Someone posted a can of beans in lemmy.world's shitpost community and said lemmy users will upvote anything. It got a couple thousand likes and rose to the top of the feed. I found it mildly funny at the time, but the way it is still beeing regurgitated reminds me to much of reddit.

Well, there are the fascists(exploding-heads.com) and the communists(lemmygrad.ml) for a start.

You have some national instances such as lemmy.ca, aussie.zone, feddit.de, feddit.nl, feddit.uk and feddit.it.

Beehaw is busy building their ivory tower by defederating anyone with a slightly different oppinion so i'd say they are the centrists or maybe the swiss.

Other than that the rest is pretty much the same, if you ask me.

Ngl, the blue and yellow sheep cracked me up a bit.

The "which side are you on" is kind of ironic isn't it? I mean afaik it's from an american socialist song which calls for solidarity between workers.

I probably have more in common with russian (or ukrainian for that matter) conscripts than with the weapons manufacturer CEOs who benefit most from this shitfest.

They don't tend to last very long because of US interference. But if you don't use time as a merit but other measurable factors such education, social security or healthcare, I'd say they score at least en par if not better than SocDems.

I mean, one of the central goals of communism to abolish ownership of the means of production.

Software used to produce something of value is a resource that in a communist society should not be owned. The only way to achieve this is to let everything be opensource.

So communists clearly like the free software movement, whether inverse is true is a matter for debate.

I'm pretty sure the "Deutsche Bank" hasn't stopped betting on rising global food prices since 2013.

True, together with lentils they are my goto protein source. If only they wouldn't cause petarades... Or maybe I'm just cooking them wrong :D

local anarchist groups and CPUSA/ML groups working together at rallies and picketlines.

True, but try putting that into a meme :P

If your anarchism starts and stops at your screen you're just a liberal. Same for Marxist Leninism.

Yeah maybe liberal and activist woud've been more accurate.

I get where you are coming from, I used to be pretty anti authoritarian.

But if you give me the benefit of the doubt, I can suggest an article by Friedrich Engels on the topic, which ultimatively changed my mind: https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Library:On_authority

If you're new to linux and want to stay safe I have a couple of tips:

Never run commands you don't understand. Research what they are doing before you run them. Try to become used to doing everything from the commandline. It may be daunting at first, but it helps understanding what the GUIs do and hiw to fix things if they break.

Use the packagemanagement of your distribution where possible. For example in ubuntu use the "apt" command to install software from the commandline or the software center to install them from the GUI. I'd avoid .deb files from random internet sites as installing them is the equivalent of installing random .exe-s on Windows. It could be safe but you don't really know for sure. tar.gz-files are the compressed source code of the application so while technically more transparent as a newbie i'd still avoid them.

Choose a widely used distro. Especially as a newbie it can be difficult do assess what's wrong. It helps if there are a lot of other new users googling the same problem.

To start I'd suggest Ubuntu on a Virtualbox-VM. Make frequent snapshots so you don't have to reinstall your whole system if you break something.

For most older windows only offline games someone usually has already created a bottle or made an installer on playonlinux. With online games anticheat might act up (I tried valorant and LoL, both didn't work)

If you're loking for a DAW on linux i can recommend Ardour.

Unfortunately some hardware sellers (like canon, ugh) have no linux support. So now whenever I buy something new I research their support before I buy any products.

I was an intermediate user for a long time, but what helped me get more into it was following the archlinux installation guide. Really showed me how the system is build "under the hood". Like what the difference between a compositor and a window manager is and stuff like that.

Next, if I find the time, I plan to go the gentoo/lfs route, wich is basically building the car from it's parts.

Laughing about dead bourgeoise can never come soon enough.

kiddo needs more time before jumping in.

Maybe he would have more success if he sat instead. :P

No wine is a dependency, it's installed automatically. Yes, they don't include any game files. They would probably get in trouble with copyright if they did. The setup was something like this, iirc: 1.Install POL 2.Insert the disk and mount it/Download your game from your seller(eg. GOG.com) 3. Search for the game in the POL UI 4. Start the installer and select the installation exe

Me too xD

Yes kind of. Both use wine. Basically wine is not like a vm where you simulate the whole windows os but rather the libraries your program needs to run translated to linux.

For playonlinux here is a list: https://www.playonlinux.com/en/supported_apps-1-0.html

Don't worry, "true" and "false" are terms of the petty bourgeoise anyway.

Oh I misspelled it. Petarades is a fancy word for farts. Read that somewhere and sounded kinda funny, as comes from pétarade (backfire) in french. English is not my first language so I though it would be more common than it actually is.

Oh, this is super usefull info, thanks. I am no native speaker, is brine just salty water, or is there something else like vinegar required?

With air lock you mean like a mason jars?

Ah I don't think the smell is going to be an issue, I'll just place them on my balkony. I think I'll give it a try, thanks for helping me fart less :P