they’d have to use cameras to track my car

They already do, at least in the US.

https://deflock.me/

We mostly used small form-factor mini PCs from Polywell.

Years ago it was really hard to run digital signage on Linux.

No problems here doing it commercially since 2009…

The real reason, of course, is big tech spearheading a movement toward absolute control over people.

Source:

just as many people accept windows being shit

or maybe most people don’t actually have problems, and it’s only a small vocal minority that really has huge complaints?

Some people just look drowsy all the time… also what if you’re wearing sunglasses?

There is no proof they used an LLM. Plus, LLMs are trained on human text anyway, who actually talk like this… it’s not like LLMs invented their own way of speaking.

Would you have preferred no apology at all?

Just curious, what could they have possibly done instead that would satisfy you?

I have no problems with that particular thumbnail

Do you really think

Yes, yes I do. They know you can’t control everyone. And Linux is a rounding error in the context of desktop market share. They don’t care about it, and everyone else is “good enough.”

Lawmakers don’t even know or care what Linux is. They don’t know what a router is or that it runs an operating system. The bill doesn’t affect routers because they don’t have physical users with HIDs plugged into them. They’re not targeting them. Captive portals have been around for decades. What on Earth are you talking about?

Compared to DDG-noAI: zero 3rd party requests.

No need when they’re already selling your search habits from the backend.

Companies don’t like legally-questionable (in their mind at least) licenses. If you look at the people who use this license, it’s mostly very small personal projects.

But if the definition of viable is merely “open source”… there are many other such operating systems out there.

Linux is the only viable operating system that is not vulnerable to US government sponsored supply chain attacks

Well I certainly don’t agree with that, and in many cases (at least with specific Linux distros) I would even argue it IS vulnerable already. Maybe we have different definitions of “viable” or something. The Linux kernel itself has also been forced to make political decisions at the demand of the United States, such as removing support for Russian CPUs (but somehow Chinese ones are A-OK).

Curious how large organizations are dealing with the lack of tight group policy control that they’re used to on Windows, and users having far more options for circumventing any given restriction.

Why is it “weird”? It has been around much longer AFAIK.

• you need predictable latency

• you don’t want garbage collection

• you don’t like MS

• toolchain doesn’t exist for your target

FreeBSD is way better in security record

After accounting for the massive difference in number of eyeballs actually looking for vulns?

“I have nothing to hide”… “ok, pull down your pants and hand me your unlocked phone.”