Socialism isn’t a dirty word anymore. I would gladly take socialism over the late stage capitalism that allows surveillance pricing to exist.

Right? It isn’t a great revelation that they are in contact over these things. They are clearly working together.

That’s not to say that old Netty isn’t pulling the strings, just that this does not really say anything we didn’t already know.

So he wants to end the blockade by blockading the blockade?

Personally, I use pacman when possible and flatpak when it’s not. I try to avoid the aur as I have had too many problems with missing dependencies or version conflicts. Plus, I don’t generally need things that are not in the repositories so it rarely comes up.

“But flatpaks are not lean!” While this is true, I find flatpaks don’t break my system. Flatpaks do use more resources, from storage to RAM, but I have plenty of both so it’s not really a concern.

I ran Artix for a few days but ran into audio server issues. The issue was that there wasn’t an audio server installed so I had not sounds at all. I managed to get everything working after some trial and error. As expected, most of the online help is written with systemd in mind. A little while later I installed another application which installed alsa as a dependency which broke my audio again. I went back to EndeavourOS after that.

Would love to see it happen.

This is exactly why they target low income communities for recruitment. Someone who is down and out is a far better target for recruitment.

Absolutely. I have no love for Red Hat as a company. My first Linux distro was Red Hat 6. I want to love Fedora for purely nostalgic reasons.

Systemd adding the birthdate field to the user info is definitely troubling. It shows which way the wind is blowing for sure. I should have stated that I am MORE concerned about the AI takeover in the immediate. I am by no means dismissing the systemd concerns.

I’m tempering the systemd thing as I do feel it is somewhat getting blown out of proportion. Though I did try some non systemd distros in a VM over the last week.

A bigger issue for me is this push to embrace AI. It seems all the American tech companies are jumping on board and Red Hat is no exception.

I want to love Fedora but this is the last straw for me.

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/31/red_hat_ai_dev/

Essentially any distro with funding primarily from US tech companies is going to go to shit. It’s only a matter of time.

I do run EndeavourOS on my main PC and it’s pretty great. I have not seen any statement regarding their position on the age attestation crap. I’ll jump ship if they come out in favour of it. I just hope they do not.

I have an old netbook that ran win10 poorly. I have since put Debian on it and it’s been great.

I am using Fedora Server edition on my home server and EndeavourOS on my main. I see no reason to change that.

If I had to choose only one I would go with stable first.

I have a seedbox and have been using private trackers for well over a decade. I seed forever, or until I need space.

When I cannot find something on one of my private trackers I do look on public trackers. I find the experience lacking.

My issues with public trackers:

1. Search sites are sketchy af. Between pop up ads and fake direct download links, it can be challenging to find whatever you are looking for.

2. Files can be poorly tagged or completely named wrong. The number of times I have downloaded not porn only to find porn can be counted on one hand, mostly because the other hand is busy.

Anyway, I will gladly seed until the end of time if a public torrent search site exists that can get me the content I want without making me need a shower after.

That is my solution as well for now. I bet TVs will start to come with cellular chips soon though.

Does anyone make a living room sized Faraday cage?

I got a little suspicious when they stopped using “Don’t be evil”.

No, the treasury fingered China. I knew a girl named China once and that tracks. Still not sure how mum was involved though.

Same energy.

Anyone who can’t make money with a casino is completely inept.

Good on Ovi for catching Gretzky in goals. Now how about assists? Oh, still a ways to go kid.

Ovi assists - 724 Gretzky assists - 1963

Just goes to show Gretzky was a true play maker.

I am waiting for them to report that he got 18 hole-in-ones.

I mainly game on Xbox but run Linux exclusively on my PC. I am considering cancelling my Xbox Gamepass Ultimate sub but my kids also use it. That’s a tough one.