Whose space program caused significant dent in their already broken economy just to compete with the US. Won’t call that thriving.

Also China is not socialist. It is state a owned authoritarian capitalist country at best. It just calls itself is socialist but ranks no. 2 in total number of billionaires after the US.

And during both regimes’ socialist/communist eras, each country’s individual death toll, as a result of the economic policies and the authoritarian regimes, was more than the Nazi holocaust. I won’t even call that a thriving civilization let alone thriving of science.

neither do I. 🙃

Did I ever say capitalism is good? I am saying extreme ends of both economic systems are impossible if you want a free and thriving society.

I am not saying capitalism is great.

You guys ignore the very fact that socialism and communism is a failed system because they are so extreme in its nature. You have to make people believe that the opposite is worse. Capitalism is failing today because it is going towards an extreme, both are the 2 sides of the same coin. Having the best of both worlds is what will create balance. The capitalism from 50 years ago and capitalism today are vastly different. Because earlier we were either centre-right or centre-left.

technology and science would thrive and prosper in a cutthroat society where people kill and steal from each other over any tiny advantage they can get?

It definitely didn’t thrive under socialism.

Ever wonder why there are fights over territories, mates, food, water? Even trees fight other trees for the groundwater. Even when pet dogs have abundant food supply, they still hoard as much as they can when they are given something to eat and not hungry. It is just unsaid in nature because obv there are no agreements, MoUs, or money involved. When a Tiger has control over a territory, most other Tigers agree to it until some other challenges it.

all work in tandem

It is the ecosystem that works in tandem when you zoom out from an individual living being level.

I gave you a plethora of actual evidence of human rights in an actually existing socialist country

Yeah, Cuba. Where everyone is poor w/o any major scientific and cultural influence in the world.

And yeah, USSR. They did try to influence the world but its internal economy was so shit that it couldn’t even exist for 100 years and was a one party authoritarian regime. In the end it started to shift towards to capitalism. Also they supported the Nazis during Poland’s invasion. The population who was so frustrated with their country that they toppled the Berlin Wall when USSR was collapsing.

But please elaborate: why is the nationalization and collectivization of means of production so vulnerable to greed?

Because the very nature of life I explained to you earlier. Life evolved in such a way that it is the survival of fittest, which requires hogging up all the resources as much as you can. Greed is ingrained in every living being’s DNA.

Even you are greedy to want to divide all the wealth equally because for you it might be the only way to get richer than you currently are. It is not a matter of if being greedy is right or wrong, it is a matter of if your greed is so high that it destroys other people’s lives and where to draw that line as a civilized society.

All the “center-left checks and balances” with strong union membership in the 1960s-1980s disappeared overnight

They never existed in practice in the U.S after the collapse of the USSR because communism failed and thus the perception swayed towards the extreme capitalist way. Later the extreme lobbying by the wealthy and anti-left got rid of the whatever regulations of systems that didn’t allow them to be absurdly rich. It is called lobbying in the west while we call it corruption.

Before that when the governments didn’t used to only work for the wealthy, the system was performing better than any other one. Europe’s War Torn economy was improving, The US was in its golden economic age and all this while people overall had more rights and freedom than any socialist and communist regime. It started to go haywire when the extreme capitalists started to take over and the government stopped working for all the people but only for the rich.

There is no point in living in an extreme capitalist and a fascist country nor there is a point living in a poor socialist or communist country.

Communism is just impossible to implement. It only takes one human’s greed to destroy the system. Center-left is far more plausible where the economy is capitalist with lots of checks and balances to counter extreme capitalists’ greed and the state having control over essential industries and important parts of the economy (energy, water supply, transportation, education, healthcare and stuff) while abolishing religious systems to nil the discrimination on that end.

The entire concept of life itself is very capitalist — You have to exploit all resources available to you so you can survive and thrive. Only some species share resources — that too if they are in abundance for them.

Blame folks like Jobs and Gates for this and all other tech giants who made technology extremely user friendly instead of educating the masses how to actually understand and use your computer safely. Now they are just sheeps.

