Ever hear of the precariat?

It’s growing. It’s coming for you.

Similar to “make money”, it’s an insidious Orwellian mislead.

“Make money” =~= “profit” =~= “wealth extraction”.

“We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in 10,000 of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.” — Buckminster Fuller

Gets a lot more expensive when there’s corruption and intentional delays so some extract more money for as long as it keeps going on.

A few months ago The Laughing Auditor ( https://www.youtube.com/@thelaughingauditor/videos ) had spoken on the street to someone who happened to work on HS2 (alas, I failed to find the specific video again), and he said it was nothing like any other job he had ever worked on. It was like they (the upper bosses and politicians) didn’t want to complete it.

Did your LLM bilge take that kind of thing into account? Could be work asking it about that, and to reconsider the situation.

Frankenstein makes it sound like parts being chopped up and stuck together.

Bedrocklinux’s not like that. Each distro gets to continue to exist whole, in its own strata, just availed interoperability with the others. FUSE magic. (Or (iirc) chroot magic, in older versions).

Stewart Lee did it better than my crude butchered mention of his little tirade.

Mhmm. Though Zorin’s only one distro. And not a really well known one. Fun to speculate around all the unknown variables.

(Since someone already mentioned bedrocklinux, I’ll try harder)

… Try putting the Ironclad kernel in Exherbo. ;D

Do it. :)

No worries about incompatibilities like that.

Very low risk.

If you need something of some version from another stratum, you can just ensure that thing’s installed, and/or run it with the restriction flag on strat (strat -r). The strata don’t step on each others toes, it’s all cleanly separated enough, and still allows interoperability.

Possible to achieve such thing easily. Yup.

Choose any init you like, from any distro.

While you’ll of course only be running one init (and one kernel) at a time, at boot you do get to select which of them you want to run, ~ the kernel in the bootloader menu as usual, and the init system in bedrock’s init selection menu just after the bootloader menu.

Whichever distro you use for the installer, that’ll be your hijacked distro, and shall be default choice in the init selection menu for your init. Both can be changed later (or even removed ~ once you install at least one other distro & init).

About able to use Gentoo level’s a fine indicator of able to use bedrock. Means can read documentation. That’s necessary.

My daily driver since the second public release.

On https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=bedrock 's reviews ( https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=ratings&distro=bedrock ), mine’s the top one.

(Just saying that so I don’t have to repeat what I wrote there, here.)

So… a few months before this, Linux had been noted to have just tipped 5% desktop market share…

What’s it going to be like now? 6%? 10%!?

Try most places in Europe, or Japan, or several other places…

Nice public transport is possible.

Yup. I’m in that minority.

I need a car.

My car is broken.

I need a mechanic that wont leave it broken for months.

Cant go to the shops, cant go to my physiotherapy, cant go visit my sick grandmother, cant go pick up my medication, cant… on and on.

I’m fine with everybody having cars though. Not fine with them being all riddled with polluting fuel and rents, nerfed for profit (wealth extraction) maximisation. That holds us all back; that holds us all down. Would rather they be clean fueled and could fly safely. … We’ve all seen Back To The Future Part II right? We’re lagging. Overdue.

Hrmm…

Imagine if the Aptera were finally available, and also used its entire surface as photovoltaic…

And imagine they came out with a van model, in a more microbus format with ample storage/passenger space inside…

… And while we’re imagining, imagine it can do VTOL too… even zero-inertia propulsion, safe enough for a 2 year old to fly it home, and imagine it space worthy… and… no? Did I go too far? … But I still had more to go.

Up to a point.

Making me think of the hemp fuel powered car with a hemp fiber composite body stronger than steel, that got suppressed (or at least, “shelved”). Not to mention other clean fuel car innovations, and so on. But instead, we get the same old two evils false dichotomy bs. We can have individual autonomy and clean efficient transport.

… Reminding myself of that Bakunin quote:

We are convinced that freedom without socialism is privilege and injustice, and that socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality.

Are the trains all maglev?

And each get to go around in them to anywhere on our own when we want, like our own personal luxury private jets?

Surely we can get creative to have trains require so much energy.

Or things beneficial to the whole world.

Y’all shuda been born around '74 to '94.

So I’m starting to notice.

Though… we don’'t all like trains. So some may not have appreciated that whimsical comment.