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First batch of Pakistani agri graduates in China signal new chapter: Ambassador Hashmi | The Daily CPEC

First batch of Pakistani agri graduates in China signal new chapter: Ambassador Hashmi stated while speaking at the ceremony.
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GNOME Dconf video:

Device manager lets you see all the components of your PC, and the devices plugged into it. It lets you check for drivers, fix various problems, set some options, and view some logs related to your devices.

On Linux, this thing has no equivalent. We do have a third party app called HardInfo, but it's not an actionable application. In KDE, you have the same thing, with the Info Center.

Device manager is an important tool on Windows, and it would have a LOT of uses on Linux as well. I wish we had something like that.

Linux runs services in the background, for printing, bluetooth, network, virtualization, the graphical server or compositor, and a lot more things, generally managed by systemd on most distros.

And almost no Linux desktop has a complete graphical user interface to manage these services, turn them on or off, enable one at startup or not, or view logs related to this service.

On GNOME, you have an extension called systemd-manager, but no way to configure them, or select options, or enable autostart. On KDE, you have a services page in the settings, but you can basically just start and stop them, no other action is available.

As far as I know, only OpenSUSE has a decent services manager, that is baked into YAST, their configuration tool.

On Windows, the services app might look like it's 20 years old, which it probably is, but it lets you start and stop services, select if you want to start them manually, or at boot, or completely disable them, and it lets you set policies for various services failures, like restarting the computer, restarting the service, or opening another program.

Another thing that is not entirely available in our desktop environments is a graphical tool to configure the firewall, and general system security.

KDE has a config module in their settings, so that's handled. And yet again, OpenSUSE has a firewall config tool in Yast, which works really well.

For GNOME, there are third party tools you can install, depending on the firewall the distro uses, like firewall-config for firewalld, but these are rarely provided by default.

Linux desktops also don't really have an equivalent to the Windows "security center". GNOME has the basics of such an implementation, with their device security page, but it's not actionable.

Anyway, we could add here some information depending on certain libraries, apps, and kernels we use, if vulnerabilities have been detected, we could have access to the firewall settings, apps that have incorrect permission...

And then we have backups. A lot of distros ships with a third party backup tool, like Déja Dup, or Timeshift, but they generally only ship one or the other. We sort of need a complete solution that works ideally for both.

What I'd want is to right click on a file in my file manager, and have a "versions" menu item. What I'd like is a system settings option, native to the desktop environment, that lets me configure a backup, and restore it.

The windows registry is a horrible, horrible thing. It's illegible, it's super messy, modifications can result in a horrendously broken system, and generally it's better left alone.
But it does surface a LOT of options for applications and the system. And not all Linux desktops have an equivalent.

GNOME has dconf, which has a lot of various settings you can tweak. KDE doesn't have that.
Yast has a bunch of additional configurations available graphically.

Discord - Group Chat That’s All Fun & Games

Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out.
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The starkest contrast of the 20th century is how China's socialist development led to the greatest sustained increase in life expectancy and quality of life, while capitalist reforms led to the greatest measurable reduction in life expectancy in post-Soviet countries.

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#socialism


Lifting 800 Million People Out of Poverty – New Report Looks at Lessons from China’s Experience

Over the past 40 years, China has lifted nearly 800 million people out of poverty, accounting for more than 75 percent of global poverty reduction in the same period, according to a new report released on Thursday.
World Bank Group

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Who had Theo in their dead pool?

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Malcolm-Jamal Warner, best known for playing Theo Huxtable on 'The Cosby Show,' dies after drowning off of the coast of Costa Rica | abc7.com

Malcolm-Jamal%20Warner%2C%20the%20actor%20best%20known%20for%20starring%20in%20the%20TV%20sitcom%20%22The%20Cosby%20Show%22%20as%20son%20Theodore%20%22Theo%22%20Huxtable%2C%20has%20died%20at%2054.
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Lawyers ask that Kilmar Abrego Garcia stay in jail to avoid US deportation
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/21/lawyers-ask-that-kilmar-abrego-garcia-stay-in-jail-to-avoid-us-deportation?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Lawyers ask that Kilmar Abrego Garcia stay in jail to avoid US deportation

Despite being wrongly deported and returned to the US, lawyers say Abrego Garcia again faces expulsion.
Al Jazeera

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BREAKING: Trump Attorney Peter Ticktin and Legal Team En Route to Visit Tina Peters in Jail Ahead of Critical Habeas Hearing

