How are hippies going to survive this? On the one hand, they need an overpriced piece of hardware with rounded edges to stick their anti-capitalist stickers on, on the other hand it would (just as always) be supporting an anti-palestinian regime.

I guess, the same as always, ignore the inconvenient truths and drink some mate or kombucha, or whatever it is they drink, and go to an anti-zionist protest with big tech hardware in their hands.

Meanwhile, the large majority won’t care. Out of sight, out of mind. As long as the new gadget makes them seem like they belong in a high social class and they can fit in 🤷 “A little big tech ain’t hurt nobody! (nobody I know)”

That’s pretty cool. The article did not explain that and I stopped reading halfway through. I imagine many readers were confused.

Ground effect vehicle? What’s that?

Trump is just hitting one home run after another. Best president ever. We need another one like him after his term ends to really dedollarise and go Green.

And there are many more reasons to leave Microslop Github

They are welcome to join the fediverse and put videos on peertube, odysse, bitchute, kick, whatever.

Man, how do I get 3M on Kickstarter? Do I just have to lie and put up videos of standard unity assets?

If the rich keep taking and not giving, it’s bound to happen.

Someone shoots a CEO, another sets a warehouse on fire due to low wages, this dude sets fire to a gate of a billionaire… What will the next thing be?

Why not monero?

What I encountered in 2023–2024 was not occasional edge cases, but a steady stream of symptoms from a system that had never been allowed to stabilize, despite the foundations, namely the hypervisor and Windows OS, being robust.

Lol, Windows OS is robust.

The steam community forums are a disaster 😅

He steam community forums are a disaster 😅

Foo fighters start playing

You flipflop between pro and anti nuclear, dont have standard construction methods nor designs, ship out labor or don’t train new workers at all, lower investment, and don’t plan for the future. Wow, costs are up! What a surprise!

Meanwhile China has a clear plan to act upon that goes decades into the future. Of course the costs will fall and construction times will speed up.

That this is a mystery to politicians and stakeholders baffles me.

Typical suit behaviour. They just see the money and understand nothing of the trade.

I’d be much happier with GoG if they opensourced most of their stuff and supported stuff like Stop Killing Games.

For now, I buy games from them and backup the installers, but until they become more open, especially towards Linux, and stop using shit like Discord, my support will just be in the form of shopping for games I want. Nothing more.

Gentoo has their head screwed on straight.

@[email protected] Google has been allowed to operate this way because they are the only real alternative to Apple. If that alternative disappears, it will pressure either the community to rally and create awareness, for it to work on alternatives, or (and this is my bet) for a bigger instance like that of an EU nation or the EU itself, to step in. Since the EU is beginning to see the US threat and voices for digital sovereignty are getting louder, such a move by Google could realistically draw the attention of the EU Commission, parliament, and courts.

However, that can only happen if Google makes the mistake. If we prevent it from making the mistake, it will have moved the Overton window enough to make the situation worse than it is now, but not as bad as it could’ve been. So we’ll just end up with a worse situation and no political nor judicial attention. Google will have boiled the frog.

The short term gain of Google backing off will offset the long-term gain of a real solution.

We saw what it’s doing for Microslop with their forceful introduction of windows 11…

Not all harm is equal and not all harm is useful.

The article does indeed continue 😮 There are so many full page interruptions,I thought the end had been reached.

Good to know that they are considering moving away from Microslop. It’s about damn time. As the article insinuates, there is little hope of Microslop turning down the dial on AI. They will create AI problems and sell AI solutions for those problems.

What do you not understand?

Don’t interrupt your enemies when they are making mistakes. Let Google make this mistake and the EU fuck them up.

But I guess using Microslop is fine for everybody else if ICE isn’t after you 😇 Github, Office 365, Winblows, all safe to use.

Move Godot to codeberg. Github is too popular. It’s where all the fool kids go and link their LinkedIn to. It’s Microslop all the way down. It’s highly likely the number of real contributors will be higher on Codeberg than Github.

Also, doesn’t github have a viebcoding platform built into it making it really easy to create AI slop?

Edit: yep they do! Get the fuck off of github!

Don’t be dependent on another state. Cooperate with all possible states.

That’s just dependency dressed up.

Anyway, it’s not like Europe is going to make their own chips.

European Chips Act

The seeds are being planted.

Nobody buys laptops anymore. Only geeks do.

Because the problem is that EU is dependent on the US. Switching to be dependent on another state is not the goal. Jumping out of the frying pan into the fire is not the solution.

It’s not nationalistic for states to rely on internal products. And BTW, Europe is trying to go opensource. I’d rather have opensource than foreign closed source, regardless of whether it’s Pakistan, Australia, or Nigeria. And other states should also be going opensource, not just European ones.

Everyone should be dumping closed source - especially US closed source, surveillance-ware.

But it’s strange it’s been this long and nobody seems to have gotten this feature working, despite a big want for it.

It’s not strange at all that the feature hasn’t been implemented. Not enough people donate, so there isn’t enough funding to implement features. Most people wait around until something is there or pay for closed source stuff. Funding is the major issue. If there were funds, people could spend time to implement such complicated features. Discord had millions in seed funding and has thousands of developer hours sunk into the platform. The developers of element have to juggle element and their jobs.

That is exactly why I’m saying: if you have the money to pay for discord nitro, throw some money Matrix’s way. It’ll benefit us all instead of some money-hungry enshittifiers.

As you can read in the other responses that misunderstood the post, some people do not want to self-host and want something hosted. That’s the beauty of opensource though: whatever suits you.

No problem. I wasn’t sure how to frame it. It just bothers me that people are willing to pay for closed source stuff, but as soon as it comes to opensource it must be free and have all the features, otherwise they won’t use it.

That’s the link of the post 🤔 It seems like you’re not the only one mistunderstanding that. Why is that?

But instead it offers people to learn hosting and sysadmin stuff.

It does not. The post says paying for a hosted matrix server. That means you pay for somebody to host it. There’s nothing more to it.

The full discord nitro plan costs 10$/month. That can get you a server for your friends and you can communicate with other servers. If everybody chips in, it’s the cost of discord nitro minimum if you’re 5 friends.

I already see this is going to be a fruitless discussion with those proposed discussion points. “His attempt to reduce government spending” 🤣 “attempt”.

That it’s owned by … the person who owns it.

How do you mean? You have to apply to get your game there and they reject it if it isn’t popular already?

Honestly, announce it on a gaming community here that allows promotion. And put it on GoG too. Some of use are trying to reduce our use of US tech or reduce use of monopolies.

People who want to use less US platforms.

Of course, no peertube. Typical.

Companies making shitty products need somebody to buy them. If consumers buy them, they are also part of the problem.