Being against humans can't possibly be a human ideology, so fascists don''t count under this protectionist umbrella, I hope.

I’ve had to switch to mint.

That bad, huh? I am sorry, I hope you get better.

you guessed it, I use joborun, like arch without systemd, runit optionally s6/66

why does this comment dance between ultra-naive to ultra-troll in my mind?

I’ve found it to be surprisingly stable

It sounds like you have used it extensively then, because the myth is spread by people who never tried.

I hate to burst your bubble but when it comes to 6-7digits of cash at stake what does "trustworthy" even mean? You mean between millions and his word to you he will choose his word? His previously stated values and principles?

The guy who made waterfox seemed pretty nice, friendly, committed to the cause, then sold the project to a data-miner, and so did the honest people who made startpage, the trustworthy privacy minded search engine? Now they see waterfox is independent again and not part of the big multi-natinal data miner.

Mozilla once again made a sudden change that breaks your previous profile or other functionality and if you dare roll back the upgrade your profile has been ruined in transition, so you are forced to start from scratch reconfiguring, setting up you std tabs, bookmarks, history .. Same stuff with TB, addons/plugins disabled, new "features" added, whether you trust them or not, added dependencies .. you roll back you lose.

The google chrome-engine is so intrusive in the way it runs, degoogled or not, it is hell to have on a system. Maybe inside a vm without anything else other than specific browser session may be ?ok? for fluff work, nothing private I hope.

The naivity of people to accept and sometimes welcom large corporations producing FOSS is what got us to this mess, and I don't mean users, but devs, distro managers, .. if it is legally FOSS it is OK, even if it is a huge trojan horse manufactured by corporations to penetrate an other wise safe and secure system. FOSS - no corporate involvement - may be it, but will it boot? LinFound. gets millions and millions to have board seats to influence kernel, and it seems to be dancing with their wishes.

Arch users HAVE to know

They do know this is a popular myth spread around by the antiquities of debian/mint/ubuntu users who wait a few years for Arch users to locate any bugs.

With the democratic party moving as far to the right as it had, there was little room for the rep.party to move to, other than where it is now.

This is the US political system's reaction to the popular uprising of the Trump years, the transition of Occupy-xyz to BLM ... It is like America of the 30s reacting and ending in the AmeriKKKa of the 50s.

One thing that the American left has way overlooked is the power over 80% of the population that Sunday morning propaganda and indoctrination has. Zombies like Biden can be drawn out of the alter closets and dropped as saviors of a crisis.

The health of the democratic tendencies of the US was evaluated by the revolution the Snowden revelations created. Since there was none, consider the corpse cold and stiff.

and from which trees many fascists will hang

So, a criminal can sign up, get on an on-demand bus, rob people, and get off

I wrote elsewhere in this thread extensively about what is the problem you try to solve before a proposal can be examined. Here you present such a problem, and it is so US-centric it is pathetic, I doubt very much you are from Canada for example, or even Australia, let alone the rest of the world.

Now, is the criminal a criminal before he gets into the bus/uber-taxi-van or does he become one by the time she/he exits? Anyone can be a possible criminal if you don't really know them, and still get surprised about the ones you do know.

It is amazing how deep social conditioning has gone in the US to create this culture against "sharing anything" and everyone having their own solution (after they pay for it) and having total disregard for those who can't afford an individualistic solution. You can buy education, shelter, food, health service, everything on your own in an open market for labor and commodities. Nobody needs solutions to common problems, only money to buy solutions.

You walk in Europe in any capital city and in touristy areas, and you can pin point those from the US from miles away. Criminals getting on buses, metro, public hospitals, are harder to spot.

Have you tried custom ROMs?

No, even when I did try years ago, to break into one device to get another system in, just the concept of what it takes to do so upset my stomach. I don't even like secure-boot hoops and EFI and try to get to bios booting everything. I did try it for a while, efi, and hated it some more. Bios - mbr .. and my nearly 10y old PC is faster than I would ever need.

