

The Linux community isn’t like most groups. There is a great deal more tech knowledge they have in common compared to other communities. They like genAI, but they are absolutely aware of the abuses possible with a model that learns by watching you work.
The windows community isn’t like that generally, though there are certainly those there who sound the alarm. They tend to be the people who need MS office or a legacy app for work, or some kids playing a video game. They have no idea how shit works. They only know “it came with windows so everything I use must be windows.” Most windows users are what people think Mac users are anymore. It’s not particularly great at anything.
Copilot is a terrible idea for Microsoft from a publicity standpoint. But they are taking the risk because business majors learned two new letters and now it’s all anyone can talk about. I would like to see more non-x64 PCs out there but that they push the spyware in the marketing for the ARM devices as a blessing of some sort. that sketchy sentinel being built in gives me pause. Because it’s Microsoft, we know they don’t respect users and turn things on after updates that the user had already turned off all the time.
I’ve been playing around with i2p for about a month now, trying out i2p/i2p+/i2pd on various devices. It seems like the next step in torrenting tech. You can’t take down a distributed tracker or website, all connections are encrypted, there are multiple hops, and the more people that use it the faster it gets. I’m still trying to optimize performance in my set up.
I will say the Java routers seem to heavily favor x86 which just baffles me. They seem more stable than the c++ router but the c++ router is less featureful. I’m most excited for the new emissary router written in rust but it’s still incomplete. It’s too new to trust just yet and the UDP support is incomplete.