Hopefully this doesn’t give Microslop executives the idea of turning it into a feature to force their users to save their files onto OneDrive

Never go to a place where the authorities can arrest and imprison you on a whim for doing something that would have been considered normal anywhere else. No matter how shiny the place is.

We should refer to Trump as “future inmate”

You are correct that they have zero understanding of computers. But what you are missing is that they are consulting “experts” who are essentially just big tech lobbyists.

The problem with that whole situation is the way the law is written the developer is the one held responsible if a child circumvents the check to access adult content. Therefore, developers will have to pay hefty fines unless they:

-1: Have a way to positively make sure the person enters their age is telling the truth; and

-2: Lock this value from being changed by the user afterwards.

Or: Region lock the OS.

One can see how incredibly problematic this is for both privacy and true ownership and control over your own machine. There is also a lot that needs to be figured out in the law such as what will happen when someone inevitably finds a way to hack the system to circumvent it, especially the region lock. Ultimately, big tech has deep pockets and can shrug off the fines but small nonprofit open source projects will be killed by them.

This law is specifically designed to kill nonprofit-run and private software like Linux.

Oh no. Anything but that. Don’t do anything to our beloved Trump…

With enshitification nowadays, the fact that they’re nonprofit is the reason why the software is good quality.

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Peaceful living as a smoldering skeleton

You forgot to mention that the product they’re sacrificing everything for is widely failing to meet expectations and that they will likely expect taxpayers to bail them out when their investments fail and threaten to take out the entire economy with themselves

How can a nasal spray protect against bullets?

I’m no immunologist, but there has to be a reason why we evolved so our immune system doesn’t constantly stay on “amber alert”. There has got to be drawbacks.

IDK if I’m understanding their response correctly in the article but it really sounds like the people affected are left to pay for the repair themselves

That’s a big oof for a product like Fairphone. They dropped the ball hard too by not standing behind their fuckup and left their customers hanging. Fairphone just got off my list of potential new purchases.

She wanted something that was an easy transition from Windows without having to learn a new interface. She is competent enough to install her own OS but wants to spend what little spare time she has on the computer gaming and not troubleshooting and maintaining. So I recommended she tries a few but primarily Bazzite with KDE and she liked it.

Heck, I’m running Fedora KDE right now but if I ever had to change I’d probably pick Bazzite too. Immutable sounds great for my purposes. I have zero intentions of messing around with my kernel.

Just have a friend who finally decided switching yesterday. She picked my distro recommendation too which makes me feel all validated.

This isn’t new. I remember seeing a promotion for this exact same printer many years ago already. I’d approach it with suspicion.

And yet the “I don’t care that they gather data on me, I have nothing to hide” crowd is still clueless

It is baffling that people hadn’t clued in about this sooner

We should put out a ransom for the video.

GoFundMe anyone?