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Want more GNU in Linux, so Guix, btw. पूंजीपति will be sent to corrective labour camp.

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velox_vulnus ,

Tell me more, I’m all ears.

velox_vulnus ,

Blud could’ve chosen Runic, Egyptian, Ancient Romanian used by Vlad the Impaler, Mesapotamian or even Harappan Indic. But Italian is it.

velox_vulnus ,

They should revive this script. I like it more than Cyrillic.

velox_vulnus , (edited )

It’s a stacked/multi-level pie chart. If you read the single level, it highlights results for a single instance.

The first level is the overall ‘tankie’ and ‘non-tankie’ percentage across every instances.

The second level divides that between lemmy.ml and non-lemmy.ml instances, using color as an indication.

The third level divides that between hexbear.net, lemmygrad.ml and other instances.

velox_vulnus ,

lemmy.world has comments in their community, where they call for the nuking of developing countries, when they read news of social injustice. By that logic, their ‘civilized’ country should be nuked thrice, because cartoonishly evil, rich scumbags like Jeffrey Epstein and their associates still have a free pass for raping minors in their creepy sex-dungeons.

velox_vulnus ,

Downvotes are for rule breaking content, not for covering your big feelings.

You’re wrong about that. There’s the report button for that.

By the way, I did not down-vote you, but about the criticism towards your work, yes, the info-graphics isn’t well done, because you crammed all that in one single image. I was able to read it, but it was painful.

Another concern is the small dataset. It is in two digits, which isn’t a proper representation of the general consensus.

velox_vulnus ,

Have you tried Triangle Strategy?

velox_vulnus , (edited )

The question you’ve asked makes use of wrong terms, if I had to be honest.

Your question is loaded under the assumption that Gujarati billionaires are colonizers - but that is not what colonialism is. Gujarat is a state, formed after the breaking down of Bombay province into multiple other states, including Maharashtra and Karnataka.

If you’re talking about the hoarding of wealth, mostly by upper-caste/class Gujarati people (be it Parsi, Gujjar or Marwadi) who have formed the equivalent of chaebol, or what we call in Hindi as व्यावसायिक समूह (business groups), then it’s crony capitalism, not colonial capitalism.

velox_vulnus ,

The terms OP has used is wrong, but the ground-reality is that Gujarati merchants are making a fooling of the naivety and illiteracy of lower-caste small-land owners from other parts of India, and bribing district commissioners.

velox_vulnus ,

Also add the apartheid in Mumbai towards Marathi natives and large-scale hording of Dalit lands in Mysuru.

But nonetheless, what you’re talking about is actually text-book capitalism - as is described by most communist writers.

I’ll recommend that you give the Das Capital manga a read. Or read the original, English translated version of it. It is a really hard book to read, but you’ll understand as you go on, word-by-word, page-by-pqge.

velox_vulnus ,

What was the best Linux laptop you’ve had so far?

velox_vulnus ,

Oh, cool. I’ve been planning to get a second-hand L14 Gen 1 with AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U, 16GB (2x8) SODIMM RAM and 512GB storage, although I do have a choice to pick a slightly expensive X390 with Intel Core i7-8665U, 16GB soldered RAM and 512GB storage.

At least from my perspective, I could upgrade the L14 to 32GB and 1TB, but if I were to get the X390, I could use it as my main device to SSH through another second-hand ThinkCentre or a similar mini-PC.

Since they’re both imports from the USA, I wanted to avoid paying duty and tax by having it bought through a distant relative from the US. Only if there was a way to buy second-hand laptops from China to India.

Microsoft announces a disc-less Xbox Series X console in white (www.theverge.com)

The new console option won’t include a disc drive, and will be entirely all-digital. Inside it’s identical to the Xbox Series X, with the same performance for existing Xbox games. This new white model will be available with 1TB of storage later this year, priced at $449.99....

velox_vulnus ,

Support DRM-free games!

velox_vulnus , (edited )

RSP is a proper communist party, with it’s root in the HSRA, the original revolutionary communist party in British India. Communist parties break away a lot, because they disagree with each other. Coming with names is hard, because they’re already taken, so they have to use the word related to ‘socialism’.

velox_vulnus ,

It’s almost there but, it’s still lagging behind my preference. Needs more retro and sharper corners. I’m not a fan of accent, but I also don’t like monotone scheme, like in Adwaita. Maybe something like CDE, but better colors.

velox_vulnus ,

How does being an atheist fix the issue of colonialism? The native Americans still have most of their land under the US government. The aboriginals still have their land under the Australian government. Same can be said about South America, where natives have no representation in politics.

velox_vulnus ,

Yes, but only if you have separate partitions for root, home, boot and swap. Otherwise, it is going to be painful.

velox_vulnus ,

There’s probably some generic tutorial out there, but since I’ve started to separate partitions after moving to NixOS and Guix, and self-learnt this, I’m not sure what would be a better resource for you.

velox_vulnus ,

Two soulless companies fighting for the first position in a monopolistic platform. Is there something to talk about?

velox_vulnus ,

Hive core?

velox_vulnus ,

There’s already Emacs, Vim, Kakoune, etc for that. Nano is supposed to be the system default for non-advanced users.

velox_vulnus ,

That’s a subjective take. GNU Nano has always been the default editor for so long alongside vi. But when you say that Emacs keybindings are good for Mac user - I can’t help but wonder - what type of generalization is that? Do you have a source to back this claim?

