Why would they? Ram hasn’t been a problem for more than a decade relating to UI.

Electron apps being 500MB simply isnt a problem. People aren’t loading 15 seperate instances, at most power users are loading like 3.

people don’t hate the mcrib because of propaganda - it’s because it’s low quality pork form pressed into a gross, gristley slab that sort of resembles meat if you squint and don’t look too closely.

The thing is, the reasons you’ve listed aren’t reasons based on personal taste, but what you’ve come to associate with being proper meat. Thats what I’m challenging. The idea of what a savoury, protein filled food item has to be, to be deemed good/welcomed.

If the response was purely that they didn’t like the taste or texture, those, I believe, are completely legitimate and fair. Instead, the responses often boil down to naturalistic fallacies and ideas of what good food is that start from the perspective of what would make the meat industry the most money being pressed into them through ridiculous amounts of lobbying.

However, never has a person who uses the term “tankie” ever actually engaged in an open discussion about those beliefs. “Tankie” is a conversation ender that kills all subsequent thought the minute someone throws it out.

Many people, especially on this site, self identify as tankies. They also have utterly unreasonable view points that are against any gradual change and think any positive change must be as a result of an instant bloody revolution they also won’t personally fight in or start.

The fact that you tried to use the term they personally identify as a way to dismiss my criticisms and pretend it was I that was being the problem speaks to you not actually wanting to address the point I’m making.

I actually quite like it.

This might sound bad to some people, but it reminds me of an old vegetarian meat alternative I used to quite like in texture.

Im constantly baffled by how gotten by propogandists people must be to feel everything has to taste exactly like some known quantity meat they’re already used to.

I think they’re just in a cult though, which is the only explanation for why they all seem to be trying to be as difficult to communicate with as possible, as if they’re all trying to get people to hate whatever they’re pretending to stand for which they also rarily can elaborate on.

I think its because ultimately, most linux users either are using linux professionally, and therefore only care about the professional goals they’ve been assigned to completing, or they tend to be rather insufferable (the type to tell new users to enter sudo -rf --no-preserve-root or pretend that the average user both does not need any powerful features, but is also too lazy and stupid to use powerful features, but should still switch to linux to be berated for some reason).

That combines with the biggest thing: That there isn’t the money to go into developing things for linux that there is for mac or windows because the people aren’t there, and the people arent there because linux is basically for snobbish elitists, the fringe of society or professionals, AND has all the problems of that catch 22 in the first place, which further concentrates the worst people being the ambassadors for linux, like the real, felt ambassadors, like what someone actually runs into when trying to switch.

I do think Valve is doing a pretty heavy lift right now, and I am very glad they picked KDE, a DE that focuses on open ended pragmatism.

Seriously. Its on the level of delusion of the super stonk bros covered in “This is Financial Advice”.

Can yall please pretty please stop fucking supporting horrible regimes and then also trying to use them as examples of socialism? You’re not helping anyone. You’re literally only hurting the appearance of socialism.

Its like you don’t get that you actually have to sell people on the idea. You certainly won’t convince people with bashing people over the head with delusional or pedantic at best history rewritings/retellings about horrible people.

Those people were bad, socialism is good. Separate the ideas. Everything is better this way.

Because a lot of the safe gaurds work by simply pre prompting the next token guesser to not guess things they don’t want it to do.

Its in plain english using the “logic” of conversations, so the same vulnerabilities largely apply to those methods.

Don’t forget the single digit millions that pretended that the mentally incompetent rapist fascist was the same as a generic corporatist neoliberal and encouraged people to stay home.

I gotta be real with you. This comment very much sounds like the delusional super stonk member who think eventually the big system they believe is colluding to fuck them trips up on a technicality and makes them uber rich.

Basically, you’re just imagining a reality that wont exist for so many reasons.

The biggest reason is that the AI GPUs do not use DIMMs largely, and even server dimms (ecc rdimms) won’t fit in your PC.

More than that, by the time anything does happen, technology will have moved on.

If you’re about to say “but I don’t have to”, Id ask you why you arent on a 10 year old computer right now.

The fact people are blaming the tech rather than the tech bros is a big part of why this keeps happening.

Its the decision of real people that make this situation suck.

Its always been a shitty meme aimed at being cruel to new users.

Somehow though people continue to spread the lie that the linux community is nice and welcoming.

Really its a community of professionals, professional elitists, or people who are otherwise so fringe that they demand their os be fringe as well.

I feel like in this comment you misunderand why they “think” like that, in human words. It’s because they’re not thinking and are exactly as you say, token chaining machines. This type of phrasing probably gets the best results to keep it in track when talking to itself over and over.

What part about mentioning 3 specific projects as examples of where Europe is not doing enough makes you think that I am not aware of their efforts?

I am specifically saying those efforts are not enough nor are they soon enough.

Just to be clear, your point and argument, are that I am correct, but I am wrong because exactly as I mentioned, Europe could have done better if they bolstered their defences and prepared?

It feels like you’ve just taken my comment as an attack on Europe, but have no real criticisms of my points.

My statement would be less true, not more true in 2023, because the point is, the longer they go without having done so, the more dire the situation becomes.

Given that Europe has had 4 years to start cranking up its military power and has failed to do so meaningfully, and the US looks like a vassal state of Russia at the moment, I feel this may become an inevitability if Europeans don’t stop bickering about where exactly gets to make what, and starts actually making things, like with the 2 modern fighter projects (as Europe cannot make its own 5th yet alone 6th gen fighters), or the joint European (France and Germany mainly) tank project.

When they lose it needs to be cause they were not left enough they need to lose

This idea that you can punish the DNC by having them lose, is a foot gun.

They are 100% happy with that and it absolutely would not cause them to shift even a centimeter left. If anything, it will shift them right.

The DNC wants to please their corporate donors, and only wants to win half the time.

You want to punish them? Replace them slowly using primaries, state and local politics.

Anything else is shooting yourself in the foot by misunderstanding the incentive structures.

I’m sorry but it is naive to think that misinformed voters will learn the right lesson and vote blue no matter who.

I never said I thought they would. I said its the closest to possible way out.

Nothing is is remotely plausible.

It is more practical to ask for better candidates.

No it is not, because the people you are asking do not care about you.

I think many people in the lemmyverse struggle to deal with what they feel like are conflicting ideas, where they feel like they can’t acknowledge that their relationship with the DNC is adversarial, while also acknowledging that the Democrats are the only party of the 2 parties in a system that only supports 2 major parties that can be leveraged to pull the country towards their objectives.

Better candidates have to be voted in over time, and just as I said, you have to slowly shift the party through primaries and local and state politics.

This requires a multifaceted approach. The DNC will not magically wake up tomorrow and hear your pleas. They will not suddenly support your sweetheart candidate.

They understand and largely like the flipping back and forth so that they can please their donors by allowing the country to continue drifting right, while appeasing to voters by offering to undo some of the harm caused by the republicans during the flip flopping.

Asking them won’t work, because it fundamentally misunderstands their incentives and goals as an organization steering the Democratic party.

I think significant progress could be seen if they could win 4 times in a row with at least one senate super majority and house simple majority stretch near the end.