Here’s the original link in lemmy.ml if you want to see lemmy.world loser ledditors coping: https://lemmy.ml/post/17384440

Whoops, I meant TSMC. Thanks for the correction.

Damn, I guess you like authoritarianism but only when it’s authoritarianism that your side is doing.

The high point of Taiwanese separatism was in 2019 when Tsai Ing-wen, despite being unpopular and almost getting primaried by the current Taiwanese president, was able to ride on the fears of the Hong Kong protests to win the presidency in 2020. After that, separatists have eaten nothing but L’s since then.

1. They got BTFO in the 2022 local elections, topping it off with Chiang Kai-shek’s bastard great-grandson getting elected as mayor of Taipei. This also means he has presidential ambitions, so a funny outcome would be Taiwan having a third president from the Chiang family.

2. They ate shit in the 2024 legislative elections and don’t have a majority in the Yuan.

3. They got their president elected with a crappy plurality made worse by all the 16-17 year old TPP supporters who can’t vote because they’re too young, meaning his popularity is even weaker than it looks.

4. Taiwanese zoomers, basically the people who are of conscript age, are voting for TPP instead, which ruins the DPP’s plan of replacing the KMT through age demographic changes. Just because the KMT is going to be the party of irrelevant boomers doesn’t mean your party will get the zoomers.

5. The ROC military has openly displays signs of disloyalty including a retired general saying they should simply coup the DPP and various officers repeatedly getting bribed by the PRC to lay down their arms. It turns out accusing the KMT, of which the ROC military is politically, culturally, and historically aligned with, of selling out to the PRC in order to win votes for your presidential election has far-reaching consequences.

6. The combination of the Taiwanese economy stagnating and the dumpster fire with TSMC attempting to build a factory in Arizona is forcing Taiwanese business to push harder towards the status quo, where they can get favorable trade deals with the PRC.

Yes, the DPP is authoritarian for shutting down Taiwanese news stations that refuse to toe a pro-separatist line and must be overthrown in order for democracy to flourish. DPP politicians should fear for their lives.

PS. I can see your comment in my inbox and reply from there but when I’m on my post your comment doesn’t appear. Some odd Lemmy thing?

I have no idea why that would happen. Probably something weird about Lemmy.

As for Waydroid, it’s kinda finicky in how to start. Use something like btop or ps aux|grep waydroid to check whether you have multiple processes that are all running waydroid session start. It should just be two processes: /usr/bin/waydroid -w container start and /usr/bin/waydroid session start. I remember I had multiple /usr/bin/waydroid -w container start that I had to kill before it worked for the first time.

The devs behind Waydroid also have their own distro set up for Waydroid. You can try that as well: https://waydro.id/#wdlinux

I was able to get Waydroid to work in a Debian VM, so unless there’s something weird about how VirtualBox handles things, Waydroid shouldn’t care whether it’s running in a VM or not.

What happens when you run waydroid status or waydroid show-full-ui?

The vast majority of both-sideism is done by reactionaries trying to hide their reactionary politics from their audience. There’s absolutely nothing about him that indicates he’s anything but a generic techbro with the politics of a generic techbro. Just skimming the comment section of his Youtube video just has the usual people whining about politics, which is rich considering that FLOSS has always been political no matter how much the OS part of FLOSS try to pretend that it isn’t so.

Someone gifted me with some old iPad that’s more than 10 years old. What steps should I take to install Linux on the iPad?

Windows 11 was officially released. That giant spike in late 2021 almost perfectly matched when Windows 11 was released. The Steam Deck was released in early 2022. So, from the graph, I would say the two main contributing factors are Windows 11 sucking to no one’s surprise and the Steam Deck exposing people to Linux gaming.

Is the West prepared for what’s to come when Putin finally hardens his heart?

Also, funny how even reddit allows r/Piracy but not .world lol

Imagine being even more of a corporate simp that Reddit lmao

Nah, this is just some spoiled brat. IME, the closer they are to having a peasant background, the more they put their trust in Xi and the CPC. It also helps that Chinese tourists can see the dilapidated shithole that is US infrastructure with their own eyes. Plus, China is at the forefront of technology at this point. Their consumer products are beating the US. In Blackshirts and Reds, Parenti mentioned how those Westophile liberals were suckered in by cheap high-quality consumer goods from the West. In the 60s, this was true, but now? Chinese liberals can buy cheap shit made in China and shipped to the US or they can buy high quality products made in China for the Chinese domestic population. At a certain point, it’s just pure ideology. Even those loser HK protestors have conceded that the Mainland has better infrastructure and living standards by malding “uh aktually, since Hong Kong no longer has freedom^TM or democracy^TM, we might as well go to the Mainland where the trains are newer” lmao

Insisting that Alexei should be killed is cringe since he was already dying and wouldn’t have made it past the harsh Russia winter anyways. And he wasn’t so important that his death had to be bumped up several months. The dude would’ve just died from bumping his head too hard or stubbing his toe.

