Could we like…stop pretending that this wasn’t the plan all along?

The AS cartel isn’t investing what are already trillions of dollars in that technology because they want humanity to prosper, or because they hope commoners will pay a miserly monthly subscription. They are doing it because they know that middle managers will use it to get rid of you. If that’s not possible or feasible, then at least squeeze you out. That requires invasive monitoring. I mean, obviously, right ?

The Empire Strikes Back In The Ass

Two quotes:

‘UNIX is user friendly. It’s just very picky about who its friends are’ - Anonymous

‘Not threatening you passes for user-friendly in OpenBSD’ - Michael W. Lucas.

This is just the typical capitalist/colonialist/expansionist playbook, and Altman is the kind of dude that would see absolutely no problem in actually, physically taking away the stuff from you. By letting your devices stand idle, you are being selfish and wasteful. He, on the other hand, wants us all to have access to his super awesome product.

Good to know I’m not the only one who finds that website very difficult to navigate. Thought I was missing something.

No need to argue. Caffeine is only bad for your health if you take insane amounts of it, and coffee itself has actual benefits, something you could literally never state about energy drinks. As for smoking vs. vaping, dunno.

Whoever thinks self-hosting is about saving money has grossly misunderstood technology…and people, for that matter.

Uplifting: He already looks like a cadaver.

Everyday browsing (except watching videos online which is indeed very slow) is almost seamless on my 16-year-old Thinkpad running NetBSD, even with its meager 4GB RAM. NetBSD in general is pretty chill on system resources.

FreeBSD and DragonFly are not quite there, at least in my experience.

I haven’t used OpenBSD for browsing or watching videos in AGES (I only use it for non-graphical applications), so I wouldn’t know.

You said it: That’s enough for you to reject the project, which is an understandable and respectable point of view. However: you talked about endorsement by the Devuan team, which is a bit of a stretch tbh, let alone stating that the project is run by fascists, which, again, IMHO doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.

Follow your dreams! Don’t let your dreams be dreams!

A short research was enough to find out way too much about that guy. He even has his own non-woke fork (a phrase I find pretty hilarious) of Devuan, but Devuan’s team ‘embracing’ him or his ideas is nowhere to be seen, so…sauce ?

Artificial Stupidity.

9front is not UNIX (but its predecessor was also created at Bell Labs). It is ‘many of the ideas surrounding UNIX, on steroids’. The user experience is waaaaaay more integrated because the whole system is developed by the same small team.

On the flip side: forget about browsers and many ‘modern’ programming languages.

Do you mind elaborating? How is Devuan a ‘fascist-run’ distribution ?

Yea, apparently AS is now being heavily used in its development. I need to look up the reference, but I read a while ago that AS-assisted ‘coding’ was used for making SMP work in Hurd.

I’ve spent quite some time pondering my options now that OpenBSD, my former OS of choice, has been slowly but surely giving in to the hype, and I can tell you that currently the most sensible option seems to be (I’m not joking) 9Front.

‘A relatively rare occurrence’?? I envy you, may I ask where you live? (definitely not in central Europe or the Middle East).

Have they never heard of Cannibal Corpse? Titles such as ‘eaten back to life’, ‘fucked with a knife’ and ‘meathook sodomy’ sure trigger the same warning ?

Being an enemy of his is a compliment, not an insult or a threat.

Most Austrians (especially bureaucrats) already ‘think’ and act as machines anyway, which might also explain why their government is the first to come up with this absolutely idiotic idea.

Pumpkins are the largest species of…berries. Yes, seriously.