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For example, I could pay off my mortgage if I wanted to - but I won’t, because the average yearly return from stocks is around 7%, whereas the interest on my mortgage is 4.452%. The returns from my investments outweigh the cost of my debt.

I wonder why bank lends you mortgage money, if they could just buy stocks?

One reason is that maybe your friend has a large stable income, and bank expects to be able to collect from that.

Other reason is that maybe he has an assets he can borrow against, like stocks, land, home, and so on.

Enlighten me then

Actually I’m on fedia - which uses MBin

That article describes basically every EU country. (High taxation, strong employee protections, benefits financed from taxes) You’re conflating socialism with welfare state.

Real socialism existed between 1945 and 1989 in central EU and it was awful system, thankfully it’s forever gone.

Blah blah, bad megacorps this, bad megacorps that… You know that cases of large corporations abusing power are exceptions and not indicative to the majority of the economy?

Except it doesn’t - communism postulates abolishment of money and private property

Honestly the actual socialist states, the Scandinavian ones

Dude, Scandinavian states aren’t socialist, they run on a capitalist economies. Who told you that they are? Where’s the source of these claims?

I once tried explaining to these people that capitalism is natural result of any framework that strongly supports private property and freedom, but it only triggers them into emotional or aggressive responses

Except for the states that voted out the socialist systems in favor of the capitalism and everyone ther now lives in wealth and prosperity unheard during socialism.

If you had to live in socialist or communist state you’d crawl back to the capitalism within months.

Communism itself is broken as fuck and produces authoritarian governments at best, and totalitarian regimes at worst. All these states are universally impoverished and abusing basic human rights

This shit is much wider than just hexbear. The lemmy creator himself is leftist and has pro communist essays on his github

https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/dessalines_marxism_study_plan.md

This is atrocious.

The sad part is that they’re going to buy the next apple gimmick anyway

I hope they don’t assemble it ‘The Verge Way’

I think I need to pick a “distro”, right? Based on the above, which distro may work best for me?

Noone will tell you the major differences, so I’ll do it:

Debian: So called “Stable distribution” They have twisted concept of “Stability” which is “If it’s broken it stays broken” - their libraries tend to be extremely outdated causing issues for normal users.

Ubuntu: Debian based distro. Somewhat less outdated. Had bad experience with it. Very popular for some reason. Ubuntu LTS basically follows the debian philosophy - broken stuff stays broken, only security fixes are applied.

PopOS: Debian based, but optimised for gaming. Graphics drivers are updated more often + other tweaks

Arch Linux: Power user oriented rolling distro, meaning Everything is updated to the most recent version as quickly as reasonably possible. Rolling distros are recommended if you update your hardware often. Patches tend to be huge

Manjaro: Arch based rolling distro (using it since few years myself), tuned more towards mainstream user - less terminal more GUI.

Gentoo: Compile everything from source code. EVREYTHING

Fedora: Linux by large corpo - REDhat. Well supported and sane maintenance schedule.

Now, while in Windows you get always the same user interface, in linux you can install whatever you want - systems are modular, and usually distro intaller will ask what desktop environment you want.

Two most popular ones are KDE and GNOME. I Really, really recommend KDE because it follows user experience philosophy from windows 7. Gnome reinvented the wheel, and you’ll have a bad time readjusting to it coming from windows.

Two more tips at the end:

• Almost none of linux distros mount non system drives by default at the system startup. Which is stupid as fuck, you can change it via KDE settings without editing config files or terminal (look for drives and cameras in settings)
• Remove Plymouth package. it provides pretty loading screen during system startup but on some configurations it interferes with display detection - the issue surfaces gradually over the years and noone will ever help you fix it. It’s unfixed bug since many years. Save yourself time, life and frustration

Also, if you’re looking for file explorer to open your drive and look at the files, it’s called “Dolphin” or “Nautilus”. Obviously… /s

Lebanon people lost nothing of value

What if I’m Commie?

Trivial answer is there - They raised voltage to whooping 1kV (compared to 480V in tesla chargers) - but that creates a whole bunch of new issues

Tesla chargers are already using liquid cooling to keep the charging cord from overheating. I don’t even want to know how overengineered this thing must be

In principle yes it does - in case of TCP based protocols, without forwarded ports incoming connections aren’t possible. In the context of the main Torrent protocol this means you can only connect to peers that have ports forwarded. This is largely solved by uTP protocol that uses UDP hole punching method to circumvent this.

So the sort answer is no this doesn’t matter unless you’re using very feature poor torrent client.