It also fundamentally misunderstands why Linux has such low adoption rates at the desktop. It has much more to do with Windows being ubiquitous in desktop enterprise environments than Linux. MacOS is by all accounts even more intuitive and easier to understand than Windows with a greater selection of native programs than Linux on top of having billions of dollars at their disposal for advertisement, but you're not exactly seeing MacOS hit >60% of desktops.

Overall, for a thread that's supposed to help a newbie, this thread has a surprising amount of bad info. From saying Debian doesn't come with sudo (completely untrue, the Debian installer has an option of adding the user to sudo when most distro installers just add the user to sudo automatically) to saying installing MacOS programs is simply clicking on an icon (not really true either since the only time you're clicking on shit to install things on MacOS instead of using the store is if you're installing third-party software, in which case you have to dig through menus).

I've been trying to find a good Marxist instance, but Lemmygrad and Hexbear are widely hated. Why is that?

Because the majority of Ledditors are either liberals or full blown reactionaries and the ones who are not range from some cringey techno-libertarian who think FOSS will usher in socialism to some radlib cruise-missile socialist who strangely never deviates from the US state department. The very few who could legitimately be considered socialists are some kind of anarchist. They certainly aren't Marxist.

Are there any good leftist instances?

Outside of those two, I won't hold my breath. The easiest litmus test in the world is how they're responding to the genocide at Gaza. There's very few places where you'll get complete support for the Palestinian liberation struggle and not whining about the imaginary babies Hamas allegedly beheaded or trying to equate the conduct of a genocidal nuclear power to a paramilitary fighting for national liberation.

People are really taking his comment about Islam being a driving force in the Palestinian national liberation struggle to mean the main driving force or even worse, the only driving force are not reading the comment correctly. Every single national liberation struggle has an ideological component which drives the struggle alongside material conditions. Even something like "restoring our once glorious empire," which various factions of the Chinese national liberation struggle embraced, counts as ideology. The material component of the Palestinian national liberation struggle should be a given and frankly deserves little mention for how obvious it is. The Palestinians are blowing up tanks and merking IOF goons because Palestinians don't want to be ethnically cleansed. There, that's your material analysis. It doesn't need to be longer than a sentence. It's the ideological motivation that's far more interesting and that actually warrants paragraphs to outline, which Hakim did. The material motivations are obvious to all, even to people who refuse to accept Marxism, while the ideological motivations aren't as obvious to an Anglophonic audience that isn't predominately Muslim.

As for the recommendation of the Quran, well no shit, it turns out the Islamic Resistance Movement uses the Quran as its foundational text, and it would behoove anyone attempting to make a critical analysis of a political group or movement to read that groups' foundational text. Imagine someone criticizing an ML party or even Marxism-Leninism in general without ever reading State and Revolution or criticizing Marxism without reading any text by Marx a la Jordan Peterson. The gigachad who planted the warhead on the tank did it while reciting a Quranic verse. I would think that it should inspire people to actually read the Quran to understand why he would recite it instead of going, "opium of the masses" like some Reddit atheist. And you can't just wave around "material conditions" as if that would automatically lead people to perform acts of great courage. Material conditions might provide the clay, but it's ideology that molds the clay.

At the end of the day, the community note isn't an all-encompassing analysis. It's, as Hakim himself stated, merely providing context to the Palestinians' ideology (political Islam) for people who might not have pick up on it because they aren't Muslim (his audience).

When your illegitimate regime is definitely not losing every front including the information front and is definitely not about to eat a major L: Israel has announced that consuming “Hamas media” will now be a federal offense punishable by a year in prison, even if no actions were taken. Visiting Hamas websites is considered an offense.

Without a shadow of a doubt the Bible.

No, reading the Gospels, Paul's letters, Revelations, Genesis, Exodus, and selected Psalms doesn't count as reading the Bible. Do you count reading 10 chapters of a 60+ chapter book as reading the book? Of course not.

I'm looking up combat footage in Telegram, and it ain't looking pretty for the Zionists. You can tell the Palestinians caught them completely off guard with all the dead IDF solders lying in the pool of their blood without combat gear or even pants. Paper tigers always act tough until the colonized fight back, then they're cowering in garbage bins or taking the first flight back to the US and Europe.

The million dollar question is whether the US will write off Ukraine as a loss in order to bolster its most prized proxy state or whether the US will continue to stretch itself thin by fighting multiple fronts.

