I, personally, think Omarchy is the best “easier to install Arch” out there - you can hand out a flashdrive to anyone with at least the most basic IT-knowledge and they would get a working, useable and upgradeable system within ~20 minutes.
Didn’t you get the message? The rules based world order is out of the window, now we are back to might makes right.
This is the point. About twenty years ago when I first met this guy I thought I HAD to convince him to upgrade to something more modern because, well, “new is better” I guess. Luckily he declined my offers and stayed with this system.
Now, this man is for me what would call a living legend. He bought this system when the PET was brand new, state of the art tech and was perhaps the first veterinarian in a radius of 100 km with a computer. From this point on he wrote himself tons of software for his personal use, modified this software for changing circumstances (and still does so!) and kept this system running.
THAT is permacomputing!
Honestly, the very best i got from a client of mine, a veterinarian who is about 80, he runs his whole Praxis on a Commodore PET (i mean, its a natural choice for a veterinarian), which he bought somewhere around the time i was born. His reason: “I don’t need no Windows, i need no Linux or anything other than the computer i am accustomed to. It does what i need and it will do so till the day i die”.
Looks like Cloudflare has some problems, I cannot access multiple sites…
I don’t say it would MORALLY below him, quiet the contrary, but more from a skill level. Acting so obviously would be just amateurish.
Wouldn’t that be below somebody like Thiel? I mean, he is a professional and this seems a bit too much “amateurish”…
This has Robocop vibes…
Well, if China invades Taiwan everything in the region (at least) is going to hell one way or the other and everybody knows this. So, i think this threat is a somewhat unneeded publicity stunt.
And THIS is the problem. How long is PGP / GPG around? I have vivid (and fond) memories of a time in the early 00s when we did encryption parties inviting normal people to help them install GPG and teach them how to encrypt their emails. And people came to these events! We had an event in a community centre where we did over 200 installs on laptops of “average Joes / Janes” in a single day.
But somehow, interest in private communication fizzled out over the last decade or so.
At least they are learning from mistakes, one may argue
He is breaking Rust, so i would not be that sure…
Perhaps, if anything, i think the prompts for creating the song MAY be copyrightable.
I mean, the song is not BAD, but somewhat… generic, “beige” i would call it. Something that can play in the background in a shopping centre.
Weeelll… back in the “good old days” of the GDR there was even machinery for unnoticeable opening and resealing envelopes to spy on the population…
Yup, i personally own various 32 bit machines that are completely usable in daily driving but the steady decline of supported programs to run on them is forcing them into more “retro computing” roles. Honestly, its a shame…
Yes, Omarchy is in some ways quiet… hacky and has a bit of a “style over substance” approach, but i think that is not THAT important for the role it fills. It remembers me of the various riced up setups from the early 00s (and perhaps late 90s, but my memory is hazy in that regard) that simply looked cool (i just say “compiz”) and had this WOW effect on regular Windows users.
Omarchy has this and also benefits from an idiot proof setup routine. If it drags in people from Windows its good, some will start tinkering with it, some will dig deeper into the Linux / Unix world… its an entry level drug in a way.