I think it’d be hard not to get cynical when in such a situation. It’s why it’s so important to amplify the voices of marginalised people and bring them into the fold, they have needs as a society we need to see to them. It really shouldn’t be that hard. Unfortunately a lot of people don’t realise that being healthy and able-bodied is a temporary state, and at some point or other we’re all going to need some form of support.

We all benefit from ensuring it’s there.

Mm. You’re describing someone very dear to me, because of whom I wear an n95 mask every day.

People you describe fight an uphill battle, and I don’t see that changing anytime soon. They can ask for accommodations, but a lot of people won’t meet them. Meetings can be held digitally, of course, and one can advocate for oneself digitally as well. In time they can hope to win allies, and with them also get advocates that are willing to help amplify their voice.

I’m sorry, but I don’t have any good solutions. The world is neither kind or fair, the best we can hope for is to build communities with people that empathise and see us.

I wish you the very best.

Unions would do that if more people who cared about it joined unions and pushed for it. Unions only work if you’re actively doing stuff in them. It’s democracy, it only works so long as you partake.

Yeah. But this already happens, unfortunately.

I wouldn’t bet on it.

A couple of weeks ago I rebooted into Windows for the first time in well over 8 months, as I needed to use a piece of software I don’t have on Linux (it’s available, I’m just refusing to pay for it and no alternative method has materialised), and getting anything done was incredibly frustrating.

First everything had to update, and I was forced to log in to a bunch of stuff. My web browser spontaneously vanished, as did Discord. No idea why. Opening Explorer consistently took several seconds because it always decided to poll my external drive before displaying anything, even if I didn’t do shit in my external drive.

Explorer being slow applies on my work PC too, and I have to use Windows on that. Every day I wonder how it’d be to put Linux on it.

Nautilus just opens the moment I click on it. Always.

I hate Discord with a passion. Trying to get everyone I know away from it.

I’ve never been accused of being a smart man.

I worry that the replacement is more likely a move to platforms like Discord. I mean it’s already happened in a lot of projects.

Lmao, when?

What @catloaf@lemm.ee said.

It amuses me that expressing understanding with the retaliation is forbidden. I definitely understand why a militant extremist group has arisen after decades of oppression and genocide.

Like, how do you negotiate your way out of that peacefully? Where in history has oppression on that level been defeated through diplomacy?

I seem to have forgotten the part where the allies defeated Nazi Germany by asking nicely. Surely no war was fought for recognising black people as humans in the U.S.

Perhaps Ukraine should put down their weapons and ask Russia to pretty please stop invading their country and killing their people.

Ugh.

Oh yeah, absolutely not saying that the content should be dismissed, just surprised that any vegans would touch the platform. I’ve just not heard anything good about it.

Isn’t substack a Nazi site? Feels kind of weird that vegan content would be on there.

Everyone should be engaged in a union.

tell them you’re sorry about it, but that you’re grateful that you have the flexibility to do so

What are they supposed to be sorry about?

If you have a USB stick you could just boot up a live CD of the operating system.

Even this can depend a lot. I’ve some friends that play that Marvel game (Rivals?) and it works great on Linux. I myself have played Monhan and Warframe a lot on Linux. I’m not much of a competitive player, and I think where you might run into problems is competitive live-service titles.

Guild Wars and Final Fantasy XIV are both multiplayer games and work flawlessly for me.

Some games might require some fiddling you might not have on Windows, but it’s not that bad.

Even VR is pretty plug and play, though I’ve not bothered with FBT yet, and I think it differs a lot depending on what headset you have.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. AMD CPU with NVidia graphics.

I mean it’s in the name, Lutris. I am trying really hard to see a cowboy now though.

There’s nothing wrong withwith WiFi 6, you can do perfectly fine transfer rates with that. It’s all up to Nintendo. The 3DS and Switch didn’t need to be limited to dial-up speeds but that’s what we got.