IriYan

Have you tried/installed nvme-cli and/or xnvme

I wonder if your issues come from buggy nvme modules

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If MS was to sell less licenses than there out there, or claims more than actual, I would suspect there would a tax-ivasion liability against them. So if they have claimed sales of 3bil then they brag of 4bil users, someone would notice.

On the other hand, in terms of anonymity of browsing you’d rather be identified as one of the many with the exact same setup than being unique. TB actually used this to even the mozilla version that was most popular, and even advised not to adjust the default screen size or window size to merge with the “croud”.

But you have a valid concern, when rags come out and say 97% don’t use linux/bsd when in fact 14% do.

Using vanilla ff or chrome is the worst possible way to protect your personal information. https://digdeeper.neocities.org/articles/browsers

The largest machines, the largest servers, nearly all supercomputers, are running on linux, or some form of unix to a lesser extent, not MSwin or other crappy non-FOSS mass-produced profit maker for the dumb and innocent “user”.

I am surprised nobody even acknowledged your post, and this may be an indication that not many have made this connection. So I applaud your initiative that has not received much attention since everyone is too scared to append classical political theory (are you listening Marxist?), let alone challenge it in its inability to interpret material realities of today.

Yes, the idea of contributing “work”, produce, openly and freely, for anyone to consume, alter, reprodruce, without a direct “exchange” is probably the only area of the market that this is happening. Maybe public domain documents, art, theory, A/V material licensed as CC or Gpl are also important. Imagine we could do this with basic core survival necessities and construct autonomous communities with such an economy (or really lack of an economic system). But it may be happening with products that are not really material, and can be shared through a medium of low or no-cost. It would be hard to do this grains, building materials, fruit, vegetables, eggs (vegan god forbid :).

But, but, but, there are problems within this “commune” of open AND free sw.

1. The small problem is the elitism pushed by the ultra-libre foss crowd which lacks the self criticism that in order for people to locate the proper hardware so they can run ALL libre-sw they have to pay high prices, which some can’t afford. Getting pseudo-refurbished used industrial equipment (DELL/HP workstations/pcs mostly) in sub 100 ($/Euro) values is what the vast majority of the world can afford and use. Nearly all hw in x86-64 platform though, even those that provide libre firmware/drivers etc, are not all open/free source. Most only work through binary blobs that are neither open or free. We can speculate but we may never know what is “iinside”… and just the specs of what they can do are scary enough.

2. The apolitical, non-critical, perspective among FOSS developers is that if “corporations” provide FOSS, or just open source, we can use that is good and we should rush to use it if it is functional and helps our experience and work. But especially large corporations have used this FOSS channel to manipulate, steer, and control the FOSS development, towards a direction that benefits them (and maybe the state agencies under which those mega-corps are protected, can profit, and exist). It is always an exchange system that rules those relationships. So companies like IBM/RH, Qt, Oracle, HP, google, facebook, …etc. can provide foss code and push development towards something that is compatible with their tools, so independent developers can and will incorporate their platforms and move their direction.

It is like creating an autonomous community and allowing representatives of a corporation to work the fields but also participate in assemblies on how to run the community.

With linux foundation having the largest industrial names as seats of the board, and be paying 7digit salaries to the top signers of the kernel, within a year or two alone the kernel has grown more than 2X in size, full of industrial firmware and code, that most common mortals will never even see from a distance. So who are they contributing code to/for? Yes, 7digits in $/Eu yearly salary + “benefits”, paid trips, paid talks, workshops, … and the occassional consulting contract to sweeten the defaults of the next gen kernel.

So, enjoy your stay in this hippie pacifist commune called FOSS, but don’t expect too much critical political thinking. Most devs are really dreaming of those 6-7digit salaries in the industry doing non-foss work while you are thinking commune. This is why their big fat name is placed on every little bit that is published. BUY ME BUY ME I AM FOR SALE!!! :)

3. We are at war, remember, nobody is innocent till proven not-guilty.

I can hardly find one thing I could agree in this and wonder what on earth is such useless documents be promoted in here for?

This analysis could have come from any Marxist party, in a cowardly traditional manner of being unable to challenge a comma or an exclanation mark of classic M&E theory.

