

The HC530s drives I bought in Nov are 40% more expensive now. My local computer store used to sell 16TB Barracudas for CAD $250 last year. They’re $400 now and only available in-store.


The HC530s drives I bought in Nov are 40% more expensive now. My local computer store used to sell 16TB Barracudas for CAD $250 last year. They’re $400 now and only available in-store.


No politic here!


Too few places. There’s a cluster in Italy as well.


Added a bit on that. 😊


The availability of capital for this type of organization, the capital concentration on the opposing side and its market power is what’s holding us back.
To elaborate:
Coops are fundamentally anti-capitalist, they’re socialist. Why? Because they threaten to change the capitalist model where only people who hold significant capital get to decide how to profit from most workers’ labour, to a model where most workers decide that democratically and equally own their workplaces. If coops are to become the dominant firm structure, it means no more Zuckerbergs or Thiels wielding unimaginable power over hundreds of thousands of employees directly* and the rest of the economy indirectly. This means that the people in this position of power today would do everything they can to stop coops from taking significant root. Since they are the VCs that dole out capital for startups, that means no capital for coop startups from them. It also means applying every market and non-market leverage they have to kill any coops that threaten to become viable competitors.
This doesn’t mean we can’t start coops and make them successful. It does however means it’s much more difficult than starting a normal capitalist-funded startup. People who are in a position to attempt it probably should. I think a lot of capable, professional tech comrades would join and work a lot harder than they would at your typical startup. But it would still be an uphill battle without gov’t support which already goes to capitalist tech corpos. This is why this battle has to go on multiple fronts. One is creating coops where and when possible. The other is unionizing existing corpos to gain labour power that can be leveraged to curb the oligarch’s power. The third is fighting at the political level for state funding for coops and labour rights. Those three reinforce each other in increasing the economic power of employees (workers) both at coops and traditional corpos relative to the power of the oligarch (capitalist) class.
* For example forcing their employees to develop software for digital addiction instead of working to eliminate misinformation on the biggest social network in the world at the threat of termination.


Interesting. I han’t thought about this aspect, where the toaster is capable to do more human activities to harass the person. This is actually a problem if there isn’t a way to stop it wholesale. And there isn’t and probably won’t be. For a while if it ever changes. If this thing grows in occurrence, it might force people into private communities and systems to escape. That particular effect being arguably positive.


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This is the US AG talking about people ignoring the stock market during a hearing on Epstein - https://youtu.be/a7yv4fpfDbs. Some of Epstein’s victims are sitting behind her while she’s doing this.
Oh Beryl jogs a memory too! There was also Compiz Fusion.
No, I’ve been GNOME peasant since Ubuntu switched to it from Unity. Now also using it on Debian. Some day when very bored, maybe in retirement I’ll try Plasma again. 😆
I feel for you so I gave you an upvote. Here’s a hug too: 🤗


Yeah, I don’t understand why they spent such effort to reply to the toaster. This was more shocking to me than the toaster’s behaviour.


When one realizes that anything useful a firm does is just a coincidence of it making profit. 💢


You can move your mouse over them. 😆


Well they finally delivered a decent camera. That’s what made me buy one. It’s a step down from a Pixel 8 Pro but not a huge one.
Had a 2080 Ti until recently. I’ve only paid once for a new GPU in my life - a 1070 when we were gonna get millionaires on crypto mining. Gave it to a friend’s kid when I found that cheap 2080 Ti.