Karl Marx, born on this day in 1818, was a foundational political theorist and journalist associated with the philosophy of Marxism.

Among Marx’s best-known texts are the “The Communist Manifesto” and the three-volume “Das Kapital”, in which he set out to define and explain the behavior of the capitalist mode of production.

Marx’s political and philosophical thought have had enormous influence on subsequent intellectual, economic and political history, and his name has been used as an adjective, a noun, and a school of social theory.

Marx’s critical theories about society, economics and politics - collectively understood as Marxism - hold that human societies develop through class conflict. In capitalism, this manifests itself in the conflict between the ruling classes (known as the bourgeoisie) that control the means of production, and the working classes (known as the proletariat) that enable these means by selling their labor power in return for wages.

Employing a critical approach known as historical materialism, Marx concluded that, like previous socio-economic systems, capitalism produced internal tensions which would lead to its self-destruction and replacement by a new system known as socialism.

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  • buckykat [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    3·
    6 days ago

    Based on the parts list you linked the other day, you have an NVME SSD, which needs to be plugged directly into your motherboard, in either of these two circled locations:

    You only need the SATA cables if you want to add SATA drives, which you may want to do at some point in the future but not right now, because spinning hard drives are still cheaper per gigabyte than SSDs so they’re good places to put things like your legitimately acquired games and movies and shows and all that, and those are all SATA.

    But that NVME SSD, being brand new, has nothing on it. You have to put an operating system on there yourself, which is where the “no bootable device found” message comes in. You can either download a Windows installer and then figure out how to activate/steal it later or you can use a Linux distribution like PopOS with the first download button here and the instructions here. You will need a USB stick either way.

    • Blockocheese [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      I did put in an ssd stick the other day but I don’t have a USB for the operating system right now kitty-cri-screm

      Im gonna get one tomorrow and ill report back!

      Thank you again, as always, comrade cuddle

        • Blockocheese [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
          2·
          6 days ago

          I distinctively remember telling my highschool boyfriend that I needed a USB for my school supply list and him telling me I won’t ever use it and I just believed him

          And now…

              • buckykat [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
                2·
                5 days ago

                Mostly I was using it for assignments and other documents, which it was better for than a CD because documents are small and I didn’t have to burn a new CD every time I saved. There was no “cloud” in those days. I was already in high school by the time we finally got off dialup.

                For music, at first I had a CD player, then I got a first gen iPod nano, which was a huge upgrade. I put Linux on that sucker, managed it through a program called Banshee, and got my music off Limewire.

                • Blockocheese [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
                  2·
                  5 days ago

                  I completely forgot cd players existed even though I had one as a kid! One time I went on a road trip to Florida and for the 14 hour ride I listened to Crack that by solja Boi and the kidz bop version of who let the dogs out for most of it comfy

                  It fried my brain which is why I can’t figure out basic information about the pc I’m trying to build now

                  • buckykat [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
                    2·
                    5 days ago

                    Very comfy.

                    You’re doing just fine, there are a lot of little details to know in building a computer but that’s what nerds on the internet are for.