Now, don’t get me wrong - I love Kakoune. But no one outside of the developer community will make an effort to learn atypical text editors with chords and modes.

velox_vulnus ,

That’s like saying Tetris had nothing in their game?

velox_vulnus ,

The Ghost Train fight in Final Fantasy 6 is by far, one of the best part of the game. Too bad I didn’t get to complete the game entirely.

velox_vulnus ,

That’s the most beautiful webpage I’ve seen in a while. Looks like it barely uses JS for stuff like timezone, and menu. I know it’s not related to the topic, but I’m neither so…yeah.

velox_vulnus ,

At least it’s not a bear in the woods.

velox_vulnus ,

Joblessness and social isolation? After graduating at September 2022, unlike other students who already secured their jobs around March, I had nothing. And it’s still the same for me. I dread applying to jobs. It fills me with so much fear, I don’t bother. At one point I had a really bad panic attack, that I deleted all my Git accounts online, and every project backup, shut down my laptop, doing nothing for almost two month except staring the roof, because I was so done. I could not believe that I had sacrificed my teen, getting isolated, losing out on socializing, partying and all that shit. I convinced myself that this would reward me, because those cringey grind-set YouTubers told me, and that I was probably the main character or something. I completed my engineering degree with such great difficulty, because I was severely depressed, I lost all my sleep, I stopped attending classes, waking up at 12 in the noon. I’m going to be 24, and I’ve successfully wasted two years without any experience, nor any degree to back my use of time.

velox_vulnus , (edited )

Now, it’s left to the INDIA coalition to convince JD(U) and TDP to leave NDA and join on their sides:

  • Nitish Kumar wants a good role to satisfy his ego. I remember how their bargaining failed because he wanted to be the prime minister - which is weird - I mean, a minority ally demanding a higher position is fucking stupid - why would the Congress ditch Mallikarjun Kharge for this doofus? Besides, he’s a Hindi imperialist bastard, who can’t respect the diversity of culture in India.

    Asserting that Hindi was the national language, Nitish Kumar reportedly launched a tirade against English which he said was imposed by the British; some later speakers switched to English after his outburst.

    The context here being that English was used as a common language, and not because of a colonial mentality.

    He’s been offered the role of deputy prime minister, which holds no special status in the Constitution, but parties are free to choose one. I hate this person so much, but there’s no choice.

  • TDP might probably demand special status for Andhra Pradesh, because the division of the state into Telangana and Andhra Pradesh resulted in the state losing the city of Hyderabad, which affected the area tremendously - and from that day, they haven’t voted INC or it’s allies.

velox_vulnus ,

NATO member trying to join BRICS+? I really don’t understand the logic.

Ruling party loses absolute majority in elections to the Indian Parliament, but likely to form government with support of allies (www.thehindu.com)

Preliminary results for the 2024 Indian General election suggest that the Bharatiya Janata Party is set to lose its absolute majority in the lower house of Parliament. However, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) it leads is projected to cross the halfway mark. The opposition INDIA alliance is projected to more than double...

velox_vulnus ,

You forgot to add this - three controversial independent candidates have gained candidacy:

  • Amritpal Singh - a Sikh separatist
  • Sarabjeet Singh Khalsa - son of Indira Gandhi’s assassin, and a hardliner Sikh
  • Engineer Rashid - leader of a separatist party

Two of them - Amritpal and Rashid, may not be able to exercise their rights as members of the Lok Sabha, as they’re behind the bars.

velox_vulnus ,

I’m on Guix, so you tell me…

Hint: I can barely write any decent Scheme.

velox_vulnus ,

One thing that really hurts my Guix experience is that maintainers are not consistent. As in, they’ll update a expression, and disappear. And the issue with this is that there’s a lot of missing information and context for the new users trying their hand in contribution. I just wish that NodeJS and Crystal were maintained.

velox_vulnus ,

I’ve been trying to bump versions, but the damned tests. It takes almost two days to compile on my potato PC, and then finally when it comes to checking tests, it fails. I tried this last month, for almost three weeks, then gave up.

velox_vulnus ,

GOOPs and CLOS exists in functional programming languages. Just saying.

velox_vulnus , (edited )

In India, we used to breach medical patents, but fuck Modi for the new patent rules.

velox_vulnus ,

GNU Hurd and Plan9.

velox_vulnus ,

I am on Guix, so I’m really excited to switch the kernel. But it won’t be available at least for a decade. Or maybe more.

velox_vulnus OP ,

But modern laptop keyboards are nothing what they’re advertised as. They have horrible keyboard, with less travel distance. They overheat and burn the lap, almost as if the cooling system is useless. Their endurance is low, lasting for only four to five hours on video playback. Their body and fragile keyboard suffers from structure deformity. Hinges always break the device. And the repairability, don’t even get me started on that.

