Most people’s problems are shit profiles and bad swiping.

Most people’s problem is they do online dating.

You can also order USB flash drives with a linux iso already on it for ten bucks or so.

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everyone should learn enough about how a computer works to be able to contribute in some way

Every user should give back either in the form of labor or with money. All of the problems you list are problems that could be solved with money.

Many FOSS projects don’t focus on getting a lot of donations or selling services. Non profits need revenue too. Even the sale of merch like stickers or mugs with the project logo could be used more effectively.

Contributing with labor is also not easily accessible or even always well received. Active outreach from the project to recruit users is also not practiced much. All of that is of course organizational and managerial work as well as media work and community management. If the volunteers are already overloaded, it won’t be done well of course.

Everything being done by a few frustrated, overworked people isn’t healthy or sustainable

Very much so. Voluntary work should only be done, if the work itself is enough reward or simply fun or as a learning experience. A project can be sustainable even if it’s carried by overworked frustrated people. It just needs a way to recruit new contributors at the rate people quit from burnout.

We can try to make things as accessible and easy to understand as possible

That’s where we’re at now with social media. Things are super accessible, but shallow and often based on pure emotional appeal.

Ubuntu used to mail out free install CDs for a while. Nowadays many people don’t have optical drives anymore though.

Choosing software is mostly choosing a tool get a job done. Microsoft has powerful software and a big ecosystem around it.

Windows is really good for administrating lots of workstations for large organizations for example.

Reasoning about memory use for example is difficult with FP.

Using pure functions is a good idea for non FP languages as well.

Functional programmers still pretending side effects snd reals world applications don’t exist.

ADM-160 MALD does serve that purpose and has been in service for a bit.

What active ingredients do they contain?

It can hide among decoy drones.

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Do you think it‘s all unpaid volunteer work?

I bought a cheap arm based Linux laptop a couple of years ago. The official distribution with full hardware support never received any updates. ARMbian didn’t fully support the hardware more than a year later. E.g. no sound output.

Looks like it’s still rough around the edges.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HDR_monitor_support

KDE Plasma 6.0 introduced experimental HDR support for Wayland session.

DRM clients can directly pass HDR metadata, but this is not available from regular userspace clients, only specialized software can use it.

Web browsers: No web browsers support HDR on Linux at this time.

Valve’s Steam compositor gamescope offers experimental HDR support.

How is support for HDR colors nowadays?

corrupt markets resulting from restricted/scarce housing supply

Housing has a hard limit as there is only so much ground available in desirable locations. Building houses also needs resources and labor and takes a while.

Let me show you how I make X passive income, by selling courses about making passive income

Coaches selling training courses to train new coaches and then for consulting to grow their coaching business is a whole thing as well.

Instead of a rich asshole, you can have worker owned cooperatives and such.

everyone’s time is worth exactly the same amount

That’s just objectively not the case. Some people are able to provide more essential or better quality services and labor than others. There are also more and less enjoyable activities.

Everyone’s time can be worth the same amount for the same activity at the same quality level.

how do we prevent kings or rich politicians in either scenario? Tax them in capitalism for one. In socialism we just downright make that illegal.

You will always have people in more powerful positions and some will take advantage of it. What you can do is rotate people with term limits and such. However that can also have downsides in effectiveness and efficiency.

You can also impose limits on how much stuff a person can own. There are ways to circumvent this with non profit NGOs and such.

Socialist economies also need taxes to pay for infrastructure and the operations of the state.