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  • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.detoTechnology@beehaw.org•SpaceX stock drops to a new low and loses $1 trillion in value in a month
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    3 months ago

    Non-voting common stock is a scam pulled by these fucking billionaire founders to reduce public participation, and concentrate their power, even as they use other’s money for their pet projects.

    If a company just needs to take up money for an investment, it can issue bonds. Then it gives up no control, but enters into a fair agreement with someone loaning them capital at fixed rates, with no pretense of ownership.

    If they sell shares, that is supposed to represent partial ownership and allow all the owners to collectively decide on strategy. It also brings with it the right to recall board members who go insane, like Musk or Zuckerberg. To prevent that these scumbags issue non-voting stock, or stock that has such reduced voting rights as to be essentially useless. Like SpaceX recently, all the IPO shares (class A) carry a tenth of the voting rights compared to the ones they kept (class B).

  • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.detoLinux@programming.dev•Have you ever been disappointed with Linux?
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    3 months ago

    A little I guess. When I had finally convinced my dad to try out a dual boot, and was trying to install it for him on his new Threadripper system, it failed. The platform support Threadripper wasn’t ready even though it had been out for at least a little while.

    But I don’t remember the details it has been around 8 years. Nowadays I know to confirm these things first, so in a sense it was my own mistaken assumption. But still it fits the question because at the time I was disappointed.

  • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.detoLinux@lemmy.ml•Wiping Windows at last but how?
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    3 months ago

    I am assuming everything other than the two ext4 partitions will have to go.

    Your /dev/sda5 the FAT32 mounted at /boot/efi has to stay too! That’s your EFI System Partition, it’s essential for the boot chain.

    What you can do is delete the “Microsoft” directory that’s on there, but definitely keep the one named after your distribution!