I don’t expect americans to go after Trump over European affairs, if things escalate I am pretty sure the KSK is completely capable to relieve this Facist from its misery.

What I expect is that the people of the US at least defend their own freedom.

Yeah… you are right, in today’s world one has to be more clear on that…

I would never have thought that I would ever be on the same page with some religious dictator…

Just and idea:

Research what a “Pissplatte” (piss plate?) is and learn to weaponize it.

So, there we are… there IS that second amendment thing that the people of the US are always proudly citing. My question to this is: Why don’t you proud Americans start to… well… doing target practice?

I sincerely hope the EU will find its balls and hit the fucking yankees where it hurts… the money.

Bill doesn’t gave a shit either about me religiously repeating that in a world without walls nobody did need Gates or Windows… but it felt better reiterating this mantra.

You could say the same about drugs…

Why should we need “equal power” to some hypothetical “cloud pc”? We did video cutting, 3D rendering, webbrowsing, videochatting and so on in the late 90s with PCs whose CPU speeds where measured in Mhz not Ghz… with the PCs build in the last ~15 years i really, really see no danger of running out of useable devices within my lifetime (i am slightly over 40 now).

If there will be some time in the future when its only possible to get “meaningful employment” or “make appointments” using some cloud based shitstain i will happily spend my last days doing my part in helping to burn down this dystopic society.

I did use it a couple of years ago extensively, but moved back to the basics later on: Termux and Rsync.

Oh… right…

Yourself and the code you read and understand. So as long as you don’t use a system where this is possible (say 9Front and the like) you trust nothing and nobody, do careful backups and don’t go on a installation spree.

This makes America as the whole an enemy, not only its government. Just saying.

My computer, my rules… and if I want a piece of software out it will move out.

What about the following take: LLMs are an abomination that consumes enormous masses of resources for… well… really nothing besides being a tool to further enshittify the Internet and the world as a whole, being a tool for making it easy creating ever more divisive content (not to mention the special content Grok is now known for), killing jobs and replacing genuine human creativity by a cheap, warped imitation thereof.

My opinion is: Everybody who uses or promotes this technology is accomplice in making the world a worse place.

So… making laws against Nazis DOES work?

As such, I am curious to know how the custom image ecosystem of Vanilla OS is. Like, does something like this exist for Vanilla OS? (FWIW, there was another website that made browsing through these a better experience. But, sadly, I couldn’t find it.)

Well, there is Vib, and there are various custom images out there, but sadly i am not aware of any single website that list them. It’s all in all a much smaller project than uBlue and in things like that it shows.

Well, i am in no way affiliated with the developer team or the project in general and yes, there was some time when everything looked a bit… stalled… but at the moment it looks like they got back their motivation.

is it sensible to be enthusiastic about this project’s future at this point?

No, absolutely not. The chance that VanillaOS becomes a major distribution in the Linux world is minimal and there is the high probability that they just throw the towel at some point in the future. I mean, its like that time when somebody whose name i cannot remember started a Minix clone just for fun as a hobby project…

It’s Debian Sid based so I assume you find the Kernel used therein in VanillaOS

In general it is -as mentioned by @h3ron@lemmy.zip- an immutable, Debian based distribution with GNOME. It uses a quiet interesting system called ABRoot for doing updates. I use it on one of my spare machines now since they did the switch from Ubuntu base to Debian and honestly i like it.