True, for anyone who has a more modern AMD laptop, it would fare well with Parsec.

Union membership declined from 2023 to 2024 to under 10% of the US workforce, despite a high public approval.

I think Bernie explaining to people how unionizing could be weaponized against the regime would help, and particularly if he endorsed the IWW; a more militant union who are not corporate captured, nor only seek increased wages and are then become pacified as other more normal trade unions tend toward. The IWW is the only worker-led anti-capitalist union in the US.

It’s just that there is little to nothing the average viewer can do to make it happen.

There are some tremendously powerful actions Bernie could be suggesting we do to fix this mess.

For example, he could be publicly calling for people to:

1. Perpare for and participate in a general strike, which would target the establishment's income streams, and is capable of bringing a fascist government to its knees if done on a large enough scale. Immigrant farm workers are already potentially going forward with this plan of action.
2. Contact a grassroots decentralized union like the IWW and attempt to unionize your workplace so that the general strike is even more effective (plus, ya know, better pay and working conditions as a bonus!)

Vaguely calling for the end of oligarchy instead of loudly calling for those very actionable steps is a bit of a missed opportunity for the resistance.

However, If we put in the work, we can resist this and we can win. Look at how effective the above mentioned methods were when used in Chile in 2019.. If we completely reject the political system and rebel on a mass scale, there is NOTHING they can do to stop us.

I suspect it's potentially due to relations with Russia going slightly sour, as Russia is the largest exporter of asbestos.

You can read more about it here: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-More-Newcomers-LLMs

They also seem to have voted on this subject back in may, but I don't know how to find the results: https://www.debian.org/vote/2025/vote_002#secondsa

He wouldn't have any problem whatsoever if Debian was publicly endorsing right wing views and losing leftist contributors.

Linux and the GPL FOSS movement is inherently leftist, snd right wingers have been wailing about leftist views in various FOSS projects for over a decade. I recall many threads on reddit accusing Linus of having been made 'woke' by his daughter when the CoC was introduced, back during the gamergate era.

It's all the same shit, all the same complaints, and all a waste of time. As the US descends into extreme fascism to the cries of approval of the MAGA cult, it becomes harder and harder to stomach them in a project.

The more concerning thing going on is Debian potentially embracing AI, which I am very much not a fan of.

I really, really like the logo you have for it. It's snazzy AF :)

Piefed is another reddit-like forum that is federated using ActivityPub (the same underlying tech that Lemmy uses).

Piefed is very similar to Lemmy functionally, and the creator designed it specifically to be as compatible with lemmy as possible so they can communicate with each other without a problem. You can even visit piefed communties from your lemmy, like [email protected] or [email protected].

Piefed is already compatible with a couple of lemmy mobile apps, like Interstellar and Voyager, so if we were to switch SLRPNK to a piefed instance, you would be able to continue to use those apps, if you already are used to them. You can also make the mobile web page itself into a web app.

The Web UI will be different from lemmy, which you can test at Piefed.social to see what it'd be like. We'd very likely create a custom theme for it similar to our existing lemmy one.

Piefed has some neat features unique to it, such as:

• a very nice gallery view for image heavy communities.
• the ability to combine comments from multiple communities under one post, if the same link was posted to all of them. You can see an example of that here (notice how the comments have dividers for each community).
• the ability to create and subscribe to a pre-made list of communities, sorta like a multi-reddit.

On the sysadmin side of things, it'd bring some nice advantages regarding network resource usage.

So overall, it hopefully wouldn't bring many downsides, besides potentially having to learn and get used to a new UI (though Photon, which we host as an alternative web UI, will soon support it as well, making the experience pretty much identical if you're already used to that).

I think Mint can be a bad option if someone has newer hardware, but the onboarding process is just so butter smooth for non-techies. From what I recall of bazzite, the onboarding process for someone completely unfamiliar to Linux isn't the best.

And while Mint is bad for new hardware, Bazzite can be sort've the opposite problem. I have a laptop with switchable graphics that has massive glitches with Wayland still. Since Fedora dropped X11 support entirely, Bazzite unfortunately inherited that, making it impossible to use on my hardware. However, Mint worked with it flawlessly thanks to it still supporting X11.

The immutability aspect of Bazzite could be a massive strength for new users if they focused on their onboarding process.

I don't mean to make light of 3 people being in critical condition but... It's simply too fitting, I'm afraid.

Immutable distros will likely become the standard in the future, but at the moment I think they're a poor choice for newbies since there's very little documentation around them, very few people who can help if something goes wrong, and often can introduce their own problems due to flatpak permissions that require their own specialized knowledge that a newbie won't have.

When I tried bazzite, I encountered an issue that someone else had reported on the forums months ago, which had never received a response due to how stretched thin the UBlue team are.

Mint on the other hand works fine 99% of the time, and has heaps of help resources available for it. It also strongly suggests setting up a snapshot of your system that you can rollback to if anything ever messes up, which pretty much puts it on par with bazzite in that department.

If you do try Linux, I highly highly recommend Linux Mint, since it's the most newbie friendly.