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  • Decompose@programming.devtoLinux Gaming@lemmy.worldWhy do you use Linux?
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    9 months ago

    I use it for my servers and for remotely programming for over a decade. Using it on a desktop setup for work or games? Fuck no!

    It’s my criticism of the Linux community: They don’t understand what “being productive” really means. I need to do work during the day, and produce results. I don’t have time to deal with my docking station not working, monitors settings breaking, and tinker with them every day… not because I can’t, but because I SHOULDN’T NEED TO.

    It was cool when I was a teenager… now I need to make money.

    As frustrating as it sounds. On windows and mac, literally plug and play. Every time I get the exact same setup. On Linux… dear Lord… every day a different problem and a different tinker until I swore that I’m done, and went back to remote use of Linux. Linux terminal is perfect, and that’s probably all I’ll need. Linux desktop through VNC, if ever.


  • Decompose@programming.devtoLefty Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comfair share?
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    9 months ago

    You’re such an idiot you didn’t even understand what I did. I did a non-linear fit of the inverse law, not just a plot. But you’re ignorant so you can’t understand what that even means. Fuck off and read a book.

    Calculus? Dude I have a PhD in physics. Calculus is children’s play. But anyway, I think it’s time to block you.


  • Decompose@programming.devtoLefty Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comfair share?
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    9 months ago

    Dude, don’t tell me “you know” what Zipf law is when you questioned that whole inverse-law thing. Just shut up! Not only I shut you up by bringing it up, but I also did the math for you a fit a function for you to prove you wrong, which you, of course, won’t do because you’re lazy, assuming you even know how to fit data to a function. And now we’re changing the goal post so that you can be right. Make a plan that’s realistic, that doesn’t involve taxation as it’s done now maximized for the middle class, or fuck off and read a book! I’ve heard enough of your nonsense.



  • Decompose@programming.devtoLefty Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comfair share?
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    9 months ago

    Make a better calculation then come back, and stop criticizing examples. If you understand statistics, you’ll see why whether 25 or 50 billionaires doesn’t make much of a difference. They all mostly follow inverse function distribution in wealth. There’s a law for it, forgot the name. So, no matter what amount you scrape from the top, it won’t make a difference.

    Again, ignorance in real world phenomenon and attempts to talk policy. Please stop! Read a book!


  • Decompose@programming.devtoLefty Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comfair share?
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    9 months ago

    The sad reality is that your revolutionary wish will kill millions of people in the process due to the failing economy, since no economy means no food delivery, no functioning infrastructure, etc. Well. I’m no moral judge here so it’s up to you. I’m just telling you it’s really expensive. Careful what you wish for.


  • Decompose@programming.devtoLefty Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comfair share?
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    9 months ago

    I’ll do you one better. Even if you take ALL their money, that’s less than 6 months budget. You steal it from them, spend it in a few months, and you’re back where you started in no time. It doesn’t fix anything or change anything, but introduces tremendous problems (like inflation).

    And besides that and completely ignoring all these direct problems, these assets are not even liquid (Surprise surprise, Jeff Bezos doesn’t store $5B in his safe). So, in order to cash them out, you’re gonna have to sell them on the open markets, crash the stock markets, crash real estate markets, etc, which will lead to much higher unemployment, and pension funds will be destroyed (just like in 2008), and millions will go bankrupt. And all this even ignores that the net worth you’re assigning to them ignores slippage, so it’s much less than 1.8 Trillion when sold on the open market, ignoring automated bots that will sell even more to protect their hedge funds.

    Yes, let’s do all that destruction in the economy just for 6 months worth of spending. Great plan!

    Like I always say: A bunch of ignorant, uneducated, stupid and entitled teenagers who don’t know anything about the economy want to decide how the economy works. Go read a book, and stop telling us how to run the world before you learn how the world works. Go learn, and your realistic suggestions are welcome. We all want a better world.