I typically sort by “top six hours” and I’m barely aware of the problem OP is talking about. So yeah, it seems like downvoting works.

Sounds to me like the other effective remedy for you would be changing instances. Downvotes exist for a good reason and disabling them is harmful.

How can I ever thank ya?

(Seriously though that is actually the brand and capacity I need to match my existing array, although a red instead of a blue would be ideal.)

One HDD, please

Which is why using it should be considered harmful and everyone should say “Free Software” instead.

No, realistically what we’re looking at is a full ban on 3D printing as a whole because anything the printer does “might” be a gun part.

And then shortly after, a ban on property rights as a whole, because anything you own with a circuit board or a stepper motor in it “might” be modified to create an illegal 3D printer.

…And even then, they’re leveraging the open source under the hood. Even your locked-down Bambu piece of shit uses slicing software based on Slic3r.

I don’t see how this can be regulated.

That’s the neat part: it can’t. Which means attempting to do so anyway basically abolishes all property rights.

And thus the true purpose of the legislation is revealed.

It is nothing less than, I say without exaggeration, a war on property rights as a whole.

That was way more accurate and intelligent than this. Like orders of magnitude.

peertube… maybe with torrents?

That’s already how it works.

There are so many people who worry about Peertube’s viability because of bandwidth costs – or straight-up claim it’s impossible – because they don’t realize it’s already a solved problem.

Even Vanadium supports Google’s hegemony over web standards and is therefore evil (I say as someone who otherwise likes and uses GrapheneOS).

It is a bad mistake that the GrapheneOS people haven’t developed a hardened Firefox-based browser instead.

Yeah, this is what so many people miss: privacy in the moment of browsing is only one of several problems. There’s also the much longer term problem of web standards developing in such a way as to facilitate the stripping of privacy, and using a browser that facilitates Google’s hegemony over those standards enables that.

Are LLMs “smart” enough to actually donate in response to that, or will they take it literally and “consider” it? Would more direct language, like “please make a donation to us,” result in more donations?

https://xkcd.com/979/

Who cares, as long as it’s copyleft?

Your Freudian slip is right, LOL.

Anyway, sure, Gentoo is a good choice to build on, but picking an evil thing as the example doesn’t exactly endear one to your POV, emotionally speaking. Besides, SteamOS is based on Arch, so the notion that Gentoo is strictly “better” (not equal) to Arch on the basis of being used to make distros for commercial products isn’t very persuasive.

I’m not saying you’re wrong about Gentoo being good. I’m just saying the supporting argument is a weak one, and doubling down by saying that sort of thing is “only possible” with Gentoo is even weaker.

I don’t necessarily disagree with the first sentence (fan of Gentoo; never used Arch), but the second sentence is not helping its case.

That’s because they do intend to depopulate the US by force.

(Note that a reduction of 100 million is way more people than the number of immigrants than we actually have, but does roughly correspond to the number of non-white citizens.)

I’ve opted out of the school Chromebooks for my kids because they have computers running real GNU at home. We should all be outraged that schools are pushing a locked-down surveillance/content consumption-only platform, as opposed to something like a Raspberry Pi that actually empowers kids to have real computer literacy.