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

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.

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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.

No Linux as such was not, by the time Linux got popular the big multiuser systems were on their way out. I still worked on those in college. But they were SGI, HP-UX and Sequent. Especially the latter were huge systems.

But these fields were just a clone of what was in the original Unix systems.

It has very nearly got a majority several times. I’m sure that with some media manipulation (eg milking an incident) it will be easily pushed through.

Imagine if the Dutroux scandal would happen now. They’d jump on that to push all kinds of monitoring on everyone. Even though this would not be prevented by it in any way (and in fact that all happened long before WhatsApp even existed)

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.

The problem is that Poettering is all in on attestation which is the underpinnings of age verification and remote attestation.

See amutable.com

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

It does have some old fields for location etc but those stem from the times of massive multi user systems.

Also, they will use it as a means to lock content they don’t want. Like in some jurisdictions it’s already forbidden to share any kind of LGBTQ information even medical with minors… Even in EU, like Hungary. Clearly this age verification will be used for this too. And people not willing to age verify will be locked out too.

It’s part of their campaign of forcing conservative ‘values’ onto everyone.

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

Depends on your distribution obviously. They don’t all have the same naming. It sounds like a Debian derivative here of course but there’s still many of those.

But it’s normally a meta package with a huge amount of packages, you’ll have to list them individually unless your distro has a meta package with a specific minimum install or something.

But anyway look in the package catalog for your distro, it should be in there.

And WeaponG’s solution is really great if there isn’t a minimal package.

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.

Ehhh one thing I’ve learned over the years, it doesn’t matter how much storage I buy. Within a few weeks it’ll be full.