I’m asking both specifically about the GOG thing but also more generally. Yes, I know the SS appropriated runes for tgwit logo but I still don’t see how that automatically makes runes themselves bad. I can understand how it would be triggering for some folks and so a level of sensitivity is required (which GOG clearly failed on) but I still don’t get how appropriated symbols automatically = bad (because I’ve seen the same reactions to other ancient symbols over and over again and I’m still trying to understand it)

I’m confused. I have Scandinavian ancestry and understand that some of the cultural identity was appropriated by Nazis and now some extremist fuck wits. e.g. how the Hindu swastika (also often confused with sauvastika) was appropriated. But I don’t understand why that means appropriated symbols automatically = bad if they’re used in their original context?

It’s not always that though. After I was in a car crash and feeling miserable one of my cats came and slept curled around my head which he’d never done before.

I used Arch for 10 years and in that time I could literally count on one hand how many times my system broke. Three of those times were user error. I was on CachyOS for about a year and a half and never once had issues. Now on Artix and I’ve once had my system get borked once (due to one package that was an easy downgrade). I’d hardly call 3 system borks in ~13 years “inevitable instability”. Rolling release =/= constant breakage. I wish this myth about Arch and Arch based distros would die.

I agree about Cachy’s improvements being meh. I noticed very little improvement (barely perceptible if at all) going from Arch to Cachy. I mostly stayed with it as long as I did for convenience.

I mostly use my phone (Pixel with GrapheneOS) as a dumb phone + calendar. But by far the biggest number of apps I have to have on it are the fucking car charger apps.

It doesn’t. Yet. Hopefully it never will. But given how in on it Red Hat and the US govt is it could only be a matter of time.

As others have said, any distro with KDE Plasma. If you care about age verification then steer clear of Red Hat associated distros like Fedora. Mint is also straightforward.

My father, ex military, always said the Police aren’t there you protect you, they only act after the fact.

That aside, this system will never changed as long as the 1% are incentivised to maintain a certain level of poverty - poverty is intentionally built into the system. And organisations like the police and ‘justice’ system are set up to protect the 1% while giving the illusion of protection and justice to the average person.

Man, that feels like some tin foil hat crazy right there. I wish it was.

Since 2018… I dont like Trump personally but mass surveillance, data mining, bypassing legal protections like warrants has been going on for far longer than just Trump. Democrats do this shit too

The corporate ties to Microsoft, Meta, etc. The founder of systemd being ex Microsoft (including working on TPM). He also said that he thinks that people shouldn’t have a choice of init systems and that there should be only one - systemd.

He’s repeatedly made unpopular additions and changes to systemd, forcing them through, despite others protesting. Some of which has corporate capture stink.

That same founder pushing for age verification after having founded a company that specialises in “verifiable integrity”

Some of it you can read here: https://tboteproject.com/systemdfindings/

Other stuff is in the systemd (and probably redhat but I dont use that or Fedora) mailing list a over the years.

My one regret with recently ditching systemd is that I didn’t learn of the shady shit that’s been going on for years and ditch it sooner.

Just when I thought it couldn’t get worse Red Hat goes and outdoes itself again.

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You’re allowed to be human. Better to clarify what you mean to other real humans than waste huge amounts of electricity and water and create unnecessary pollution by filtering your humanity with a shitty LLM.

Imagine my confusion given it’s April 2nd where I am.

Biggest wealth transfer in human recorded history so of course they do.

Starlink is space junk to start with.

I’m really glad to hear that from Endeavour! I was on vanilla Arch for 10 years and been with CachyOS for the past year. But we have EndeavourOS on our kids computer and a laptop. I’ve been wary of Cachy now since how the mods have reacted to discussion about age verification And I would prefer to stick to something I know (although I’ll be keeping Artix in my back pocket just in case).

Used Arch for 10 years. Been trying CachyOS for the past year. Considering Artix if systemd continues down the age verification slippery slope. Haven’t tried it but NixOS looks interesting.

Awesome, thanks! I’ll have a look into that! 🙏

€25 is double with our exchange rate and our org would be pushed to afford even $10 per month. We’re not a massive charity, just a small community organisation. I was looking into AWS because it would cost little to nothing with the non-profit credits.

I’ve had a self hosted Matrix server at home so I’m familiar with it but the format is too much towards the chat end of the communication spectrum than the forum end and we need something that’s either a forum or similar in format.

Federation is an absolute no-no as we would have no control over any other servers the data federated to. And as far as I can work out, Matrix still has metadata issues. I realise going from Facebook to Matrix is still a massive leap in privacy but if people ask why it’s better than Facebook, if it can’t be a high level of security, it makes it harder to convince them (even though staying on FB would be worse - people have just become so normalised to FB’s privacy invasion, they just don’t think about or want to think about it). And despite having used Matrix for a while, I’ve become wary of where Element is taking things.

We could go the XMPP route but, again, we need something on the forum end of the spectrum, not something like group chat, Facebook (which makes finding previous information difficult), or Discord (same problem).