If we want to avoid giving into age verification we’ll still need to be selective about the Linux. But we have a chart.

https://github.com/BryanLunduke/DoesItAgeVerify

I will gladly lose a California market. Users can use a VPN anyway.

This is why I’m going to argue for pure Arch or Artix. Ultimately, what a lot of these distros bring to the table is artwork. But they bite off a lot more than artwork when doing so. And in time they can start to suck at that administration.

It’s not very hard to set up your system with a vanilla DE and adjust it into something good. You don’t need to get fancy. And to the extent someone else’s art work can be good and accelerate getting to a nice system, there are other ways to distribute that.

You should want your distro to be 95% administration and 5% art because in the long run that’s whats going to keep your system stable and avoid future headaches. But some artists are overly ambitious and envision creating an entire version of an operating system, including the parts they aren’t passionate about. And some people buy in on this premise and install these projects. …instead of just releasing dot files.

For it to go well requires that both the leadership and the contributors are passionate about all of the parts and passionate about them forever. Not very likely. If you want a distro that is administered well, get a distro where administration is all they do, and then get your artwork as a separate selection.

Now you can get your art from artists who put 95% of their effort into art. And your package stability by people who put 95% of their effort into package stability.

Everyone has romantic feelings toward a system that is integrated. But what they should realize is that integrated and modular are opposites. And modular is what they should want, with effective roll separation.

If they fork Majaro that is good. If when they fork it they scope down to just distribute a dot file set, and maybe create their own easy installer for Arch that isn’t a seperate whole distro, that is better.

I feel like no one got the hint I was talking about the World Trade Center. What I’m saying is Al Quida basically already did what he is arguing for. I’m calling him an unaware al quida sympathizer. Advocating for terrorism is bad. Worse if you are actually arguing for 9/11. Even worse if you know so little that you don’t even realize that’s what you are doing.

Android apps do solve a lot of UI problems a that are unique to the phone interface. If only Linux could run APKs. Oh wait, it can. Linux can run anything.

Terrorists tend to act across borders and so they are interested mostly in global corporations. If only there was one single building that housed all of them at the same time. Some buildings where they all engaged in trade around the world, centralized.

Then that would make your scheme easy.

What we need is a good linux phone that is affordable, has hardware that isn’t slow, and isn’t over sold to an annual pre-order.

Sadly, if the first two are true, the third one becomes an issue.

What we need is a large company to see that is a sign of huge pent-up demand. Apparently, HP and Dell are both talking about switching to Linux as their default OS for desktops. Once all the desktop manufacturers find themselves in the business of selling hardware with Linux on it, either mobile manufacturers will copy, like Samsung, or the desktop folks decide to make their product smaller.

What everyone has wanted from the beginning was a desktop in their pocket. The amount of time that no one has produced that despite major demand, and the amount of development that has gone into building any other stack, just feels like willful suppression at this point.

Is there some government somewhere telling large-scale manufacturers that they can’t build something as free and open as a desktop that isn’t at least the size of a laptop? Because it actually takes less technology to make something that’s open than something that is closed. And there is just as much appeal for the consumer to not restrict them.

Is someone allowed to say black solidarity is the only way to survive?

Apparently you didn’t get the sarcasm.

People on Lemmy don’t understand sarcasm because they have brain damage.

There is a simple solution. Is either kid’s life permanently ruined currently?

Then don’t permanently ruin the life of either kid. Otherwise the bad guy is u.

Torrent.

At some point you just have to boycott all media. Did you know if you torrent you basically achieve that and still get to enjoy movies? This is why it is a moral duty to torrent.

Um, it’s holds quite a lot of sway all the way to 2025, sadly. It’s not outdated because things are getting worse. In the 90s nobody would have agreed with that definition. Yasser Arafat was an extremely popular dude in the 90s. He won the Nobel peace prize because of how popular his work was in the 90s. But he would have been considered hands down antisemetic by today’s modern BS definition.

Not everything that is bad is from the past. Some of these things are recent developments. The strangle hold of Israel on US politics is an increasing problem more than it is an outdated past problem.

Also support for Lebanon was very popular in the 90s. Just watch a Kids in The Hall sketch. The 90s doesn’t deserve to be maligned with the assumption that all views from then must be worse than the views we have now. You clearly never lived in the 90s.

Windows is already claiming this.

The text actually required them to not violate anti-discrimination laws.

IBM did. This is one reason why we need separation of business and government.

They are currently trying to oust the some 5 people in Congress that actually spoke up. Thomas Massie has three separate billionaires funding campaigns against him in Kentucky. If they have their way it really will be 100% of congress that does what Israel wants lockstep, up to and including sanctioning genocide.

IDK, the whole situation reminds me of Fallout and VaultTech. We don’t really have representation. If you want to know if someone actually represents you just ask them where they stand on Israel.

I agree with the general point of this post. But FYI any city that has put serious money into housing the homeless has found the homeless didn’t get housed. No amount of money ends famine in Africa and no amount of money eliminates homelessness.

So yes, having national guards stand on street corners all day is a very stupid waste of money. But you can’t compare it to a fictional amount of money someone just made up on the spot. Because anytime someone has made up a similar figure, and then gotten it, that number didn’t do the thing they said it would. So I don’t think anyone has shown they know how to estimate that number.

I was about to say. There’s a girl on Youtube that’s documenting how Carnage Melon’s old trust fund is alive and kicking and authoring dystopian plans to censor and monitor the internet. They are the authors of England’s new Online Safety Act. Don’t trust billionaires, especially when they turn into philanthropists. You can’t say philanthropist without making the same sounds as full on rapist.