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except badly.

i’ll have you know i’m very reliable at existential dread.

i’m real because i’m here.

can’t vouch for everything else though sorry.

that’s part of why it’s a shithole

china is reportedly preparing to take over the consumer cpu market.

flatpak marks packages as unmaintained, and at least gnome software will show it to users with a banner.

distro hopping to feel things out gives you good perspective at the state of things and what you like anyway, have fun.

year of the bsd desktop!

bazzite is the latest iteration on this in case anyone is curious.

and people who help nazis are nazis

is this stuff being worked on?

, old man.

holy shit, libs will trump bad all day until they have to talk about all the imperialism they do.

yes but also no.

google influenced, but not google controlled anymore.

no.

i’ll look into this, but they seem to have used the old strategy of announcing something absurd then back down to what they wanted because of “community pressure”

bonus for not looking bad in comparison, while still being bad.

i’m gonna need me some context on this one.

reminds me of this guy doing similar stuff on youtube

i like the optimism and really hope you are right, but there has been a very deliberate trend to strip us of ownership, and the powers that be seem very serious about it (think uber instead of car ownership, netflix and game streaming instead of media ownership, renting instead of home ownership) as capitalism concentrates wealth.

and with the ubiquitous internet infrastructure we have now, centralizing computing is easier than ever when all they really care about is that we are able to do our button pressing work.

i really do hope they come up with a way to fix silicon. because stuff like motherboards can already be easily repaired with mostly off the shelf components, but silicon gets… complicated to say the least, and it’s at the center of our current bottleneck. or that used server hardware isn’t somehow efused, encrypted or otherwise made nonviable or too hard for consumers to reuse.

there is some hope for some other potentially capable player like china and their shiny new semiconductor industry or russia can step in and offer alternatives to enshitified us tech as they wedge themselves into the global market, but that gets difficult with import controls that would certainly be put in place to stop them from taking hold.

but yeah, the next decade or two will see some muddying of these waters as the war season picks up, cooperation shuts down and resources get scarce as they are redirected to murder.

i will go as far as to say the big changes you allude to are already in the pipeline and IDing everyone on the internet and pushing cloud is just the beginning.

my main worry is that these things aren’t built to last. especially phones.

yeah if they switched everyone to the cloud right now, i’d have a decade of computer at this point, maybe a bit more if i can fix it, and then what?

consoles tend to last longer but they don’t do general computing, which is an important thing we’d be losing in the process.

so much for making our own tech!