Masterofballs

It’s a great deal even as a server

I actually use their non foss free stuff. Otherwise I would use vscodium. Their remote development plugins are amazing and unfortunately not open source.

I use a lot of docker and docker compose every day and do dev work right in the container so the routing is easier.

Maybe people can finally switch to vscode. I learned emacs. ctrl xc all day.

Why I hate having repos in GitHub now.

Yeah I think that might be a better way to put it. He did get really angry at his friend making money off emacs.

But mostly listening to him talk he would go on a on about how compiled code could do anything and you wouldn’t know. And that this is oppression. So you should always have the source code. He won’t read websites in a browser. He downloads the html and reads offline in a little netbook that has a open source firmware.

I try to understand what some of these communist say. I think the idea is that communism must come after capitalism. So like; capitalism is a stepping stone for a more advanced society. I’m not really sure because i’ve also heard cavemen were communist.

It’s a difficult one. To be honest much of the linux movement was brought about by by the gnu movement which was started by Richard Stallman

Now obviously linux was started by Linus Torvalds. Who I wouldn’t call communist, maybe socialist.

Richard on the other hand heavily used Communist talking points in his arguments.

Richard didn’t think you should be able to make profit off software. He was super mad when his more talented classmate sold the rights of emacs to some company for big bucks. So he copied all the source code and gave it away to everyone for free. Under a different license. Which was very illegal but no one could sue him because he had no money. The company is even on record saying they can’t sue a homeless man.

so richard goes on and on about digital oppression. Software sellers are the bourgeoisie and users are the proletariat basically.

It wasn’t actual communism and was almost always done in a light hearted way almost as a joke. But also extremely seriously.

So back to communism linux and such. Richard’s main claim to fame is that modern day copy right doesn’t serve the people anymore.

He is probably right about that. Disney should not be able to stop me from selling graphic novels of mickey mouse.

So he and others helped create software licenses as a way to work in the current system. That is how gnu came about. And it did have Marxist roots.

You could say the gnu 3.0 license is communist, 2.0 is socialist and the MIT license is libertarian.

But communism was a specific ideology that came about in a time when there was mass suffering in factories, massive inequality and you just can’t really apply it to software.

Ultimately, people wanted to share their code and know that companies will give back if they use it and that is what linux is about.

It’s not communism, it’s gnu. It’s a different movement that came about for a different need. The need to share code without worrying to much if a company made money off it because you could atleast get their changes back.

So I think,

yes and no?

I agree the install process isn’t complicated. Last time I tried something messed up my networking. I could only connect to the internet if I was connected to a vpn. I don’t know what it was but manjaro and EndeavourOS never had that problem. Endeavour basically is arch so I don’t see what the point of using a harder arch.

Containers in general have been great for repeatable deployment.

Even flatpaks are not perfect. But for somestuff where you have to run proprietary code it’s nice to have it isolated.

I use EndeavourOS. I like rolling releases. I like to use flatpaks instead of snaps because some of the snap infrastructure is closed source.

I don’t like the complicated installation of arch but I like the ecosystem. I started having problems with manjaro so I went to Endeavour and it’s been solid a few months. No