As for the rest, meh. Most overthrows of a feudal dynasty are violent and even if we pretend the Bolsheviks were just supporters of a new feudal dynasty, they didn’t treat the Romanovs any different from how a victorious feudal dynasty treated a defeated feudal dynasty. The Romanovs, as a feudal imperial family, understood this. The founder of the Romanov dynasty basically ordered a three-year old pretender to be hung among other things. And now that the shoe’s on the other foot, they want to be treated like citizens of a liberal democracy. Nicholas could’ve done the actual feudal way of abdicating by gouging his eyes out and joining a monastery where he could spend the rest of his days as a blind monk like so many feudal pretenders to the throne, but he didn’t do that, so he simply paid the price of a feudal sovereign who refused to abdicate for real.

Queen Victoria is from the House of Hanover and Prince Albert is from the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. The British royal family changed their house to Windsor during WWI because the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha sounded too German.

If you’re going by just family ancestry, Charles III is mostly German. Here’s me after wasting time on Wikipedia:

Maternal grandfather’s grandparents:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_VII: Anglicized German

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_of_Denmark: Danish

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis,_Duke_of_Teck: Austrian

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Mary_Adelaide_of_Cambridge: German

Maternal grandmother’s grandparents:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Bowes-Lyon,_13th_Earl_of_Strathmore_and_Kinghorne: English

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Bowes-Lyon,_Countess_of_Strathmore_and_Kinghorne: English

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Cavendish-Bentinck_(priest): English

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisa_Cavendish-Bentinck: English

Paternal grandfather’s grandparents:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_IX_of_Denmark: Danish

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_of_Hesse-Kassel: German

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duke_Konstantin_Nikolayevich_of_Russia: Russian Romanov, but he had 3 German grandparents, so his ancestry is mostly German

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Alexandra_of_Saxe-Altenburg: German

Paternal grandmother’s grandparents:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Alexander_of_Hesse_and_by_Rhine: German

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia,_Princess_of_Battenberg: Pole of German descent

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_IV%252C_Grand_Duke_of_Hesse: German

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Alice_of_the_United_Kingdom: German

Imagine simping for an inbred German shambling corpse.

It also fundamentally misunderstands why Linux has such low adoption rates at the desktop. It has much more to do with Windows being ubiquitous in desktop enterprise environments than Linux. MacOS is by all accounts even more intuitive and easier to understand than Windows with a greater selection of native programs than Linux on top of having billions of dollars at their disposal for advertisement, but you’re not exactly seeing MacOS hit >60% of desktops.

Overall, for a thread that’s supposed to help a newbie, this thread has a surprising amount of bad info. From saying Debian doesn’t come with sudo (completely untrue, the Debian installer has an option of adding the user to sudo when most distro installers just add the user to sudo automatically) to saying installing MacOS programs is simply clicking on an icon (not really true either since the only time you’re clicking on shit to install things on MacOS instead of using the store is if you’re installing third-party software, in which case you have to dig through menus).

I’ve been trying to find a good Marxist instance, but Lemmygrad and Hexbear are widely hated. Why is that?

Because the majority of Ledditors are either liberals or full blown reactionaries and the ones who are not range from some cringey techno-libertarian who think FOSS will usher in socialism to some radlib cruise-missile socialist who strangely never deviates from the US state department. The very few who could legitimately be considered socialists are some kind of anarchist. They certainly aren’t Marxist.

Are there any good leftist instances?

Outside of those two, I won’t hold my breath. The easiest litmus test in the world is how they’re responding to the genocide at Gaza. There’s very few places where you’ll get complete support for the Palestinian liberation struggle and not whining about the imaginary babies Hamas allegedly beheaded or trying to equate the conduct of a genocidal nuclear power to a paramilitary fighting for national liberation.

Sinophobic anarchists aren’t comrades. They can join the pit with all the other Sinophobic reactionaries.

I don’t think a racist comic is a good look for anarchism, but you do you.