But I don’t think it would make any difference. What would actually secure the account is the internal account password which both Signal and Whatsapp already have.

If a phone gets stolen, you can easily file a complaint, get that sim deactivated and a replacement within an hour. Put it in another phone and logout of any accounts from the stolen phone. If the stolen phone has a lock, then it is pretty difficult for a random thief to extract the data from the phone.

Source: My phone was stolen in 2014 and had my brother’s phone number in it who was in another country. My parents lodged a complaint the next day, deactivated the sim and got a replacement in 3 hours. My phone didn’t have a lock but thankfully I did not have any sensitive data on it and I reset my google account password ASAP after I lost it and logged out of all devices. I still use all the important accounts that were on that phone till this date.

So I doubt the new measures will be any useful given that you already need to verify your govt id and biometrics to get a phono number in the first place.

I doubt because to get a phone number in India you already need to provide and verify your government id and biometrics. Without it even the vendor can’t hit next button to allocate the phone number.

I doubt because to get a phone number in India you already need to provide and verify your government id and biometrics. Without it even the vendor can’t hit next button to allocate the phone number.

I can’t even have 5 tabs open even if I try. I always close a tab when I am done with it.

Huh, interesting. Because other than appearance and keyboard shortcuts, I haven’t configured anything to affect these behaviors.

I switched my laptop last year and installed Arch with Plasma 6 so it was working out of the box. My previous laptop had Arch with Plasma 5 and then updated to 6 and also had Gnome before that. So it could have been I might I have configured something over there to get those things working (I don’t remember doing that though) but the newer one had it by default.

You might have configured something that broke it because there ain’t no way what you are saying is not supported on Linux.

I know Arch is a rolling release so it doesn’t have that on purpose, but it’s not much better with Ubuntu - I was getting updates every couple of days, once a week at best.

You don’t have to update if you don’t want to and you can schedule your updates as well with a bash script (although I prefer to do it manually once a week). I have a Windows VM used for MS office and Adobe that hasn’t been updated for months.

Window tiling doesn’t exist “out of the box”, you need third party software

It is out of the box. Meta + Arrow Keys and/OR Meta + PgUp. I use it all the time lol since KDE Plasma 5 and Gnome whatever version it was 3 years ago.

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Saving window positions (on Wayland) is the most confusing one

Confirmed works by FarrellPerks@feddit.uk in above comments. Although I never tested or cared for it.

SDDM displays the same interface on each monitor, and each is a separate instance of SDDM

I don’t know about desktop towers, for laptop it is always only one instance — my laptop display, monitor is dark before I hit enter. And for the normal KDE lockscreen, it does give it on both the screens but I can enter my password in any one of them and logon.

if you disconnect an extra screen, all the content gets dropped on the main screen. Since Windows 11, if you then re-connect the screen, all windows will pop back into their places before the disconnect happened.

same happens on KDE Plasma.

Linux has all of this out of the box (don’t know about windows positions after reboot, I have never tried that even on Windows). What distro and DE are you using? I am using Arch with KDE Plasma and it has been pretty much flawless and stable for me.

Wait… Either I have bad grammar or you misinterpreted lol. I meant “Linux has more to offer than Windows”

I really don’t see what more Windows has to offer than Linux other some shitty software that cannot be run on Linux (Looks at newer Office and Adobe). In that case I can just boot up a VM with black-flag Windows Pro on it.

JF becomes better or Plex becomes worse

Both will happen.

Besides.

some subtitles work on one, but not the other and vise versa

For me it has worked everywhere. All of my media is in .mkv so it already contains the subtitles. It works in all browsers clients, Desktop clients, TV and Mobile clients. Works in VLC and MPV as well on desktop, TV and Mobile. Works with Kodi as well. Works on same network (via both host IP and reverse proxy) as well as remotely via Pangolin.

So you can try putting everything in one MKV Container or maybe change the subtitle formats (if that’s a thing).

I use Arch BTW — just in case if Arch has that in their terms.