Am I misunderstanding, or is this not open source? Looks like you have to pay on ko-fi.

FOSS, by its very nature, does stand up for human rights more than non-FOSS. The developers believe in the user’s right to modify the source, and from that you can make the software more private/secure/etc. Closed source software doesn’t even do that much.

Sure, “the right to modify software” isn’t exactly the most fundamental right, but it isn’t nothing either.

I guess it might make sense from a vertical integration point of view. You could host your ads directly from your customer’s modem or something.

I haven’t thought about that in aaaages…

You can configure pretty much any DE to launch exes as if they were native binaries. It used to be the default (and may still be).

I’d rather there be a FOSS option for people stuck with super rare hardware that’ll never get enough attention for a Linux driver.

I’m not sure what advantage loss32 has over any normal distro+wine? A familiar user interface?

ReactOS’ claim to fame, IIRC, is that it also has driver level compatibility, and that’s something a Linux kernel couldn’t ever realistically do.

That’s interesting. I come from the Gentoo world, so Gnome without systemd isn’t too uncommon.

I could, but I’ll probably stick with KDE until I reinstall. It ain’t broke, just not exactly what I want.

For the most part, yes, but as the commenter above put it so eloquently…

Niri gang represent!

I caved and used KDE on my last install, and boy do I miss Gnome.

Not that KDE is bad, but Gnome is just so my style.

That’s why I specified a proof-of-stake cryptocurrency. They use so much less energy that it is practically negligible in comparison, and more on the order of traditional online transactions.

Yeah, exactly. A regular user isn’t going to notice an extra few cents on their electricity bill (boiling water costs more), but a data centre certainly will when you scale up.

Scarcity is what powers this type of challenge: you have to prove you spent a certain amount of electricity in exchange for access to the site, and because electricity isn’t free, this imposes a dollar cost on bots.

You could skip the detour through hashes/electricity and do something with a proof-of-stake cryptocurrency, and just pay for access. The site owner actually gets compensated instead of burning dead dinosaurs.

Obviously there are practical roadblocks to this today that a JavaScript proof-of-work challenge doesn’t face, but longer term…

Should also take a look at https://www.home-assistant.io/voice_control/voice_remote_local_assistant/

I think a large part of that is enshittification and not necessarily because of AI (though AI certainly doesn’t help…)

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/ is a decent read.

Snapper is great, just make sure the FS is setup correctly or it causes very mysterious hangs.

Framework has endorsed a Linux distribution by a developer with controversial social views.

Every online space is filled with furries, especially the most furry-hostile spaces!

It’s a rolling release, but more stable than arch. It has a lot of features for customizing your software (useflags, custom patches, etc.) and is a great way to learn a lot about Linux.