the definition of “easterner” also seems to have a hegemony of its own. a majority of latin americans likewise have an undeniably strong american influence; but they share this eastern definition of the word “american”.

however a majority of the world who share the non-anglocentric definition of the word “american” are literally in the east; so it defaults to an eastern-centric definition despite a sizeable minority share of its subscribers in latin-america being more closely aligned w the west.

i was thinking how i have to code switch the name “american” based on the audience and it made me wonder if this was one of the defining characteristics of all westerners.

the anglosphere is probably the primary driver of the definition of “america” as you described it in your comment and your culture’s sociopolitical alignment depends on how much in common your idea of “america” matches the anglosphere’s definition of “america”.

in other words, the less your definition of “america” has we the anglosphere’s definition of “america”; the more eastern you are.

my professional experience in this field for the last 22 years has taught me that a overwhelming majority of the professionals of this community are members of the american/yankee aligned labor aristocracy; that should inform you of their perspectives when it comes to individualistic behavior and shared gains.

nevertheless – as it is in the real world – there are still many who believe in collectivism and also believe that we can apply our craft to build helpful/needful technology-based improvements to the human condition.

linux and it foss ecosystem was one of the most recent achievements of these efforts and my comment was intended to lament that it’s taken it’s first step towards becoming another capitalist tool.

i understand what yankee means and my use of the word “american” here was intentional.

yes, the yankee gov’t has captured linux.

a significant portion of the people in this community don’t know the word “yankee” but they’re capable of understanding it and to express the idea to them, you have to use words or expressions that fit the context this group’s frame of reference so that they can fully understand the idea you’re trying to express without it getting lost in translation; the people who exist at the intersection of multiple identities call it “code switching”.

didn’t want to run into smth and need to switch

That’s where I am. I failed at switching to other things because vim has become muscle memory for me

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They rolled over on the American government’s demand to expell Russian contributors like puppies begging for a treat.

Linux has become as captured as any Western institution.

that was the most worrying part of it to me; nothing is safe from ai apparently.

How did Ubuntu fail their newest release?

i’m glad to see more bsd stuff here and dissapointed to see the redditors downvote it nothing.

this can’t be true! i was told that there was no controversy over systemd co-option of the inits!!! lol

my only gripe is that it does too much; more than an init system should be doing and i got to experience this first hand when i had to add a bunch of containers to systemd to use them.

there’s nothing more important than being right on the internet. lol

i’m shocked to see that anyone would proselytize for anything besides systemd; it feels like everyone likes that kool-aid flavor. lol

do you use neovim over vim for any particular reason?

i ask because i’m a vim user and wondering if should update.

i got in the habit of doing this also because suspend didn’t work 100% of the time back then, but stopped when i switched to linux first laptops.

i switched back to a windows-first laptop recently and forgot about setting it so that it doesn’t auto suspend when i close the lid and it works just fine with fedora on it; linux has made leaps and bounds since the last time i contributed to it.

although, to be fair, i was on linux-first laptops for a decade so there was plenty of time to catch up. lol

i use the container tabs feature in firefox to compartmentalize my usage, but this would be better if i want that compartmentalization to carry over from computer to computer.

i was thankful for those issues; it taught me A LOT about how Linux worked back then.

i last used unstable back in 2007 and it wasn’t that much different that stable; has it gotten worse?

@RavenofDespair@lemmy.ml to add to this; you can use a firewall that’s aware of what your systems is trying to contact. pfsense does this in their premium products and i’ve heard ubiquiti starting doing this as well.

i’m likely wrong, but i was under the impression that we’ve left out sysreq keys out of the kernel a while ago.