skaffi

There are RPMs as well, but yeah, Proton has terrible Linux support overall.

Democratic influence on the rules you're bound by, is that really an insignificant benefit?

From my perspective as a radical social liberal, it seems to me that totalitarian and authoritarian outcomes are inherent to any form of socialism which embrace revolution, or the complete replacement of societal institutions, and communism is of course the poster child. This seems to happen whether or not totalitarian traits existed in the ideology, before coming to power.

When you go back in history, and read letters written by the losers of party power struggles, before they lost, or read accounts of things they said, you will often find their sheer naivety to be striking, I find.

My personal theory is that several of the methods used to come to power, many of the power structures that emerge, and the eventual new institutions that are created, are strong tools for exercising power, while they often only have weak guards to prevent abuses of power. The most cynical members of a party will use and abuse them, they will come to dominate, and they will not get rid of these weaknesses in the system, thereby removing their own advantage in wielding, maintaining and grabbing for more power.

It's interesting how socialism is an ideology that is very focused on power relations and dynamics (employer vs. employee for instance), presents itself as an equaliser or a liberator of people being subject to others, and has a lot of political theory at its foundation, and yet, it seemingly has such a glaring blind spot of falling victim to itself.

I think everyone on the far left would benefit immensely, from going back and reading a whole lot of early liberal thought about power and the state. From back when it was more just a strand of political theory, than an ideology as such. And when I say they would benefit, I mean it genuinely, in that it would help them ensure that whatever political change they might become a part in bringing about, will be able to serve it's original goals, rather than quickly become corrupted.

I am struggling to think of much there that would be inherently incompatible with even far-left socialism. Except, perhaps, if your view is that the state is, and should be total and absolute, then that is of course incompatible with putting restrictions on its power, or dividing it into separate parts that must check each other.

Your story sounds uncannily like mine, except I'm now 5 years on. Stick with it now, and you're home free! I haven't smoked or vaped in 5 years, and I have absolutely zero desire to. Makes me shudder just to think about.

Right you are! I'm not sure how that went over my head. Eh, too much morning, too little coffee. Thanks for correcting me.

Isn't that irrelevant? According to the article, the archive itself doesn't contain any malicious code. Rather, it's encoded in the file name, and can start executing itself when being parsed by the shell - no extraction needed.

It seems to me that avoiding rar files, or limiting your ability to extract them will provide a false sense of security at best. Seems to me that this could be done using any file type at all.

I think you're allowed to set your Day mode to sepia. :p

I'm not actually sure I understand it. What about Mint is easier or more user friendly than say, a Fedora spin?

And if having that decanonicalized Ubuntu base is important, then why not install Tuxedo OS instead? Plasma is by far the most Windows-like DE in my experience, and it is more developed and featureful. Cinnamon, as I understand it, is still stuck in X11 land, which is less secure, and only in maintenance mode.

Is there life after death? Yes, there is Second Life!

Would you be kind enough to share the resource you find that satisfies you? :)

Say hello to Yet Another Linus Thorvalds Android, or YALTA for short. Name was decided upon at a conference. It was the compromise option, but remember that Android (and now, also androids) are technically still Linux (and now, also Linus).

Drawing directly on the desktop is a native feature of KDE Plasma. :)