Won’t be surprised if the ISP provided hardware is going to be the only allowed stuff. For you and me, not for the gov’t or companies though. They specifically only mentioned “consumer grade” and also specifically state that products sold to or used by the federal gov’t are not restricted at all. Seems like that carve-out is backwards if these things are such big “security risks”…
Well there’s no arguing with that…
This or one of the other “Arch but easier” distros like CachyOS or Garuda Linux. I’ve been running Garuda happily for about 4 years now, and recently put CachyOS on my laptop to play with it and so far it’s been great too.
It’s like 7 different states at varying stages of “passed” and Meta’s lobby is working on more for sure, wouldn’t be surprised if they were also work on a federal version too.
Glad to hear it didn’t turn your macbook soft or even, god forbid, liquid.
I think it is absolutely delusional to assume any of this actually has anything to do with security or safety of users. Google just wants more power and control over, well, everything they can get.
I’d believe that if most Pig Butchering scams weren’t using apps from Google Play already.
Collecting data on kids is extremely valuable to these companies
Nope - it is extremely risky/costly. Facebook is actively pushing for these laws to push the “blame” onto the OS to get out of a potential $50 Billion worth of fines due to COPPA violations for collecting data on kids. Facebook wants the OS to do all of the actual collecting of data while being required to share that data with Facebook - they get all of the benefit of stealing your data without any of the liability (or work). That’s the entire point of these laws.
I don’t understand.
That’s obvious.
I think the issue there is the data doesn’t tell anyone “why”, it only tells “what”.
And yet, if you walk into any discussion about LLM use in coding, devs come out in droves to defend and even champion its use…
That’s good news, if more people in your area were like you, they could probably open another AI data center and only jack your rates up a little bit. :)
I wrote one of my representatives once to tell him I disagreed with his stance on some tech-related bill or another several years ago, and urged him to reconsider. I got a canned response from his office thanking me for “my support” and basically “agreeing” with me that the rep’s original stance is correct and good and just, with a little sprinkle of obviously not understanding the bill at all dusted throughout. He is still my representative like 12 years later. I still get his newsletter in my e-mail regularly because his “unsubscribe” link doesn’t work (never mind that I never subscribed to a newsletter, I e-mailed my representative…).
Our system is far more broken than anyone wants to admit.
You may recommend it all you like, but I’m not a huge fan of that either (from what I can tell looking at the githup you linked anyway), lol.
Any chance, have you ever used Garuda? I’m curious how CachyOS compares on the “ease of use” front. I’ve been on Garuda for like 3 or 4 years now as it is the only one (that I tried) that I’ve had “just work” for everything out of the box. My laptop had a lot of trouble with Bazzite and the nvidia drivers, but again, I don’t have to do anything under Garuda besides install it, periodically run updates, and it plays games just fine with no headaches. I’m not a huge fan of the decoration choices in Garuda, and some of the stuff you mentioned like Winboat and Gaming one-click installs sound amazingly helpful… but everything is working right now so there’s a hurdle to changing, lol.
That literally is arguing…
There is no requirement for you to reply if you don’t want to take part in the discussion on this social platform, but I feel I took great care in my original reply to not attack or berate anyone, you included. Sorry that your favorite distro isn’t the “go-to” recommendation anymore, I guess.
Unfortunately there isn’t a silver-bullet for picking a distro. It’s a hurdle to get over for sure, and one that is likely to hinder general purpose adoption of Linux for a long time to come, but it is also part of what is awesome about Linux if people are willing to understand it.
Trying a bunch of different distros is really the only way to find out what is going to work for “you”. Scrounge up 4 or 10 flash drives at least 4GB each. Flash them with the ISOs for every distro that remotely tickles your fancy, and boot them up and see how it goes. Figure out your top couple of choices, and install one. If things go well, great, enjoy your new OS. If something is broken or breaks right away, then go install choice number 2 and see if it is still broken. Reasonable chance it isn’t and then you can enjoy your new OS.
People berate Manjaro because it’s objectively bad. If you use it and like it, more power to you, but please stop recommending it to people new to Linux as it is likely to push people away from Linux when it inevitably breaks. Everyone that recommends Manjaro does so as an “easy to use” and “beginner friendly” distro, but it isn’t. So when it breaks for some arcane and obtuse reason, new users tend to just resign themselves as “not smart enough” for Linux and they go back to Windows. Meanwhile, there are people daily driving Mint, Ubuntu, and Fedora that barely know which way around to hold a mouse.
does VoLTE work? Basically all carriers in the us use this and we knocked down all of the old tech towers. My understanding is the EU still has all the old towers up for just voice calls and don’t need VoLTE to work.
Quick web search suggests it is a “beta” feature at best currently :(