A lot of this is reductionist and kind of generalizing. Really depends on what we’re talking about. There are ways to punish companies and hit them where it hurts, money, for instance. There are ways to lobby Congress. I’m just saying there’s a framework for being strategic about these things, and distilling it down to violent uprising is just lacking any nuance any of these types of conversations actually deserve.

How is wanting to avoid civil war “mainstream”? I mean sure, go and promote revolution from the comfort of your climate controlled box with modern amenities, detached from the horrors of war. The feds have tanks.

Diplomacy, conflict resolution, etc. Not really motivated to fight against the tide of lemmy people sipping koolaid. But if you step outside the echo chamber, it’s mostly common sense.

Yeah, that was 200 years ago. We have better ways to handle things now.

Very recent history shows Republican senators are almost entirely to blame.

That’s still a violent thing to wish on people.

Violence generally doesn’t get what you want out of the system.

I’ve gone out of my way to avoid giving Microsoft money over their continual hypocrisy on almost virtually any issue I care about. Really, a shitty company that gets away with way too much.

Right, except the tariff gets baked into the price your importer pays to bring the product into the US. So while you don’t cut a check to the US Treasury, your buyer does, and that either makes your product less competitive or forces you to eat the cost in your margins. But yeah, “carry on”.

Well I wouldn’t say it’s better but it’s definitely less enshittified. Give it time, the owners of Sniffies have given no indication they have the ability to earn anyone’s trust.

That $126,500 number refers to the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion (FEIE), but it’s not a hard threshold below which you’re totally off the hook. U.S. citizens abroad still have to file a tax return if their income exceeds the standard filing requirement (around $14k+ for single filers). And the FEIE only applies to earned income, not investment income or retirement income. It’s not automatic, you have to qualify under the bona fide residence or physical presence test, and file the right forms (like Form 2555) to claim it.

Even if you’re making well under $126k, you still have to file, and you might owe something depending on your situation.

If it makes you feel better, even if you migrate to another country and gain citizenship, you still have to pay income taxes to the US.

In other words an edition of Linux mint is finally getting a feature Ubuntu has for every variant, good for them I guess?

Well, thank GNOME for it being somewhat usable, but I have higher standards.

How are they going to drop updates for something they have to spend zero energy on to stay compatible? Windows 11 is a low effort UI re-hash with some minor kernel iterations. I love and miss the Linux desktop and want it to succeed, but it’s clear there’s a bias here meant to push a narrative.

Former burned out core LM developer here, the grass is not always greener (but maybe is if you don’t know how the sausage is cooked).

I’ll use Windows 10 and pay for the updates for years while using old versions of office. Fuck Windows 11.

But how are you going to integrate with active directory? Oh right you can’t, it just limits you to Ubuntu. And good luck finding a company with an IT department that knows how to set that up.

I’d love to use Linux for work, but my job pays me to endure pain.

Meanwhile I am using local models through home assistant. The fact I can run something equivalent to GPT 3.5 turbo on a $800 graphics card kind of negates any of the benefits of these dumb integrations that require NPUs. Maybe Microsoft should bring back basic quality of life improvements that were in Windows 10 in Windows 11 instead of desperately waving their arms around trying to be relevant to consumers. Dumbasses.