You can also order USB flash drives with a linux iso already on it for ten bucks or so.

Lenix

everyone should learn enough about how a computer works to be able to contribute in some way

Every user should give back either in the form of labor or with money. All of the problems you list are problems that could be solved with money.

Many FOSS projects don’t focus on getting a lot of donations or selling services. Non profits need revenue too. Even the sale of merch like stickers or mugs with the project logo could be used more effectively.

Contributing with labor is also not easily accessible or even always well received. Active outreach from the project to recruit users is also not practiced much. All of that is of course organizational and managerial work as well as media work and community management. If the volunteers are already overloaded, it won’t be done well of course.

Everything being done by a few frustrated, overworked people isn’t healthy or sustainable

Very much so. Voluntary work should only be done, if the work itself is enough reward or simply fun or as a learning experience. A project can be sustainable even if it’s carried by overworked frustrated people. It just needs a way to recruit new contributors at the rate people quit from burnout.

We can try to make things as accessible and easy to understand as possible

That’s where we’re at now with social media. Things are super accessible, but shallow and often based on pure emotional appeal.

Ubuntu used to mail out free install CDs for a while. Nowadays many people don’t have optical drives anymore though.

Choosing software is mostly choosing a tool get a job done. Microsoft has powerful software and a big ecosystem around it.

Windows is really good for administrating lots of workstations for large organizations for example.

Reasoning about memory use for example is difficult with FP.

Using pure functions is a good idea for non FP languages as well.

Functional programmers still pretending side effects snd reals world applications don’t exist.

You get assigned a task in an office managing computer infrastructure.

Average Lemmy chick is qt-3.14

7 BIC or bust

Mood

Your wall of text is ahistorical. Yugoslavia is a counter example. They received American aid after WW2 to rebuild.

Half of Europe lived under real socialism and it was a fucking terrible time for many reasons.

During the Cold War the Soviet led block and the non aligned movement together had sufficient resources, knowledge, and people to get their shit together independently of the US.

!nosurf@lemmy.ca

You also get some medication in bottles in Europe, but pills in blisters are more common.

The idea is that overdosing is more difficult because it takes more effort. Accidental overdosing is also less likely. A bottle you can put to your mouth an just put it all in at once.

It also has the advantage of being able to cut off some off the blister, so you can take four or whatever pills with you without having to use extra packaging.

Socialism? Americans would be happy to have health care, better workers‘ rights, affordable education. Just like most other advanced economies in Europe, Australia, South Korea, Japan, and so on. That’s not socialism, that’s capitalism with regulations and social programs. Nobody really wants socialism, which was as utter failure everywhere it was tried.

Taste is friendlier. Horse is between beef and venison.

Run Linux in a VM and share the file system with macOS.

Parallels has really great integration.

Agreed. Horse steak is delicious. It‘s leaner and tastes a little more gamey than beef.