Not only is @jacksilver@lemmy.world right, but additionally, this article is extremely biased in favor of Xorg and is much more of a (completely unfair and one-sided) take-down of Wayland oriented at technical folks and not at all an explainer for laypeople

tell me I did not just look this thing up and see a barrel jack power port 🤢

my 2017 laptop charges by USB-C, this hardware looks gorgeous in every other way but the only excuse for a barrel jack is if you need to move more than 100 watts, and even that last holdout for the barrel jack is dated

It can charge by USB-C apparently, but the barrel jack is still there 😔

You’re definitely valid for being concerned about privacy, but I think much more of privacy is how you configure your system and less how it ships, especially when it’s all Linux under the hood anyways. Additionally, privacy features aren’t much good when they’re bundled, set to defaults, and never fully configured - it’s both a great learning opportunity and provides even better security to set up things like browser extensions, a firewall, tor, etc. yourself so you can know their ins and outs than simply having them installed by default and never touching them.

Of course the privacy difference between Windows and Linux is so night and day that that leap on its own might be everything you’re looking for and then some, but Linux is always what you make it, so you’re not giving up much when picking one or the other! The only big things you’re locking into is a community and a package manager/repository, and Mint is definitely top notch in those regards, so it’d be hard to do better.

Much lower and you shouldn’t care. As long as you’re serving less than one request per second, you will not need to care about performance. If you do, sanic and vibora are drop-in flask replacements and they are both much more performant.

Second Thought is a great educational channel, although depending on your existing education level you may find them a little basic and repetitive. For more hard-hitting Marxist analysis, I usually prefer either audiobooks or tiktok.

Here’s one of my favorite ML books in audio book format on YouTube, actually narrated by someone who’s had a pivotal role in the development of Lemmy: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0-IkmzWbjoak57jcXDh1rY4n7Ic-EVsE

I always love Flask for this, it’s a super simple python web server that is basically fully batteries included, just write a couple lines of python and throw your html in either /static or /templates, depending on whether it’s dynamic or not, and you’re live. It’s not gonna move mountains but it’s not meant to.

The new study was based on cultivation theory, a theoretical framework that suggests heavy television viewing can contribute to the development of an authoritarian mindset. Television dramas often emphasize individual and heroic actions, including violence, to solve problems and protect against perceived threats. Cultivation theory argues that television, even in non-political programming, can subtly shape cultural attitudes and beliefs, potentially creating a climate conducive to the rise of leaders like Trump.

This sounds like great man theory and hyper-individualism, not “authoritarianism”

To measure authoritarianism, the researchers used a four-item scale called the Authoritarian Child Rearing Values scale. Respondents were presented with pairs of desirable qualities and asked to choose which quality they considered more important for a child to have. The first answer in each pair indicated an emphasis on autonomy, while the second answer reflected more authoritarian values.

so they asked people if they raise kids like conservatives, and then conservatives said “yeah”, and then instead of identifying that they just made a test for conservative values, they decided it was a test for authoritarianism?

“My child should be required to read about the history of slavery and the civil rights movement” and “My child should be punished for refusing to be accepting of their LGBTQ+ friends” are both authoritarian stances that conservatives would have answered hard-no to. You could have flipped the finding of the study by using questions that imply progressive authority instead of conservative authority. The only way they could have got results like this is by pretending that the only authoritarianism comes from the conservative right.

love how the author chose to illustrate the “Europe” ship as 100% white passengers and with a ton of extra open space on it. Really drives it home what they’re doing here.

I think this is more complicated than a “enemy of my enemy is my friend” deal, Russia is finding an ally in Belarus because of their proximity to NATO. They don’t exactly hold all the same ideological lines. That, and Russia isn’t exactly fighting Nazism first, they’re just fighting NATO encroachment and justifying it with the convenient fact that there happen to be Nazis in Ukraine to make the war sound good domestically and to make NATO look bad. Russia is just playing the self-preservation game like any other Capitalist country does.

Besides if they were actually against Nazism in every instance, they wouldn’t be buddy buddy with Belarus.

So just to be clear, in the first quote, Lukashenko states that the Jews “made” the world remember the Holocaust, as if it wasn’t something to remember in its own right, only something to be remembered after some kind of big Jewish campaign. A conspiracy, one might call it.

Jews were able to make the world remember [the Holocaust], and the whole world bows to them, being afraid of saying one wrong word to them

~ Alexander Lukashenko

The history of Germany is a copy of the history of Belarus. Germany was raised from ruins thanks to firm authority and not everything connected with that well-known figure Hitler was bad. German order evolved over the centuries and attained its peak under Hitler. This corresponds with our understanding of a presidential republic and the role of a president in it

~ Also Alexander Lukashenko

Doesn’t really have anything to do with his policies, just make sure you factor in that he’s a raging antisemite if you’re deciding whether he’s “based” or not

And then literally every company in the middle has a controlling share of it held by Blackrock, Vanguard, or State Street

not gonna lie comrade, this seems extremely unbalanced, I’m not even half way through and we’ve already hit the population crisis smears, atrocity propaganda, “Chinese companies are poisoning baby food for profit”, China waging a “war on terror”, somehow criticizing China for being a hyper-authoritarian hellscape and the wild west at the same time, and then some. I’m gonna finish it out but unless this was all a big gotcha this is basically straight from US official propaganda

Start infights. Identify ideological differences that are relatively close to fifty-fifty in support and inflammatory in nature, and pick a side and be really loud about it, especially detracting from the opponents. DeSantis/Trump would be a good one. Maybe “Russia is better than America” from the right would get some bites

Also, accuse your opponents of being liberals. This is extremely important.

the hyper-abridged version:

Each “instance” (beehaw, lemmy.ml, lemmygrad, etc) is like its own small self-enclosed Reddit. “Federation” is the process that allows the instances to talk to each other - like for example, users registered at the beehaw instance can go and comment on posts from the lemmy.ml instance. This allows each instance to keep its own culture while granting the breadth of community of having every user able to interact with every other user. Some communities “defederate”, which basically means an instance decides that for whatever reason they don’t want their users interacting with users from another instance. So the network isn’t fully connected, but instead forms a distributed network. Totally down to answer more quetsions despite my account only being like an hour old lol

Redwoods absorb water through their foliage because they’re too tall to efficiently carry water all the way up from the ground and I think that’s based as fuck

also new acc what up comrades I’m here to hang out from hexbear ✌️