From what i know he just stepped down from the leadership (guess that’s why he’s called captain and not subcomandante).

Thanks for the tip, i had to try it out because i didn’t knew that. It seems in this case the -9 option does the same as default (delete the AntiMicroX process but not the AppRun one). I also tried with killall and its -g option to include all processes in the same group, but they probably are not in a common group since it behaved the same. Anyway, TIL about these options so thank you !

Yup, very clever, I think this will avoid any problem with other potential AppImage processes. Thank you very much <3

For more details : this AppRun.wrapped process is mounted in a partially randomized folder each time, something like /tmp/.mount_AntiMiXXXXXX/AppRun.wrapped, where the Xs are a bunch of random characters. So using pkill with regex can both include all versions this full command line can take, while excluding processes created by other apps (which, I suppose , won’t have ‘AntiMi’ in their folder name) : pkill -f /tmp/.mount_AntiMi.*/AppRun.wrapped

I have no deep knowledge of this, but i guess there is a difference between sponsoring and owning. A lot of big FOSS projects have indeed corporate donations, but i think for the most part corporate cannot force them to do things (the only exception i know of being the deal between Mozilla and Google). Of course, they can threaten to cut fundings, but i think it isnt a real problem (for now) for various reasons : linux ecosystem is still niche enough to be uninteresting for big corpos, donations help projects get better quicker but you can always fork them and come back to more humble progression if needed (not 100% sure, im not very tech literate, but that’s a feeling i get), and i guess FOSS ecosystem also provides big corpos with talented people and occasionally interesting pieces of software, so they have a bit of interest in keeping it alive.
If you want to go towards the least corporate options, you can try the most niche linux options. Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu, made by the enterprise Canonical, which has a somewhat bad reputation in the linux corporation, for being a bit too centralized i guess ? I use it as it is perfect for a not skilled user like me, but if you want to be independant of tech companies, maybe that’s not the perfect choice.

Fair comment, though in real life the space near the tracks is either non-existent either uneven ground filled with rocks and plants, but as other pointed out it could be on roofs, parking lots, etc. Also, apparently the SNCF says they are specifically testing how much it complicates maintenance, so they are aware of this, but even then it’s less direct to test for that, and maybe built it in the future, than to built it in already adapted places.

The point is precisely not to remove the stone if someone with pertinent knowledge/expertise/whatever says it’s a bad thing, because then their authority makes temporarily sense.

100%.

The point is precisely that we trust the advice of the architect in this matter because they are more knowledgeable than us, not because they or someone else imposed their authority on us.

And if they talk shit about how to educate children in the orphanage, we won’t trust their advice because they are not knowledgeable then, and we do not let them impose their authority on us.

As shown by the hexbear comrade here, a lot of people just assume that no leader equals chaos. I find very hard to deconstruct this assumption, i think because it is deeply rooted in our societies. What i usually do is to point out that it’s not leaders that bring order, but organization. Most people then say “well yes, but you can’t have good organization without leaders”, which is more manageable to discuss, though most of the times people didnt change their mind in my experience. My main argument, which can take many forms, is that there are lot of times in our lives where we organize without leaders : in some families / homes, during trips with friends, when playing casual games or sports, even in some demos or movements.

It doesn’t really answer you question, but there’s a passage of Bakunin’s God And The State that i really like, where they point out that authority does not necessarily mean leader. So if you can convince someone that it’s authority they like and not leaders, you can then bring up the anarchist version of authority : restricted in time, matters and always up to debate.

Does it follow that I reject all authority? Far from me such a thought. In the matter of boots, I refer to the authority of the bootmaker; concerning houses, canals, or railroads, I consult that of the architect or engineer. For such or such special knowledge I apply to such or such a savant. But I allow neither the bootmaker nor the architect nor the savant to impose his authority upon me. I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism censure. I do not content myself with consulting authority in any special branch; I consult several; I compare their opinions, and choose that which seems to me the soundest. But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any person. Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.

My experience with ZorinOS has been quite smooth. Though i have opened the terminal for advanced customization and problems with my hardware (nvidia gpu and weird disks configuration), i think there’s good chances you don’t need it. Although im not very tech savy and i’ve heard people say that it’s not a very good option because they’re based on stable but quite old versions of Linux, so i’m just putting the option out here, not saying it’s the best

I guess you mean cooperation of only those types of anarchism, then i don’t know of any (though i dont know much). Otherwise they collaborate in groups that gather people beyond anarchism, i’ve seen movements including trotskists, marxists, various flavors of anarchists and non-affiliated people work together.

Perfectly ! Switched to Zorin for my gf laptop who couldn’t handle Windows anymore, decided to do it on my main PC as well and now am trying to revive an old mini-pc with the Lite version. Everything is fine, except for a short list of games (with anticheat like Vanguard or thing like this).

Is ZorinOS really considered a paid distro? It’s my main one and though it has indeed a paid version, the fact that it brings nothing more than extra desktop presets and preinstalled softwares made me think that it was closer to a donation system with rewards than to actual paid version. I wonder if that’s a shared sentiment or if I’m thinking less strictly than most people.

I like your take, but i feel like, though it is clearly legitimate to criticize the unfairness between how we treat auth comm regimes and occidental ones, saying “USSR is good, we should do like them in our countries” won’t bring the bomb / military budget down. It just will change the target of the weapons, not their use or production. And at least in my experience here in France, people pushing for less militarization are clearly the one despising state communism, while the remnants of state communists support our war economy.

Your comment brings a lot of reactions to my mind :

• first, i appreciate it being straight and clear, and not falling in irony
• i’d say there could be two ML types, the utilitarian one (which you seem to be) and the ideological one (which the post seems to point out), the difference being that you acknowledge the crimes it has and can produce as something at least not good
• the ecological aspect has me quite confused, cause auth comm states are not doing that much for environmental issues and planet safety (except for China which is massively investing in research and industries for that but it also has a huge pollution debt on the other side) (and i guess USSR would not really count since it collapsed before environmental concerns)

Your comment is on point, but it is your username that makes it perfect

Could be a simple disagreement on what is a leader.

If it is a single or very limited number of persons, stable through time, who has/have power or authority over others, then there are leaderless organizations, i’ve seen them.

If it is anyone who is slightly more implicated than others and temporarily “takes the lead”, then yeah, but i wouldnt call that leadership.

I’ll also leave a citation from Bakounin “God and State” (roughly translated from french) about his views on authority and especially authority in anarchist groups : “There is no constant and fixed authority, but a continuous exchange of authorities and submissions, which are mutual, temporary and most importantly voluntary”

I’ve been using makertube.net as a non-posting user for now, and they say they are open for new content creators, though it requires contacting them. I don’t know if it is one of those that remain silent, but i’ve seen quite a bunch of creators on it.

Im by no mean a specialist, but from what i know they themselves identify as inheriting ML, and making it better or at least more fitting to China. I don’t know if they themselves identify as authoritarian communists, but they at least advocate for authoritarian methods.

It’s a philosophy based on Mao writings. So it kinda inherits Marxism-Leninism, and can be classified as authoritarian communism too.

ZorinOS for closest match to Windows, for my gf who did not care for the OS as long as it didn’t change much of her day to day habits. I now use it myself, and despite a few minor issues and people pointing out that it’s quite out of date software, i’m very happy with it, even for audio/visual/gaming stuff that could be tricky.