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by powerclue 11mo ago
Or maybe old devices and tech should expect a limited support window, or be expected to fork after some time?
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by powerclue 11mo ago
How is this arrogant? Are open source developers now responsible for ensuring every fork works with the dependencies and changes they make? This seems like a long window, given to ports to say, "we are making changes that may impact yo
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by powerclue 11mo ago
Answering genuinely, assuming the question is in good faith -- Socialist theory typically handles luxuries of limited quantity in a few ways. One, if there's demand, try to increase the quantity. Could we have more racing fill the gap?
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by powerclue 11mo ago
I think you might be under informed... this is how authoritarian communism has worked, historically. But Socialism covers a massive umbrella of different ideas beyond just authcom ideas. Social democracy, democratic socialism, anarchism, sy
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by powerclue 11mo ago
I have. Relied more on my common peers but also people came together to tend for one another. Definitely preferred it over capitalism.
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by powerclue 11mo ago
Indeed, that quote is deployed prominently in red text in the thread, in fact.
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by powerclue 11mo ago
You realize there's an entire spectrum of socialist ideology between liberalism and authoritarian planned economies, yeah? It's not a Boolean, and it's not a slippery slope. We could have broadly liberal markets owned and run
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by powerclue 11mo ago
That's not what capitalism is... or it's a very elementary understanding of it. Trade without force existed prior to and contemporary to capitalism. (See markets and mercantilism for more history there.) Capitalism is specifically
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by powerclue 11mo ago
That's me! I made that 17 years ago, still happily married. Took me like two weeks of full time tinkering. It involved a lot of trial and error messing with a hex editor.