Downloading books needs to be the norm for education.

It’s disgusting how we create this culture where those who have wealth get priority access to knowledge that will help them further their wealth.

Publishing shouldn’t even be an industry in 2025.

Or 2024… 2023… etc etc.

Man this generation sucks.

The disparity in wealth should shrink instead of grow.

Sharing software is a tool to achieve that end.

https://www.justbeamit.com/

You can also make a torrent very easily, which is the better method.

These Linux computers are always scams.

We get worse hardware for higher prices, and they don’t even have to pay for the OS.

Yes, any laptop without an encrypted storage drive will have its data accessible by someone booting from a live USB.

It really is a massive vulnerability, but it’s not well known because so few people even understand the concept of a ‘live USB’ to make it a widespread threat or concern.

So yeah, if you’re ever in possession of a Windows machine that doesn’t have an encrypted disk, you can view the users’ files without knowing their password via a live USB.

It’s also not limited to laptops.

Zross?

X-Cross?

X-ross?

Oh, it’s just pronounced Cross. Always unsure how people who make decisions like these get the jobs they do.

It’s like, they’re rewarded for being stupid.

That’s fine. “Defederation” will have less meaning as time goes on and there are different sections of the fediverse that support different ideals.

The more people that are afraid of “defederation” and adjust their behavior as a result, the more power it has.

No alternate opinions are allowed apparently…

Yeah, mods will just ban us if we get reported enough. It doesn’t matter if the reports or accurate or if we’re actually breaking any rules.

They don’t realize it, but that kind of behavior has a long term effect on the health and perception of the community.

I’m looking forward to the sections of the fediverse that don’t abuse their mod power. Right now we don’t really have any since most of the mods are immature.

Lemmy is definitely turning into an echo-chamber among the bigger instances.

It’s okay, though. Once enough people get censored, it opens up the opportunity for people to start instances that don’t abuse their mod power.

I’d rather see lemmy.world shrink to irrelevance because their mods are just using it as a tool to push their agendas.

You might not be a pirate, but did you know they’re censoring piracy communities from you? Not sure if you want to be a part of an instance whose mod team feels they get to make decisions like that for you.

original or thoughtful

That’s the problem, the powers that b have deemed it necessary that we only have 1 of 2 ideas.

Either you’re loyal to conservatives, or loyal to neo-liberals. Anything else is cause for a ban, and there will be no cavalry to defend you since you’re not loyal to either side.

lemmy.world mods have already shown they’re not interested in moderating fairly.

I jumped ship from that awful instance when they decided to block piracy communities.

Would love to see them fade into obscurity.

It’s all a ploy to control what we think.

Ideas are powerful, that’s why they don’t want us to have any of our own.

Lemmy isn’t much better. We still need communities that don’t allow mod abuse.

If you get reported enough, the mods will censor or ban you even if you’re not breaking any rules.