DSL or one of the Puppy flavors.

There’s only like, one viable instance though: inv.nadeko.net.

A RISC-V equivalent might be better in terms of hardware openness.

Assuming mirroring isn’t borked by that aforementioned DRM.

At least Meta straight-up admitted to grifting people, Google has yet to do so.

I laughed way harder than I should’ve at that.

Age-gated vids have been login-walled for a while now, non-age-gated stuff is still viewable while logged out and through alt front-ends, for now.

I won’t put it past Google to fully login-wall YT at some point in the future though, or even worse, put DRM on it so that it’s only watchable through Chrome on Android, or Chrome or Edge on Windows, and non-Android and non-Windows OSes, and non-Chrome/Edge browsers are blocked, as well as alt front-ends and downloaders, and even mirroring to competing platforms.

Invidious mainly, and that doesn’t use any YT accounts, it’s the equivalent of watching YT logged out.

Also, Grayjay lets you log in through it but that probably doesn’t bypass the age check if you’re KYC’d.

If you’re an active creator yourself though or even if you only have a few vids you made years ago that are still up, I’d set up PeerTube, Odysee, or both, and post those there while you still can, though.

One more reason to use an alt front-end, and clear/disable your watch/view history and not log into YT directly anymore, at least while you still can.

You know things are getting bad when two governments are on your case about your patent trolling, Nintendo.

Whatever OS they want or need, be it Ubuntu or Mint or whatever, or even Windows for that matter; it ain’t my system so it ain’t my decision at the end of the day.

I could recommend things for my hypothetical client to look into on their own at a later date, but whatever OS I install on that system is ultimately up to the person I’m hypothetically building it for, I can’t just randomly install something without the client’s permission, assuming I’m getting paid to build them a PC in this hypothetical.

Granted I’m speaking in terms of that person being a client in a business relationship more than a casual ‘I’m getting sick of Windows, what should I run instead’ setting-it-up-for-a-friend scenario, but still.

If there was ever a better reason to set up Home Assistant if you want a smart home…

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Unlike Linux, whose recent embrace of AI in the codebase is worrying to say the least, you flat-out cannot submit AI-generated code to NetBSD.

NetBSD even explicitly banned AI from their codebase to boot, as quoted from their Commit Guidelines:

Code generated by a large language model or similar technology, such as GitHub/Microsoft’s Copilot, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, or Facebook/Meta’s Code Llama, is presumed to be tainted code, and must not be committed without prior written approval by core.

Unlike Linux, whose recent embrace of AI in the codebase is worrying to say the least, you flat-out cannot submit AI-generated code to NetBSD unless it’s approved in writing*.

*originally in another reply, but deleted that and moved it here.

Probably shouldn’t? How 'bout definitely shouldn’t, ditto for Twitter in general. Give ATproto shit all you want but at least you can move to an independent PDS with it.

Granted ActivityPub is still ideal over ATproto, but both are better than a centralized black box.

FreeBSD has been on a bit of a glowup arc too though, at least for general desktop use. No, but really, there needs to be a viable third option other than Windows and Linux in the desktop PC space.

The guy who made iCarly was exposed to be a total freakin’ creep, though. It’s like Nick has a habit of attracting either creeps (Bill Cosby, Dan Schneider, John K, or Chris Savino), grifters (Butch Hartman), or both to their studios.

Nick ain’t all green slime and talking sponges behind the scenes, sadly, and I’d argue it never was.

I wonder if history will repeat with PCs, and especially handheld PCs, a market which the Steam Deck effectively sparked into life, while Nintendo, PS, and Xbox crash and burn should there be a second Video Game Crash any time soon.

Because all three of the current console vendors aren’t doing great at all, in fact Xbox is basically already dead and even the Switch 2 seems DOA as far as exclusives go and it’s very much maligned by the press atm, while PC seems to be doing fine comparatively especially considering the success of the Steam Deck and the other PC handhelds which followed it.

They’re probably going to pass some money under the table to get this overturned just like they did to get to keep Chrome and Android.