Christian crusades followed by Islam doing what Islam is designed to do.

Mass conversion of populations are not common. It’s either conquest, oppression or rebellion.

Its only 9% of global trade though. https://www.wita.org/ustrade/us-trade-trends/

Significant, but the rest of the world can transition away from that without too much difficulty.

It does not matter enough. Too many bigots in the conservative dem voter base.

They will vote black, Muslim, Asian, so long as it’s not a woman.

Sad state of the American psyche.

Correlates with media empire ownership.

Why would you need to expose SSH for everyday use? Or does Jellyfin require it to function?

Maybe leave that behind some VPN access.

On the matters most important, they are the same. Both are hell bent on the concentration of wealth and power with the elite.

Republicans just add the flavour of being overtly evil, where Democrats pretend they are good.

The political system is the problem, what we have today, is what it has been designed to do.

I don’t disagree. Republicans are overtly evil.

But many people ignore that both have been facilitating the concentration of wealth and power that is at the core of all the systemic problems affecting almost everyone.

It started around the Reagan era and was reinforced by die bushes and Clinton.

Obama was the big “Change” candidate that was supposed to reverse the trend, but he betrayed people by entrenching it instead. They distracted people though the token measure of “wokeness” and obamacare, which did nothing to address the causes of those problems.

I would raise both hands, so we can include the Democrats as well.

Both are part of the problem. Along with their owners.

There is going to be a 1980’s person who does it out of spite!

Who said Wayland was going to be the death? (Excluding canonical) Everyone knew X needed to be replaced and that the transition will be slow until its not.

And systemd is not that bad these days. I do think it’s more complex than it needs to be and startup is a bit slow, but that’s about it.

GNOME making the huge changes inspired the refugees to build Cinnamon and injected some sense into KDE development. Now even GNOME is getting more sensible.

Watching a Christopher Nolan movie I see.