I like your funny words, magic man

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet 10/EFTA01683591.pdf (NSFW/NSFL)

And you can ban porn off the internet to varying degrees of success, but the sneakernet is unstoppable.

There are plenty of misogynistic women, being a man and agreeing with something doesnt make it not misandric

I think you’re missing the point. What you said is a problem for sure, but that problem isn’t related to what we are talking about here.

SystemD is not just init

Yea, that’s kind of the problem.

Just because one systemd dev prepared something to be optionally used for a stupid law, doesn’t mean anyone using Linux is forced to do that Seems you don’t know how anything on Linux, and it’s ecosystem, works, if you believe that

This is disingenuous at best.

Sure, its ‘just’ a single text field that ‘optionally’ can be used. until it isn’t.

SystemD itself is a perfect example of this. Sure you have choice in theory, but in practice its a wildly different story. Name one mainstream Linux distro that can be used for casual day to day use, ranging from doing taxes to playing Steam games that does not use SystemD.

A lot of people drew issue with SystemD when it came out and as time progressed, but the number of fully supported core distros that do not use SystemD is zero.

Nobody’s concerns were considered, and not one uses Runit, InitRC, or even just refused to move on from SysVInit, unless you count Gentoo. Debian is SystemD. Arch is SystemD. Fedora is SystemD. And so are almost all their derivatives.

In order to get away from SystemD, you have to switch to forks that intentionally go out of their way to make it happen like Artix. Arch’s wiki page literally tells you that you can have any init system as long as it’s SystemD.

You are left to rewrite entire core system components yourself and maintain them if you really want to make it happen.

So yea, you technically have a choice, but not really.

Yep! Using it now on my Android phone via GameNative (which is GPLv3 licensed so you know it’s good 👌🏻).

They don’t have an F-Droid release yet but you can install via Obtainium or downloading it directly. Their github URL is: https://github.com/utkarshdalal/GameNative

I get your sentiment but I think you meant LineageOS and not Graphene. I’m running Graphene now but there is only a small handful of supported devices due to its strict security hardware requirements that most phones don’t meet.

The next best alternative (and technically the big dog in the room) is LineageOS. Preferably with no google-play-services.

Is this true if you don’t have Google Play Services but the person you’re messaging does? Is one person cutting GPS out enough?

Making an Arch-targeted tool in libadwaita is certainly a choice when the majority of arch users are using KDE, but okay, you do you fam.

Very neat tool otherwise.

Smiling Friends

Which they did.

Underneath the disc, gotta keep 'em stored in a dark cool place for preservation.

That was my first thought before the OP’s image loaded lol. I love this show

To expand on the lawsuits bit, most peoples thoughts would likely be the company trying to sweep things under the rug after 2 years, but while that may be a “pleasant” side effect, they usually do it for HR and data privacy/data retention law compliance. Keeping emails of employees who haven’t been with the company in ages is usually not a great idea from that perspective.

We should push to switch to runit or something, and dnsmasq+Network Manager as the golden standards.

You may be on to something

Arch is one of the distros that has unfortunately bent the knee to age verification, and is banning users from contributing if they oppose the change under guise of Code of Conduct violations (COC)

I’m so glad KDE forces me to use every point of customization and doesn’t allow me to enjoy their well-curated default experience out of the box.

It’s great that they don’t tuck the power-user features away behind advanced options menus and give me a simple almost gnome-like experience from the get-go.

Even better, I’m glad that KDE doesn’t dare to take user feedback into consideration by hosting KDE community summits where they prioritize three major user concerns per session, instead of telling users that a feature everyone wants doesn’t belong and reclassifying as wontfix.

(For those unable to tell, this is pure snark and sarcasm, KDE does all these amazing pro-user things and gnome doesn’t.)