I’m at 9 years myself, I use Ubuntu on desktop, Mint on my home ThinkPad, Ubuntu on my work ThinkPad, and a mix of Debian/Proxmox and Ubuntu for my servers. I’m hoping to switch my desktop to Mint at some point.

I feel like the only way we can do anything about this is for us to have more money than the companies pushing for these changes, which is obviously not going to be possible… I’m not sure what else can be done.

The problem is the laws getting passed, not with software that gives people a choice about whether to comply.

Is it going to give a choice, though? As more and more of these laws are passed, soon people will have no choice. Open-source software was supposed to be about freedom, and I see this as anything but that.

How is this a theory? This is literally what’s happening lol

Even if it’s not advertising itself pushing it, the rest of what was said is true.

True it’s not going back to the customers, but it’s also true that they didn’t pass the cost onto customers, they ate the cost of the tarrifs instead of passing it onto customers.

I agree with most of what you’re saying, I disagree with the last part of what you’re saying.

The self-host movement is about taking control away from companies, and running web services locally instead of having to rely on companies for them and pay for them. Most things you can run locally without needing a server, but there are absolutely good use cases for server-based services. Some great examples of this are cloud storage, code repositories, and chat servers. You could run each of those things locally, but they are each improved by running them on a dedicated server designed for 24/7 uptime and centralized access.

It’s not just media that doesn’t feed recommendation algorithms - I actually like recommendation algorithms (Jellyseerr does a pretty great job with this), it’s more about having control over my media and it not being taken away randomly. So many times an older show I would want to watch would no longer be “available” so I’d have to download it anyway, with no option of paying to watch for it.

This seems like a good thing to me. Good news seems so rare these days.

What OS and remote are you going to use for that, though?

FWIW, I get like, maybe 14ms latency with Steam Link and that’s just over WiFi, it’s shockingly usable.

There’s something to be said about the convenience that off-the-shelf solutions provide over custom solutions, and that’s coming from someone who typically always opts for custom solutions.

It is a fantasy because unfortunately it’s not a large enough market for any company to care about.

This is true, but if you want 120Hz Steam Link on your TV, it’s usually the only way to achieve that.

Yep, it’s good for your health in moderation. As long as it’s not taking over your life to the point where it’s interfering with your normal life, it’s perfectly healthy and nothing to be ashamed about.

It’s really awful because unlike smoking or cocaine or anything else, you can’t just quit food. You need it to live, without it, you will die. Having too much of it permanently alters your hunger levels which makes you require more of it, it’s an endless feedback loop that scientists haven’t figured out yet.

It does seem like they might be making some progress on it with weight loss medicine, if it doesn’t outright cause cancer or other bad side effects. I guess we’ll see.

True, but Gabe is just about the best one I can think of.

It is concerning, yeah. I usually license my own software with MIT, but, not all of it, and I think GPL is very important for Linux.

I kind of get the idea that code should be self-documenting, but at the same time, there’s so many crazy business rules that comments are basically a necessity if nothing else other than to explain why in the hell the crazed mess that provides the required functionality for the business rules exists.

Obviously you don’t know what the word intent means.

I think dropping bombs does actually count as murderous intent.

So that’d be whatever Android your phone comes with, then, and not standard AOSP.

Now that I re-read it, OP called themselves a simpleton, so I think you’re right, there’s no chance OP is using standard AOSP.

Yeah, Stock could mean whatever Android your phone comes with, or it could mean standard AOSP like even without GApps, OP should really clarify that.