Forced to use my phone during a windows update which breaks my computer. My phone is shitty and slow. Google is full of unhelpful results. Youtube is showing nothing but political ads about ms-13 killing white people.
Truly 2024 is great.
man someone should write a book about how all this stuff tends to happen and why
Speaking of; what’s the best place to get the essential reading? Feels fucking weird to get them through Barnes or Amazon lmao I’m not SO opposed to it, it’s just the way things are now. I just am curious if there’s better options.
If you don’t want physical books: https://www.marxists.org/index-mobiles.htm
And if you do want physical books, they also sell them. I don’t actually know anything about MIA as an org, but their site is great for research and feeling like it’s 1999 again
most college libraries have a great collection and sometimes offer a free card to the general public
bookshop.org for new books. abebooks is probably best for used books, but even they are owned by Amazon. Sometimes you can find books on there and then go to the listed bookstore’s own site, but more often than not they’ll just be using the abebooks engine there, too.
If you want to support the author, there is always the option to pirate the book, and see if he or she has pages to receive donations (paypal, bitcoin, patreon, etc) or you can just email then money.
I recently bought a cool looking 1920’s copy of State and Revolution from eBay for $15. I’ve had good luck buying used leftist books from there, especially the ones that were printed in large numbers.
To add to the ebook recommendations, Anna’s archive has the biggest pirate collection of ebooks online.
FOSS is getting nicer and proprietary software is getting worse. Things are looking up, IMO.
Each update that almost kills my pc is driving me further and further to linux.
At this point my busted old laptop is like Son Goku who gets a powerup each near death fight he has.
Next PC build will 100% be Linux, I run it on most of my PCs, but my desktop runs Windows because of NVidia. Can’t wait, lol
Depending on how old your Nvidia card is you might be able to make the jump now, the beta drivers released in the last couple months have made huge leaps in making Nvidia cards function on Wayland. My only remaining gripe is discord flickering but I may just need to try a different discord client.
The FOSS alternatives to Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, and Illustrator have really come a long way in the last 10 years.
The realization of this was one of the things that started my journey of radicalization. When file sharing was recuperated into paid services (iTunes, Spotify, etc), it really made some things clear to me. I didn’t have the theory knowledge yet to contextualize it, but it made me very hungry for explanations.
wowe ms-13 killed a white woman and Biden gave them a smooch on the head.
To be fair, not all tech is enshittified, I’m an electronics enthusiast and there are insanely cool open source devices made by the community or by Chinese companies that blow my mind, like the NanoVNA vector Network analyzer, the Pinecil soldering iron, or the meshtastic LoRa-based wireless communication between phones