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BREAKING: Trump Attorney Peter Ticktin and Legal Team En Route to Visit Tina Peters in Jail Ahead of Critical Habeas Hearing | The Gateway Pundit | by Jason Sullivan

           Source: Unleashed.news President Trump’s longtime attorney Peter Ticktin, founder of The Ticktin Law Group, is currently en route — along with two key members of Tina Peters’ federal legal team — to meet with her inside the Colorado facili…
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Polish border guards claim that Ukrainians are increasingly using fake driver’s licenses to avoid being conscripted into the war, – Bild en.news-front.su/2025/07/21/po…

Polish border guards claim that Ukrainians are increasingly using fake driver's licenses to avoid being conscripted into the war, - Bild

The Polish Border Guard is increasingly detecting fake Ukrainian C-category driver’s licenses for trucks among those entering Poland from Ukraine.
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Are you in #pdx? do you like #coop s? We are lucky enough to have a regular local coop meetup, in person.

Our next meeting is the evening of Friday, August 1
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Join us in person at symbiop.com to hang out with fellow coop nerds and learn about how SymbiOp is organized.

boosts very welcome!

Edit: i am a regular visitor of the coop meetup, but not the organizer. I did get the real organizer (JT) to make a non facebook link so i could share here!


Portland Co-op Hangout

We are excited to make our way back to SymbiOp Garden Shop, a worker-owned ecological garden shop and landscaping cooperative since 2020! Schedule: 6:15 - 7:00: How the worker-owned co-op started 7:00 - 8:15: Unfacilitated socializing and networking.
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I was chatting paper airplanes with one of my kids and fondly remembered the ‘Whitewings’ airplanes I made as a kid with help from my dad.

Here’s a gallery with photos (!) and printable PDFs (!!) for most of them: meinframe.com/whitewings/

Even more remarkably, the folks behind Fold ’N Fly have just completed a round of crowdfunding and plan to reprint the original set, with some slight modernizations (different suppliers, no lead weights, etc.): whitewings.com/ — that merits an (!!!)


Whitewings » Paper Airplanes

Advanced paper airplanes that can fly for over 30 seconds and travel more than 200 feet.
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Jailhouse lawyer wanted!

Crime doesn’t pay — so try politics instead.

The Democrat running to be Nassau County’s top prosecutor encouraged convicted criminals to apply for a job on her campaign that could pay them up to $7,000 a month.

District Attorney candidate Nicole Aloise’s campaign posted an ad seeking a “communications director” on job website indeed.com as she tries to unseat Republican incumbent District Attorney Anne Donnelly.

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Exclusive | Democrat running for NY district attorney 'encourages' criminals to apply for job on staff

Crime does pay, according to the Democrat running to become Nassau County’s top prosecutor. District Attorney candidate Nicole Aloise is welcoming convicted criminals to apply for a top paid …
Carl Campanile (New York Post)

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The Hierarchical Reasoning Model is a brain-inspired architecture with two recurrent modules: a slow, high-level planner and a fast, low-level one for computation. With only 27M parameters and ~1000 training examples, it excels at complex reasoning without pre-training or Chain-of-Thought.

HRM significantly outperforms larger models in benchmarks and solves complex Sudoku and mazes where CoT methods completely fail.

arxiv.org/abs/2506.21734

#technology #ai #llm


Hierarchical Reasoning Model

Reasoning, the process of devising and executing complex goal-oriented action sequences, remains a critical challenge in AI.
arXiv.org

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Belgium celebrates its National Day with a military parade and call to support the valiant struggle of Ukraine for its sovereignty and our defense! gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p…

Belgium celebrates its National Day with a military parade and call to support the valiant struggle of Ukraine for its sovereignty and our defense!

Today’s essay is divided into two parts.
Gilbert Doctorow (Armageddon Newsletter)

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Billionaire-owned The Atlantic somehow can't afford to let you read this article, so here's the archived version.

Do you want more things to be privatized and controlled by wealthy folks so they can enrich themselves at everyone else's expense?

