But the idea that violence (covert or overt) is never effective as a means of enacting change is flat out wrong.

Ok, violence is rarely effective at enacting desired change. Look at how many times the US has overthrown dictators just to get someone worse in power. Look at failed revolutions that resulted in authoritarians in charge. Look at Islamic extremism’s results creating even more violence. Look at the complete lack of changes since Luigi Mangione took matters into his own hands.

Targeted violence just doesn’t have a good track record for solving problems. It just creates a vacuum, and that vacuum is frequently filled by something even worse.

So yeah, maybe it’s occasionally effective, but that is very much the exception rather than the rule.

I’m on board w/ both honestly, as unpopular as that may sound. If a job can be automated, it should.

I want to point out that an AI being able to do a job doesn’t mean that job is now obsolete for humans. There will always be room for that human touch, which is why things like kit cars and hand-carved statues are still a thing in an era of automated car factories and 3D printers.

I’ve been getting into chess recently, and the best chess AIs can consistently beat top humans, yet there are still tournaments for human competitors to compete against each other. The human touch will always have value.

I think Lemmy is just scared of change. To be fair, so am I, but as long as I learn to adapt, I should get net benefits from technological advancements.

Right, I just think it’s important to acknowledge that these restrictions are due to our own priorities, and not imposed on us by someone else. There’s far too much victimhood, and I think a simple mental shift of acknowledging that any restrictions we see are self-imposed can really help with life satisfaction (i.e. grants some level of control).

For example, I have always wanted to start my own business, but chose not to because it’s too risky. I have obligations to my family, and I haven’t yet found a business idea that I can be reasonably confident will provide adequately for them. I’m still free to go pursue a business idea, I’m just deciding not to because stability is more important to me than the possibility of wealth.

Choices narrow, freedoms restrict, responsibilities build

I don’t think freedoms really restrict, I think we end up restricting ourselves because we prioritize those responsibilities over our own desires. I think it’s just our perception of what we can do changes, and we get more realistic about what we can achieve.

As you said, as we get older, we get more personal power and experience, and we have the option to try to pursue those, or to take the “easier” path and stick to our responsibilities. I find myself copping-out all the time (i.e. I have kids, so I don’t spend time protesting/lobbying for change), yet I totally could make the time for other things if I really prioritize it. In fact, I’ve been considering running for office because I hate my local reps, I just haven’t committed to it yet. But I could totally do it if I really wanted to.

I like the idea of circles of control vs influence (7 habits of highly effective people), or ILOC/ELOC (what my work uses). Basically, you have two groups of things:

1. circle of influence - what you can control, impact directly
2. circle of concern - things you care about, but cannot control or impact directly

Here’s an image w/ some examples. As you get older, both circles increase in size. You can take proactive steps to increase the circle of influence faster than the circle of concern, which generally involves goal setting and internal motivation. And that gets hard when responsibilities mount and we just want to relax, and I would be lying if I didn’t say the desire to relax beats my desire to grow my circle of influence most of the time.

We didn’t end slavery by assassinating slave owners, we ended it by passing legislation banning it (and I’m sure there were assassinations during the slave era). Yeah, we fought a war first (in the US), but in many other areas, governments just passed laws banning the practice and enforced those laws.

Legislation is the proper way to solve this. If what they’re doing is currently legal but undesirable, pass some consumer-protection laws to prevent most of the harm, and investigate why things cost so much and attack that so both the consumer and health care providers win.

The main “wasted” resources here is storage space and maybe a bit of RAM, actual runtime overhead is very limited. It turns out, storage and RAM are some of the cheapest resources on a machine, and you probably won’t notice the extra storage or RAM usage.

VMs are heavy, Docker containers are very light. You get most of the benefits of a VM with containers, without paying as high of a resource cost.

We should probably make a poll thread here, it could be pretty interesting to see everyone’s primary and secondary motivations.

A popular revolution would be far more bloody.

Absolutely. But it would also be more likely to actually effect meaningful change, with a large risk of devolving into authoritarianism.

I don’t think we’re at the point where revolution is warranted, and I think we can fix the problem with a large-scale protest movement. Assassination isn’t likely to improve things, it’ll just lead to more protectionism of these people.

“Breaking the law” isn’t the issue.

But they are though. They’re making it intentionally difficult for customers to get the benefits they were contracted to receive. There is a very good chance they are knowingly violating the law, but trying to stay at the edge of the gray zone to force lawsuits instead of regulatory investigation.

This is precisely the type of thing the various government agencies should be investigating.

Killing a CEO is an event, and events fade from memory with time. Jailing a CEO shows that the regulatory bodies are willing to enforce the law, and that’s a warning to other companies that the same could very well happen to them. Maybe that’s less likely w/ this administration, but that’s the most effective route IMO.

Except that Brian Thompson’s assassination is literally inspiring a large group of people on the internet to gush and post about him and there are top down censorship activities to quell it. Maybe even inspiring enough to start a popular revolution.

I think you’re overestimating the impact here. Yes, it has sparked a lot of discussion and moderation in communities, but it hasn’t led to any real action. It seems like a mixture of moderation and time has largely allowed that water to pass under the bridge. And it’s less than 6 months since the event.

Things have sparked up a little with the trial happening, but I highly doubt anything major will come of it. People seem to not like the idea of assassination as a tool to solve problems (like me), but they do think we need to fix health insurance, so you end up w/ a weird mixed form of support.

I hope it leads to actual fixes to the healthcare system, instead of normalizing violence as a form of political speech.

There are a few decent options, all with some caveats:

• Seafile - wicked fast, but uses a funky disk format, so you need either a FUSE layer or the web UI/API to access anything
• OCIS/OpenCloud - default install uses a funky file format, but you can change this to POSIX if you want (experimental on OCIS, might be default now on OpenCloud?)
• others - probably work fine, but they get less blog attention

I’m playing with OCIS and I like it so far. There was some funkiness when I had things misconfigured, but now that it’s working, I like it.

It’s the easiest way to get stuff running, so I’m guessing that’s why. But it’s far from the best way.

I’m not sure how the weight is distributed, so maybe? Maybe it needs sandbags in the front?

Either way, it sounds workable as an around town truck, even in snow, without 4WD.

It usually comes down to privacy and independence from big tech, but there are a ton of other reasons you might want to do it. Here are some more:

• preservation - no longer have to care if Google kills another service
• cost - over time, Jellyfin could be cheaper than a Netflix sub
• speed - copying data on your network is faster than to the internet
• hobby - DIY is fun for a lot of people

For me, it’s a mix of several of reasons.

The only real problem here is the price. It should’ve been more like $30.

Yes please!

And that’s a big reason why I don’t buy Ubisoft games. Even the old Ezio trilogy has that crap.

So yeah, no more.

And that’s why I generally avoid the genre, not because “survival” sucks, but because bad “survival” sucks.

Nice, amateur hour it seems.

That’s a good way to always keep chips on hand.

Eh, you can be reasonably sure that GrapheneOS or other Android ROMs without any Google Play apps is private.

Ouch.