That’s fair and I get it. However, we’re in a great position to be making demands. I work in EMS and, on top of a dire worker shortage, our company has a hard time retaining what few EMTs and paramedics there are and we’re always incredibly short staffed. Our regional management is sympathetic to our problems and works hard to help us, but our corporate overlords routinely fuck us over. There’s more to it than that but nonetheless, my company is ripe for unionization and it’s frustrating to see this golden opportunity be wasted. Especially because I know we can do it in a horizontal fashion and fill the organizational void in my city’s medical field with something anarchic

I’ll give it a go, thanks for the recommendation. I definitely could be better at articulating solutions in a convincing way. I know what convinced me and why I believe what I believe, but I’m also neurodivergent as fuck and my reasoning doesn’t always translate 1:1 to normal people’s reasoning haha

I went from not owning a proper computer for nearly a decade to exclusively using mint for work, school, and gaming emulators. Works flawlessly, everything’s pretty intuitive, zero issues whatsoever. Maybe my use case isn’t crazy but for the average joe, Linux works just fine. What lies was I fed?

lemm.ee limits image uploads to 100kb. Try converting the images to webp and playing with the compression to get the file size down. There’s lots of online tools to do this pretty easily

Me too buddy. Me too.

One of the first pieces I read, thanks for reminding me!

It isn’t theft, it’s copyright infringement. Otherwise known as a bullshit crime that corporations invented to force the state to protect their bottom line. An individual infringing on a corporations copyright is, at worst, neutral. The artists working on these movies, games, albums, etc are either salaried, contracted, or having the majority of their profits siphoned off from their publisher. If you really care about supporting artists, throw independent artists a few bucks where you can and “steal” to your hearts content from the companies that already exploit their creative workforce.

Honestly, I wish pirating measurably hurt corporations bottom lines. They need to go down and that would be the easiest way to do it. But decades of rampant piracy have shown that piracy actually helps these companies in most instances, as people who have pirated a product and like it are more likely to purchase the product in the future compared to someone who simply hasn’t used the product in question.

Additionally, many smaller or independent creators either don’t give a shit about piracy or actively encourage those without the means to pay to pirate it anyway. People who are doing it for the love of their craft aren’t profit centered ghouls who only care about enriching themselves and create things to contribute to our shared culture and entertainment. Pull your head out of your ass

If you haven’t given pocket city 2 a try yet I highly recommend it

I’m farting around on a T480 for school and light retro gaming. Works great! Super easy to upgrade too

I use mint btw

I run mint btw

Seconded for mobilism. It’s pretty good