I mean the modern web is mostly made by college nerds and maintained by underpaid underappreciated obsessive open-source developers.

I think you might be confusing socialism and state capitalism here.

Socialism. Production and distribution is owned by the community (government).

This is a somewhat inaccurate definition. Socialism is the social ownership of means of production that does not necessarily mean the government. It comes in many forms such as democratic ownership by the employees (worker cooperatives), community ownership like utility providers being owned by the town and townsfolk, or state ownership if the state is democratically elected and accountable to the working class.

The concept of democratic and social ownership would be lost in an authoritarian state.

It has nothing to do with “Handouts”. Or helping your neighbor really.

There is no redistribution of wealth. That is communism.

Socialism with handouts is communism.

Both socialism and communism are concerned with redistribution of wealth. They just disagree on the method. Socialists believe that by eliminating capitalism and with progressive taxation wealth redistribution becomes inevitable, whole communists thinks this will only be achieved with a powerful state to oversee the redistribution process.

You could have a completely Socialistic society that let’s some of it’s people starve because it benefits the majority.

This scenario contradicts the core moral and political goal of socialism which is ensuring the wellbeing of all member of the community by ending the exploitation inherited in capitalism. A system that allows this scenario is just unethical authoritarianism regardless of what people call it or think it is.

A great example to look at socialism is the nazi party creating Volkswagen.

The nazi party was socialist in name only. It was essentially a fascist regime that crushed actual socialist and communist movements, and imprisoned and murdered labour leaders. They also didn’t nationalize the majority of industry and relied heavily on forced labour.

Again this fits state capitalism better than socialism. It’s essentially the state controlling corporates instead of the social and democratic ownership by the working class that socialism seeks.

A large government can easily have a monopoly on a good or service.

For example, say America was 100% Socialistic.

Government would gain access to all satalites and towers and issue the Volkstelefon. Affordable phone and internet for everyone!

Imagine if tomorrow Trump issued his phone in that style.

thats a valid point but primary against state control not socialism itself.

In an ideal socialist system this Volkstelefon would be owned by a democratic entity rather than an elite group of politicians in a flawed democratic government. This entity would probably consist of worker and consumer representatives with the common goal of providing affordable high quality service that’s also fair to both the workers and consumers.

Your concern here is also shared with most socialists.

While yes socialism can some time manifest itself in the form of state ownership that’s never the ideal situation since it can easily transform into state capitalism if the state decisions weren’t representative of the workers’ will (which is usually the case in non-direct democracy systems).

First of all aren’t audiologists doctors? Also where I live architects are considered engineers and saying engineering and medicine are non-professional is so absurd to me.

Also if people working in these professions could coordinate and organise a nationwide strike it would literally halt the entire economy.

Wouldn’t that just be a modded server?

I feel like some people think Linux is only for hackers and cybersecurity professionals

To me the word has always had some bad connotations. When you mention Settlers one of two things come to mind. Either European colonials in Africa or America genociding native populations, looting resources and spreading colonial propaganda, or whatever these brainwashed Israeli terrorists are.

while I agree it might not be descriptive enough hence I like to use the term “occupiers”, the word was never neutral to begin with at least where I come from.

Btw the Arabic word for it originally meant to settle in but nowadays it became synonymous with invasion.

I think what they meant is that the technology exists since steam frame is an ARM based device it’s just a matter of running it on different hardware and adding firmware support for things like phone calls and touch screens.

I’ve already switched my pc to Linux. I’m willing to switch my phone to Linux too. My only problem with current alternatives is that none of them feel like a finished product Software-wise. And hardware-wise I have a galaxy ultra so the downgrade would be a lot especially in the performance and cameras.

We need a Linux based/Open-source alternative that could compete with the likes of Apple, Google, and Samsung. It’s not impossible especially with current available technology, but I can see why the market incentives are very low.

I was hoping new laws could at least keep the status quo for a bit longer but it turns out as always relying on politicians is a bad idea.

If this how the outside of my window looked in the middle east, a national emergency has probably been declared with hundreds dead or lost and the military dispatched to the streets.

I think I saw one online before but it was kinda expensive.

Respect the player hate the game, unless the player is just another narcissistic bigot. I often like to make the distinction between my opinion on the system and that of individual human beings in said system. I may say “fuck the police” but also have respect towards a polite police officer that believes he’s doing a good thing.

Dude has the most English sounding name ever.

The war in Gaza has proved that Israel can do whatever the fuck it wants and break as many laws and treaties and nobody’s going to do anything about it other than some useless words of condemnation.

I’m not that familiar with video editing but community presets come with a strong community so as open source software becomes better there’s a good chance a community will develop with it and make custom presents, plugins, and forks.

I hate that Adobe has almost a monopoly on a lot of different kinds of programmes.

Westerners also seem to forget that the UK, France, and US are mostly to blame for all the instability and war in the middle east, forgetting (intentionally or not) the colonial and imperialist past of their governments when they were committing war crimes and dismissing the will and needs of entire populations for decades before the idea of non-europeans also having rights became popular.

Mine ended with something like “and everyone who is still alive and didn’t die yet lived happily ever after”

I don’t know about BBC but I’m sure international and western journalists have been killed or arrested before.

I believe whether this was to cover up something or not, Israel is using intimation tactics to keep eyes and cameras away from them. We have a saying in Arabic that goes “hit the one with the leash to scare the loose” basically you attack non-threatening individuals to scare away actual threats.

You guys are also forgetting that the Golan Heights since 1981 and recently southern Syria are illegally occupied by Israel and heavily militarized. Which has caused the locals to move away that of itself may be argued to be a crime. So if you wanna maintain opsec go ahead but not when the operation is about stealing land and harassing locals.

I don’t know what sabra is but it reminds me of sabra and shatila

Yeah I believe that standardisation is beneficial in general whether it’s capitalism or not. In fact I believe it’s even more beneficial for a non-capitalist society, since yes you could not use the standard but nobody would be able to afford to come up with everything themselves. Unlike companies like apple that can afford having their own proprietary ecosystem including the lightning port. In that case standards could be maintained by non-profit organisations consisting of other organisations with a donation based model. Which is what happens in the real world except for the part where companies step in and put lots of money for their own benefit and to be able to pull these organisations in the direction they desire.

The concept of standardisation isn’t necessary capitalist but the form it exists in today is shaped by the capitalist world we live in.