It is amazing what google and MS project as security, both providing dummy terminals to their supercomputer as operating systems. What is security for android if you don't trust google (same manner for MS).

One can take it further, to any hardware we use, since we really don't have open-source free hardware. Maybe pre-Ryzen AMD and possibly core2duo may have been the closest less evil alternatives to what goes around now as 99% of computing.

Low density suburbs are a US thing, where chaotic lack of urban planning allowed people to spread out to cheaper land to build a home while passenger cars and fuel were in abundance and cheap. Compare an urban suburban area in Germany, where the majority of population lives in satelite villages (higher density little towns) served by one or two train stations in proximity to ride to the "city"/workplace of industrial center.

This US peculiarity was formed by policy controlled by the oil and auto industries, and their puppets politicians serving their interests alone, or risk never get re-elected. You can't design a transportation system to match chaos in all other respects. It may be too late to think in terms of efficiency how to cure US pathology. It is deep embedded in US lifestyle.

Rural Europe may not have adequate public transport but by historic evolution, farmers, owners and workers, lived in the center of an agricultural area, small town, small lots, marketplace centered in the middle of the town, and transportation needs were those of going to land and back. There was always a way to do so, animals, carriages, tractors, even buses in some respects. Expanding urban centers and lack of affordable housing had people either move to such towns or find work from such towns to the city, and this created new problems and challenges. Either a box like bed-sheet efficiency in the urban slams, or a decent small house in a village 1hr away.

I can't say there are no problems outside the US, it is just that many problems of the US are only in US and exist because of special industrial interests fully represented by government against ALL interests of public nature. Housing, food, health, energy, transportation, education, are intentionally disorganized and problematic in the US, as commodities regulated by cartels of industrial interests alone. An example of this collision of paradigms is the attempt by the US to parallely form two agreements as market/trade of N.Atlantic and one in Pacific rim. New Zealand, being geographically isolated from the rest of the world, deep South in the vilent south pacific, had created a domestic pharmaceutical industry for every drug it is considered essential. To open up to a free world market and allow it to go bankrupt, the chance to have to depend for imports for pharmaceuticals was by no means in the table for negotiation. The US members pushing for the agreement thought of this reaction as extreme as radical communist reaction to "open market".

Neither of these agreements have gone too far as far as I know or read recently. Various similar problems, the covid pandemic, brought new variables in the table the US had taken for granted that it is "common sense" for the entire planet that an open market should not be intervened or challenged by any government, by any interest group, by any humans! So we can't really talk about US totalitarian neo-liberalism when there is still evidence of resistance and anti-American sentiment in the world. It is too early for humanity to adopt to Hollywood fantasies and AI.

I am surprised nobody even acknowledged your post, and this may be an indication that not many have made this connection. So I applaud your initiative that has not received much attention since everyone is too scared to append classical political theory (are you listening Marxist?), let alone challenge it in its inability to interpret material realities of today.

Yes, the idea of contributing "work", produce, openly and freely, for anyone to consume, alter, reprodruce, without a direct "exchange" is probably the only area of the market that this is happening. Maybe public domain documents, art, theory, A/V material licensed as CC or Gpl are also important. Imagine we could do this with basic core survival necessities and construct autonomous communities with such an economy (or really lack of an economic system). But it may be happening with products that are not really material, and can be shared through a medium of low or no-cost. It would be hard to do this grains, building materials, fruit, vegetables, eggs (vegan god forbid :).

But, but, but, there are problems within this "commune" of open AND free sw.

1. The small problem is the elitism pushed by the ultra-libre foss crowd which lacks the self criticism that in order for people to locate the proper hardware so they can run ALL libre-sw they have to pay high prices, which some can't afford. Getting pseudo-refurbished used industrial equipment (DELL/HP workstations/pcs mostly) in sub 100 ($/Euro) values is what the vast majority of the world can afford and use. Nearly all hw in x86-64 platform though, even those that provide libre firmware/drivers etc, are not all open/free source. Most only work through binary blobs that are neither open or free. We can speculate but we may never know what is "iinside"... and just the specs of what they can do are scary enough.

