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the old aesthetics here never fails to put a smile on my face.

for a moment it makes me feel like it’s the 90’s and i’m reading nonsensical trek fan fiction again.

nvidia support has definately gotten better and the first part of my comment was snark; it’s ignorable… like most of what i say. lol

tiktok is especially interesting when you use it on a laptop compared to a phone; a lot of the features like reposting videos and following people don’t always work so i have to implement work arounds to do both and it sometimes feels like going back to 1995 since my workarounds involve text messages. lol

i wonder about fresh graduates and how they’re going to survive this job market.

i graduated with an electrical engineering related degree, but it was immediately after the dot com bubble burst so there were no jobs in my field to be had, but i got lucky and found one doing IT and (at the time) there was still strong a enough demand for software development that my IT experience was deemed “good enough” to allow me to enter the field.

22 years later, i got burned out by the culture that software engineers tend to gravitate towards and pivoted back to IT at a non-profit that serves lower & middle income students. i’ve had to work with some of them as part of work-study sort of thing and every single one of them is sharp af – much more than i was at that age and especially so when it comes to ai – but i see every single one of them (justifiably) freak out about their prospects and i feel for them based on my own experiences.

the colleagues at my new firm have been doing this for 30+ years and have never faced layoffs, downsizing, restructuring, etc. and their callous attitude towards fresh grads wrestling this specter is weighing on me just as much as the dominant i’ve-got-mine-fuck-you type of culture that software engineers tend to adopt when in the field.

… but they embrace being green / sustainable so that’s usually a give away :)

so does chevron. lol

i almost bought one of these and it sounds like a dodge a bullet.

but then again, i ended up getting an hp instead and that died 3 years ago, so maybe not. lol

i never switched to preferring my phone over my laptop, so my laptop has always remained my primary means of interacting with people (ie text messages & phone calls) and social media and it’s taught me that it disconnects you in strange ways from the zeitgeist of today world in ways that are so subtle that they’re easy to miss and they add up over time.

it’s nice to see the sovereign tech fund continuing to support this effort rather than something like google.

very true and i would have been better insulated by purchasing older hardware, but buying electronics second hand has always made me regret it.

that logic was my exact reasoning for buying linux-first laptops and it gave me an ultra smooth sailing for almost a decade meanwhile this is how i felt learning about everyone else’s hibernate/wifi/nvidia/battery-draining problems that system76 solved for me:

imagine that this is how mac people feel. lol

I still have issues with an Nvidia card computer I own …

who doesn’t? lol

i intentionally avoided nvidia this time around because of my experiences w it in the past.

i used mine to build an everything server and i kept cannibalizing parts from other “dead” systems from e-waste collection dumpsters intended for landfill to keep it running for many years until it died recently.

it’s amazing what people throw away sometimes; i once got a macbook air from one and ran fedora on it for many years as well.

dismissing my source critique as a “trope” while spending multiple comments labeling me as indoctrinated, in denial, and propagandized is not a debate; it’s a shield. (but it atleast didn’t devolve into the usual name calling and snarkiness that typifies these exchanges).

also source critique isn’t a “trope.” it’s how you separate solid evidence from noise or state sponsored propaganda. if your sources can’t hold up to basic scrutiny, the problem isn’t my attitude – it’s your evidence.

you’re clearly smart and passionate, but calling everyone who pushes back “indoctrinated” is just a faster way to stop listening; there’s no such thing as an unbiased/neutral party.

you’re not wrong about everything you’ve stated, but you’re also only half correct because your sources have skin in the game.

goldsea.com – your execution article. goldsea’s an asian american ad-driven news aggregator, not an independent investigative outlet. like any all other media, their business model rewards sensational headlines. that’s not a neutral source – it’s a conflict of interest baked in. in this case, they profit from making china look as brutal as possible. the article itself recycles cases from 2006 and 2008. why? because recent examples are harder to find or less dramatic and includes no updates for the cases; suspended sentences are a thing in china.

wikipedia & the great famine – yes, the famine happened. but wikipedia’s sourcing on that page leans heavily on western cold war-era scholarship, almost all of which had its own political axe to grind and even liberals today recognize this. not saying the famine is false – it’s not – but citing wikipedia as objective truth while calling me brainwashed is something very special. not even elementary school students are allowed to cite wikipedia anymore because of how wrong it frequently is.

the us investment figure – $228 billion from american companies. those companies didn’t invest out of generosity. they invested for profit. so citing them as proof that “china is great because of the us” is like saying a customer made a restaurant successful out of kindness. like most americans, you’re confusing corporate/oligarchic self-interest as if it were altruism.

nobody’s neutral. The difference is I hold the epstein oligarchy’s kool-aid and china’s at the same arm’s length – while your sources show that you full-throatedly chug the former.

i’m coming at this realization from the opposite direction; my experience w linux made me believe you had to be VERY disciplined about your hardware purchases or you’re stuck having something that doesn’t work until you fix it.

so i’ve spent the last decade buy linux-first laptops – aka generic tier laptops with mac laptop price tags.

i needed a new laptop and my circumstances forced me to buy a cheap/off-brand windows-first laptop and i was dreading having to fix whatever didn’t work like i had to do circa 2002; but no, it’s just worked.

the people of lemmy made me realize this and wo them, i would be stuck trying to do my thing on broken hardware.

… After 2 years observing Spanish press and social media, I see a tremendous disparity between that and the society, marking strong manipulation.

it’s undeniable how much social media impact the most recent latin americans elections in spanish social media given the sudden bursts of activity; but i’m just some random american and have to wait years before a research looks into it and publishes their findings.

so much to to unpack, so i’m going to focus on the misinformation in your comment.

first, claiming china “murders anyone they disagree with” isn’t evidence – it’s hyperbole. china’s authoritarian, history suggests a necessity for it, but that line doesn’t help your argument.

second, you say china turned to capitalism after “failed policies cost tens of millions of lives.” that’s a enormous, contested historical claim you’re dropping like it’s settled fact; it’s not.

third, “china is great because of the us” is incredible oversimplification. china’s growth came from its own labor, reforms, and global trade – yes, including with the us, but that’s mutual benefit, not charity.

you’re right to criticize billionaire wealth and long work hours. but mixing valid criticism with exaggerated or contested claims just weakens your point. stick to the facts when criticizing china – believe me, they’re more than damning enough on their own.

agreed, it should be the smallest part of your civic engagement; not the entirety of it.

you’re not wrong – china’s billionaire count is up. but here’s the cycle that people in the west miss: a new crop of billionaires come along (eg. tech, evs, ai) and they replace the old crop (eg. real estate & manufacturing) that the chinese gov’t already short-leashed, and boom, numbers jumped.

that new crop will experience their own slowdown too once they get their own short-leashes like the previous crop did. it happened around 2018-2024, and it’ll happen again and again. china’s churn is fast, but the pattern’s the same every time: rise, stall, replace; no permanent footing/beachhead for a billionaire class from which to capture the system or spread misinformation like it is in the united states.

@Doomsider@lemmy.world

Unfortunately there has never been a government able to regulate and keep capitalism this way. Other people have said it is simply not possible due to the nature of capitalism.

the primary “authoritarian” government of the world has proven that it is possible and that keeping them under a tight leash is the only way to prevent them from indoctrinating the masses; that’s why the number of billions and the wealth of the its millionaires have been steadily declining for the last decade or so, while simultaneously continuing to improve the quality of life for its citizens; meanwhile while the united states is poised to get its first trillionaire class very soon.