Here's a bit about the possibility of that happening to the TVA, the Tennessee Valley Authority, which has kept energy rates quite low for residents.

web.archive.org/web/2025071602…


Trump's Ultimatum for America’s Largest Public-Energy Provider

Earlier this week, the White House told the board of the Tennessee Valley Authority to fire the CEO, or be fired.
Alexander C. Kaufman (The Atlantic)

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Malcolm-Jamal Warner, who was best known for starring in "The Cosby Show" as Theo Huxtable, has died at age 54. Costa Rican National Police told @abc that Warner drowned. Here's ABC's news report, plus a tribute to Warner from @Variety.

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#Celebrity #Entertainment #MalcolmJamalWarner #Television #TV #TheCosbyShow #RIP #InMemoriam


Malcolm-Jamal Warner, former 'Cosby Show' star, dead at 54

Warner drowned off the coast of Costa Rica, local police told ABC News.
Angeline Jane Bernabe (ABC News)
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Smeetoo

She probably always blamed the subway for her being late and it wasn't her fault because she can't afford to live closer to work and is forced to live in a minority neighborhood that is far from her job.

Having worked in the subway I see it all the time. It should take 30 minutes door to door if everything goes perfect, so they leave 30 minutes before they're supposed to be at work.
Just 1 little delay, you're late.

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Duygular, ahlaki kararlarda “güvenilmez” midir?

  1. Kantçı Rasyonalizm: Duygular Güvenilmezdir
    Immanuel Kant, “Ahlak Metafiziğinin Temellendirilmesi” (1785) ve “Pratik Aklın Eleştirisi” (1788) eserlerinde, duyguları ahlak dışı saymasa da ahlaki kararlar için yetersiz bulur:

Heteronomi Sorunu: Duygular (sempati, nefret, korku) dışsal veya içsel uyaranlara bağlıdır; özerk iradeyi zedeler.
Evrensellik Eksikliği: Duygular kişiye ve duruma göre değişir, oysa ahlak yasası (kategorik imperatif) nesnel ve evrensel olmalıdır.
Çıkar Karışması: “İyilik yaparken mutlu olmak” bile, eylemi çıkara dayalı hale getirebilir.
Örnek: Birine sırf “acıdığınız için” yardım etmek, Kant’a göre ahlaki değildir; çünkü bu, duygusal bir rastlantıdır. Oysa aynı eylem, “insan onurunu koruma” ilkesiyle yapılırsa ahlakidir.

  1. Hume’cu Duyguculuk: Ahlak Duygular Üzerine Kuruludur
    David Hume, “Ahlak Üzerine Bir İnceleme” (1751) eserinde, Kant’ın tam aksine ahlakın temelinin duygular (sentiment) olduğunu savunur:

“Akıl, tutkuların kölesidir”: Hume’a göre ahlaki yargılar, mantıksal çıkarımla değil, sempati ve nefret gibi duygusal tepkilerle oluşur.
Yararlılık İlkesi: Bir eylemin iyi veya kötü olduğunu belirleyen şey, toplumsal fayda ve duygusal onaydır. Örneğin, adalet kavramı, insanların “haksızlığa öfke duyması” sayesinde gelişmiştir.
Evrensellik Duyguda Aranmalıdır: Hume, evrensel ahlakın insan doğasındaki ortak duygularla (örneğin, acıya sempati) temellendirilebileceğini savunur.
Örnek: Birini kurtarmak, “onun acısını hissettiğiniz için” ahlakidir; Kant’ın dediği gibi “soğuk bir ilke” gerektirmez.

  1. Aristoteles: Duygular ve Erdem Dengesi
    Aristoteles, “Nikomakhos’a Etik” (MÖ 4. yy) eserinde, duyguların kontrol edilmesi gerektiğini savunur:

“Altın Ortalama”: Öfke, korku, sevgi gibi duygular, aşırıya kaçmadan kullanıldığında erdemli hale gelir.
Pratik Bilgelik (Phronesis): Ahlaki kararlar, akıl ve duygunun dengelenmesiyle alınır. Örneğin, cesaret, korkaklık ile pervasızlık arasındaki dengeyle mümkündür.
Örnek: Adaletli olmak, öfkeyi bastırmak değil, hakkaniyetle yönlendirmektir.

