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I agree mostly. It’s like North Korea, I can’t really do anything to change the situation. My government can’t change the situation. We can try to push some buttons to help foster change but we can’t force it. Change has to come from within.

Have you listened to the it could happen here podcast? The first episodes(the story ones) are pretty good.

Edit specifically this episode but you should start with episode 1 for more background.

I’m not disagreeing with you but I think what we see is a minority of people with the protests. It seems like there is not really much political will to change anything from the half of the country with a penis, and the older females.

The whole thing is pretty sad but from my understanding when things like this happen they generally blame the west and the majority go along with it.

Honestly as a westerner Iran is pretty irrelevant to my life. It’s not like we can invade them or force them to overthrow the government and if we did people would never shut up about it.

Look at Afghanistan the USA spent so much money trying to spread liberal democratic ideas, integrate and educate women but as soon as we left they went back to how it always was. There is no civil war, the majority just consented to the Taliban rule.

The government exists by consent of the people or so I’ve been told…

I don’t think Pravda(truth) is federated is it?

Interesting. I wonder if the main community they spam in are just banned and not the instance. I got so much spam from one user who posted like several things an hour all day with no engagement on any posts when I would sort by new before we defederated. It was weird.

Yeah I was going to ask do you see a bunch of spam from them in the new feed? The admin guy posts so much stuff with 0 engagement it’s weird.

Just found it interesting the SDF seems like the most federated instance on here https://federation-checker.vercel.app/ weird.

Does SDF not defederate anyone?

Yeah the trucker shit had both it was so annoying… Not even locals. literally brought in on trucks to cause congestion, block traffic and honk.

These people offer a free VPN but it’s kind of a side project with the donations they get for other projects they run. I can’t think of any other free VPN I would give any trust to.

https://riseup.net/

😊 for the most part you can just use the tar command to back stuff up in the most half-assed way.

For example: sudo tar cvzf /tmp/backup.tgz /home/

Or change /home/ to whatever directory has stuff you care about.

Then plug in a USB drive and copy /tmp/backup.tgz with the gui and it should contain your user data if you need it. It’s pretty much like making a zip file for a backup…

Then this to delete the backup file: sudo rm /tmp/backup.tgz

tar xvf ./backup.tgz to extract it or just use the gui.

My friends have asked me to do basic Linux stuff for them in my off hours and I generally oblige, if it seems quick and I know they are not going to call me having a meltdown in a few weeks if something unrelated breaks. Especially since it sounds like you already put in quite a bit of legwork trying on your own.

I wish I could help more but I’ve gone out of my way to not use Nvidia or Intel products for over a decade. So I have no idea. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ I think that the Nvidia webpage has like a .run file you can use to install them but that might just make things worse…

Try asking here you will probably get the best answer: https://forum.zorin.com/c/hardware-support/7

Thanks I like this test more than the other ones I’ve seen. I feel like it needs more questions but that’s the problem with all these tests.

🫡 thanks

I mean it’s more of an up down issue and not a left right issue right? Most authoritarianism stuff ends up sounding the same. They both hate liberalism and want to stomp it out before they fight it out over the left right divide.

I feel like your just not using the proprietary drivers on amd it matters less but I hear the free Nvidia ones are not the best. See if your friend can help you install them or if you go it alone take a backup so you can restore it if you need without getting your hands dirty with the commandline.

https://help.zorin.com/docs/hardware/activate-nvidia-drivers/ https://help.zorin.com/docs/hardware/activate-amd-radeon-drivers/

It looks like the zorin process for doing it is pretty straightforward. I get better performance on my amd system using the propitiatory drivers than on Windows. Desktop Linux has moved forward pretty quickly.

Honestly you are not really missing much unless you need it. If it’s working for you keep using what works!

Pretty much the only difference is desktop environment and being able to tweek stuff like the graphics drivers, the package manager for installing programs/updates but zorin and mint are pretty much just Ubuntu at the end of the day that someone made more friendly.

I would recommend you use the Linux alternative as much as you can rather than using wine to run exe files. In my experience steam native runs way better than running steam/games with wine.

For office stuff it can be like pulling teeth but thankfully most of it has functional web versions.

If you are scared of the command line start by just running stuff like firefox or chrome in it rather than the start menu. If you forget the command the tab key can usually guide you. Also “man command” will show a full manual for any command. Eventually there comes a point that it’s faster and easier than doing things with the commandline and people will think you have leet hacking skills.

Thanks for the zorin recommendation I’m going to give it a try in a virtual machine and check it out. It looks like a perfect new person recordation.

How did you arrive at zorin? Not knocking it my first Linux install was lindows… How’s it working out for you are you still using it?