going after small internet sites would mean we have slipped deep into authoritarian rule

Mint has been a very good conservative distro so I hope they continue in this fashion: transition when the rest of the ecosystem is already there so that there will be no pain for non technical users

It’s like cooking vs going to McDonald’s. Lots of choice and thinking vs. being fed with whatever they put you on a tray.

In digital age it should be understood as a personal liberty to not be compelled by state to use nonfree software in any shape or form. Just like court rulings must be public and legislation too (sadly this doesn’t apply in EU).

Brave search has its own index and it works for me. Pretty good way out of big tech for web search.

Based on your posts you are overthinking it. It may sound harsh but it sounds a little bit like some incel-speak with a different twist. Your sexual fanatsies are just that, fantasies. It’s hard to fit in with the crowd but you don’t have to do it often to find someone.

The article is 7 years old. Has anything come to fruition since then?

It’s so “decentralized” that political activists from authoritarian countries get deplatformed on request of the government.

There is already plenty of malware targeting devs on Linux where is it’s strongest userbase.

You forgot the first step. The rich man invites him with promise of cookies.

I really liked my Nokia 5800. I just checked online and see that it retailed for almost half the price of an iPhone. No wonder it was popular where I’m from. It seems if you loose in USA market you loose everywhere.

MS keeps making Windows worse but that is not a problem because Linux is great on PCs. The reason is that PC is made out of standardized plug&play components that you can make generic OS image for.

There is no such thing in smartphone world. Each chipset is it’s own Linux fork that gets only most crucial bug fixes while in warranty. Same is true for ARM SBCs where I believe the only board that supports generic image are new RPis.

From enduser perspective the most visible change would be that all software wouldn’t be hostile to users because with propreitary you have to be very picky to get that.

In the long term we would see that companies could not build walled gardens to block off competition. Contrast Windows & MacOS vs Linux with its different distros, DEs, toolkits etc.

The least difference would be for enterprise because support is expensive either way.

thats it :) Now you need to pin package versions to guix versions via inferior so that you can share the manifest and be sure you have exact same stuff on the other machine. Otherwise the specified packages get updated everytime you update your system. I learned that the hard way by having to wait for latex to download everytime I updated my system.

yes, you would share with him guix manifest which is a file that specifies which packages should be present. What is important to note are inferiors which is a mechanism to version lock the packages.

I love it especially because of the guix shell and guix shell container for dev environment isolation. It is a whole different ecosystem from the ground up though so it’s not an easy ride. But those two features make it worth it for me. Also it’s GNU distro which imo is a plus.

My earliest memory is from when I was about 2 years old and I was driving in the backseat. Nothing too exciting or noteworthy really.

I used Ubuntu 24.10. on new Ubuntu certified Intel Thinkpad and exeperienced system hangs every few weeks. The only solution was to reboot. Frustrating to say the least. On that system also webcam didn’t work so maybe it was kernel fault somehow but still very disappointing given the “certified” status.

Firewood from your own forest is the only one and it’s carbon neutral too. This is meant more as a joke but still.

Canadian antivax protests come to mind. They froze transfers in support of the movement. It was a popular move back then but the same mechanism can be used in other instances as well.