Big Baby Thor

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  • Been using CachyOS as a daily driver for a year now, for dev work, office work and some media work. It’s helped to eek out some extra performance thanks to using build flags for system packages that are built according to modern CPUs.

    Would I recommend or for newcomers? Not really. But that’s because it still does require using the terminal for system management. But they’re also working on fixing that.









  • Then build out more infrastructure, for Gods sake. Take the Texas grid for instance. It’s held together with duct tape and spit. Just the wind blowing the wrong way and suddenly half the state’s without electricity.

    The answer is to use public spending, because the power companies want artificially low supply, since that means they make more money.

    Of course you also need to install new infrastructure to let consumers also offset the grid, but again: artificially low supply.

    It’s basically a rigged market at the behest of the power companies. You could innovate, but there’s less money in that in the long run - so you won’t.






  • Read history, bro - instead of suckling at the feet of Putin. Martial law does not exclude democracy, as democracy is more than national elections and representative democracy (not that you’d know anything about that) - but a change in government can actively sabotage defences and weaken a nation to be overrun by a foreign agressor 👏 while 👏 the 👏 nation 👏 is 👏 being 👏 invaded.

    But tell me how Maripol being leveled is somehow good for renovation plans.


  • What part of martial law do you not understand?

    A country being invaded can be and will be overthrown if possible. In fact, it’s been done many times in European imperialist history.

    That’s why the clause exists, even before democracy was normalized in Europe. Just find someone else in line for procession and install a puppet prince.

    It’s even been abused. Some speculate that Trump would trigger martial law to stay in office - or even Netenyahu himself clinging to power.

    In the end you don’t want a captured government. That’s also historically been really bad.



  • There’s a lot of writing and history behind open source, open firmware and even open hardware, but the BIGGEST thing you can focus on is the transition from PCs to smartphones around the 2000s.

    We went from you installing whatever boot loader and operating system that could run on your device, to a locked down boot loader that would only load the vendors operating system.

    They hide behind security through obscurity, but it’s been debunked. The boot loader and even firmwares of devices have in certain cases been found to be gushing gashes of CVEs and bad coding - but only through decompilation and reverse engineering. In fact, after the 5 year warranty of your device is up, you should consider the security of your device highly suspect.

    The true purpose for an exclusive locked down boot loader is to maintain operating system monopoly, force uninstallable apps/services on a user, to then be able to track & canvas the user to sell on the data brokerage market - not to mention planned obsolescence, because if you can’t freely modify and update your firmware and/or boatloader, you could secure it for more than 5 years.

    For a more balanced take and to see “both sides”, read this

    Other than that, the LibreBoot mailing list will help you to unearth the hypocrisy and lies fed to us by hardware vendors.

    Free the firmware, free the bootloader, free the operating system, free the drivers, free the software - and then the user can decide wether or not they want to run commercial software on top of all this.

    Anything else is subservience.