Its disgusting that I’m telling you that we don’t have good public transportation and have to use our cars more than most people in Europe do?

And in good old freedom land they don’t let us buy the same electric vehicles you have access too. There’s even models of vehicles that run on diesel that get exceptional mileage per gallon (also don’t you guys measure it in litres?) And they won’t let us buy those cars here. Don’t believe me? Search it up on DuckDuckGo. A lot of the best electric vehicles are the same way they have import duties and crap they add to it that the only electric vehicles you can really afford here are Teslas and I’m not going to burn alive in my car with my children.

Another thing, I just drove 9 hours to get back to my state from an out of state work call, guess how many electric charging stations were on the route back? Can you guess? I bet you can, because there weren’t any it was through rural areas that don’t have any of that. There MAY have been one if i went 30 mins out of the way of the route but it wouldn’t have been enough charge to make the trip like that. Making me dependant on a gas vehicle. Sure in YOUR rural areas they decide to throw money at it and put electronic charging stations in but not here. I thought you mentioned how selfish USA was, and you’re surprised they don’t have a charging station on the highways or nice subscription plans for $100 a month that let you charge unlimitedly?

But hey if you can pull strings lmk I’d love to take the train and it not take 6 days to travel two States away here. That would be lovely.

Its “disgusting” that you blame citizens for shit we have zero control over. I’ve written my representatives many times, it doesn’t do any good. I don’t have enough capital to make them start building better infrastructure I can’t make them do it and they don’t listen to us anyway.

I forget about the meeting I was in where I decided for it to be that way.

You’re right our government hates us.

Its easy to not be car centric when you have proper public transportation infrastructure and multiple countries are within 30 minutes of driving to one another. Here some people drive 2 hours everyday just to get to work.

I think they will, but I will wait and see confirmation before I go scorched earth and re install another version of Linux.

I know ultimately that you are right though, but I stills expect pushback and I’m hoping all this shit just gets overturned or an exclusion made for FOSS at the very least.

I would wait and be very vocal about not wanting it in the forums and stuff first.

This isn’t decided and nothing has been added yet at the time of me writing this.

It deserves to be ridiculed and shot down through so that it never makes it through but the problem is Red Hat is an American company.

So I always knew this was going to happen to fedora. Still though, let’s see what happens.

Oh yeah! I forgot about that one. Crazy times ahead for everyone.

I read it and just like the systemd merge, this isn’t the end for this.

We can circle back when it turns into full blown identification standards though if its more comfortable for you to come to terms with the reality then.

Also, “won’t necessarily send the data anywhere” isn’t exactly comforting.

Lol I remember watching that YouTube video about a north Korean phone that took screenshots every few minutes.

Freedom™

I already got BSD on a spare laptop. Granted it was freeBSD and I think I might switch to OpenBSD since the latter’s foundation is Canadian and not US based.

But yeah if they go through with this I will be uninstalling it off my gaming machine and switching to Arch 100%. I really appreciated that line about it “not being April fools” when it was introduced in their github thread.

Oh wait, there aren’t people chiming in to call me and others a fucking idiot and a stupid man child and all the other talking points for suggesting that the systemd merge was going to escalate?

Fascinating. I wonder where they all went. Maybe they’re on the BSD forums now, but somehow I doubt it.

Surveillance.

Yeah both are good points actually you’re probably right

He sure was a big ol’ dick about it I will admit. Saying anyone who disagreed was a bot or Russian troll really pissed me off at the time.

Its supposed to be open.

I think he needed an /s at the end if the original comment.

Yeah the fact that this “guy” wouldn’t be on video or audio even with the guy interviewing him and only did DMs furthers my suspicion that this dude is straight up a bot or a group of people working for a company.

Seriously, has anyone ever seen or heard this person? He has a blog and stuff where he parrots Google talking points and the like.

Weird doing an interview all by DMs honestly.

I imagine they’re thinking, “Well we will see what the new vote next month has to say about that!”

He probably means Neuro Divergent

This is true but I always felt like there was an ulterior motive behind it.

Like wow all of a sudden MicroSoft cares about open source code and contribution? I always felt like they did it to figure out how add backdoors into stuff somehow but then again I am a paranoid person and always assume the worst with companies in the tech field

Holy shit this is insane!

Microsoft is truly one of the worst companies for the user experience in my opinion. Its like they hate their users.

I finally got fed up with it last year and blocked the internet access of my TV on the router level becuase upon contacting support I learned that there was no way to turn off the microphone setting. For real. They just didn’t add that feature in to my model. I still can’t believe that.

It is a little incovneient that I have to turn on my PC before I can watch anything but man the freedom of knowing that TV won’t be spying on me 24/7 is freeing.

Next time I buy I will be looking for commercial displays with HDMI and DisplayPort if its even possible by then.