That’s is not what the problem is, lol, not by far. Nothing is a problem if you look at it in a short enough timeframe.

I’m not complaining about the few more people that discover Linux, I’m complaining that we are systemically introducing the same problems we want to get away from (“that the price is high/threatening”, especially now that desktop Linux is on a steady rise & we need such “”“endorsements”“” the least).

But “Linux” isn’t giving him any money either, surely. This argument breaks down because of that.

What? With influencers it’s what is monetisable in any current situation, what gets more views (and more money with that via various channels - atm “Linux” gives him revenue via selling ads etc to more people, if you offer him more money than that, he will sell whatever you say, that’s his profession). If a megacorp wants to get in on it they freely can. At any point. But it would be a lot harder to do that if we don’t/didn’t have professional ad-people (no background, just as the money winds go) intertwined from the “start”.
Financial power of a/any megacorps dictating foss just leads to monopoly again (eg how Google took over & is now closing more and more the “Android Linux”). And it makes it harder for projects to get support from “the people” vs “what is the most monetisable for some private entity”.

Overlooking that is akin to saying scalpers help redistribute the product. Technically, sure, so “what are you complaining abut, so cyclical.”

Talking about foss has literally become marketable. That’s the only reason professional influencers are talking about it now. And people listening to them will listen to whatever they say next too. And that (“money talks, bullshit walks”) is a bad future for foss which should be by it’s nature free of such incentives bcs it just becomes another megacorps monopoly.

Going into foss & financially rewarding corps that aren’t dedicated to open principles is just the current market situation (MS & Google) but with sparkles. It inevitably leads to more inequalities.

Monetisation & financial motivations.
That dude is no foss champion, at best just some user. If MS gives him money Windows & Edge will be the best

It’s prob necessary to do something, even new ICE vehicles & new fuels are not the cleanest in India, but old ones prob really need to go, especially in a country with such pollution problems.

How to achieve that & why not boost public (city) transport instead, etc & why they decided to go this way can def be questioned - but that’s in all nations & at the end something still gets done.

No.

Anyone with a platform can do that.

(And from the little bits I’ve seen, mostly over memes & various news bits, the quality is questionable. Just don’t follow the whims of influencers, it’s not the correct way forward imho, it just inevitability leads to or spreads enshitification.)

… I don’t think listening to random big influencers is a good way forward (in anything).

(As to the list - others already pointed out everything, y’all nerds know shit! <3)

lemm.ee :‘’'(

Wireguard.

Just monopoly things.

Yes, I agree.
But Sony has drivers out there for a few more devices.

I used Maemo on my N900 <3.

I don’t wanna use Sailfish bcs of the phone support tho, I’m shallow af & I need my hardware :(.
(I also have a few other Sailfish issues, the source code/availability/package, the licencing - but I feel like all of those could/would change with some growth.)

Gemini replaced Bitchxby on the latest Samsungs.

It’s in the firmware.

With the S25 series they even give you a year of full subscription.
They made it the centrepiece of the launch event of the product line.

Galaxy devices now come with Gemini, your powerful AI assistant from Google. Long press the power button to get started.

The Samsung’s front is called “Galaxy AI” but Gemini runs every new feature really - including “cross-apps actions”.
(The non-obsolete Bixby features retained the name but are part of Galaxy AI now.)

But even with everything off One UI 7 (and Samsung apps, like camera) is still littered with AI buttons.

youtube.com/HinL5jCy_oI&t=1270
(Gemini is now the default action for long-pressing the power button)

All I need is a good enough emulation of android apps to fool them (eg for banking).

So nice of her to include a comprehensive disclaimer list, much appreciated.

Lucy A. Snyder is a five-time Bram Stoker Award-winning writer and the author of the forthcoming Tor Nightfire novel Sister, Maiden, Monster. She also wrote the novels Spellbent, Shotgun Sorceress, and Switchblade Goddess, the nonfiction book Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide, the poetry collections Exposed Nerves and Chimeric Machines and the story collections Halloween Season, Garden of Eldritch Delights, While the Black Stars Burn, Soft Apocalypses, Orchid Carousals, Sparks and Shadows, and Installing Linux on a Dead Badger.

(Between all the Bram Stokers, the badger, & ‘Lucy A. Snyder frequently escaped into Clive Barker’s worlds when she was in darkest academia pursuing her MA in journalism’ you prob know how she writes.)

wiki/Lucy_A._Snyder
www.lucysnyder.com

I’d argue both DMC and Castlevania has more depth than Duke.

Def! I said that specifically.

Of the two especially Castlevania offers much more depth & independence to it’s characters.

Duke 1 & 2 didn’t even leave that much character impression on me as the 3(D) did (ok, nether did Keen tbh).

Duke Nukem series will def be it’s own thing (like DMCs & Castlevanias), taking characters & the base premise & do its own thing. Same universe but unrelated to the games. Like comic books - the number of different ways Bruce’s parents get deaded is absurd :D (one time even due to Teen Titans actions).

Yeah, lol, didn’t know how to phrase that - down the throat would def be if he shat in the throat part of the body, but with the head you could say both (‘up’ in regards to the usual way things go down the throat but ‘down’ in regards to gravity).

I guess “down” would be the better choice, my bad.

edit: … my brainhole fucked up, he shits down the throat of the body. Why do I remember him sitting on the decapitated head? Was that in Fornever Forever?

Yes, but it’s a very good character & world/lore to build a story + the games themselves have a ton of situationally epic things in them to include or even build around them.
(If Duke doesn’t shit up the throat of a decapitated alien we riot.)

And tho there is more lore, it’s not like Castlevania and DMC are directly screen-playable, but they did a fairly good job (there are better showrunners in the genre, but I think Duky Nuky fits the chill & just barely enough complicated/just over the border of simplistic vibe of DMC show, and I’m sure won’t skip on epic cool shit, maybe even a decent joke or two … I dread the inevitably cringe oneliners).

Low centre of gravity (which they don’t adhere to anyway), adaptive aerodynamics (plane ears), sticky tires but integrated climbing equipment also.

Yeah, can’t write it down directly that he can’t high five.

The complaint of “distracted children” didn’t come from the police, it came from drivers who had to wait those “10 seconds” - but not bcs of the wait, def bcs of how it affects the children (who forget why the crossing guard is there & have convos about philosophy & art??).

And even at that it seems more parents agree with high-fiving than are opposed - so you know it was just one bitchy municipal official who lives nearby & just hates everything & everyone.

Engaging with children (who for some reason still wouldn’t get the importance of careful crossing) might be more of a benefit imho - the guard can then point out to kids who didn’t pay enough attention what they (could have) missed. You know, so they learn that its a constant thing & that the mere knowledge of it (what to answer when someone asks them) isn’t enough.
Otherwise the “guard” could just be just an umbrella holder with a sign.

(I’m sure the guard def didn’t go like: “Hey, kid, look at me, no, don’t look left or right, just concentrate on me & start walking forward! And think of an elaborate secret high five manoeuvre that lasts for 10 seconds & that I’ll def remember!”)

But drivers often do get inpatient at the delay of 10 seconds & it fucks their whole day up.
It’s not like this kids hold up traffic for 30 minutes every day.

Lollipop man

> The notorious kidnapper-murderer.
> Pic unrelated.
> The issue everyone hates him for really is all the traffic slowing.

*monetary value
(in relation to toxic culture)

(bcs value that people actuality bring to society often isn’t fairly valued in terms of money or even not at all)