It’s called Plutonium or something. They do have the equivalent of Nitro.

I wish they’d do a cheap “Nitro Classic” style tier, rather than just having only “Nitro Premium”.

It certainly is. Rights for some and not others aren’t rights, they’re privileges, which we all know can be easily taken away.

Certainly, but we’re not there (yet). Fretting about all the possible negative possibilities might feel like preparation, but your time would be better spent finding ways to protect our digital sovereignty/privacy, which is a good thing regardless of the market or political conditions.

Yep, notice how I said “another time.” The parallel with current happenings is not lost on me.

I mean, we’re talking about a hobby project operating system, not people who support a different governing system (also, they were arrested and executed during another time in history when “radicals” and immigrants were particularly hated by those in power).

I appreciate the concern, but I don’t think those stories are really that analogous. Nobody in the government is currently worried that a bunch of programmers are stoking the fires of rebellion, though if they start trying to say that “Linux is the operating system of antifa,” then we might need to start worrying.

Regarding the hypothetical anti-Linux marketing, Linux is not that big of a market. It shows promising growth, but it’s not even 10% of the desktop market. Microsoft leads hand over fist, and Apple has its own giant cult.

I don’t see them spending much effort to scare/entice people away from Linux, because they’re not really a threat. On top of that, Linux is its own deterrent, because people still don’t realize that opening a terminal is becoming more optional all the time.

Until Linux breaks 10%, which is still less than half of Apple, I don’t think they’ll really care.

I’m sure that was an added benefit, but the market share of Linux users is not that big to give a political care about. This was likely a result of effective lobbying to the right people willing to listen to reason.

ETA: I’m still against Age Verification, and throwing Linux a bone doesn’t change that.

But could you recreate it with $30mil and AI‽

/s

And hoo boy, you should see the bearded influencer chuds pushing this slopfest.

It is currently more than that, and it even has its own repos/mirrors, but the fact that basically every rich person is throwing money at this project should be a huge warning sign to everyone to avoid this.

But at the end of the day, it’s nothing revolutionary. It’s customized Linux with a tiling window manager, all funded by billionaires and developed by a turbo racist.

The thing is, they’re trying to force the market by actual force rather than slow and methodical coercion. US hegemony is over, because the buffoon in chief, who is terrible at domestic business, is also bad at foreign business. Shocking, I know.

Yep, I agree with all of that. The original source here is specifically using LoRA, which is why I focused upon it, but Reticulum is certainly more than that.

I think we may be talking about different things. When I originally said “emergency comms,” another way to say that would be “ad hoc communications in a disaster scenario.” I was imagining coordinating teams and disseminating information in a scenario where typical radio stations might be damaged or otherwise unavailable.

It seems that when you say “emergency,” you’re imagining a person who needs immediate medical intervention. For that purpose, I agree that I wouldn’t rely upon LoRA technology unless it was literally the only viable option.

I’m actually interested in your reasoning why you feel that way. Care to expand on that?

Reticulum is a great project, but it’s not a replacement for the internet. LoRA (a potential piece in that chain) has very low data throughput; it’s fine for messages, but you’re not delivering web pages or streaming media with it.

Unless and until the throughput can be increased, Meshtastic/Meshcore is really only a replacement for text messaging, which might be perfectly fine for setting up encrypted comms or rapidly deploying communications in an emergency scenario.

What’s the point with this artifial intelligence race anyways?

Free labor. Humans are expensive, but robot slaves are comparatively cheap (hypothetically).

Ultracapitalists have a harder time getting a slave labor force, so robots that can think like people are the next best thing for that purpose.

$Mn = Monopoly Dollars

In a twist, Meta couldn’t immediately produce the funds, because its AI had destroyed every copy in its possession after being used for training data.

I took an online course sponsored by Google years ago, when AI was but a twinkle in tech bros’ eyes, and one of the Gemini voices is 1000% the presenter of that course.

I mean, I’m not gonna buy them, but I still enjoy the dad joke.