I’ve spent years championing Linux as the only escape from Big Tech, but I’m starting to get twitchy.
While we’re distracted by the Steam Deck making Linux “mainstream,” the corporate players and politicians are busy building a digital cage. Between California’s AB-1043 mandates and Microsoft’s “Face Check” infrastructure, I’m worried we’re heading for a hard schism: “Sanitised Linux” vs the “Free Rebel” distros.
If the compliant, age-gated version becomes the industry standard, where does that leave the rest of us? Digital exile?
I’ve put some thoughts together on why the “Golden Cage” is closing in and why education, not mandates, is the only real fix.
i agree with the sentiment, but i suspect that what people want from their iphones. ie. they just want it to work.
Then why bother with a smart phone st all? Maybe we should be encouraging manufacturers to go back to cheaper hardware and flip phones like we used to have lol
you joke, but i was seriously going to do this until i learned about graphene and lineage.