Notices by ivy 🏴🏳️‍🌈 (weirdoslam@anticapitalist.party), page 12

@mona @Altivo

Many companies have been founded and failed on the premise of making Linux into a desktop operating system. Why? Because the various packages needed to build a desktop OS are designed for servers, not desktops. Drivers are buggy or missing, because hardware manufacturers know there's no money in Linux. Applications aren't as polished.

Capitalism is your problem here. The issues with the FOSS community could be solved and we'd still face this problem.

@mawr @Altivo that's well and good but meanwhile the rest of us know only that if we want some hope of using a computer without fighting constantly with it it's Windows or nothing

meanwhile Windows gets worse, more and more an instrument of power and autocracy

there's a public duty here that the FOSS community is simply _abandoning_ because they're resting on their laurels

@mona @Altivo

So here's where I take issue with your anger, Mona -- You're trying to hold the entire FOSS community as accountable for the failings of the very model that makes them unique.

There's no central control here that can force these individual projects to march in line.

Yes, the community exists to serve its own needs, because the general public giving them feedback like yours understandably makes all of them want to turn their backs on them.

someone: "what's solarpunk?"
me: Solarpunks believe that a better world is possible 😉 and we can build it in the shell of the old 😉 using direct action 😉 and mutual aid 😉. We believe in producing for people, not profits 😉 in decentralized 😉 cooperative workplaces 😉 and replacing oppressive power structures 😉 with community-level 😉 direct democracy 😉

@Altivo @mona

Linux as a collection of FOSS projects is presently failing and stagnant in many areas the general public considers to be essential to an operating system.

Those failures and corresponding stagnations can be largely attributed to the FOSS community's culture of "If you don't like what I did, make something better," specifically presented as a common response to requests for features or improvements with which the project owner disagrees.

@mona Unless you describe your problem, you are demanding that developers read your mind. Neither they nor the computer can do that.

@mona And to get the specialist to create that custom fit solution, you must be able to articulate your needs clearly. You can't go to the doctor and just say "I hurt" yet expect them to magically provide a perfect cure. It takes time, effort, and a lot of question and answers to arrive at the solution, if there even is one. Linux may or may not be part of the cure, but it would only be a piece.

@mona I don't see how you can blame Linux developers if you can't explain what's wrong or articulate what you want. You don't have to write the code, but you do have to provide a clear argument for what you need. That's how it has always been.

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Our local City-County Council is talking about making it illegal for houseless people to do things like lie down outside.

You know, like you have to if you LIVE OUTSIDE.

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Well, I plan to use this once more people (Hopefully) show up, so here goes:

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Have fun rotting in my own personal hell!

how DO i get ALL of my ribs turned into cute girls? that's the most ambitious crossover event in history

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im not gonna name and shame but like... some of them starting with frama-... and some of them ending in -amot.... for example....

oh my god this panel is 100% twitter (from http://existentialcomics.com/comic/252)

and also *some* specific mastodon instances :thaenkin:

this is why the collective and the (inter-)personal will always co-exist. pre-empting one or the other wholesale (or selectively, based on biases, branding, opportunism, etc.) is how things start getting fascistic or otherwise totalitarian. that's mostly the right's wheelhouse, but there's nothing that says it can't start creeping in on the left as well.

fucking this up is actually ableist *in general*. the spectrum includes people who have pronounced social impairments.

asserting otherwise -- not as an excuse, but as an acknowlegement of actual things -- is the anti-autistic version of kicking out someone's cane because John McCain was a rat bastard

community standards around behavior, interpersonal dynamics and group dynamics don't exist in isolation from each other

also, assume good intent and "check for good faith" aren't necessarily the same thing. they should be, but the former gets used as a dog whistle for free speech absolutism, especially by techies