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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Ive given Edge a shot before and it was pretty decent. Sucks for M$ this is how they behave when people don't chose them.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No weed injection ¿

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

I wouldn't say interchangeable, but they are not far removed. I agree with the dictionary definition that it is a system of private property with trade in a free market. I would personally add that it is motivated by greed as that is what I observe. A company that is successful will eventually want to grow. Perhaps it might turn to sabotaging the free and open market as it helps it secure its own profits. In that case it will resemble feudalism somewhat. This is based on what I have read on history and what I see on current events around me today.

But to your title. Capitalism does not say anything about cronyism being bad, nor to discourage it. I think you just really like capitalism and need to rationalize the negative stuff away because you are aware it is a bad look. I understand the mindset. I had it growing up conservative and being a member of the church.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Unfortunately, most would rather stroke their ego then explore alternative ways of thinking.

I mean there are some pretty fair criticisms of capitalism in the sub. You also did not provide your own definition of capitalism up top either, so we can only speculate what you think it is and we can only answer what we observe it to be.

I think I made my case on why I think the way I think.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I mean we can talk about what it is or is not by some definition, but that is similar to tankies saying this or that is not real communism. The reality is that that is what we observe. A big part of capitalism is personal economic gain and nepotism, monopoly, and other un competitive practices are conducive to those goals; further it is powerless to stop them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

King also needs a few competent officers, but the highest management needs to be loyal. A corporation works similarly. When is the last time a CEO reported their own pollution or other wrong doing as a company?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

Is nepotism enshrined in the capitalist idea?

Unofficially. People start business for their benefit. Hiring family members is a good way to keep most of the money in the family. Similar with making deals with close freinds; like hiring your plumber buddy at the apartment you own and trying to pass the bill to the tenants or something. The thing is that nepotism just makes sense in a lot of places.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

While on its face true. This is the libertarian equivalent of saying the USSR was not communist.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is how I got started. I found a decent refurbed Optiplex.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

And logs it in a block chain why not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Which is functionally a captive audience.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I felt similar about SOAD

 
 

Just one more reason why we should be keeping companies from collecting our data and looking like anyone else to them. Typically it is argued that data is subsidizing something, but here it is directly increasing your costs.

 

I didn't know my city was cool enough to put signal flyers.

 

Hey All, I am just getting started in my journey. Part of my goals is to de-google my life and am looking to start with my calendar. I want to to sync with my laptop and my phone. I was going to start reading about nextcould because it seems like it would have the stuff I need and more. My question is what does the community use, so that I can read and research about it. No technical questions yet.


Edit: Not sure why I cannot see the replies when signed in (visible when logged out). Will be checking out your suggestions. Thanks Self Hosted community!

 

For me it is always 3rd. Its almost like I'm an actor in my own dream. Few times I realize it, but then just wake up.

 
 

I was wondering how often does one choose to make and keep back ups. I know that “It depends on your business needs”, but that is rather vague and unsatisfying, so I was hoping to hear some heuristics from the community. Like say I had a workstation/desktop that is acting as a server at a shop (taking inventory / sales receipts) and would be using something like timeshift to keep snapshots. I feel like keeping two daily and a weekly would be alright for a store, since the two most recent would not be too old or something. I also feel like using the hourly snapshots would be too taxing on a CPU and might be using to much disk space.

 

Just wondering what anyone might be moving to after the news broke?

 
 
 
 
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