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I don’t even use lemmy and that was interesting to read.

From a capitalist perspective it’s ideal if your workers are on the verge of poverty, living paycheck to paycheck. That’s exactly where you want them.

People in that situation won’t complain. Won’t stand up for themselves or their rights. Will take poor treatment and deal with it. Will work in unethical or even illegal ways and keep quiet because they have no choice.

Even better if you can tie people’s health insurance to their job, then you’ve really got them by the balls.

I’ve got a pretty decent job, and earn pretty good money. But I’m the only earner in a family of four and no, we haven’t made all the best financial decisions at times.

What you have described is exactly where we live, and while there isn’t that much I want to stand up to at work in the first place, 100% I don’t make any waves that don’t have a basis in the hard facts of my job, and for this very reason. I’d like to go in an ask for a merit based raise, I’d like to fight harder for more people to be hired in our (spread very thin) department, and there are a few other things I’d like to at least ask for and feel OK about standing firm on.

But I don’t, because I don’t want to jeopardize what I’ve got.

It’s true that I would not have put up with bullshit idiots in administration.

This is, on some level, exactly what they are worried about.

“Don’t attribute to malice that which can be sufficiently explained by stupidity.”

Thank you!

There is a way to sub to Kbin magazines from Lemmy, unfortunately I don’t know what it is.

On the kbin side I can search all “magazines” for keywords and Lemmy communities will come up there, and I can sub that way. I’d assume there’s a similar reverse method on the Lemmy side.

If someone more knowledgeable wants to let me know how to format the link in a way that will work for Lemmy folks I’ll remember it for the future.

Yeah, I should’ve mentioned that “root” or “OG” rap went into that more often

Here’s a few (many still not that new I admit) to get you started - mostly rap but not all rap. Not posting these to argue with you, posting to help you discover some new music. 🙂 Each of these is a personal favorite of mine. (Edit: I see you are in Brazil. I admit these are somewhat US-centric in some cases.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFazh_Z69uQ 2020 Arrested Development - Amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKHf1YVATfk 2012 B. Dolan - Which Side Are You On?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNUl8bAKdi4 2020 Public Enemy and Others - Fight the power 2020 Remix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO18F4aKGzQ 2007 Brother Ali - Uncle Sam Goddamn (this one really hits)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKHsGh-y8d8 2012 Brother Ali - Mourning in America 2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S18KrqrC01U 2022 Dropkick Murphys - Dig a Hole (you can say this is about Nazis because of when the lyrics were new, but based on this recent clip, yeah, I don’t think they are only talking about WWII fascists in this cover)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlY9C6pzxKc 2014 Rob Hustle - Call the Cops

Edited to add: I have a tiny Kbin communityy/magazine specifically for music with a message. (I’m very nearly the only poster so far.)

I don’t know how to link it in the correct way for non-kbin folks to hit it, but it’s called Music With a Message https://kbin.social/m/musicwithamessage

Edit 2: Not sure if this is the way to do it for Lemmy folks: !musicwithamessage

I will continue to slowly grow the list there.

I kinda thought the ever-expanding acronym problem was being informally solved by a gradual transition to just saying “Queer.”

I am not a member of any of the groups that would fall under that categorization though, so I may be wrong.

I think the issue is that there’s a slow trickle of people who have just gotten in and go “Wow I just got in, has anyone got any tips?”

Find one or more feeds you like and pin them. I use the newly created For You feed (which algorithmically puts stuff there it thinks you will like) and a couple of topical feeds that are specific to my interests. I think it’s great. Way more content that I care about than there ever was on twitter, and way way more engagement between folks.

I’m a big proponent of Mastodon/Firefish in general, but while they win in volume, Bluesky is already pulling ahead for me in signal to noise ratio. (I think that’s very subjective to what things interest you, so YMMV.)

Yep. I’m sure they’ve made some duds, but they are my go to brand. Have been impressed in one way or another with everything I’ve had from them.

My number two is Lenovo.

For smaller things I’m a fan of Anker, and I admit for cables I usually just find something cheapish on Amazon that gets good reviews.

Thanks! 🙂

Just thought maybe you actually had replied to the wrong comment because yours was so ridiculously over the top, rude, and toxic.

I now see that’s just how you communicate.

Grow the fuck up and let discussions happen. Maybe you’re miserable, but keep it to yourself.

Moving along now…

Are you sure you replied to the right comment? I’d rather see comments like theirs than responses like yours. I can’t find anything in their words that merits your toxicity. If one of you sounds miserable, it’s not Izzent. Blaze.

https://i.imgur.com/ieM4j4D.png

So what’s the magical percentage of market share that gets Adobe to port their proprietary software over to Linux?

Something more than what it currently is.

But as a linux-only user since 2007, it’s my opinion that this sort of thing is less and less of a problem for most (note I did not say all) use cases.

There’s very few things I have wanted to do with a computer (as a tech enthusiast since the 80s) that isn’t doable on Linux. At this point I find most things I personally want to do are easier on Linux.

Gaming is coming along nicely thanks to Proton, which is not as good as native support, but which is still such a turnaround from even 10 years ago that it’s pretty amazing.

Non-gaming applications usually (not always) have a Linux equivalent that requires nothing more than decoupling what you need to do from the software you think you need to do it. That’s a hard sell if your boss or your teacher tells you all your tasks MUST be done in tool XYZ, but for other things it’s not so bad.

99% of what a non-professional thinks they need photoshop for is going to be doable in Krita or Gimp for example. Inkscape and Blender are well regarded for their purposes even outside the Linux community, very few people are really doing something in Word that can’t be done in Libre Office Writer, etc…

This isn’t intended as a campaign speech for Linux - I’ve long ago realized that for various reasons it’s not a good fit for some folks, or it could be but they aren’t interested. That’s fine, IMO. However, for the vast majority of what people use a PC for these days, I personally am doubtful that Linux is an obstruction to completing those tasks so much as it might be a paradigm shift for folks to rethink how they intend to complete those tasks.

It’s been many years since I’ve even wanted to run anything from Adobe on Linux. YMMV.

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