I think you might be confusing socialism and state capitalism here.

Socialism. Production and distribution is owned by the community (government).

This is a somewhat inaccurate definition. Socialism is the social ownership of means of production that does not necessarily mean the government. It comes in many forms such as democratic ownership by the employees (worker cooperatives), community ownership like utility providers being owned by the town and townsfolk, or state ownership if the state is democratically elected and accountable to the working class.

The concept of democratic and social ownership would be lost in an authoritarian state.

It has nothing to do with “Handouts”. Or helping your neighbor really.

There is no redistribution of wealth. That is communism.

Socialism with handouts is communism.

Both socialism and communism are concerned with redistribution of wealth. They just disagree on the method. Socialists believe that by eliminating capitalism and with progressive taxation wealth redistribution becomes inevitable, whole communists thinks this will only be achieved with a powerful state to oversee the redistribution process.

You could have a completely Socialistic society that let’s some of it’s people starve because it benefits the majority.

This scenario contradicts the core moral and political goal of socialism which is ensuring the wellbeing of all member of the community by ending the exploitation inherited in capitalism. A system that allows this scenario is just unethical authoritarianism regardless of what people call it or think it is.

A great example to look at socialism is the nazi party creating Volkswagen.

The nazi party was socialist in name only. It was essentially a fascist regime that crushed actual socialist and communist movements, and imprisoned and murdered labour leaders. They also didn’t nationalize the majority of industry and relied heavily on forced labour.

Again this fits state capitalism better than socialism. It’s essentially the state controlling corporates instead of the social and democratic ownership by the working class that socialism seeks.

A large government can easily have a monopoly on a good or service.

For example, say America was 100% Socialistic.

Government would gain access to all satalites and towers and issue the Volkstelefon. Affordable phone and internet for everyone!

Imagine if tomorrow Trump issued his phone in that style.

thats a valid point but primary against state control not socialism itself.

In an ideal socialist system this Volkstelefon would be owned by a democratic entity rather than an elite group of politicians in a flawed democratic government. This entity would probably consist of worker and consumer representatives with the common goal of providing affordable high quality service that’s also fair to both the workers and consumers.

Your concern here is also shared with most socialists.

While yes socialism can some time manifest itself in the form of state ownership that’s never the ideal situation since it can easily transform into state capitalism if the state decisions weren’t representative of the workers’ will (which is usually the case in non-direct democracy systems).

Wouldn’t that just be a modded server?

I feel like some people think Linux is only for hackers and cybersecurity professionals

I’ve already switched my pc to Linux. I’m willing to switch my phone to Linux too. My only problem with current alternatives is that none of them feel like a finished product Software-wise. And hardware-wise I have a galaxy ultra so the downgrade would be a lot especially in the performance and cameras.

We need a Linux based/Open-source alternative that could compete with the likes of Apple, Google, and Samsung. It’s not impossible especially with current available technology, but I can see why the market incentives are very low.

I was hoping new laws could at least keep the status quo for a bit longer but it turns out as always relying on politicians is a bad idea.

Yeah I believe that standardisation is beneficial in general whether it’s capitalism or not. In fact I believe it’s even more beneficial for a non-capitalist society, since yes you could not use the standard but nobody would be able to afford to come up with everything themselves. Unlike companies like apple that can afford having their own proprietary ecosystem including the lightning port. In that case standards could be maintained by non-profit organisations consisting of other organisations with a donation based model. Which is what happens in the real world except for the part where companies step in and put lots of money for their own benefit and to be able to pull these organisations in the direction they desire.

The concept of standardisation isn’t necessary capitalist but the form it exists in today is shaped by the capitalist world we live in.

I thinks it’s less of the market playing a role and more of being a sign that we are getting even closer.

Entrance exams aren’t actually that common here but they do exist admission is mostly based on GPA and final grades in highschool. What amazes me isn’t the lack of basic knowledge (in such an education system) or getting accepted, but rather the decision to choose this professional/academic path when you lack the interest in it.

People are actually uninterested and treating college as if they’re prisoners here. I know some people are only thinking about the potentially higher income in these fields or the social status (engineers and doctors are thought of highly in some countries). A not insignificant amount of students here are forced to study what their parents have chosen for them. I believe we have a corrupt system in all areas (political, social, educational) and the economical situation isn’t helping.

Usually these kids in my opinion don’t realise that they need to change something till very late in there lives. This matter isn’t a problem but rather a symptom of bigger problems here.

P.S: I’m very sorry for the long rant I got kinda carried away lol.

I mean I live in country with a kinda failed education system.

Sometimes it can even be a college course. I remember my first year in uni our TA had to explain how long division and unit conversion worked and I was like how tf y’all got into engineering school without basic middle school mathematics knowledge.

Yeah some time ago I used to respect these companies I remember when Google condemned the Egyptian government’s actions in 2011 and one of the very popular activists in the revolution was the head of marketing in Google MENA. But now the truth has never been more obvious to me. Individuals may or may not care but corporations will never care.

LLMs are also feeding into the current state of unwillingness to think of a lot of people. People seem to just want an answer to their questions instead of an explanation. People just want a short version of “the truth” handed to them instead of making the effort to learn, research, and think critically.

While I do believe in the usefulness of AI and the advantages it possesses, but I also think it’s very dangerous in the modern age of “information consumerism”. We should teach kids about AI but also encourage critical thinking and problem solving instead of depending on LLMs to solve our problems for us. At the end LLMs are just machines that guesses what the next word would be according to its training dataset and some sophisticated algorithms for logical “reasoning” and mathematical computions (optional).

How long before AI runs on this?

Biological artificial intelligence would be very very creepy we are basically playing God here. It feels like creating another species so we don’t feel lonely in the universe.