it is more about arch’s philosy being your system may not boot next update

Yeah … no thanks. I’ll be okay with slightly outdated versions of various packages, as long as they still work.

ubuntu: pacman -S name is not harder than apt install name.

Eh, it’s a teensy bit harder, since you have to remember what -S means, rather than the easy to remember and plain English ‘install’. But, yeah, not much of a difference.

And try to install something on ubuntu if it’s not in the official package repos.

1: Go to that something’s website.

2: look for their download/install instructions page, scroll to Linux instructions if necessary.

3: Install instructions for Debian/Ubuntu are usually the first one listed, and typically just consist of a few commands you can copy and paste over without modifying.

It isn’t particularly difficult in most cases.

and the fps fell to a crawl and i couldn’t really move my head to see stuff breaking and falling unfortunately

Huh… Didn’t have that issue on my hardware, which made it a lot more enjoyable, I guess. Maybe try again at some point if you’ve ever got a significant hardware upgrade.

(And, honestly, the missions are kind of a pain a lot of times. It’s actually more of a heist and getaway game when you play the missions. I mostly just wanted to play it in sandbox mode and destroy stuff.)

The current fascist party has ties to a past fascist party? Say it ain’t so! How could this happen?

Have you looked at Teardown?

Haven’t tried the Space Age expansion yet, so not sure what to expect there on time commitment.

Massive increase in time commitment there.

You still start the same way, but now launching a rocket isn’t the end of the game … it’s just the end of the first act. Now you also build orbiting space stations and interplanetary spaceships (which require launching dozens of rockets to build), so you can go colonize 4 more planets, each with their own new challenges and new resources to gather and exploit. Each one of those can easily take just as much time to colonize as your original planet, if not more. You’ll need to build autonomous spaceships to regularly ferry supplies and finished products around the solar system to where they’re needed. Then finally build a big, badass spaceship capable of reaching the edge of the solar system, and that is the new win condition.

After playing Space Age, the original Factorio game seems like just a tutorial level.

Cyberpunk is an awesome game now, years after its release.

It was rough and buggy at release, but now it’s everything it should have been from the beginning. (I prefer to play on PC so I can have the mod that turns some people into furries, though!)

Honestly, it’s an OpSec nightmare for any military.

More and more of your personnel’s personal vehicles outfitted with multiple cameras, microphones, and wireless modems capable of transmitting that data to who-knows-where.

No military should be allowing such cars anywhere near their operations.

Well, the secret is that establishment Dems have been informed about it.

Now watch them change absolutely nothing.

At this point, I have to assume they’re doing it on purpose.

You can’t educate stupid.

Well, you can, actually. You’ve just got to start early.

Yep. You need to present them a better alternative that will fix the real (or imaginary) problems in their lives, most of which are truly caused by rampant capitalism.

So you need specific, concrete strategies about how you’re going to get them better wages, better education, better infrastructure, better healthcare, etc.

Because if you don’t offer this, the fascists will. The fascists say all the problems are due to Outgroup and the solution is to give unlimited power to Ingroup so they can get rid of Outgroup and then all the problems will be solved.

That is, obviously, very stupid. But so are a lot of voters. And it that’s the only solution to their problems that they’re hearing, that’s what they’re going to gravitate toward. To win them over, you need to acknowledge their problems, paint a convincing picture that capitalist oligarchs are the source of those problems, and present clear and concrete steps toward solving those problems. You are NOT going to win them over by telling them that their problems aren’t real, or that their problems aren’t as bad as other people’s problems.

Yes, that’s true. The Fediverse is also susceptible to manipulation.

To a somewhat lesser degree, though, since there isn’t a pervasive and inescapable algorithm that aggressively pushes controversial engagement-bait posts on people.

(And also because public mod logs can make it more apparent when moderator capture is used to suppress and control narratives.)

switch to decentralized media apps, such as those provided by the Fediverse, and stop attributing so much credibility to legacy media.

Even here, most posts are just linking to an article in legacy media.

It drives me nuts how no one seems to get the bill of rights. We learned this in school.

Decades of propaganda have convinced people that the Bill of Rights doesn’t apply to ‘criminals’ and ‘illegals’.

Eh, list has its place, and I’ll still use it sometimes.

List shows you more files on one screen, and it can show details of the files like filesize and last modified date without having to click on each file to get that.

you can’t follow the teachings of the anarchists who came before you. Therefore you can’t be an anarchist.

lol, Anarchism isn’t about following teachings of others. That’s completely optional. The entire point of Anarchism is to reject authority. It would be self-defeating if we set up prominent anarchists of the past as authority figures.

You can read their stuff and learn from them, if you want to. Learn from them, don’t follow them. And that might help. But, again, completely optional.

Well … yes.

I am an anarchist, after all.

I mean, look at the world around you right now. Look what became of your revered leaders in history. How’s this whole following leaders thing working out for you so far? Why do you think it will be any different going forward?

Read ‘The Autobiography Of Malcolm X.’

He said that there’s no achievement without leadership.

A leader says you have to have leadership. Big fucking surprise there.

I say we don’t need leadership. Leaders can be corrupted. Leaders can be assassinated.

Remind me again what happened to Malcom X.

No reports of civilian deaths as of the publishing of this story.

That’s pretty impressive, actually. And reassuring. Hopefully it stays that way.