As mainstream software and operating system environments become increasingly weighed down with AI bloat, data mining, adware, and anti-features; projects both new and old such as Linux, BSD, Redox, and even esoteric and more niche projects like 9front are ever more important. - ThreadSky

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totooria.bsky.social • 49 days ago

As mainstream software and operating system environments become increasingly weighed down with AI bloat, data mining, adware, and anti-features; projects both new and old such as Linux, BSD, Redox, and even esoteric and more niche projects like 9front are ever more important.

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totooria.bsky.social•49 days ago

In a recent episodes of @edzitron.com's podcast, one of his guests (I can't recall if it was Robert or Gare) brought up Linux in a jumbled conversation about the general atmosphere of the show at CES and the larger tech industry.

totooria.bsky.social•49 days ago

Trying to communicate the value and usefulness of not only FOSS projects but 'fringe' and otherwise non-monolith (see my at-this-point ancient blog post) software is incredibly difficult.

https://lucyvin.com/post/digital-self-reliance-primer/

totooria.bsky.social•49 days ago

Ultimately, people are going to use whatever software is most accessible. This might mean its interoperability with other software in a suite of applications, the availability of software to run, or the ease of use and onboarding.

totooria.bsky.social•49 days ago

There are about a million subtopics within this larger conversation, it's a series in and of itself if someone really wanted to dig into it. The jargon trap, community hostility, etc. all make it very hard to get people who aren't Linux/FOSS/etc. sickos like me to grasp the weight of the problem.

totooria.bsky.social•49 days ago

To be clear, I don't mean that in some 'holier-than-thou' kind of way. I think you should use whatever software works best for you. I also think the companies or groups making that software should /respect/ you. Increasingly, they do not.

totooria.bsky.social•49 days ago

Anyways I wrote a rambly kind of post about this recently that I eventually plan to synthesize into something more cogent, but for now it exists as just another shortish post on my blog. Read if you want.

https://lucyvin.com/post/linux-is-simple

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