Software developer by day, insomniac by night.
I don’t think the U.S. has properly democratic elections due to problems like the FPTP voting system and the presence of gerrymandering. It’s simply not democratic if the votes can be manipulated in such a fashion that not all voices actually count.
I think I said it elsewhere, but the bar is in hell, and settling for that is unacceptable.
I feel like putting the U.S. and “democratically chosen” in the same sentence is a little bit of a stretch.
Are you sure that’s what they’re trying to do?
I often see people waving away the incremental enshittification of social systems in my country by saying “at least it’s not like the U.S.” but to me that’s burying the bar.
China and the USA are both run by nasty regimes, they suck in different ways (albeit increasingly less so), but you couldn’t pay me to live in either place.
Apples to oranges, but since they’re both rotted what virtue is there in accepting either one?
I mean it’s in the name, Lutris. I am trying really hard to see a cowboy now though.
Throwback to Microsoft renaming “zip file” to “postcode file” in English.
The difference here obviously being that actual humans worked on the localisation Mint uses, whereas I’m sure Microsoft just uses machine translation.
I feel like talk about Wayland being the next big thing, “coming soon” began back when I was using Linux as my daily driver over ten years ago.
It’s still not widely used?
Aaah, okay I see! Sadly this goes for pretty much all companies. It’s an inherent problem in capitalism. Money matters more than lives, so a company will happily throw people into a meat grinder if that’s going to pad their bottom line.
There are no good corporations.