Meanwhile in occupied Palestine:

• https://twitter.com/ib_reb/status/1710517976628113697 (CW: gunfire)

• https://twitter.com/ME_Observer_/status/1710507150743650376 (CW: gunfire)

• https://nitter.cz/Global_Mil_Info/status/1710511661533028629

• https://nitter.cz/BenFRubinstein/status/1710523072770441665 (CW: gunfire)

• https://nitter.cz/NewpressPs/status/1710515325060391279 (CW: gunfire)

• https://nitter.cz/rasseed01/status/1710512270235537914

• https://nitter.cz/ME_Observer_/status/1710523166135570534

• https://nitter.cz/ME_Observer_/status/1710531604207022455

• https://nitter.cz/EyesOnSouth1/status/1710534840880079296

• https://nitter.cz/Angelo4justice3/status/1710540693796696069

• https://nitter.cz/FarahFawaz90/status/1710541598541353314

• https://nitter.cz/Southern780/status/1710548439027609622

• https://nitter.cz/Jihane09876/status/1710553796135240151

• https://nitter.cz/ytirawi/status/1710539402953261424

• https://nitter.cz/Marxozoic/status/1710565020214653266

• https://nitter.cz/ME_Observer_/status/1710563263602209168

And speaking of the ROC Marine Corps, the ROC claims more parts of the South China Sea than the PRC (11 dash line vs 9 dash line), but unlike its claims of Mongolia, which is treated as a joke that no one takes seriously, the ROC is very serious in its pursuit of its claims to the SCS by building naval bases and holding regular naval exercises. Here's Vietnam diplomatically telling the ROC to fuck off from the Spratly Islands.

A Republic of Taiwan has no conceivable grounds to pursuit any claims to the SCS because the SCS is nowhere close to what the territorial waters of a hypothetical ROT would be and a ROT is not part of any international treaty which a ROT could use to justify de jure control. But it's not claiming the SCS as a ROT but as the ROC. And unlike a ROT, the ROC as China does have international agreement which would give it de jure control over the SCS. This is how you know Taiwanese separatism is farcical. It's all "Taiwan is culturally and politically distinct from China" until the SCS is involved then it's suddenly, "aktually as the Republic of China, these are Chinese water and thus our territorial waters since we are the Republic of China you see." But then again, what else do you expect from the political (and literal) descendants of Japanese fascist collaborators who (not so secretly) wish they were Japanese?

Taiwan thinks that it can make a war with the mainland so costly for the latter that it would not make economic sense to invade. This is unrelated to the US; ideology takes a backseat to making money almost anywhere in the world and the Taiwanese know this.

My dude, the entire ROC military is completely controlled by the KMT. Yeah, a military that's institutionally controlled by the status quo party is going to fight to the last man while Tsai Ing-wen and William Lai take the first flight to Japan. The government might have transitioned away from a KMT military dictatorship during the 90s, but the actual military hasn't moved away from its KMT military dictatorship roots, especially the top brass. Taiwanese separatists have a reputation for dodging conscription, so in the end, you have a top brass that's still nostalgic about the Chiang Ching-kuo days and a bunch of enlisted and conscripted soldiers who don't care a whole lot about Taiwanese separatism. There's a reason why the DPP has continuously and successfully run on "the KMT will sell out Taiwan to the CPC" in order to win seats, most recently in the 2020 Taiwanese presidential election.

There's a decent chance there won't be an invasion anyways because the KMT cut a backroom deal with the CPC.

Public support among Western nations and their allies for Taiwan's continued autonomous existence remains high despite their governments recognising it as a province of China. You don't seem to understand how useful doublespeak is in international geopolitics. To pretend countries say what they mean and mean what they say is incredibly naïve.

The vast majority of the world isn't part of the West. And they by and large do not pretend Taiwan is a country. Why do you think the vast majority of African countries do not even bother with a totally-not-an-embassy building for Taiwan? Who cares if a bunch of Swedes, Belgians, and Brits continue to pretend Taiwan is a country while their respective governments still pay homage to the PRC anyways? I don't know if you follow the news, but the West is becoming increasingly irrelevant.

not using Q4OS and setting up Trinity to make it look identical to a Windows OS

smfh

Man Getting Hit By Football is a short film about rampant ableism and ageism within Springfield. As we can see with Sherman chastising Homer's boorish behavior, the film is not a comedy, but Homer is unable to see the film as anything but a comedy due to his rampant ableism and ageism, as repeatedly demonstrated throughout the years with his willful and malicious neglect of Grandpa Simpson.

I'm not sure if regular libs have been migrating to Lemmy leaving only the worst posters or if they are just becoming shittier.

They don't have to necessarily migrate to Lemmy. There's plenty of other social media sites. My guess is most people who are fed up with Reddit won't bother with a shitty Reddit clone but move on to a different social media.

The Moors shouldn't have stopped at Tours.

It's not racism, it's just a racism-adjacent form of bigotry. Feeling owned yet, tankie?

No, it's worse than that. It's "I can say the n-word because Black people say the n-word."

mfw getting rid of downvotes but keeping upvotes is a half-measure

Nah, Russian diplomacy is at their highest once they realize they could write off the West as a loss instead of sucking up to them, who sees the Russians as Asiatic orcs anyways. Russia is somehow able to be friends with both India and China, they have made huge diplomatic (and military) strides in Africa, and they're not doing too shabby in SEA or WANA either. That's almost two continents right there.

Russian diplomacy is at their weakest, which is why almost every single African country sent a delegation to Moscow.

2023 join year

Whatever you say Ledditor.