  1. Modern Psikoloji ve Nörobilim: Duygular Olmadan Ahlak Mümkün mü?
    Kant’ın aksine, günümüz psikolojisi duyguların ahlaki kararlardaki kritik rolünü vurgular:

Antonio Damasio (“Descartes’ın Yanılgısı”, 1994): Duygusal hasarı olan hastalar (örn., ventromedial prefrontal korteks lezyonu), mantıklı kararlar alabilir ama ahlaki yargıları bozulur.
Jonathan Haidt (“The Righteous Mind”, 2012): Ahlaki yargılar önce sezgisel/duygusal olarak oluşur, sonra akıl gerekçe uydurur.
Ayna Nöronlar: Empati, başkasının acısını hissedebilme yeteneğiyle doğrudan bağlantılıdır.
Örnek: “Tramvay ikilemi” deneylerinde, insanların çoğu duygusal tepkilerle (örn., birini itmekten tiksinti) karar verir.

  1. Feminist Etik: Duyguların Ahlaki Değeri
    Carol Gilligan ve Nel Noddings, Kant’ın “soğuk evrenselcilik”ine karşı bakım etiğini (ethics of care) savunur:

İlişkisellik: Ahlak, soyut ilkelerden çok, insanlar arası bağlarla (sevgi, sorumluluk) şekillenir.
Duygusal Bağlar Önemlidir: Bir annenin çocuğuna sevgisi, “evrensel bir yasa” gerektirmez; doğal ve ahlaki bir tepkidir.
Örnek: Bir hasta yakını, “sevdiği insanın acısını dindirmek” için yalan söyleyebilir. Kant’a göre bu yanlıştır, ama bakım etiğine göre meşru olabilir.

  1. Sonuç: Duygular Güvenilmez mi?
    Filozof/Görüş Duyguların Rolü Temel Argüman
    Kant Güvenilmez Ahlak, akıl ve evrensel ilkelerle belirlenmeli.
    Hume Temel Ahlak, duygusal onay ve sempatiye dayanır.
    Aristoteles Kontrollü kullanılmalı Erdem, duygu ve aklın dengelenmesidir.
    Modern Psikoloji Kritik Duygusal hasar, ahlaki yargıyı bozar.
    Feminist Etik Merkezi Bakım ve ilişkisellik, duygularla şekillenir.

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Duygular, ahlaki kararlarda “güvenilmez” midir? – insanokur

www.insanokur.org

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EU Sanctions on Oil Refinery in India Violate International Law — Rosneft sputnikglobe.com/20250721/eu-s…

EU Sanctions on Oil Refinery in India Violate International Law — Rosneft

The European Union's decision to impose sanctions on the Nayara Energy oil refinery in India is groundless and in breach of international law, Russian oil giant Rosneft said on Sunday.
Sputnik International

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I do not understand how Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews, and Blacks, and Hispanics and Asians and Arabs and Indians can all reproduce with White people and had ancestors that might have existed for a long time before meeting White people

But are claimed to be genetically predetermined to have a parasitic relationship with White people

How did they survive before meeting White people if they can not be self sufficient but biologically can only survive as Parasites

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On Monday, NASA announced Dr. Makenzie Lystrup, director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is set to leave the agency on Friday, Aug. 1. As center director of Goddard, a role she has held since April 2023, Lystrup also was responsible for guiding the direction and management of multiple other NASA field […]

NASA Goddard Center Director Makenzie Lystrup Set to Depart - NASA

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If they wanted to fake Darwin's existence and if videos did not exist yet

Then they did not need animatronic robots

They could simply write books claiming Darwin existed within the books

And since people would not need to see a video of him, no robot was needed

They could hire a random stranger to pose for a photo of Darwin if they wanted to create someone for photos of what he is claimed to look like

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Caleb James DeLisle

I remember seeing fossilized footprints in rock formations, outside. Not entirely outside the realm of possibility that they may have been put there, but I think old records of fossil hunts strongly substantiates the claim that they were there before people.

That said, there is NO solid evidence linking oil to fossils. "Fossil fuels" is a forced meme, and based on first principles, it's more likely that oil is a natural formation resulting from carbon and hydrogen in the earth being squeezed together by tectonic pressure.

