This sounds to me more like they had a gripe with a WordPress plug-in and that was about the extent of the issue.

Don’t they have a bunch of kernel changes that they can’t merge upstream?

Ah, it appears that it’s indeed a work in progress. If I was going to try it, this is definitely the distribution I would use. But I don’t think a whole lot of people are able to run Ubuntu for example. It’s going to be a more limited selection because of the hardware.

I did this over a year ago. Man, I love that my computing is boring again. No distractions. The machine does what I tell it to do. It’s lovely! Boring is lovely.

Yes. However, it’s not super difficult to get a signed image to meet the requirements. To my knowledge they aren’t actively trying to prevent the installation of other operating systems. The bigger issue is the software supporting their unique hardware.

I understand there’s quite a few missing drivers on the latest Macs. It’s possible to run Linux but I don’t think it’s especially user friendly at the moment. Apple does a lot of custom stuff and not all of their hardware has open source drivers available.

I absolutely love the term clankers. It’s the perfect blend of dystopian cyberpunk and the very real threat of AI.

I like this solution because I can have the need filled without a central server. I use old-fashioned offline backups for my low-churn, bulk data, and SyncThing for everything else to be eventually consistent everywhere.

If my data was big enough so as to require dedicated storage though, I’d probably go with TrueNAS.

I main Fedora 42 KDE and NVidia. Drivers are definitely not out of the box, but I found them easy enough to install by adding a repository. Just a data point for consideration.

100% this. It’s a scam. It’s merely a device of getting scammed, so the details of the scam instrument are not important.

That’s very strange. WireGuard was specifically created in part because of speed limitations.

🐓🌮

I noticed AI was replying to my support tickets for Private Internet Access, so I prompt injected it to talk like a pirate.

That be yer ship’s flag. A VPN lets ye sail under false colors!

They pulled into my instance not long after! I think sometimes you have to be the first subscriber to see content because the instance itself won’t subscribe if nobody wants that data.

I see zero posts on my instance. I may be the first subscriber from here!

Is that the green iPad man?

Reminds me of a professor who linked a pirate copy of the text book in his syllabus and warned several times do not attempt to use these sources because doing so is a violation of copyright law! Please purchase the book!

The equivalent of a pop-up asking you if you’re 18 or older.

Back in the day, I was 18 for like five years.

Awesome! Thanks.

How was memory use actually reduced? I read several articles on this, but I didn’t see anyone talking about how they achieved this.

My experience with childhood computers conditioned me to close everything instantly when I’m done with it even if it means I might have to reload the page later.

I thought they specifically take anti-fingerprinting measures by default? Is this not true?