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I want to be left alone (2024)

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179 points car | 4 comments | 03 Sep 25 01:11 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jackvalentine ◴[03 Sep 25 01:41 UTC] No.45111369[source]▶
I bought a 5 year old Lenovo x13 and installed Debian on it, haven’t used linux in years but wanted to play around.

Installed, logged in for the first time and got the ‘welcome to KDE’ screen, dismissed it and then… nothing.

Every time I log in… nothing.

It just sits there waiting for me to do something. It doesn’t tell me to do anything. I’ve been mostly using it to play Civ2.

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OsrsNeedsf2P ◴[03 Sep 25 01:50 UTC] No.45111428[source]▶
But how are they going to make money?
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tomrod ◴[03 Sep 25 02:09 UTC] No.45111557[source]▶
Through selling durable goods that don't have planned obsolescence
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M95D ◴[03 Sep 25 06:10 UTC] No.45112704[source]▶
... until everyone has one.

Don't you see that the "make money" is the actual problem?

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nurettin ◴[03 Sep 25 06:15 UTC] No.45112725[source]▶
And what is your solution? Abolish the medium which humanity uses to freely exchange goods and services?
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1. dumbledoren ◴[03 Sep 25 23:55 UTC] No.45121750[source]▶
He used 'money' for 'profits' apparently. Profitmaking is the problem. Money is just a vehicle. And you can abolish profit-making through an open-source world: Projects can get started to create infinitely repairable, durable, and modular products based on standards instead of profit-making through planned obsolescence or farcical 'new features'. These products can get used and maintained by their users for decades.
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2. nurettin ◴[04 Sep 25 04:56 UTC] No.45123729[source]▶
But again, we are required to make money/profits/bazingas/whatchamacallit to survive. Our production tools are computers and computing. How do you survive? Just have rich parents? There needs to be an evil demonic profit maker somewhere.
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3. M95D ◴[04 Sep 25 07:05 UTC] No.45124422[source]▶
Survive by what you earn month-to-month and then by pension, like 90+% of the planet.
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4. nurettin ◴[04 Sep 25 07:44 UTC] No.45124690{3}[source]▶
lol no I will mess with time!