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I start with the assumption that most news that has a large scale reach is fiction made by a propaganda writing team

And later people compile old news articles or now videos and audio to figure out history

So much of history is potentially compiled fiction that was called News in the past

Sometimes small scale news is real, but people are less likely to use the budget or effort to mass propagate news on a large scale unless it benefits them as propaganda

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Alexandre Blanc

2025-07-21 04:10:21

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Hard-Coded Credentials Found in HPE Instant On Devices Allow Admin Access


Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) has released security updates to address a critical security flaw affecting Instant On Access Points that could allow an attacker to bypass authentication and gain administrative access to susceptible systems. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-37103, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10.0. "Hard-coded login credentials were found in HPE
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Hard-Coded Credentials Found in HPE Instant On Devices Allow Admin Access

HPE fixed two flaws in Instant On Access Points that could allow admin access and command injection. Patch now to stay secure.
The Hacker News

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Surveillance Firm Exploits SS7 Flaw to Track User Locations


A sophisticated surveillance operation has been discovered exploiting critical vulnerabilities in the global telecommunications infrastructure to track mobile phone users’ locations without authorization, security researchers have revealed. The attack leverages weaknesses in the decades-old SS7 (Signaling System No. 7) protocol that underpins international cellular networks. New Attack Method Discovered Security experts at Enea’s Threat Intelligence […]

The post Surveillance Firm Exploits SS7 Flaw to Track User Locations appeared first on GBHackers Security | #1 Globally Trusted Cyber Security News Platform.
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Surveillance Firm Exploits SS7 Flaw to Track User Locations

A sophisticated surveillance operation has been discovered exploiting critical vulnerabilities, to track mobile phone users' locations without authorization.
Divya (GBHackers Security | #1 Globally Trusted Cyber Security News Platform)

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The Etsy hype machine is annoying AF.

ETSY: YOUR PACKAGE IS ON THE WAY!
Me: No, it's not. The label was created. Sometimes it takes a week for the shipper to actually ship it. Even eBay has stopped this misleading hype.

ETSY: YOUR PACKAGE IS ARRIVING TODAY!
Me: Bets? According to the shipping company's tracking page It's getting ready to depart *Poland*. It is NOT arriving today.

ETSY: YOUR PACKAGE HAS ARRIVED IN YOUR STATE!
Me: Again, label created. In my 760mi. long state. Yay... FFS!

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Testo iencli : un guide pour choper de la T sur internet à moindre risque
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"« Qu'on soit trans, trans-adjacent ou autre, qu'on refuse le cadre et les conditions dans lesquelles on prétend nous faire accéder aux soins, qu'on y ait de toute manière jamais eu accès ou bien qu'on s'inquiète de s'en voir priver, il existe tout un tas de raisons de s'intéresser à l'automédication et au do-it-yourself h­ormonal. Ici, on va parler de testostérone sous

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About once a month I am struck by how useful the way we categorize political beliefs is to the people in power, and how damaging it is to political discourse otherwise.

Are you right wing? Wait - conservative? Or are you a liberal? Are you a "leftist" - or is that a liberal? Are centrists liberals? Or are they right wing? Or conservative?

Your answer may determine what other people assume you want, based on their *own* biases, no matter what else you tell them explicitly.

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John

This is most obvious in the "liberal" or "left" debacle that routinely bamboozles otherwise smart people, but has been used for decades to conflate "conservative" and "far right" as well.

Other examples include things like "terrorist" and "criminal", which are so flagrantly used as to have no real meaning beyond "bad because we said so".

You can see it with the political class' selective use of "protester" and "rioter", as though these two words have no substantive difference in meaning.

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Ambiente de trabalho privativo ou de software livre: seria apenas o primeiro suficientemente bom?
🇬🇧 English version


Discordo fortemente quando alguém afirma equivocadamente que “Linux” — querendo frequentemente dizer GNU — seria projetado para ser utilizado apenas pela linha de comando. Alegam que, por isso, usuários finais seriam melhor satisfeitos por um ou dois sistemas operacionais não livres para computadores pessoais, especialmente o que domina o mercado.

Há, de fato, um enorme esforço de GNU/“Linux”/etc. no lado do servidor (back-end). Isso felizmente, já que é o tipo de sistema operacional que tem dado sustentação à sociedade da informação global, executando a maioria dos servidores da Web, a infraestrutura de telecomunicações em geral, os maiores supercomputadores, projetos científicos de variadas áreas. Seu núcleo está em dispositivos móveis e embarcados, incluindo veículos automotores. Os ditos interpretadores de comandos, na realidade, tornam a vida de quem aprende a usá-los mais fácil e rápida. Isso não é uma fraqueza, e sim uma vantagem muito poderosa.

Dito isso, também tem havido grande desenvolvimento, por décadas, do que chamamos de ambientes de área de trabalho livres (Free Desktop), com diversas implementações, algumas menos e outras mais orientadas ao usuário final leigo.

