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  • Ooops@kbin.socialtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldLinux Salesman
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    1 year ago

    Canonical is basically the closed to corporate Linux you will find on the free distro market… They are pushing stuff you don’t want for marketing reasons (for example their own proprietary Snaps when a better working open source solution already exists with Flatpack), love their telemetry (can be mostly disabled for now, but given the defaults and their other behavior we can already see where this is heading) and in general decide more alongside their latest business plan than actually making sense or listening to users.







  • Ooops@kbin.socialtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldI'm too afraid to ask
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    1 year ago

    Basically yes. Or: the term is fine; in the eyes of people who never heard or thought about its racist origin.

    And your were entirely on the right track when your first comment started with explaining the origin first. When that’s your starting point and you then get the response “But I’ve been saying it for years”, it’s probably far more successful to go with “Yes, but it can be offensive for people knowing its origin, so why not use available alternative terms?” than with “bro it’s been fucking racist for years”. In one case people have a high chance on thinking about it, in the other they will instictively feel attacked and get defensive about it.


  • Ooops@kbin.socialtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldI'm too afraid to ask
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    I just don’t understand why people are attached to it

    Because words aren’t racist, people and opinions and sentiments expressed by them are.

    When the term ricing is used for so long and 95%+ of people don’t know where it came from and have zero negative connotations associated with it, your argument (from their perspective) sounds like this:

    “Don’t use the term, by its obscure origin you didin’t even know about it is racist”

    “I’ve been saying it for years without any racism intended nor perceived

    “bro it’s been you are being a fucking racist for years”

    And then you are surprised by the negative reaction…





  • Thanks, I probably know more about these tanks than you, if second hand media reports are your source.

    Doesn’t change the facts. Leopard-1s cannot be considered MBTs by modern standards. They are mobile guns at best but given their fire control actually really good at that job.

    But on the other hand no modern MBT is actually immune to being immobilized by a mine and then destroyed by artillery fire either.

    Yet that’s exactly that this article is about: How Ukrainians “added reactive armor to Leopard-1s really in need of extra armor just in time…”… to then describe exactly the “immobilized and shot by artillery”-scenario that is now allegedly solved by reactive armor. Spoiler: No, this solves nothing, that’s coping. No amount of extra armor will make Leopard-1 into modern battle tanks. Use them in a supportive role as a precise gun on range (and as it’s rifled it is actually more capable in regards to long range precision than modern smooth-bore cannons). Believing otherwise will just get you killed.



  • Can we stop the bullshit narratives? Yes, those are light vehicles compared to modern MBTs. No, them being at risk when immobilized by a mine and then coming under artillery fire is not an issue of Leopard-1s. Neither is getting hit by ATGMs.

    That’s the reality of every tank and vehicle in a war zone. And not one some smart Ukrainians will fix with their ingenious engineering skills. That’s just another bullshit fairy tale of how Ukrainians can improve crap the West delivered them. And I don’t understand their need to push such narratives constantly.