Dont use (only) fingerprint to unlock, AS they can force you to put your finger, they can’t force you to remember a password.

If possible have only Foss apps on your main profile (fdroid, neo store etc.) And one/multiple separate profile for closed source apps if you need them.

Check the tools under “security and privacy” in your pull down menu (like hardened memory allocation)

Inform yourself on what a secure system helps you with, and what not. (For example they can still hijack cellphone towers (stingray attack) and act accordingly

You could use yakuake, its a drop down terminal you can activate and hide with a hotkey, I’m quite fond of it.

I agree with you that the war on Gaza is worse than the war on Ukraine, as one of them is “only” imperialistic and the other is a genocide. We are on the same page here.

The EU as a whole is not as supportive of Israel as Germany though, Germany is quite an outlier here. This can be explained (but not excused) by the special relationship between the ex Nazi country and the majority of Israels citizens being Jews. Still, supporting the israelian genocide is fucking disgusting, no question. Ireland, Slovenia and Spain are much more supportive of Gaza is also part of the truth though.

I would support your idea of dismantling the us system, we are in the same page here as well, I am not that optimistic that this will get rid of fascism and capitalism though, Russia China and India and the EU will fill the void.

I also agree with your take on climate change, while by pure numbers China is one of the largest emitter, given they produce most of the worlds goods, I think their climate efforts are honest and my hope is that they will stick to their plans of co2 reduction and be a valuable force for climate. China’s efforts here are very important and I respect them for that.

I also agree with NATO needing to be dismantled, I dont agree with you that Russia is doing that. Look at trump and Putin, the invasion of Ukraine is not fighting against america or the NATO, its imperial landgrabing a non NATO state. And even if Putin would fight the NATO directly, I dont think this will benefit our class, we are the ones dying in the wars, hunger in the famines and getting arrested for fighting for solidarity amongst the international working class, a true change cannot come from a tyrann winning over another tyrann, it need to be a struggle by the people against the oppressors

If you dont condemn an imperialistic country invading its small neighbour, you fight for the oppressor. War is never good for the working class, if you justify people dying in imperialistic wars, you are a class enemie in my eyes.

For your las paragraph is where I find it to get interesting as we have the same opinion, that a democratical controlled public economy is better then privately owned means of production. From what I’ve read China is moving towards private ownerships of means if production then away from it and the actual public decision-making gets progressively less in favor of concentration of power for the political elites (https://www.statista.com/chart/25194/private-sector-contribution-to-economy-in-china/) (https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/china-in-xis-new-era-the-return-to-personalistic-rule/)

Here it would help to get the data straight, I’m open to critically over think my position here

Your argument that USA is worse at nearly everything than nearly everyone else I would fully support.

Apart from that there is an argument to be made, that Democratic votes dont mean shit if the discourse is not free, the regime decides what information you can get, what is allowed to be discussed publicly and what is not. Not only are there information like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_China also My fellow exchange students from China tell me you can’t talk critically about the regime, even in private conversations because you will face direct or indirect repercussions. Things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitzchung_controversy also play into this picture.

A state where the working class is truely ruling needs a free working class who can freely from their opinion. This can’t be done in a surveillance state.

I’m not saying there is no surveillance in the EU, just less then in China.

Also also: being able to vote doesn’t make a country socialist or “not capitalistic”, if it would america would fall into this category as well.

I think gramcis works are quite enlightening in that regard.

Not Europe, germany did. This cant be accepted and is one of the worst things they have done in recent years alongside with the judicial suppor and political backing up they give israel. This must be condemned and fought against.

But since we are on the topic of war: who is supplying russia with the drones and fiber optics they use to invade Ukraine? Isnt that China? And isn’t xi giving Putin the same political backing?

As I said: both capitalistic hell holes, but one has slightly less surveillance and slightly less political oppression.

Both, both is good

Authoritarian capitalistic state?

For all the tankies disagreeing simply ask yourself two questions:

Who owns the means of production in a socialist society?

Who owns the means of production in China?

Everything else follows from there

Europe is a capitalistic hell hole, but in comparison to the world powers it really does look like the white knight Jedi…

This isnt a shitpost community…

MSG seems to be the even better rock

Good ol Thunderbird

Exactly. Hope you are a troll, because if you really believe that… Holy shit I don’t even know where to start.

Nah you are brainwashed if you think people who are bored/unhappy are at fault themself in a system which constantly takes from the poor masses and gives to the rich few.

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Reading your replies under other comments: How fucking entitled and brainwashed are you? You are the definition of toxic “good vibes only” rich girls

You one busy boy, you post the same meme to all comunitys so it floods the timelines…

Yeah well, no problem with steam proton games.

Now get the ones with kernel level anti cheat running (league for example)

Was a while ago, i think i did. All I know is I worked trough the whole doc to upgrade start to finish because I didn’t know which sections apply to me and which don’t, it was like ten hours of work trying t o understand everything which, holly shit, wasn’t easy and when I finally got completely through it didn’t work as expected.

Not that I think the docs were wrong, I am aware that I was the problem there, but it sometimes bothers me when people act like Linux is super easy and even grandma can understand and use it while I, the most techy persons in my peer group, give it my all and still dont even manage a simple upgrade, which would be absolutely no problem on the corporate OSs

Would be nice if it were just that easy, wouldn’t it?

Thats not what i experienced… Trying to run sketchup with wine, 3 days trial and error, doesn’t work even though winehq says its possible Using vive wireless? Not possible at all! or playing league, hard before vanguard, impossible after… Updating between major versions? Always breaks my setup and makes me start from scratch Using zoom for work with sharing desktop? Huge pita and u need to deepdive in Wayland to get I running (I didn’t so I switched back to x)! Install a non native daw like ableton and get it running without crashes and usable latency? Impossible! Using your rack audio interface? Not possible as there is no Linux driver and pipewire only recognizes half of the functions

I have a ryzen 5 12 core and a Vega 64, so hardware is decent and clearly not the problem here.

I am aware that those problems often stem from programs not being designed for Linux, not Linux itself being bad, but the effect is sadly the same: using halfbacked freeware or study IT to get it running, nothing apart from Mozilla “just works”