I’m really hoping we get a hard fork of AOSP that gets really popular.

So basically 2026 slang is 2012 4Chan slang and is accurately reflected.

Everything you described sounds like a dystopian nightmare straight out of Upload.

T H E O R B

In this case it’s linux. I am prepared to pay gobs for proper linux devices. However, I’d rather something like a liberux Nexx if that thing ever comes to fruition.

Are we married to this idea?

Dot com 2.0 wooooo

If I had my way, everyone’s drives and ram and whatever would be encrypted from top to bottom with extremely strong keys that only the user had access to. Nobody needs to have access to your stuff except you, and it doesnt matter if you are the most law-abiding citizen in the world who does nothing but eat bread and read the news paper every day, your privacy is sanctamount (whether you agree with this or not). Medical records, bank statements, tax records, private journals, etc. are just a few examples of data that mundane people with “nothing to hide” deserve to have protected to the nines.

Ive been riding SystemD for its faults since the beginning. The age verification was just one more on the pile.

SystemD itself was fine. Not great but better than what we had and I was happy with what it did.

But then it started to sprawl and take over things it had no business doing.

At this point I am no longer using the Linux kernel, I’m using the SystemD kernel, and as soon as Poettering feels like it he can simply sell the rights to SystemD to a big corpo like Microsoft once everything fully depends on it.

None of this would be bad if the devs also didn’t think that they should be the default Linux desktop. It’s one thing having a constrictive desktop environment that forces you into its way of doing things. I can see that actually being useful in a corporate setting. But to borderline-force that on everyone by way of defaultism, especially those who don’t know better, is where it crosses a line.

To be clear, I am not arguing in favor of what I suggested. I am vehemently against it. But I have worked with the technology enough in a professional setting to know what it is capable of and how it can (and I have) used it. I am afraid of what I am seeing as a possible (probable?) future.

I’ve seen some law nerds explain it recently as:

De-jure monopoly=the one we all think of (the bad one). This comes about through dirty tactics, anti-consumer practices, and backstabbing.

De-facto monopoly=the one Valve is (and not illegal). This comes about naturally as customers independently choose one company over all others for nothing other than they like them better.

Librewolf is pretty legit.

If an AI can tell what’s in a picture (which is a series of pixel data), it can certainly reconstruct gcode into an “image.” Ive used it at work for similar tasks.

Cylinders obviously are too generic, but there are parts that are a lot more specific and could be fingerprinted.

You’re gonna hate this, but… AI can literally do it, and for the large models it’s terrifying how accurate they are. You will argue that your little ESP32 powered reprap or klipper or whatever printer can’t handle it, to which regulators will go ok then, either the printer has to call out to a service with an http request to upload the gcode every time it wants to print anything, or your slicer has to do it (and we dont care that it’s open source, it’s illegal to operate if it doesnt make the call and you’re getting fines or jail time if you get caught).

This is what AI was built for 😟

EDIT:

In case it isn’t abundantly clear, I am not in favor of what I just described. I know that it is possible though and know how to architect exactly these mechanisms. If I can build them, so can they. (I won’t, of course, that goes against everything I stand for).

I wish GOG supported Linux at the level Valve does. On paper it sounds like a match made in heaven. But they don’t, and the strange things they do to the executables of old games to preserve them makes them difficult to get running under wine and proton smoothly.

I may start keeping a cheap device that lives in a Faraday cage that obeys the corporate rules and only comes out when I absolutely need it, and then a graphene device of sorts as my daily driver. Ive almost completely de-googled otherwise.

Ok, that makes cents.

There are no units on that website and I’ve only seen gas stations list prices in the dollars-and-cents format ($5.99 instead of 599¢).

Looking at it a bit closer, you’re paying $1.79AUD/litre.

To compare to the U.S. (where the OP’s signpost is clipped from in the meme), $1.00AUD trades for $0.72USD as of this writing, so $1.79AUD would be $1.29USD. Then, to get from litres to gallons, we see that there are ~3.79 litres in a gallon. Multiply $1.29 by 3.79 and you get 4.8891, or $4.89USD per gallon, which is about on track with what we are paying here in some states, maybe a little less. I am open to correction on this math.

$200 AUD a litre? There’s no way that’s real