Microsoft: advertises to increase profits like a good capitalist
People: "Is this communism?"
Advertising on a product I own is not conducive with me owning the product, but with me renting it. It's not communism, but it is me not owning something I thought I own.
Renting and subscription services are very much capitalism.
There's a reason commies hate landlords.
Never said it was. Communism is a funny thing. I've seen it work, and I've seen it fail, like all other systems, but it's hated. Capitalism is among the most protected system, by those within it. It's strange. I'm not advocating for either, by the way.
Assuming you're not talking about anarchists: Liberals are incapable of averting the effects of capitalism because they support capitalism. Their ambition is limited to setting rules that ask ticks to only drink a "reasonable" amount of blood.
Just a heads up, CCP has some racist connotations to it. The party's official abbreviation is CPC. I literally only learned this a few months ago, so just letting you know.
I didn't know that. I used ccp, because it was in the wiki article you linked. That's good to know!
The Land Reform Movement, also known by the Chinese abbreviation Tǔgǎi (土改), was a mass movement led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Mao Zedong during the late phase of the Chinese Civil War after the Second Sino-Japanese War ended in 1945 and in the early People's Republic of China,[1] which achieved land redistribution to the peasantry.
I know I'm late, but if you're curious, it does seem that one of the main contributors is a guy named SocDoneLeft, who is a American reformist socialist, that famously is also a little racist, so it's not really a surprise that he would use CCP instead of CPC. Always remember to check the sources, and the contributors for higly divisive things on Wikipedia. Especially considering that a third of Wikipedia is written by one guy, and he happens to be an anti-Communist border immigration agent with US security clearance. He is not the most unbiased guy in the world as you might imagine.
However I do get the confusion, since CCP is what the entire West calls it, but even if you disagree with them as a political organization, I still think just calling them what they're actually called, and not a thing seeped in a lot of bad stuff, is better. I do appreciate that you are willing to use CPC when you were corrected though, that shows that you are not stuck in your ways as many are with this, so thanks for that.
Your other sources, I had no idea about either, so that's cool (and somewhat disturbing) to learn. If I were sourcing this article for a paper or article, I would actually do due diligence on it, it's writers, the sources and their writers, their sources and their writers, etc. But, alas, this is social media, so I slacked. I disagree with the the Nazis and their political stances, too, but call them Nazis. Why should anyone else, including the CPC, be any different? I believe Roy Trenneman said it best...
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Commies are the only ones who ever successfully did anything about them
The cpc did, but not communism as a whole. Within communism, you still have landlords in a way, but instead of paying them, you pay the community with equal shares of whatever your crop is.
Which one? You're not describing any form of communism. You're at best describing neoliberal capitalism.
Neoliberalism is not what I described at all. At least, not the currently accepted understanding of the term.
Communism:
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A theoretical economic system characterized by the collective ownership of property and by the organization of labor for the common advantage of all members.
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A system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and a single, often authoritarian party holds power, claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people.
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From Stanford, about neoliberalism:
- Though not all scholars agree on the meaning of the term, "neoliberalism" is now generally thought to label the philosophical view that a society's political and economic institutions should be robustly liberal and capitalist, but supplemented by a constitutionally limited democracy and a modest welfare state.
Privately owned US companies that make massive profits off the capitalist system, like Stanford, obviously might not describe these things in an entirely honest way. The first definition of communism is almost correct, but the second is a common misinterpretation of communist theory.
The people who solidified communism as a political theory made a pretty clear distinction between private and personal property, as well as what they thought of landlords. Renting requires someone to own the means of production and lend it out to someone at a profit, which goes against the very foundations of communist theory.
Communism isn't "the government takes all your stuff and divides it equally among people" either. I suggest reading some theory. Marxists.org is a good place to start https://www.marxists.org/subject/students/index.htm
Stanford is a renowned university. Like all successful universities worldwide, they make money. I copied some of the definition, since it's multifaceted and long. But, the general concept is there for both terms. The fact still remains, this is a meme and not a definition of one governing system or another. The source you linked is a good one, though. Last time I sourced it, I got banned from a subreddit haha
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Actually its their🇺🇸. Not your, not our. Its their own and you arr kinda like renting it
"Our new video editor" in the OP is using the exclusive meaning of "our," meaning it belongs to the speaker and some other people but not the person being spoken to, meaning that the person being spoken to would not also call it "our editor" but instead "your editor". In the third person, it is "theirs," not "ours," because it is not held in common among the people.
