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I tend to just copy my dotfiles over between machines. I’m not a fan of declarative management and even less of immutable OS’es.

I know but I don’t really care whether my OS is good for normal users. In fact the more it is the less I’ll like it.

You know you can change the hotkeys and window decorations right? That’s the great thing about KDE. You have choices.

Why ‘still’? Linux is only getting better and other options are getting worse.

Yeah if the people didn't want it they simply wouldn't give their kids smartphones in such large numbers. Or give them unsupervised computer access. It's just the conservatives virtue signalling.

Ok the 1/10th is a bit exaggerated. But it is far less than in the US.

You don't have to do your development in silicon valley though. If they do it in Europe or even India it'll be a lot cheaper

Ah no I wasn’t joking, I didn’t get that, lol. It was also that the pic showed only for half a sec before a popup appeared to pay for the site. Thanks!

Why is there a can of salmon in the picture??

Not really but you do see already that Linux is becoming more opinionated. For example recently kde introduced a new display manager (to replace sddm) that requires systemd. It's becoming harder to get off the beaten track.

I think if Linux becomes something for the masses it will no longer be for me. So I’m hoping that won’t happen. End users just want their hand to be held by some kind of corporation. Happy to give up their information and privacy. To have no choices in interface etc. Basically, Linux for the masses will look exactly like ChromeOS. Completely unusable for a power user with a need for privacy and control.

Yes I've been worried about exactly this. I'm sure it's very much within the realm of possibility these days.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4To-F6W1NT0

Daniel strcat the top dev is unfortunately super paranoid. He really thinks everyone is out to get him and he goes on long crusades on the net that drag on and on and that’s why he gets banned. People just get tired of it. There’s long videos of all his persecution claims being debunked.

Last year he took a step back when it got too much but he seems to be back in full swing lately. He’s a good developer and technically very strong but he really needs to chill. Even his strongest supporters like Louis Rossman had to drop him.

I think what caused it was his partner swindling him during the time of CopperheadOS but really this is not cool.

Having said that, grapheneos is the strongest on security and privacy by far. It’s just sad to see all the unnecessary drama around it and yes it does put people off.

I would but I’ve always been opposed to systemd anyway. But for me it’s a slippery slope I don’t think we should even get on.

Personally I think that win (while really a win) is being overcelebrated. It’s easily reverted. All they’ll have to do is find some csam or terrorism related scandal in the news and pump it as a big deal, and all the resistance will be gone at the next vote.

My OS should have no details on me besides the account name which didn’t necessarily correspond to my real name.

In Europe too, chatcontrol keeps being pushed no matter how often it’s being struck down.

Interesting. I’d actually pay for an in browser VPN, it’s handy to be able to switch countries on the fly. Ideally even per browser tab. I would not however pay for Mozilla’s mullvad thing. I don’t like mullvad since they dropped port forwarding and OpenVPN. I use proton now for that. But in the browser is a different usecase for me. It’s just weird that it’s not possible to pay for this but only for the thing I don’t want.

I wish I were as optimistic as you.

One of two things as I see it. They'll either slightly rephrase/rebrand like they did before, or they'll just grab hold of some incident (terrorism or child related), claim "this changes everything" and just force a new vote on the topic.

I'm sure it will be a lot sooner than that. Patrick Breyer is right to claim a win but he's celebrating too much IMO. They'll keep coming and I'm sure he knows it.