2. The apolitical, non-critical, perspective among FOSS developers is that if "corporations" provide FOSS, or just open source, we can use that is good and we should rush to use it if it is functional and helps our experience and work. But especially large corporations have used this FOSS channel to manipulate, steer, and control the FOSS development, towards a direction that benefits them (and maybe the state agencies under which those mega-corps are protected, can profit, and exist). It is always an exchange system that rules those relationships. So companies like IBM/RH, Qt, Oracle, HP, google, facebook, ....etc. can provide foss code and push development towards something that is compatible with their tools, so independent developers can and will incorporate their platforms and move their direction.

It is like creating an autonomous community and allowing representatives of a corporation to work the fields but also participate in assemblies on how to run the community.

With linux foundation having the largest industrial names as seats of the board, and be paying 7digit salaries to the top signers of the kernel, within a year or two alone the kernel has grown more than 2X in size, full of industrial firmware and code, that most common mortals will never even see from a distance. So who are they contributing code to/for? Yes, 7digits in $/Eu yearly salary + "benefits", paid trips, paid talks, workshops, ... and the occassional consulting contract to sweeten the defaults of the next gen kernel.

So, enjoy your stay in this hippie pacifist commune called FOSS, but don't expect too much critical political thinking. Most devs are really dreaming of those 6-7digit salaries in the industry doing non-foss work while you are thinking commune. This is why their big fat name is placed on every little bit that is published. BUY ME BUY ME I AM FOR SALE!!! :)

1. We are at war, remember, nobody is innocent till proven not-guilty.

although you speak of $ I am not sure this is US or not. A title is either free clear in the name of the owner or had a lien on it and you can only transfer the ownership with a lien release. If the CU accepts for you to take over the balance of the loan, a new lien will have to go on your title for the old one to be released. The difference with a clean title and lien release in your hands is additional lien placement/removal fees charged by mva/dmv.

It doesn't matter whether he owes $11k or $1k on it, a lien is a lien. If it is smaller than the price he gets the balance, if it is higher he has to pay the difference for you to get the bike. When you buy a vehicle new and drive 100yd off the shop with it, it has lost about 20-30% of its value. Except in rare cases of high demand limited models you were lucky to have ordered long before everyone else wanted one. You change your mind and sell it at the spot, with a 100% financing, you end up paying 25-30% off your pocket for the sale. It doesn't seem fair, it is market dictated reality for the past 50years maybe.

For a 3 yold bike, I'd say 50% msrp is about expected.

The largest machines, the largest servers, nearly all supercomputers, are running on linux, or some form of unix to a lesser extent, not MSwin or other crappy non-FOSS mass-produced profit maker for the dumb and innocent "user".

may randomly become universal, like the Nokia BL-5C

I still use a small light old Nok with no camera, with my use I can go a week between charge, and have a few more and took the batteries out a few days and recharged them all. I can probably hike in remote areas and have a month of talk time now :)

By hating android the only ones I have are friends' old phones and tablets whose batteries died and costed too much to have it replaced. I would love to try a pinephone though to install my own linux on it.

Back on its day this bike became quickly famous for its handling, probably a decade ahead of its time, and the smaller alternative to GSXR750 (600 came much later).

It was also known for a design fault in the engine case where it would run dry of oil and mess up cranks and gear boxes, something the 750 and 1000 engines didn't have. It was almost bad enough for a recall, I am not sure if it was ever.

This brief moment of development to have 16" front wheels came at a time when forks were still perceived as glorified noodles, and the 16" was calling for a much more rigid fork to compensate for the light steering effect. By the time better forks appeared (45-50mm up.si.do) the sportsbike industry shifted to 17" wheels, more manageable by common mortals, quicker than 18. MotoGP bikes appeared larger on photos than they actually were because of their special 16.5" wheels, few people knew this. When a motogp bike stood next to a sup.sport production bike. it looked like a minibike, and the GP riders were mostly mini-size as well.