If there's one thing communists love it's advertising. In fact Don Draper is a socialist icon alongside Stalin and Coco Chanel.
Stamp, not a watermark, but yes. There was a post a while back, asking Lemmy OC to have that or something similar. I figured, why not.
I've been on Linux for a while but this shit is starting to make my wife ask about switching over. Which is something I never thought I'd see.
I never thought good could come out of Microsoft's messed up ways, but here we are! Haha
The first thing you would do after browsing lemmy would be installing linux because there are many foss enthusiasist and linux users playing around here in lemmy making you switch to linux
Paint Tool SAI. After messing up a few times (I thought the C drive was my actual windows HD not wine's virtual one), I got it installed on wine, but it won't launch. Other people have got it to work, so maybe it's just me being a dumb noob.
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=4594
I should probably try again with a program that's less easy to mess up.
Like the other person commented, I would suggest trying Krita (open source/native painting or graphics program. That isn't my forte, but my understanding is Krita is a professional grade program that is actually used for professional work.
Edit: I ironically found this: https://docs.krita.org/fr/user_manual/introduction_from_other_software/introduction_from_sai.html
With that said, there is a useful program to help setup Wine called "Bottles". It's all graphical, and gives tons of options to tweak to try to get programs running. It has dramatically helped me get done other odd professional type software running.
One long shot thing to try: check the file properties of the program installed on wine, and make sure "executable" is enabled. It's a handy security thing to prevent random files from hiding malware, but can be a pain to new users.
An extreme solution is running a program in a Windows virtual machine. If you go that route, I highly recommend doing some research. The simplest to me solution I've found is Virtualbox, and I believe you can even directly pass USB devices through to the virtual machine, but since of the other solutions are supposed to work better.
I've got a worse one. I was using Windows in a VM the other day and got an ad for Xbox controllers. Basically "check out our new controller colors, click on this notification to go buy one."
Oppression breeds rebellion, why relying on a software you have zero control over, that the company that owns it respects you so litle that they pre install adware and spyware, learn to use Linux or BSD, you don't have to use it all the time, but learn the basics, understand how this machine you use so much works, seize that litle piece of freedom back, and even if you choose to use windows again, after knowing more of how things work, you will be more able to force it in working your way.
For sure, and Linux/BSD isn't that scary. For anyone here who doesn't think they are smart enough, I'll give you a hint; even the Linux guru's 'Google' everything. They're looking up very different things but they're still searching like the rest of us. If you stick with popular distros there's always a guide, or a forum post, or a YouTube video that'll show you how to do almost anything. You don't even need to install it, you can run most distros, and all the popular ones, off a USB stick. You don't even need to change anything on your computer to try it. I personally still use Windows for almost everything, but calzone_gigante is right,
even if you choose to use windows again, after knowing more of how things work, you will be more able to force it in working your way.
In theory, yes. But not in practice. This is a work computer, and I can't just turn this stuff off without tripping the xdr. For home computers, I would imagine you are 100% correct, but I've been using Linux for years. I'm assuming shush windows (or similar) still works on Win10/11.
When you install windows ypu can set timezone to "world" and it will not be there...
You can also avoid making a microsoft account (or logging in) if you log innusing a@a.com and any password.
Then it will say something went wrong but you can continue, by making an offline account
I thought you were kidding, but then I looked it up on the net and it seems this is really a thing. WTF Microsoft!?
This was a work computer, but this world suggestion is genius! I avoid making an ms account by not connecting to the internet during install.
Isn't it suspicious how hard they've been pushing "clipchamp"? Like it's probably full of telemetry or something.
My absolute most hated one is when signing in and using a two factor Authenticator. If you don’t use the Microsoft one. Every time you log in it “recommends” you to use their own. Fuck off.
Before anyone says go Linux. This is a work comp. I use Linux and Mac at home.
Yes! I hate that!!
I won't tell you to use Linux. I feel that it should be your choice. Like Mac, Linux isn't for everyone. And if you use Microsoft's email service on Linux, you'll have the same anyway. It's not windows that's the problem at its core, it's Microsoft.
I'd expect nothing else from a bunch of vampires. They've all but hoovered up all the money and ruined entire generations attempts at wealth building. There's nothing left but our bodies and precious fluids!
I swear to god if I have to remove Bing search bar from my desktop one more time...
