I was traveling when the linux llm shite broke so I didn't get much of a chance to scream in to the void so here I am

I was traveling when the linux llm shite broke so I didn't get much of a chance to scream in to the void so here I am. I have said as much before, but I think people underestimate what percentage of their definition of 'usable computer' is only possible by the grace of companies. If your idea of usable operating system precludes a modern web browser I hope you have friends at google or mozilla. If your idea of a usable operating system is one with working modern GPU drivers I hope you have friends at Nvidia or AMD. In other words, corporate interests have already captured your favorite popular operating system and have tied their own insurmountable(by outsiders for the most part) work to the very definition of what a ie functional linux system is for desktop use.Point is, if you want if you want anti-llm operating systems and software, you know where to find it, you just cant expect it to coexist with corporate interests and perhaps we could be a bit more honest about how much that impacts what folks define as a 'usable' system.I say this, posting from a linux install, so I sit comfortably in my glass house. However I think we need to stop fooling ourselves in to thinking linux or any product propped up by corporate involvement as anything but a corporate product. Expect no better of Torvalds than you would the CEO of Microsoft, their money comes from the same place after all.

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a@pdx.social · 0 pts · 4h

@moody @jrsharp This is a little simplistic (but only a little): I do think it’s genuinely significant that the FreeBSD, NetBSD, and (ahem) Plan 9 Foundations are 501(c)(3) organizations (and OpenBSD is whatever the Canadian equivalent is) while the Linux Foundation is a 501(c)(6). They’re literally a trade org that exists for the benefit of their corporate members. Does exactly what it says on the tin.

mansalia@social.maid.zone · 0 pts · 14h (2 replies)

@moody
Switch to ReactOS I guess.

ozzelot@mstdn.social · 0 pts · 13h (1 reply)

@mansalia
Or Haiku. Or 9front. Or NetBSD.
@moody

mansalia@social.maid.zone · 0 pts · 9h

@ozzelot @moody
Yeah lol try doing any real work on those.

lispi314@udongein.xyz · 0 pts · 15h

@moody > Point is, if you want if you want anti-llm operating systems and software, you know where to find it,

Do I?

Savagejen@mastodon.social · 0 pts · 15h (2 replies)

@moody I can disable weird shit I don't want in my linux distro much easier than I can in a closed source option. I don't expect things to ship to my specifications, but I do want control over my systems so I can make them work the way I want them to work.

moody@hj.9fs.net · 0 pts · 15h (1 reply)

@Savagejen@mastodon.social Yeah let me just get a usable Linux distro without dbus... Ah wait.

lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me · 0 pts · 12h

@moody @Savagejen Well can be done on Gentoo (my systems don't have dbus, among few other things I tossed out).
Bit of an outlier distro but at least can install it from gentoo-built packages since few years ago, so less an outlier than it used to be.