In the dead ends and tremendous contradictions of marxist theoretical development this is just another attempt of trying to paint a reality in such a way as to fit the theory, and we all thought it was meant the other way around, and in this “WE” I would include Karl Marx but especially Engels who was the true dialectical materialist. There is somewhere in Karl’s writing that says that he would have been most happy to alter and revise the thery if reality show that the theory is invalid. Marxists since then have elevated those books into theology where terror and exile is upon those who dare challenge the theology.

Neo-liberalism in the 80s … because this is what fits in theory? By the time the term neo-liberalism was announced and made public as part of politics it was at a period where a 40+ year transformation of state an economy was taken place to fit this propaganda. It was safe to mention it. It was pretty much the same time that social democracy died, for which many Marxist would die defending.

You can’t reverse history, you can only write the future, and going back to social democracy would mean a revolution and a total overthrow of the globalized economy.

Unless the Marxist has the all powerful, autonomous, and manageable state as a safe harbor, the Marixst has nothing to step on and propagandize. A bankrupt ideology based on a weak theory, even though it may be the only theory we have ever had.

Far too many have been disillusioned and confused by propaganda and baseless mythology in this greater area of thought. If we don’t make it a priority to clear up the smoke and fog around our “area” we will tolerate and remanufacture this pathology, speaking of the revolution as an “event”.

There are two significantly different paths to radical anti-capitalism, one based on the political/ideological vanguard carrying out the process, the other believes in endless social revolution, the replacement of value(s) and principles in social organization. Leninism and all those that believe that a small group of ideology driven members will cause/start/create the revolution, the state and economy, or just the economy, will be dismantled and replaced, and there will be a next day where “their” choices will be enforced on everyone, they avoid speaking of the authority structure that is created by this actor and the rest of society. And I’d say, what if it backfires, and this so called revolution ends up causing famine, malnutrition, lack of access to drinkable water, energy/heat/transport, and becomes an enormous urban and suburban genocide. Will this ideological leader/vanguard or the ideology they represent, take the responsibility for the disaster? Some will say yes, Marxism-Leninism took the responsibility for the disastrous social experiment that left half of Europe as capitalist as ever before and the other half as a neo-Nazi revival of the 1930s. Luckily there hasn’t been an anarchist vanguard to cause such massive harm and misery.

The libertarian proposal to anti-capitalism is vastly different, but can’t seem to get the ball rolling as CNT did more than a century ago, and that was a libertarian federation of worker unions, not society or community organized from the ground up under libertarian principles and ideals.

Will sexism/racism/ethnocentrism/patriarchy be diminished the day after some “event” called revolution? Or will it take generations for humanity to recover and become sane again? Is political equality perceived as essential as socialists perceive economic equality (while constructing an endless political inequality and military type of hierarchy)? If not, who is revolting and to whom are they enforcing their revolution on?

We live in a world vastly different than Marx and Kropotkin knew. The workers hardly ever have a consiousness as such, managers in endless levels are visible but the “owners of the means of production” are invisible and generally unknown (financial market fluidity). So we are fighting an invisible enemy of an invisible/imaginary lifestyle. Meanwhile we have laundered the snitches of work, managers, who blackmail us daily, as “working people with false consciousness”, just to provide support for the autistic Marxist ideology, remotely different from what Marx wrote, Marxist clergy use the holly book to justify their superiority. Then, outside the workplace, in our daily lives outside work, we have no theory. No theory on the reason a spouse abuses a spouse, or terrorizes her/him, a child, the teacher, the cop, the officer to the soldier, the clergy of the local religious organization, … but we speak of revolution without addressing how all this would ever change.

Based on the population size, and the size of urban centers, and the fact this is 50% of the total, lack of social organization means suicide. So there is great amounts of work needed to construct (not destroy) community autonomy and organization before ANY revolution can BEGIN, let alone speculate for the next day AFTER. If libertarian social organization prevails it will be up to the community to decide the next day and the day after that, not us to dictate what that should be.

Vanguardism is more authoritarian and hierarchical than representative democracy, it has no place in anti-authoritarian/libertarian thought and action. A true libertarian political organization would be one committed to serve and obey communal organization not to rule and dictate on them. If a political organization can’t commit to this they are just a closet Bolsevic attempting to cease power and force their ideation on people, enslaving them rather than freeing them.