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That seems like a lot of work. I used Scribus to set zines and also print badges.

You need desktop publishing software to format/set the pages.

Scribus is a popular and free desktop publishing software application that can do what you are asking.

For zines the easiest way is to use a sewing machine. You fold the sheet of paper in half and then sew down the fold. I have sewn 10 sheets of paper this way (which gaves you 40 half-pages), but the limit really depends on how sharp the needle and how strong the sewing machine.

If it’s your first distro, just install Linux Mint, Kubuntu, Fedora, Debian… one of the “big ones”.

EndeavourOS

EndeavourOS is based on Arch linux, which is marketed to “power users”. EndeavourOS just has some decisions made for you plus some helpful tools. It is still Arch Linux under the hood and does require you to interact with the command line a lot.

One of the first things that I notice is that I can’t easily modify the /usr/ directory. I tried to install Java there but the OS would not let me because I lack the permission. How do I get the permission?

Linux, unlike Windows, is a multi-user system. That means multiple users can use the machine at the same time. You have your user account, but you also have an “Administrator” account. Did the installer ask you to set a “root password”? That is the password to the Administrator account, on Linux it’s called “root”.

Alternatives: https://kubuntu.org/
https://www.linuxmint.com/
https://pop.system76.com/
https://lubuntu.me/
https://fedoraproject.org/

I strongly suggest you give up on EndeavourOS (for now) and try one of the ones linked above. You also have to know nobody chooses a Linux distro forever. “Distro hopping” is a thing, people try many, sometimes dozens of Linuxes until they find one that suits them.

My first distro was RedHat back in 2004. Then Slackware, then Debian. Since then I’ve tried/used Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch Linux, Linux From Scratch, Slax, Linux Mint (installed it for family members), Void Linux (what I use now), etc. etc.

Once you get a good feel for linux with one of the more user friendly distros, then you can try the exotic ones.

Books/wikis: https://linuxnewbieguide.org/ulngebook2017/
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Main_page
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64

Arch and Gentoo wikis are distro-specific but hold a lot of info that applies to others.

Best place to find help with Linux is IRC.

• server: irc.libera.chat
• channels: #Linux, #Debian, and so on, the help channel is usually just your distros name.

Russia is so incompetent they couldn’t even defeat just one country in NATO, Poland

How do you know this? What are the winning lottery numbers for tomorrow?

Remember when that Polish minister knelt at the Bandera monument?

Goodbye any fear Europe had of Russia. They can’t defeat Poland much less all of NATO.

I think you’ll find the war is in Ukraine, not Poland. Easy mistake to make for an American.

the gathering of BRICS and other countries this week spotlights a growing convergence of nations who hope to see a shift in the global balance of power and – in the case of some, like Moscow, Beijing and Tehran – directly counter the United States-led West.

Tacit admission the two are one and the same. To shift the global balance of power the United States-led West must be countered.

But despite Russia’s sweeping rhetoric, the leaders meeting in Kazan have a wide range of viewpoints and interests – a reality of BRICS that observers say limits their ability to send a unified message – especially the kind Putin may desire

Democracy? That’s actually a bad thing, sweetie.

If I were to successfully bid on something, what is the process on “getting it”? They issue you a certificate and you pay the final bid and go and grab it? Or is there something else I’m missing?

There’s an email/phone number at the bottom of the webpage. I’d email/call them, you’ll get the most reliable info. In fact, just copy/paste your post into an email to them.

Note that anon edits log your IP address, unfortunately we can’t change that so I recommend a VPN or similar if you want.

Good point. Thanks.

Yeah, anons can edit main wiki pages and the edits go into a moderation queue

I wanted an account so I could edit/expand an existing page in particular, I’ll do that first.

or spend time and effort patrolling all their edits and discussing if it’s factual or not and if we should remove or not

Yes, that is true. In that way it makes sense.

Nobody mentioned Prolekult yet. Sure they focus on economics a lot (like Michael Roberts, but their videos have good production value and are good to share with people who might be new to communism/Marxism.

They made a full length documentary that hasn’t gotten many views (I think the length turns people off) but I remember it being decent.

I could see it getting annoying if I was trying to join a lot of places in a short space of time

I don’t know what a short space of time is, but my account is 9 months old, so… three times in 9 months. To me that’s a lot, especially cause my opinion on the things asked about hasn’t changed since the first or second time I answered. Maybe I should have messaged the admins privately and requested an account. You live and you learn.

Even for signing up for a bilibili account, you have to answer a lot of questions to demonstrate that you understand certain things about the site.

True. It’s more about how it’s pretty much the same set of questions for lemmygrad, matrix and prolewiki, that they all have to be answered separately. It’s a lot of unnecessary bureaucracy. Not just for the users requesting accounts, but also for the people who have to read the same answers three times from the same person.

I do think perhaps the admins could offer an abbreviated vetting for those with an account here to get on prole wiki and perhaps vice versa.

Something like this would be nice.

I think the questions are the same ones you had to answer back when you made your account

That’s my point. Why should I (or anyone else for that matter) have to answer them again? Maybe there should be a way for people with lemmygrad accounts to skip the questions?

We start from the premise that if you are going to be writing long articles on an encyclopedia, then you would be more likely to answer a longer vetting form. The questions are designed to tell us a lot about the prospective editor, i.e. that they are marxists.

Then the application form should be to write a wiki article for something that doesn’t have one yet, you could have a list of them and people just pick one. It’d be taking down two brids with one stone, you’d see how well they write + how they write, it’s easy to tell whether someone has a marxist outlook or not.

It’s a lengthy process but by our estimations it takes around 45 minutes on average to go through. you should be able to copy the questions to Word, answer them at your pace there, and paste back into the PW form when you’re done. That way you don’t have to answer them all in one sitting.

Yeah, that’s how I normally do it.

anon edits feature

I didn’t know about that. I guess the changes have to be approved first?

But surely you don’t need all of those questions to weed out those dumb ass ones? Maybe the user can get random 2-3 questions from the pool of already existing ones.

I only saw that it said “middle east” after I had written my post. Pretty sure Obama killed innocent civilians outside of the Middle East too.