3 minutes of searching I totally understand people don’t feel the need to help you out.




  • I have a different theory.

    When you buy a desktop or laptop 99.9% of them will come with Windows preinstalled. Unless you get an Apple product, but than its 100% macOS.

    So everyone running Linux has chosen to not go for the easy option, but spend some time and effort to install something they prefer.

    So that immediately is a filter, where people that just go for the default easy option are filtered out.

    So it makes total sense the Linux community has more people that are not afraid to choose a path they perfer instead of just doing what everyone else does, because doing something else is harder and for many people scary.

    My experience (and this is purely anecdotal) is that the hacker/cybersecuruty community is also like this and has a lot of trans people compared to the total population.