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I'm going to found a user community for it! I'm kind of cooky, so I'll name it "the church of LDS". Surely nothing litigious will happen.

Jokes aside, great work :)

Fríggin' finally. Talk to some of the fediverse people on Matrix or Discord regarding monetization and they'll lose their tiny little minds.

The most belligerent ones seems like a bunch of anarchists and tankies who couldn't give a flying crap about independent or small businesses, such as content creators, all the while forcing content creators to stay on the large platforms (like YouTube, Patreon, etc) unknowingly going nowhere.

The fediverse needs to spearhead ethical monetization, and no: relying on the "honour system", unlimited CC distribution and attribution while hoping you'll get money through BitBucket donations is not a way to pay rent. It's yee olde "trust me bros", but instead of massive corporations, it's a boys club of ideologically finagling molluscs.

Give me exclusive (or locked content), direct donation functions and subscription functions. Build it, and they will come. Ignore it, and most likely some unethical businesses will co-opt everything (like Meta) and just steamroll the whole movement.

Be anti-capitalist. That's fine. But don't be one of those guys who think you're just one day away from the revolution. That's dumb. Let's bring monetization to the fediverse!

Reject modernity. Return to Debian.

See, the thing that pisses me off and is the reason why I moved away from Fedora (Silverblue) about a week ago is that Fedora is the base of RHEL. Future RHEL's will be based off Fedora. The community therefor is providing free development for their pricey enterprise solution.

Now they're adding insult to injury by wanting to enable telemetry metrics on the by default, claiming that the user has to opt in to report anything, but the fact is that the ordinary user might be paying that much attention. Sometime after the EULA might change and all that tasty dara will probably be harvested.

This is the threat of it. The Fedora community has been one of the best, if not the best Linux distribution community out there. Now RedHat/IBM is sowing the seeds of distrust and will in all likelihood transform Fedora into a husk of its former self, much like Cannonical did to Ubuntu.

It's becoming such a drag to see that these corporate entities are turning tail and taking their community projects in the same direction as Microsoft, Google and Apple.

Perhaps they are so expensive because it's AM5. Like if AM6 is an overhaul to increase bandwidth and cut costs? That's a win. We have been blessed with how long they produce these sockets. It's a stark contrast to Intel.

But yeah, if there is little to no reason to go from AM5 to AM6 m, then I agree.

Not a problem :) just answer directly next time. In any case:

It's not that they became the biggest contributors out of nowhere you know. It's not like they did it out the love in their heart and because of ideal, morals and ethics. It was seeing the writing on the wall and not wanting to be left behind. Remember both Microsoft and Oracle tried to sue various Linux distributions and the kernel maintainers themselves because they claimed that they or one of their subsidiaries had intellectual property that Linux was using - which was patantly false (pun intended).

In modern times they push to prevent moving away from GPL2 to something like GPL3 because they've already gamed the license - especially Oracle, which allows them to contribute back as little as possible, and they couldn't have done that if they weren't benefactors and members of the Linux Foundation.

Some would even say Microsoft's "embrace, expand & extinguish" tactic is still well and alive to this very day. And we're talking about the company that has a history of hidden licensing fees.

In any case, I guess SuSE is more trustworthy than all of them - again because of historical presedence. But I'm still sceptical!

In regards to Microsoft, IBM and Oracle? I'm cynnical. But it's deserved cynicism, because of the afformentioned historical presedence.

I'm not saying that people, organizations, companies, corporations, governments, multinationals, etc can't reform... buuuut... yeah. All of these companies have a horrible history of patent wars and subverting consumers, as well as open source projects. Soooo... yeeeeeaaaah...

Also, you never answered my question. You merely dismissed it.

Oracle, IBM, Microsoft. It's called market precedent. What's to prevent a major corporation owned by a venture capital company to turn around and do the same thing years down the line? What to prevent them from making this "open source community" beholden to members of the board from said corporation, similar to Fedora?

"Idk man". Conjecture can be tempered by experience. Remember that.

I think I'm going to try Aeon as my daily driver, even though zypper is laborious as hell. Let's see how long I last.

ngl, the show picks up. At first you get those "MURRICA" vibes and recoil like "plz not in star trek". But then... it gets so much better.

In fact, gonna piss off a few of you with this one, but Enterprise is much better than Discovery or even Picard once it picks up.

I find Discovery and Picard to be a departure from the daring production, direction and storytelling that made Star Trek... well, Star Trek. Some might say "that was the point", but was the point also to do the paint-by-numbers Hollywood remake bullshit that's been blasting out of cinemas the passed, oh I don't know... DECADE?!?

Anyways, slow start, but it picks up and adds valiantly to the Star Trek canon...

Also, y dey cancel Prodigy? :( Sadness.

...but why trust SuSE? I want to leave RedHat as well, but wouldn't be going to SuSE just set up conditions for the same thing to happen again? Is SuSE more trustworthy than RedHat, and if so, why?

It's not just about being DOOM players. It's a long running joke in the programming and engineering world. Wether it's a fridge, a toaster, a decommissioned 1970s super computer... can it run DOOM?

It's the computing world's version of a shitpost.