https://jolla.com/ ?

I’m gonna wait for backup on this one.

Glad that Youtube is hosted in Belgium, so we can still watch it in the post-American world.

Happy Nextcloud user here. It has its ups and downs, but overall I vastly prefer it over Google Docs.

Such a silly thing, but I’m still proud of my Sudoku Pi game: https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/sudoku-pi/id6467504425?l=en-GB

It’s basically a new finger-friendly UX for Sudoku. The game is also open-source, and an Android build is coming Soon ™.

I’m not much of a conservative, so no need to try to bait me 😂

But if that was not your intention, carry on!

See my other reply in the thread.

I think I agree with you, I was merely trying to point out that not all conservatives are fascists. Thinking that way leads to a superiority complex in leftists that may ultimately turn themselves into fascists too.

Have you considered that if leftists are correct, conservatives are too, and that it’s merely a matter of perspective? It seems as though your consideration of libs being bothered may be a case of projection as it bothers you that other perspectives may be worthy of consideration as well.

It may be a kind of Linux PC, but it’s not just a Linux PC. (Also not a fan of the American language…)

Can’t we just teach them to be nice boys? Sometimes easier said than done, I know.

I don’t know if you already use Linux or not, but if you do you have a valid excuse for why you can’t help them with their impulse buy from HP. So if they want your help, they can take your suggestions for where to get a Linux computer, such as System76, Framework, and I think even some Dell models come with it preinstalled. There’s probably some I forgot, but the point is, those selling Linux machines are in a growth market that only seems to be accelerating. It should be only a matter of time before more players want a piece of that.

I’m not even sure such recognition is a good idea. Civic service is intended to benefit a (local) community, while open-source work has no such implication. Of course a lot of open-source work does have public benefit, but then maybe it’s better performed as public service, through government funding? I’m an open-source maintainer myself, but I don’t think we should be blind to how open-source can very much be used for commercial benefit.

Yeah, I think we’re largely aligned indeed, and I appreciate your detailed response!

We can start by taxing land, sure, but why the hangup with that in particular? We could argue instead for collective ownership of all housing, all means of production, and all land, and this way the exploitation would stop altogether.

I think I could also agree on collective ownership of housing, although I’m not yet certain it’s necessary. After all, from what I read about land-value taxation (which admittedly is still not a lot yet), it incentivises development of properties, so the land taxation alone might improve the housing situation too.

But a collective ownership of the means of production is something I’m more sceptical about. Because we want people to own the fruits of their labour, so if they make something, it’s theirs, which is the reward for making something in the first place. But then if I make something to improve food production, I become forced to share it with everyone? That de-incentivises people to work on such endeavour. I still agree that sharing improved means of food production is a good thing, but I don’t think an overly strict interpretation of shared ownership is the answer. The current practice of a time-limited patent might actually suffice.

I just don’t think real democracy is possible in a two-class system where a minority class (capitalists) have the economic power

Yes, I agree. Though in the proposal that I linked, there is indeed a two-class system but one where the minority class are explicitly prevented from having any personal ownership. This then incentivises them towards preventing capitalist excesses, since capitalists that become too powerful may actually become a threat to their own power. But it’s still merely a thought experiment too, so I don’t know if it would work out as intended.

Yes, that’s a very valid concern indeed. You’re right that under Georgism it may still be possible for an elite to corrupt politics in such a way that the Geogist values itself cannot be upheld. But it’s still a step in the right direction, and I think that’s more a political problem than an economic one. We also don’t really know for certain that if a society successfully implements Georgism that they will even let their elite gain such power. After all, it becomes much easier for the common folk to escape the capitalist treadmill. That may be wishful thinking if we would change to Georgism overnight and leave people with a consumerist mindset to their own devices, but maybe paired with an ideological shift in thinking, it could work.

But I would even be open to the idea that maybe it’s democracy itself that needs to be revisited.

Yes, I do indeed see how the capitalist notion of salaried workers that benefit their superior remains intact with Georgism. I can even understand why you might call it “leeching” given that working for a salary is often not much of a choice, since we otherwise have no income and therefore have no way to support ourselves.

But from my still-limited understanding of Georgism, it does also seem to aim for using land-value taxation to be able to provide everyone with a universal basic income. This would mean that salaried working becomes more of a wilful choice and at least some of the excesses of capitalism are successfully avoided. I don’t think I would even necessarily call it “leeching” in such a scenario.

Cheers! ❤️

Balanced people tend not to burn time and emotional energy on politics for free, basically. Yes, I know that’s a self-own.

As someone who’s literally currently writing a book/philosophy called Philosophy of Balance this one struck a chord 😅

But you are right, I’m burning a lot of time and energy on exactly this and I feel it makes people wary and skeptical of what’s wrong with me… When really, I don’t think anything is wrong with me now. Hasn’t always been like that though, so if I can help others ease their struggle by writing about my own, I think that’s worth it.

I was pointed to Georgism the other day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism

I’m starting to get convinced about it, even if there are aspects I haven’t fully wrapped my head around yet…

You know, as a full-time Linux user, I think I rather have game developers continue to create Windows executables.

Unlike most software, games have a tendency to be released, then supported for one or two years, and then abandoned. But meanwhile, operating systems and libraries move on.

If you have a native Linux build of a game from 10 years ago, good luck trying to run it on your modern system. With Windows builds, using Wine or Proton, you actually have better chances running games from 10 or even 20 years ago.

Meanwhile, thanks to Valve’s efforts, Windows builds have incentive to target Vulkan, they’re getting tested on Linux. That’s what we should focus on IMO, because those things make games better supported on Linux. Which platform the binary is compiled for is an implementation detail… and Win32 is actually the more stable target.