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Yeah. But this already happens, unfortunately.

I wouldn’t bet on it.

A couple of weeks ago I rebooted into Windows for the first time in well over 8 months, as I needed to use a piece of software I don’t have on Linux (it’s available, I’m just refusing to pay for it and no alternative method has materialised), and getting anything done was incredibly frustrating.

First everything had to update, and I was forced to log in to a bunch of stuff. My web browser spontaneously vanished, as did Discord. No idea why. Opening Explorer consistently took several seconds because it always decided to poll my external drive before displaying anything, even if I didn’t do shit in my external drive.

Explorer being slow applies on my work PC too, and I have to use Windows on that. Every day I wonder how it’d be to put Linux on it.

Nautilus just opens the moment I click on it. Always.

I hate Discord with a passion. Trying to get everyone I know away from it.

I’ve never been accused of being a smart man.

I worry that the replacement is more likely a move to platforms like Discord. I mean it’s already happened in a lot of projects.

Minimum wages aren’t necessarily a thing you must have, provided unions are strong in the labour market. We don’t have a legally mandated minimum wage here in Sweden, but it only works because CLAs are so common and the unions are constantly working on it. If people start slacking and stop actively working within unions, or the capitalist asswipes keep trying to undermine the Swedish labour market model, that shit’s going to fall apart quickly.

Musk and his garbage car company for example is one of the most recent occurrences of a company trying its best to undermine the Swedish model. There’s a strike that’s been going on since 2023 because of it. The strategy is essentially just enshittification; offer good terms and wages until the unions are weakened, then throw it all out, run over your workers and there’ll be no recourse since the unions are gone.

I think the only argument against legally mandated minimum wages that I’ve heard that I personally think hold water is that politicians are notoriously slow at changing things so you might end up with a minimum wage that remains the same for 20-30 years. That said, I feel like that’s easily solved if you have an institution that is assigned to keep track of the general expenses a person has on a year to year basis, and base a minimum wage on that. That’s not to say I think minimum wage should be subsistence minimum, it should meet and exceed that, because the stress that comes with living on subsistence minimum isn’t sustainable.

Having previously worked at a company without a CLA I can safely say I’ll never do that again. Sure it was a lovely place to work at, but having the same salary several years in a row really sucked. At my current company we get the union negotiated yearly increases, plus potential bonuses if you meet (or exceed) your development goals.

Lmao, when?

Everyone should be engaged in a union.

tell them you’re sorry about it, but that you’re grateful that you have the flexibility to do so

What are they supposed to be sorry about?

If you have a USB stick you could just boot up a live CD of the operating system.

Even this can depend a lot. I’ve some friends that play that Marvel game (Rivals?) and it works great on Linux. I myself have played Monhan and Warframe a lot on Linux. I’m not much of a competitive player, and I think where you might run into problems is competitive live-service titles.

Guild Wars and Final Fantasy XIV are both multiplayer games and work flawlessly for me.

Some games might require some fiddling you might not have on Windows, but it’s not that bad.

Even VR is pretty plug and play, though I’ve not bothered with FBT yet, and I think it differs a lot depending on what headset you have.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. AMD CPU with NVidia graphics.

And the constant warmongering in the middle east.

The U.S. was never good.

Yeah! Why the hell should they benefit from our public infrastructure if they don’t pay their way? These are the actual parasites on society that the right wingers always claim to be so worried about.

I’m here for the shade thrown in the comments, haha.

Swedes do this with Spain. Then they complain that it’s not Swedish enough. Hella weird.

Thank you. Tried visiting the archive page but it blocked me and ironically enough wanted me to solve a captcha that’ll be used to train “AI.”

Amazon is barely a thing here in Sweden. It’s niche drop shipped garbage for the most part, very similar to Wish and the like.

They have some non-garbage stuff at the same price you find elsewhere.

They also don’t do logistics here. Utterly useless company.

I don’t think we should be satisfied until they go bankrupt. When they do, their cars and their charger network will likely cease to function properly. Perhaps that could force some legislation against bullshit online-only cloud service practices for products like these.

They were really popular though. I personally think we should’ve had these numbers since late 2023 when our unions first begun the ongoing strike against Tesla for attempting to circumvent the way our labour market works. Or at the very least when Tesla shipped in bootlickers from elsewhere.

It’s better late than never, I guess.