The VFR series bikes at the time was what Honda offered as sport bikes, not touring bikes as later vfr. This was before the CBR-rr frenzy. The line went 500, 750, then there were VF1000 and VF1000R. The last was a limited production supersport of the time, and people either loved it or hated. There was so much hi-tech that went to the vf1000r at the time it appealed more to engineers than sportbike riders. This bike had HRC written all over it, and was nothing like the rest of the VFs. Although riding it didn't impress people as much as the tech. it carried.

Sorry for the long history lesson "kids" :)

That took a dive as well in the last edition, unless you have systemd running many features like the top menu fails. Revert back to previous edition and your profile is ruined and you need to start from 0. A clever way mozilla has forced users to abandon their settings and be forced to go with their defaults. By the time you figure out what to disable again ... it is bye bye!

All librewolf community are large systemd only distros, it was all OK with them to stick it to non-systemd users. IBM pays good, and money is sweet! FOSS ... my w

Yes, I am sorry, knowing very little about games I didn't realize at the time this was actually a game, the content though is politically interesting.

I like your comment about environmentalism approaching religion, I hope not all, but one should take account of the process that derailed environmentalism to this stage (apolitical and irrational non-scientific). Even X-ianity as a vehicle to colonialism didn't do the damage "environmentalism" has. I remember long ago in my university days, I read this study this guy did for the world-bank to evaluate the possibility to convert rain-forest into farm land near the Amazon. The study as a whole came out very negative, predicting the land would turn to sand and nothing will grow or be able to live on this land in X years (single digit number). The WB fired him after, although in the fine print they had to have this study published as they paid for it, and the executive summaries presented was to go ahead and recommend to Brazil deforestation, use of land as farmland, population moved to the areas to increase development, if the WB/IMG/IBRD was to help Brazil out to get from the hole of bankruptcy. So the eco-disaster started under full knowledge of it becoming a disaster, so Brazil yet again would go bankrupt and default on loans, so banking sharks can go in and privatize all resources, sentencing the population to eternal poverty and the land an ecological disaster, from which they can profit.

Some decades later, w.europeans "environmentalists" decide to promote Bio-Diesel, nearly at every fuel station in DE, FR, NE, BE, LX ... now. So these environmentally minded companies go down to SE Asia jungles and acquire unimagineable right to exploit the forest, cut it down to create land for growing this seed that is not eatable by any animal, but yields maximum oil for biodiesel. The cost of this tropical wood produced by deforestation went so low that the cost to take it to the nearest ports became higher than the wood itself. So what do they do? They gather the logs into hills of logs with their automachinery (3' for strippting and uprooting a tree that is 50-100' high) and set it on fire. The fires were so big the smoke clouds could clearly be seen by satelites showing the entire SE Asia corner as zoom area. The same bozos are occupying seats on world conferences on climate change discussing CO reduction! This makes biodiesel extremely destructive for the earth ecosystems. In numbers, it can never add up to a significant fuel if the entire earth was used to plant it - no food! But euro-environmentalists will pay even more for a biodiesel mix than straight diesel believing they are paying to help the environment. Whose environment? SE Asia's?

It is one of those things where you ask whether you have lost your marbles or has everyone else around turned to a matrix zomby.

It is funny you can identify people proposing solutions to be from the US just by the attempt of solving a "non-problem", or a problem solved nearly everywhere else on the planet except for the US. Being home to the world's near entirety of energy trade, the earliest mass production of private vehicles, has a toll. The world's most faulty by design transportation systems.

Just looking at a US bus in comparison with buses anywhere else (like a 20 ton truck trying to move 2 tons a mile away) or even a schoolbus, tells you there is something seriously wrong here. So a stranger to the US tends to ask, who tried to solve whose problem here and ended up with this monstrosity.

There are people in Europe/EEC who work full time and make less than it costs an average "worker" in the US to go from home to work and back. And I am not talking about personal costs but general social cost.