Captura de tela do Pantheon desktop, do Elementary OS. Apresenta fundo com uma foto de paisagem, barra superior transparente com letras e ícones brancos, destacando-se a ativação de um item responsável pela abertura de uma janela de escolha com vários ícones para lançar aplicativos e uma barra de texto por onde pode ser pesquisado algum aplicativo. Na parte inferior, há uma barra tipo dock com ícones pelos quais aparentemente também podem ser iniciados programas ou abertos aqueles que estejam em execução.

Usuários comuns de navegadores Web e aplicativos em geral não têm necessidade de saber muito sobre o que o computador faz por trás da interface gráfica humano-máquina. Eles contam com outras pessoas para suporte técnico, e os ambientes desktop livres não mudam esse fato. A maior diferença é que oferecem mais opções e liberdades, dando a impressão de uma escolha mais difícil. Contudo, independentemente da categoria de software envolvida, quando solicitados a instalar ou dar manutenção em uma máquina dessas, faz parte do trabalho de profissionais de TI levantar o que seus clientes precisam no computador, conhecer as opções disponíveis ou pesquisá-las, para satisfazer essas necessidades. Não precisa ser tratado como uma religião que tenha algum dogma inquestionável para todas as situações, mesmo que isso infelizmente pareça ser o caso com frequência. Ao contrário, a idéia, aqui, é empoderar os usuários para que consigam exercer sua liberdade tecnológica e mantê-la sustentável.

Meu pai (com mais de 70 anos) que, felizmente, é saudável, embora nunca tivesse usado um computador antes, acabou se tornando um usuário final de Xfce e Firefox praticamente sem treinamento. Ele sabe como ligar, colocar sua senha, iniciar o navegador por um ícone na tela, abrir alguns sites que deixei na Barra de Favoritos, como de notícias, correio eletrônico, instituições financeiras etc. Eventualmente, aprendeu como digitar outros endereços simples, fazer buscas, e até a iniciar uma sessão de assistência remota e me chamar quando precisa. Isso teve início antes de ter começado a usar celulares inteligentes. É como o usuário idoso médio de outros sistemas, ou melhor. Há alguns docentes pós-doutores que, mesmo utilizando o sistema operacional dominante, chegam a ter dificuldade para fazer isso tudo, talvez por falta da vontade necessária. Ele, na realidade, até chegou a experimentar, sem minha interferência, o sistema privativo que veio instalado em um então novo laptop, já há vários anos. Não demorou até me pedir para “consertá-lo”, para que deixasse como já estava acostumado. De vez em quando, atualizo para ele o GNU que, então, permanece estável, eficiente em uso de recursos, seguro, possuindo o que ele precisa, sendo que, com outro sistema, provavelmente a máquina já estaria obsoleta. Então, como poderia ele não estar feliz com isso? Reclama quando um site não faz o que ele quer, o provedor de Internet cai ou a impressora trava, como qualquer outro usuário. Por tudo que é tão elogiado naquele típico sistema operacional privativo, dito intuitivo, era para ser bem fácil para todas as pessoas se acostumarem a ele, certo?

A lição é que qualquer mudança de hábito é muito difícil para a maioria das pessoas, que costumam ser teimosas. Se tivessem sido ensinadas desde o princípio a usar algum ambiente desktop, ferramentas e aplicativos livres, mesmo que diferentes de seus equivalentes privativos com funcionalidades semelhantes, elas estariam acostumadas e provavelmente evitariam a situação oposta. Assim como as massas têm sofrido lavagem cerebral para acreditarem que existe apenas uma maneira de usar o computador. É por isso que elas mantêm tudo na mesma, ainda que estejam sujeitas a obsolescência programada, aprisionamento tecnológico, práticas monopolistas, comprometimento de privacidade e segurança, ou algum outro tipo de dependência pesada das maiores corporações de tecnologia, preferindo isso a aprender qualquer coisa que pudesse torná-las capazes de exercer mais liberdade perante o software.

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Se alguém disser que "Linux é apenas para servidores", isso é uma mentira.

O Linux hoje não tem nenhuma limitação técnica para uso em computadores pessoais, e é inclusive muito eficiente para este propósito.

Linux não é um sistema "só para servidores", e sim um sistema de propósito de uso geral.

As "limitações" são mais na parte de suporte para programas e drivers proprietários, e também tem o fato de que você geralmente não está pagando pra ter suporte técnico profissional.

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