They rushed. If you push it too fast it’ll blow up in your face.

Amateurs.

We mock, but at least it wasn’t a USB flash drive this time.

Fake.

Linus Torvalds would never feel bad about punishing developers for incompetence.

This is why it’s called “eat the rich”, not “nibble the rich”.

2026:

1984 forced all of that.

Brave New World, people LOVE it and can’t imagine any other way to live.

Brave New World is the nightmare dystopia we CHOOSE, not the one that gets forced on us.

The only MO most members of congress have right now is to AVOID any kind of confrontation that will show that they don’t actually have the ability to enforce anything. They will bend over backwards to make it look like the White House ignoring their actions is “normal” so they can maintain the illusion that they still function as a check, and they certainly won’t push further than they think the white house is willing to go on its own. The white house knows this as well - it’s to their benefit that the Congress still nominally APPEARS to be a functional branch of government so they don’t have to risk open rebellion if they straight up dissolve it, although at this point, I don’t think there is ANYTHING that can pierce the insane, deluded, mentally ill complacency of the majority of the American people.

We are MUCH MUCH closer to the BNW/Fahrenheit 451 dystopias than 1984.

What the public thinks stopped mattering altogether in November 2024. If you had an opinion, I hope you expressed it then, because now it’s moot.

To connect to the web

Call me a victim blamer, but if you let your enemy build a superconducting maglev rail from their territory to yours, I feel like that’s on you.

I am so sick of this guy.

I hate to say it, but there’s no fast answer to that question.

The best answer seems to be what most smart countries are doing right now… slowly unwinding their dependency on the US and finding alternative suppliers for everything critical they need so they can get the leverage they need to criticize and resist. This has the added benefit of isolating the US economically, reducing its currency’s ability to influence things.

Over time the US will grow less and less able to throw its weight around, and eventually a tipping point will be reached where picking an ideological fight with the US won’t have a major impact. That’s when the US will be stopped.

Gallows are too slow. The guillotine was introduced precisely because you couldn’t effectively and cleanly eliminate problems fast enough.

But I can admit I misread it and thought we were talking guillotines and not gallows at first.

I’ll back off in the interest of not seeing the revolution get bogged down in infighting over WHICH tool we use to execute the capitalists.

That is ridiculous.

You also need a blacksmith.

That’s why they filter directly into spam.

Choose one at random from those with easy installation. Use it for a week. If you like it, stick with it. If it’s frustrating as heck, try another distro. Your skills picked up from the first one will very likely transfer over. As you narrow down your experience with what’s frustrating you, you can pinpoint what things you like and which you don’t and settle on the perfect distro for you.

There is absolutely NO way to know that before you get your hands dirty and see what these options are and their quirks.