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Google likes Israel, because it gets paid billions in American military subsidies to technologically enable Israel’s genocide. So it’s not surprise, it’s effectively lobbying for its own military contracts.

Almost, but vim can’t display images, doi!

That’s what catimg is for.

*Green Party of England and Wales.

I don’t really agree with the representation from your first paragraph. The European Commission is entirely picked and decided upon by member states. The commission is only as democratic or undemocratic as the governments of the member countries. The parliament is inevitably equally or even more (bourgeois) democratic from being PR alone. So it’s a minor overall improvement from national lawmaking.

Yes, the EU sucks, supports aggressive imperialism and enforces capitalism. I agree it has shitty articles. But unfortunately, so does every member state of the EU. If anything, I think the EU means less of capitalism’s worse excesses happen than they otherwise would. The EU is neoliberal, but continues to care more about personal and consumer freedoms than countries’ governments.

The key to my defense of the EU is just that they are the 90% Hitler to individual countries’ 99%. I’ll happily tear them down the microsecond there’s room for a meaningfully good alternative.

In a socialist world it would probably best to tear it all down and start again from scratch. For now, it’s a shitty mix of being a mediating force, lessening some of the worse parts, but also a stabilising force, making it harder to replace.

As a European, it’s been a long time coming. I would say tide turned in favour of it and both Ukraine and Israel-Gaza have been important factors - Most countries suddenly decided they didn’t have enough sway over public support for Western imperialism. And the big part of that has been the internet.

Sadly all those search engines directly or indirectly censor piracy results. I use DDG daily but they sadly do a lot of censoring results of various kinds, even just political.

Android is already thoroughly Linux-based ;) You just called all android users nerds!

I’m told my cute’n’calm Hexbear instance means there’s a lot of drama here I can’t see. So apologies if my tone comes off badly in the ol’ .ml context.

Rest assured I was just out for fun conversation to learn about atomic stuff :) Hope the rest of this thread ain’t too stressful.

Oof, fair enough, I certainly don’t see a lot of said ruckus. Cheers for the context.

It was a silly news article, it’s not true and was never widely practised.

You sailed into the UK in a small boat, during the period at which the country is at it’s most fascistic mouth-frothing about people arriving by small boats. Blame right-wingers.

Because I was being told the pros outweight the cons, and if I can get a better OS, then I want it? I feel like it was a reasonable question and we had a good conversation out of it.

I also put ‘normal’ in quotes myself, I obviously meant a non-atomic Fedora.

I feel like you’re coming across unnecessarily dismissively here, when I was just out for a nice conversation on the benefit of atomic setups (and got two! :) ).

This is very cool, and I can suddenly see atomic being useful for certain circumstances. Won’t be using it for my personal computer main driver, but hopping/resetting this is easily attracts me so. Thank you!

Thank you for the informative response! :)

saying don’t mention stability is proving the point

My point is that stability is already 100% fine for me now. So saying you’ll make my already rock-solid experience somehow more stable is meaningless. As a power user for over a decade, I’ve personally experienced zero issues where I wished Fedora was somehow more stable. It’s like telling me that Silverblue connects to the internet - Like yes, I already have that.

From what I’m reading, it sounds like the singular ‘pro’ is being forced to do cleaner, more self-contained practices. I can totally see how that would be helpful for some people. But personally, I would genuinely despise that kind of restriction.

I’m admittedly the kind of person who hates being forced to do the ‘best practice’ thing. I’m genuinely happy that my Linux distro will me rm -rf the root partition (with an ‘are you sure’ prompt these days :) ). I’m happy that if I really want to purge the kernel package with dnf, then I can. I want (and kind of need) my freedom to make a mess, if I tell Linux to jump, it will goddamn jump, even if it’s a bad practice technically terrible decision. I have zero interest in going all around the houses just to do it the technically correct (and sometimes less-effort-in-the-long-run) way. If I ever want a clean plate, I can still spin up a container just like you’re saying.

So I get the feeling that atomic is very much not for me, which is what I suspected :) Very glad that people like yourself find it an improvement, that’s what flavours are for!

Thanks for the response, though up to this sentence I’m hearing extra busywork and slow/annoying containerising, in exchange for vague security platitude and a tool which I can already use.

It’s also nice to be able to rebase your distro whenever you want to try out different spins and features, makes inter-fedora atomic distro hopping easy without destroying your configs.

I’m interested by this. Is there a uniqueness to Atomic setups such that you can (more easily) keep your user partition, GNOME configs, etc. and swap out the Fedora distro underneath?

new parties are as much a risk as they are a boon

A risk to what? I’m not sure there’s anything valuable at risk in FPTP elections anymore. Beyond the possibility of not getting more Labour just being Tory/Reform with red ties. And even that can’t really be “lost” by the Corbyn party. With the Tories dead in the water and unable to meaningfully split the vote, if most Tory/Reform voters last time vote Reform this time, then Labour is guaranteed to be absolutely demolished by Reform next election.

The Corbyn party is expected to draw away some Reform voters, at least. I think it has a lot of flaws, but hopefully it’ll be a platform to do at least some left-wing messaging.

Either way, Labour really have to enact PR before the next election or we will be governed by unmasked fascists. Corbyn party or no.

once it clicks, the pros far outweigh the cons

I would love to hear a pro about atomic distros that isn’t some vague platitude about security or stability. I have zero security/stability problems on my ‘normal’ Fedora.

As someone who has steadfastly avoided atomic distros because it sounds like an arseache and the last thing I want is more busywork. Convince me to switch!

Very fun, I’ve been rocking Fedora workstation for years. If Fedora could take off as the gaming distro that’d be great, I’ll get even more up-to-date top-notch graphics drivers without having to change distros

Governments have persistently censored and surveilled the internet ever-more on the basis of “but the children :(” without ever doing a single actually good thing for the children like decreasing class sizes or letting parents spend more time with their children. Both of which would actually help address the issue.

This is the equivalent of abstinence education, just keep 'em ignorant and then when they finally see porn on superundergroundillegalporn.com.illegal it’ll just be 10x worse.

You’re not wrong, but it absolutely is getting worse.