and never will
Dude have you been in a coma this past decade?
I dunno, 80 for a Hitachi seems a little low, but not too good.
Not sure I’d buy one used tho.
Then why are they enshittifying so hard?
Maybe we shouldn’t have handed our fucking lives over to corporations
Maybe they’re not ours til every single corpo is dead, and you should fight like the fucking dead to make this happen?
I dunno.
Fuck, okay, Linux on my phone now, because corporations just spray shit on everything
Two categories, broadly: any professional software, with deep features and professional quality.
I know theres audacity, but that’s really not an acceptable saw.
I know theres a few cad apps, but no professional I’ve ever met finds the good enough.
I know gimp, and I use it, but no artist I know does; they all pirate Photoshop. Literally every one.
I like having audacity to record audio. I like having gimp to fuck with shit. I like having various cad apps to bang out organizational tools to print. These things do generally fit my use case. But I still have to help people pirate everything else and god the DRM is do fucking annoying.
Abd here’s the more esoteric ask:
Not so much programs as features; Why aren’t we really going all in on shit we can do that they can’t? Features capitalists would never add, never support? Instead I find open source software always playing catch-up, and theres no reason it has to.
No; your appropriation of the revolution weird-linux-install-murder-plot has convinced me that you are a cop and I must now flee underground.
steps you’re missing
Nope, the plan is perfect and only a counter-revolutionary would suggest otherwise. straight to the gulag.
maybe a psychotic serial killer nurse would be better
Know any?
conflict of interest
Well you wouldn’t be stealing it for yourself, and its not like there isn’t already a massive conflict of interest between execs who like money and staff who like treating patients.
Its absolutely in the scope of your practice!
Nurses make great serial killers, I can only assume they would make equally good political assassins!
So first you call for tech support, just any bullshit issue, but word it ambiguously so they have to talk to you to figure out what you meant. drop a comment to provoke a response, measure their opinion. Designate them target, nonentity, or potential comrade to recruit to the cause. Keep going until you find either a target you can turn to an asset until its time to dispose of them, or a comrade who might genuinely assist. IT get you the information from personnel records and department meetings. Boom. Linux on the whole system within a year, and you’re skimming license fees to build that concentration camp for landlords.
epic is one of the critical programs
Okay but they… It… At least the back end works on Linux? Or did twenty two years ago, since before some of your younger staff were probably born, according to the first result of my single web search? I think the front end does too? You know computers with different operating systems can talk to each other, right? Yeah you should be sure, and that’s why you set up a test computer in a back room somewhere to be absolutely personally sure.
I understand that its not your decision, I, um, can’t refute that part (I’d like to argue it though? For fun?)
Maybe the entire regime of ‘ownership’ especially of such an important public utility so many people rely on, like a fucking hospital cannot, in real terms, be privately owned? It is the property of the people, of the community it is in, and as such, and as that it is the year of the Linux desktop, you should be conducting a covert assassination campaign against windows partisans on the IT staff and gradually reclaiming that department for the people while making absolutely no other changes to things like billing or scheduling or policy regarding unhoused patients.
Then, when the unbelievers are purged, quietly install Linux with cinnamon on people’s computers, until it has finished, and you are victorious. Reap the software licensing fees you would have paid to Microsoft and 5% efficiency gains in one hospital to jump start the revolution from there. Use it to build a concentration camp for landlords, then…
Ah, I keep seeing different labels on both those numbers.
epic EMR on Linux
I see a PDF about somebody doing this with the back end in 2002, and it looms like an Intel ad. Its probably viable?
Proton making Linux better for gaming, which was the biggest excuse for holdouts. Steam deck showing you could not only game on Linux, but do so while sitting in a tree, with long term support implied by show of confidence from a large corporation.
Windows steepened its enshittification spiral.
The pandemic put a lot of people in a more experimental space, and they tried a lot of shit. And a lot of people picked up new skills. Including Linux 101.
And people saw authority in general start failing in a big ways. A lot of people started questioning shit. Including corporate hegemonies.
Do you really think many people would notice cinnamon?
Seriously. Also, now, for common use cases.
For gaming. For gaming its 4%. Which is the thing everyone says its bad at.
Okay so I can’t write for shit, but I’m officially putting out the call to all programmers who aren’t shit:
Reply to this commenr, and be friends, even if you hate each other. World needs saving. Truth needs saving.
Use a screwdriver. Those speakers are driven from somewhere. There’s some way to do maintenance.
Man, we need Paris to get off their ass do another commune, and fill it with software devs.
Make them spend that money at least.