purplemeowanon

The article was about Windows. And, no, I'm not on Windows. i use GrapheneOS on my phone and triple-boot Arch/Debian/Fedora on my laptop. I'm just making the point that the article was about Windows so replying with UNIX commands doesn't really make sense.

Yeah and it wasn't a super clear death threat. Definitely rude but I think terrorism is a clearly excessive charge. I don't think it's right to target individuals, especially lower level ones when it's the corporate "entity" as a whole, especially the higher-ups at fault.

You really had me until you claimed workers are in charge of the DPRK. it looks like a hereditary monarchy to me.

for Windows?

For people who are beginners when it comes to computers in general, yeah. But for people who are new to GNU/Linux but experienced with CS/math, it'll really not be that hard to run archinstall and configure from there. It's not that different than many other distros, which also have an installer and then post-install configuration to contend with. I'd just argue arch has newer packages and better documentation which some beginners (in the sense they're coming from macOS/Windows but know how basic software concepts) might appreciate.

I don't think archinstall is drowning sysadmins/programmers/CS students. What it will do is teach them to swim.

I think they may have said that because the state of Florida sought terrorism charges when a lady told a healthcare member they’d be next after the Luigi thing.

That wouldn't fall under the purview of hate-crime law I.M.O (disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer) because neither the intended nor the actual target was targeted on the basis of an identity category (ethnicity, gender, creed, race, religion, nationality). Not unless you include occupation as an identity. I don't.

To be clear, I don't recommend it. But it was once favored over KVM for a variety of applications and it works in a fundamentally different way. I'm just surprised how quickly it's lost favor among techies.

I looked into it, and you make a good point.

The CFC is commanded by a four-star U.S. Army general, with a four-star ROK Army general as deputy commander. This pattern exists throughout the CFC command structure: if the chief of a staff section is Korean, the deputy is American and vice versa.

I'm not saying the US is a perfect democracy. I'm stating that they're relatively more democratic. I don't think the US is a democracy. But I do think that it's relatively less democratic than the ROK, which appears to be headed vaguely in the direction of democracy, unlike the US or the DPRK. But we'll have to wait and find out as to whether they actually make it there. Good point about the concentration of economic power. Which obviously means political power as well. But their right-wing aspiring dictator seems more likely to be held accountable for his crimes than the US's. And maybe that says something about their relative degrees of democracy.

Not every implementation. Maybe every state implementation (widely recognized states tend to be at least somewhat authoritarian, and the existence of a state isn't compatible with the ultimate goal of a state-less, class-less, & money-less society). But there are some not-as-recognized examples of somewhat successful, somewhat decentralized leftist organizations. (They tend to be in a constant state of war with surrounding right-wing death squads, though.)

• EZLN
• PKK
• PLFP

To be clear, it makes sense that it's easier to handle disagreements within an army or party without resorting to outright authoritarianism; people who disagree enough to lead to real conflict are more likely to join a different army/front/party than create chaos inside of it. Still, there might be one last example of a pseudo-state or pseudo-country that seems consistent with anti-authoritarian leftist values:

• (Revolutionary Catalonia)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutionary_Catalonia]

There was a variety of leftist political activity in the region and no clear leader or authority, at least not in a definite singular sense. Unfortunately, the right-wing nationalist death squad got to them after only about a year. I wish that someone had intervened in nationalist Spain the way there'd been de-Nazi-fication in nationalist Germany.

Good point, honestly. But, if worst comes to worse, I expect continental Europe to stand with other continental Europeans and their interests before it stands with the likes of the US and UK.