Second half of Section 8 is missing as well

I just don’t think that intellectual property really achieves that. It seems to me that it is a much better tool for corporate control of art and culture than for protecting small artist. Someone who is trying to pay bills with their art probably can’t afford lawyers to protect that work. That said, I don’t necessarily have a better solution other than just asking people to support artist directly instead of going through corporate middlemen

*Not op but still gonna reply. Not really? The notion that someone can own (and be entitled to control) a portion of culture is absurd. It’s very frustrating to see so many people take issue with AI as “theft” as if intellectual property were something that we should support and defend instead of being the actual tool for stealing artists work (“Property is theft” and all such). And obviously data centers are not built to be environmentally sustainable (not an expert, but I assume this could be done if they cared to do so). That said, using AI to do art so humans can work is the absolute peek of a stupid fucking ideas.

I expect that with SteamOS being based on Arch there will be a bigger target on Arch for malware just from increased attention on the platform

The Arch Wiki is easily the most helpful documentation I have used in the switch to Linux. Absolute treasure trove of useful information in an approachable form

While this is true, it should also be recognized that the system as a whole has been festering for a long time. Everytime Democrats have tried to court the so-called moderate conservative instead of actually standing for something over the last decades, they put another nail in the coffin of our democracy.

No, the actually antisemitic claim is that Israel and the IDF are representative of Judaism and/or Jewish people. They are fascist organizations and the conflation of these groups with Jewish people at large (a narrative pushed by Israel and their allies) is what endangers them

Power not money. Government, patriarchy, racism, and their ilk all drive people in similarly destructive ways, money is just the (highly visible) common language.

Thanks for all the advice! Thinking Flex-launcher might suit my needs. Kodi with the jellyfin plugin is my current setup, definitely should have said that lol. This works very well for watching movies but not the rest of what I’m looking for

I feel like the distinction starts to get pretty blurry when “dealing with things internally without authorities” mostly just means covering stuff up and protecting predators, but yeah they don’t literally advertise to pedophiles

Covering thins like that up, is encouraging pedophiles. It let’s pedos know that it’s safe for them on the church.

Can we quit running billionaire’s PR campaigns for them? These people are not our friends, and giving back a portion of what they stole (always in the most public way) doesn’t change that

Because the primary function of all power is its own maintenance. And as two bodies of codified hierarchical power, protecting one is in the others interest.

The ui is clean and intuitive and it actually handles podcasts with multiple feeds (patron/free) well (other apps I’ve used were quite annoying with that). Being able to tag all your podcasts is also really nice for organization, especially if you have a lot of podcasts that you aren’t listening to every episode of. My only complaint was that the default settings are to download a podcast when you click on it instead if stream, but that is easily changed with one setting switch

How does copyright protect privacy? I don’t see the connection there. I also just disagree that copyright is good for art. Like obviously we can’t just not pay artists (without also changing a lot else) but people should not be allowed to own parts of culture.

If you really don’t want to deal with sideloading, Jellyfin can be accessed through an add on in Kodi (assuming Kodi is easily installable on the TV)

I would recommend Anarchy by Errico Malatesta as a much more readable alternative to the conquest of bread. - Anarchy - Conquest of Bread

Look, I get that not voting isn’t the answer and have voted democrat in every election of my life. “Those that didn’t vote are considered unreliable voters and removed from who the party decides to represent in their policies.” But this isn’t true. The Democrats dont ignore leftists because they refuse to vote democrat. The Democratics ignore leftist because they feel entitled to the vote, that leftists have no where else to go and that they should instead pander to conservatives who would otherwise vote Republican. This is literally just disenfranchizing your own base.

And frankly I don’t see anyway to fix that, cause you’re right that the Dems will look at leftist whose support they lost and decide it means that they should instead find support from republicans. But passing the blame off of the party and unto the people they failed to represent just doesn’t work, it isn’t going to convince anyone to come back to them.

“To add to the above, leftists refusing to even try to transform the Democratic party puts all of us in a precarious position due to economic (neo)liberals history of consistently siding with fascists.” i mean, leftist have tried (and continue to try) to transform the Democratic party, it just doesn’t work. Coopting and destroying left wing movements is like the only thing the Democratic party is actually competent at. Like (literally) every single mass political movement in my living memory has been taken in and destroyed by the Democratic party, because they feel entitled to speak for us.

I don’t know an easy solution for this, but voting blue isn’t it. I’ll still vote for them next election (if it happens) but we can’t delude ourselves into thinking that they are going to help. If we want the USA to make it out of fascism, we need to be building political power outside of the Democratic party

“Every election in my lifetime has resulted in worsening of the human condition because “protest (non-)voters” can’t be bothered to consider the most elementary examples of cause and effect” You say this as if the Democratic party hasn’t run with exact same strategy the entire time. A strategy that doesn’t work. Followed by yelling at people for not loving them enough (which has also never worked) and doing nothing to address there own shortcomings. They (rightfully) pointed out the bigotry of American conservatives, and then run a campaign to court this vote and alienate they people they claim as there base. And pick Kamala Harris as the candidate, as conservatives would ever vote for a black woman. Blindly electing democrats for running as blue team is what got us here, it is not going to get us out of it.