They are behaving as if someone promised them to outlaw FOSS operating systems.

OK, it seems this stuff tastes toxic (but good) not only for me, but also for aquatic insects. Live for 100 years, learn for 100 years.

It’s a society (or the whole humanity) becoming big enough to survive even when ignorant murderers are the elite and the majority of it, and civilized people - a smaller part and almost a property, similar to animals in a zoo.

When such a point is reached, the former will make the transition, and the latter will diminish over time. Then it just has no future.

A bit like with Ottoman empire and Qajar Iran, only on the scale of the whole humanity there won’t be someone else to buy weapons and technologies from to keep going. Then some of the previously passable filters will kick in. Like hunger or resource scarcity.

So why is there no competition arising, simply with some fries, burgers, soda and without this bullshit.

Oh, I remembered, it’s all patented to hell. It’s practically illegal to open a fast food place not in one of these franchises.

Same with many other areas of life. The Web and computers are the most obvious.

Rats and cockroaches have conquered the kitchen. While many people in bureaucracies and everywhere were thieves and parasites, that still wasn’t socially acceptable. They didn’t like it, so now it’s almost official that the world is ruled by thieves and parasites and they are better than honest people. This IMHO also explains all the “geopolitical” stuff happening - it’s not to any practical end, the common thing between all (Western\Russian\whatever) policies is ideological, that decency should be murdered, dignity should be punished, and honesty should be poisoned. All the “rules” and “competition” and “civilization” stuff was (in the eyes of those people) being grown like livestock to be slaughtered for meat eventually.

300 years from now this time is going to be called the start of the new dark ages, or the end of the thaw (Soviet analogy here), or something like that.

I hate the word “inventor”

You are not arguing with me. Not reading comments before answering them is disrespectful.

They think they are too big to die by now. That userbase grows like crops, and isn’t conscious of how it’s being treated.

That’s a bit like monopolists and Ponzi scheme owners think. It works sometimes.

This has everything to do with centralization, just not with the one small context for it which you picked.

With real decentralization in place market mechanisms work.

I think the reason for those bans is that they don’t want you rebelling and are showing that they don’t need you personally, thus ban.

Of course it’s all retained.

You can be killed with steel, which has a lot of other implications on what you do in order to avoid getting killed with steel.

Does steel fuck it all up?

Centralization is a shitty backwards idea. But you have to be very conscious of yourself and your instincts to neuter the part that tells you that it’s not to understand it.

Distributivism minus Catholicism is just so good. I always return to it when I give up on trying to find future in some other political ideology.

So you are ready to vote for his competition?

Slams them with the door until they’re dead

No, actually nothing is on me. You don’t get it - ok, keep walking.

You’re also not winning this argument, look at who’s getting downvotes here.

Downvotes don’t have anything to do with winning\losing.

I think it was pretty clear just like other things I’ve said, and I’m too lazy to repeat or rephrase.

So you may go on and think you’ve “won” or something, but you didn’t understand a single thing of what I said in the first place.

It’s nutritious. Instead of carefully observing some diet you can eat some beef and buckwheat or cabbage or beans, and you’re good.

That said, I eat meat so rarely that my relatives worry, mainly because it takes some time to cook if you boil it, and I’m lazy and unorganized, and frying it has the potential of, eh, leaving the kitchen for 5 minutes which turn out to be half an hour and returning for the smell.

Other than that people can’t care about every problem at once.

Hence things I said. Otherwise the wheel is free for taking for the worst people.

Well, that won’t be soon, but the closest thing I’ve had to that - went well.

Free market involves pluralism of systems and distribution of power as important preconditions. Lobbyism requires monoculture of systems and power being sufficiently centralized to be controllable.

And GNU utilities were obviously used a lot on Unices and when Linux didn’t yet exist. Also bash is more or less similar to Korn shell, which was used earlier than you may think. And also zsh, despite people perceiving it as very modern, is older than you may think.

Anyway, if a program written for Unix works on a Unix clone, it doesn’t cease being a Unix program. POSIX was a standard for Unix.

I don’t get what are you arguing for. Especially since I meant bourne shell scripts, not bash scripts.

You very much can avoid using a Unix shell. Your average Windows user has never used one, and neither do most macOS people even though it’s included with macOS. Likewise most people will never have to setup a web server.

I’ve said once that I want to give a taste of something. I was more general with things one can’t avoid, as in “one can’t avoid computers and the Internet”. And this was pretty clear from the context, either you are playing dumb or you want to defeat someone in an argument, in the latter case I don’t care because I see you are not doing that.

A taste of real things I’d want to give to help them connect their inner abstract idea of how the world works with actual material things. They will have that idea, I absolutely trust every person to develop that on their own without help. Without that they might not believe themselves when they should.

None of this is going to stop someone getting scammed. You can have plenty of technical knowledge and still get scammed. I got scammed trying to sell a laptop for example. Teaching them how paypal works and to avoid using the friends and family option is much better for this purpose.

See previous.

If you want to give people practical skills start with adblockers and how to reinstall Windows, macOS, and Linux Mint if it goes wrong.

I don’t want them to hate computing. This will lead to that exactly. Especially PowerShell.

Anyway, see that same paragraph.

I was thinking of showing that on MMORPGs.