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  • frunch@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.caI'll never understand it
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    2 days ago

    They’re inferior, and deep down, they know it

    This is why they punch down. This is why they hate criticism. They know they have privilege, they just hate being called out for it, for others to recognize it. Being born a white man in America puts you at certain advantages and the harder they screech that it doesn’t, the more obvious it is.

    Edit: source: am a white guy, understand that i have privileges living in the usa. Have no problem recognizing that fact, or favoring leaders that will balance the scales so everyone gets better treatment and access to food/shelter/healthcare/dignity/more. We’re all human for better or worse, it just feels like we could all be doing so much better if our resources were shared more fairly.


  • I’m using Mint as well. I don’t usually advertise it to people, but i have been very happy with it. I managed to get it to do everything i was previously using my desktop PC with Windows 10 to do.

    I’d had my PC crash a year or so ago and decided it was my opportunity to try making the switch. I couldn’t get any recovery cds or USBs from Windows to help out, so i was starting to think the CPU and/or motherboard was shot. A bootable USB for Mint managed to work though! (Turned out i had a bad hard drive)… But just that alone had me sold–it could at least get my system running in a pinch where Windows had failed to…or quite possibly, i missed something trying to use recovery CDs and USBs made on my 10+years old Windows 10-running laptop, though that same laptop produced the Mint USB that got me running…I built my pc over 10 years ago, so i was kinda expecting to have to replace it sooner or later anyway…but alas it’s working fine everyday and Mint has been the reason.

    The initial change was a little difficult to manage and it still isn’t perfect. For instance, i can’t seem to copy certain files from my old hard drives to the Linux drive and vice versa–i presume it’s a file system difference or something of that nature but I’m not skilled enough to dig too deep and it’s working fine otherwise.

    But I have my workarounds, and it’s been nearly flawless otherwise. VLC works great, I’ve found apps that are better than the stuff i was using on Windows for photo management, and file transfers are generally much faster (and even large file transfers are possible now, where on Windows it was hit-or-miss for me or it would hang up after ½ hour or whatever)… Many upsides if you’re willing to learn a few new things and find ways to get it to do what you need. The more i hear about the way Windows 11 is turning out, I’m relieved to have made the leap.

    Sorry for the infodump 🫠