Like take for example, the S540-15IWL I own - which was my first laptop. A little bit of bottom case flex or pressure shorts the memory, and I lose everything I’ve worked on. The keyboard frame is attached using plastic tabs, and they’re so shoddy that it has started to sag. The memory, charger port and processor is soldered, which is just peak anti-consumerist behavior. I don’t want to go through another poor experience like that.

velox_vulnus OP , (edited )

They’re not sold in my country, and it is nowhere close to the older Thinkpads, when it comes to ruggedness. But I am definitely interested in this device.

velox_vulnus OP ,

I want a device primarily for web-dev, gamedev and package maintenance for Linux. So I figured out that as long as I have a good APU, I can avoid the discrete GPU shenanigans - you know, Optimus and the likes. I’ll probably play Dark Souls Remastered on Bottles, so there’s that too. And I need a really fat stack of battery because where I’m from, there’s a lot of power cut. And due to power cuts, I can’t be online all the time, so I want a decent machine that can be used to build from source as a fallback mechanism. Repairable is also my primary concern, however, I don’t want a really rugged laptop. Something that has Thinkpad-like toughness will do.

velox_vulnus OP ,

You’re comparing a ThinkPad X280 with an IdeaPad S540, which is not even half the price of the same device - which is not fair, but that’s just part of the entire assumption, that is, good, reliable technicians and spare parts availability.

The laptop crashes 1 2, if I carry it with my palm on the left side - because apparently, the memory shorts itself to the aluminum case.

The repair experience was so frustrating, because just after one year of use, the system board was damaged, and when I repaired it, not only did the Lenovo authorized technician lose a few screws, but also busted the right speaker. I would be without a laptop for almost two to three months.

I rarely close the laptop lid, as I used to leave it on an empty, clean dining table, so there should be no hinge issues, but it broke down one day, and ripped the entire bottom shell. That was when I had to pay to replace the palm-rest, but this new technician from a Lenovo authorized center destroyed the DC jack. Also, my left speaker blew off, and soon the slightly degraded battery died suddenly, leaving me with no device.

For the last six months (starting from December), I’ve not had a laptop to use, and obviously, I couldn’t work on software projects, learn LeetCode or apply to jobs. Just recently, I got a spare battery to use this device, but the DC jack blew again. For the DC jack alone, I had to go thrice, and finally, when I inspected the repair myself yesterday after buying a multi-head screw driver kit, it turns out that the technician never replaced it to begin with, and used a solder to complete a brittle, makeshift circuit.

It did not ‘just’ break after three years. The device was a pile of smoldered shit, and the repair experience was even more horrible, with lost and damaged parts - most of which were M2.0 x 3.0mm Philip screws 6 out of 22 missing, and the essential M2.0 x 5.0mm Torx T5 screw for the base plate - 2 of the 9 missing. I did not play games or run highly demanding applications or LLMs - maybe a little bit of ‘Battle for Wesnoth’ and ‘Final Fantasy 6’ here and there. When not in use, my device stayed in the laptop bag, or the dining table.

It is my first laptop btw, and my experience with it was simply terrible. There’s barely any CRUs or FRUs available, and I’ll have to order from China to India, which would be quite expensive as they’re not bulk orders. My main idea was to look for refurbished laptops that matched the description in the post. I’ll probably never be able to buy a new device, given my present circumstances.

velox_vulnus OP ,

From what little research I’ve done, the ThinkPad P14/16v (without the dGPU) seems to be the closest to what I’m looking for. Maybe if they add another fan instead of the dummy fan plastic, and made it more modular, and provided full-profile keyboards, and made it a little bit more thicker, it would be the device I’m looking for.

velox_vulnus OP ,

Oh yes. Rugged Dell Latitude, Getac, and Panasonic Toughbooks are quite good. But the price…

velox_vulnus OP ,

I’d be interested in hearing out what part of the requirement sounds unrealistic to you, as a semi-mobile computing device? There are gaming laptops with low and full-profile mechanical keyboards. Then there’s damage-resistant semi-rugged and fully-rugged books. And at least in my assumption, my reasoning for a thicker thermal solution was because I wished to see a laptop with some nice heat-spreaders. And then, a slightly bigger battery for more juice, which is common in a rugged device.

velox_vulnus OP ,

Yeah, I’m check that out. Really impressed by the Toughbook SV1 and 55, although I wish there was a Ryzen model, and there also happens to be a few second-hand devices.

velox_vulnus OP ,

Is it possible through 0x0.st? Or do you have the link for the same in Anna’s Archive?

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