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  • Blatant authoritarianism without proper elections and the consolidation of power, the Uyghur genocide, massive censorship, the Party not true to its name for decades, and a lot more.

    China’s government is the classic, almost textbook example of “shut up and we’ll get you prosperity in exchange” (really driven in a big part by the demographic dividend) slowly turning into “now we have enough power to shut you up without giving anything in return”.

    So, there’s a lot wrong with it. That’s not to say, for example, that it is much better in the US that straight up sees Nazis come to power, but one has to be ignorant to overlook the systemic issues within the CCP.









  • For me, Mint borked the network after an update. I never got to figure what was wrong - the local network worked, the Internet connection was there and other devices worked through the same router, remote IPs were unreachable so it’s not a DNS problem, etc.

    But I might have had an edge case.








  • Allero@lemmy.todaytoLinux@lemmy.ml"SO proof" distro
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    I’d rather recommend Manjaro to those who want to start out simple, but then get into the details of Linux.

    Unless all you do is browsing, Manjaro starts easy but then has a steep curve because it’s still Arch, with the added issue of practically every Manjaro newbie ignoring warnings about AUR and getting to taste the consequences.

    It will require you to work with the terminal, troubleshoot, and get to understand your system. This is not bad - that’s how I got into Linux and never looked back after all all, and I generally don’t join the “Manjaro bad” crowd - but this is not a bulletproof “SO distro”.