I went to CachyOS on my desktop full time this year. Already had Bazzite on a laptop.

There’s been a few hiccups here and there, but nothing insurmountable with a little patience and practice and reading.

Man, remember all the custom cupcake bakers who were clamoring for an AI to take their craft?

Me neither. Billionaires are a scourge upon society.

Yeah, like what need is there for these intermediaries in the first place? I get that there was probably a need once upon a time, but that seems superfluous now

The problem isn’t that they’re private, the problem is that there’s not many to choose from. Visa gets to throw their weight around, because they have a stranglehold on a huge swath of banks and businesses. MasterCard has another big chunk, and the rest go to AmEx and Discover.

If there were more providers to choose from, this would be a non-issue, but that wouldn’t be very capitalist (/s), and I doubt the big names would simply allow new competition.

Good luck to the dev! I think this will be a good tool to help some, and for the rest, hopefully we can get them onto something that fits them better (Mint, Aurora, etc.).

That’s only because I left for Linux.

I recommend reading the article, because holy fuck is that whole thing dystopian, but here’s who was there:

Those present included representatives of Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Palantir, which works closely with the US military and has contracts with the NHS. IBM and the private prison operator Serco also attended alongside tagging and biometric companies, according to a response to a freedom of information request.

Ah, yes. The very companies that helped install a fascist in the US would be great partners to bring about safety and criminal reform, and they would definitely not inject their fascist ideals into the UK government, eroding and poisoning it over time. Sounds like a brilliant plan! /s

It’s dumber than that. They’ve gotten on board with E2EE, because there’s Chinese threat actors in US telecom networks, and they still can’t get them out.

So they haven’t come to their senses so much as accepted that they’ve been pwned and are doing triage.

So, regarding your distaste for genocide—you, uh…might want to read up on Tiananmen Square and the Uyghurs.

Also, I notice you didn’t mention any Fediverse (or other) alternatives. I’m not going to make any accusations, but what you wrote sounds a lot like astroturfing.

If your ultimate goal is to say, “Fuck the US,” fine, but if what you really want to say is, “Fuck capitalists and authoritarians,” you’re going about it all wrong. What you’re essentially saying is that you’d rather be punched by this other guy just because it’s not the one you hate. Meanwhile, you don’t have to be punched at all.