BaldProphet

Haha you picked the worst time to try to break into tech.

I can't think of a government that would truly treat the industries it controls as "worker owned". The workers would merely be employees of the government.

Either way, you're entitled to your beliefs.

I've never seen any kind of authoritative definition between little s and big S socialism, so if you are intending to draw a distinction based on capitalization alone, I consider that to be a semantic game. I believe there is no such distinction. I understand socialism to involve public (i.e. government) control of production, and inherently more authoritarian than true communism. In that sense, I see 20th century communist nations as more socialistic in implementation because of their emphasis on state control.

In short, socialism is just a kind of authoritarianism that pretends to be beneficent, while communism is more of a person-to-person, bottom-up ideology. On the topic of this thread, I can see how Linux and more broadly the FLOSS movement are communistic, but I see them as only marginally socialistic, at most.

I'm pretty sure the economy is less worker-owned in socialism than in communism.

I bet your search history is interesting

I fully agree with you, but Framework is definitely not Linux-first. The only OS they offer preloaded on their laptops is Windows. You have to install Linux yourself if you want it.

This is not a cable problem. The laptop charges just fine when turned off, but starts oscillating between charging and discharging once Windows boots up.

It's while charging and booted into Windows. Sometimes rebooting the computer helps.

Apparently this is an issue that crops up on laptops from a variety of OEMs. I guess it must be a driver issue.

Not everything that is labeled organic is USDA Organic.

The problem is most people don't have the technical ability or interest in switching to Linux. Here is the solution:

1. We, as Linux users, must be better advocates for the platform to untechnical people.
2. We should make ourselves available to help people make the transition.

Thank heavens for Incus.

Oh, thanks for pointing that out. It's been a while since I needed to erase a disk so I didn't realize DBAN isn't really a thing anymore.