[-] arirr@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 4 months ago

I'm happy to hear that I was helpful. I'm not any sort of expert, but a lot of this is basic state building. Add to that that the Palestinians actually have pretty high rates of education, already have access to a stable currency, and a regional power that they're already integrated with, they really have a leg up on most other countries starting out. The main sticking points are leadership, radicalization, and external forces like the IRGC backing terrorist groups.

As time goes on I really see this winding down one way or another in a couple decades. In 1948 basically the entire Arab world supported the Palestinians both directly and indirectly against Israel. Now Egypt and Jordan both have peace treaties and increasing economic ties with Israel. Saudi Arabia is coming onboard and the UAE and Bahrain already signed the Abraham accords. Palestinian maximalist goals look more and more unreasonable. Hamas hoped that their attack would trigger a whole regional war against Israel. It didn't, just IRGC proxies joined in. It didn't even put a stop to Saudi normalization, just delayed it a bit.

For the Israel side of it, there is more international pressure than ever to resolve this. The only hard dealbreaker IMO is keeping Hamas around in power. I just don't see any other way that has historically worked to remove a fascist regime than force. See the Whispered in Gaza series for what life is like under Hamas. Now we just need a good Palestinian leader to actually push building a positive future or Israel may just say screwed it, I'll do it myself, which would probably include annexation and citizenship.

[-] arirr@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 8 months ago

As a general rule, the latest one. As much as it can be hard to see, life on average has been improving. Why would I want to go back in time where medicine was worse? Or we were covering everything with asbestos, or whatever was going on at that time. The only metric that I can think of that has been getting continually worse is the climate situation. Humans are pretty awesome though and I expect that we will be able to mitigate the worst parts for us. Note: That doesn't mean that we shouldn't be actively trying to stop it.

[-] arirr@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 8 months ago

Something something lttstore.com something something.

[-] arirr@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 8 months ago

Degoogled Pixel 4a that I bought to replace my broken Pixel 4a. I'm gonna use this thing until it dies and then maybe buy another one. I'm not sure when another phone this hold-able, reasonably powerful enough, and good LineageOS support will get released.

[-] arirr@lemmy.kde.social 2 points 11 months ago

Maybe you shouldn't be hitting people... /s

[-] arirr@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 1 year ago

Have you looked into Solus at all? They are rolling and build with a focus on desktop usage.

[-] arirr@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 1 year ago

If you just want contacts, there are a bunch of free Nextcloud services.

[-] arirr@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 1 year ago

They both have the same signing keys. The F-Droid repo uses the F-Droid signing keys unless the build is reproducible.

[-] arirr@lemmy.kde.social 1 points 1 year ago

Uh, she told me that she and her family used Linux first...

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