“Like what you see? Wanna see me without the shirt? click here!” (Insert crazy long link here after the ai gen preview has already taken up all the available space)

Yes, until they lock down the software by pushing out the smaller people via certification requirements, specific signing methods, and branded closed-source apps while gating the open source repositories however they can try.

I’m not saying all this to deter adoption btw, this is just how it seems to go: the public puts work into something to make it good it gets co-opted by corps and they enshittify whilst marketing it to the world, so everyone gets in with 1 idea and it changes to the same old mess.

And what do you do for nazis?

They don’t have to if the transmission lines are owned by frontier/Verizon/comcast

The same way they got their shitty software into everything: deals with producers. Your mom/aunt isn’t going to build her own pc/phone, theyre going to buy what they can at the store, which would be something sold by dell or HP or whomever, who cut a deal to discount some price by including McAfee or printer-easy-setup-utilities that advertise new ink or printers.

And for someone renting it’s that or nothing, so 10 years to break even vs never breaking even seems like a decent deal

Having the time to dick around and get a linux distro up to my current speed with windows. Or someone else making a distro that mirrors windows 10 capabilities, and utilities (even mundane things like control panel and it’s branches to other settings) and verbose explanations of functionality in the onboard help docs or subtext of options. Or an onboard llm asshole like clippy that can be conversed with om how to accomplish something the linux way.

I think what the linux community misses or forgets is that windows became popular partly because it held people’s hands so much. If linux users want to see the year of linux come to fruition they need to make the distros walk people through a task instead of pointing at the wall and saying “up”.

Conversely I think the linux world says they want everyone to use it but I wonder if they actually want that: everyone using linux means the computing and advertising world pivots and makes linux equivalents of everything, including all the gate keeping, scummy business, malware/adware/tracking…

Is there any repository of the data and methods for getting it? It will have to be re-eone via open source now

Wow I love this argument, you’re bang on 😆

I don’t understand what you’re saying here, can you expand on those points?

People will do it when there isn’t an alternative: if the cost of hardware stays high forever, and that requires configuration and upkeep (solid source of stable power aka a house or building access) then people without those things will find it more convenient to log into and use their phone/tablet as a terminal for a desktop as a service…

Look at gamedate.org, or for immediate context search it on YouTube, you may be able to implement a copycat tool with more general lists of common events than the games list the site uses.

How much worse could it be without any change in course? The military will be on the streets one way or another, either sooner @ the behest of state government or later as trump orders more door-to-door visits, except with murder as the goal instead of detainment to the camps?

The point is that it wouldn’t matter because the issues could be solved before the court cases matter. He was the one everyone was told would be able to fix things “because he’s been in politics longer than most people have been alive, he knows all the levers to pull to get results”.

He should have been able to recognize and ignore the asymmetric shit going on just as trump does, and actually work to reset things. Instead he sat around and did fuck all that will last longer than his lifetime.

Joe “nothing will fundamentally change” biden

Police murder wantonly in our streets already, let’s just throw more gas on the pile and see what happens.

If only biden & his pick for doj and his immunity from prosecution as president and his knowledge of politics from 3+decades of experience had enabled him to prosecute and jail the child fucker ring.

If only he knew of the american media beast that lives in Washington that somehow he was not able to evade or play like an instrument given his 3+ decades of experience and lived world and access to any and all of the best marketers and strategic advisors by don’t of his being president and a household name.

Were these things different, perhaps the one side could produce effects to demonstrate in the minds of even the least news-watching simpleton thst they are, indeed, different. Alas.