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[–] [email protected] 26 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Not on this political climate.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

Came here to say something like this. Its clear that we will not get anything that benefits the real citizens.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Good thing the end of Windows support isn't the end of the story for PC at least.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Is it year of the Linux desktop yet?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

It's always been the year of the Linux desktop. tvwm made for a fine desktop.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

When was the last time you used a desktop?

For most people, their smartphone is their computer, and (globally) Android is the top used one. Android is a version of Linux, so every year for quite a while has been the Year of the Linux "desktop".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

I use a desktop all day, every day (Arch, btw) because I work a tech job.

Android is based on Linux, true but it is hardly a desktop environment (and is mostly controlled by the carrier/Google from a privacy/enshittification perspective).

I think the Steamdeck is a better example. It's converting console gamers into Linux desktop users and showing people that Linux gaming is very much possible.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 day ago

I've learned from my mistakes with Google IoT. Unless I can host things myself, preferably even before the product inevitably dies, i'm not even considering it

[–] [email protected] 52 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

How about getting forced to go open source when they abandon a product?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The problem is that many companies can't do that as they can't give you their custom server code. The only solution here would be to change design from the beginning so that devices can work without servers and are also so secure that they don't need security updates

[–] [email protected] 1 points 44 minutes ago

That is the point: The pure threat of being forced to open that code could shift the business model to not have proprietary server / cloud code at all.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Too risky. Who knows what's hiding in their code. Might be some copylefted library or a piece of code that's been copy-pasted into the project without fully complying with the copyleft requirements. Making sure this isn't the case and/or cleaning up an abandoned project can be costly and complicated. Easier for them to just kill it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Are you describing WinAmp ?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I love the distaste for the word that is opposite of left/the side of the political spectrum where fascism resides

[–] [email protected] 13 points 15 hours ago

There is actualy a definition for the term "copyleft".

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No they dont, not with the current american administration.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Whoever pays the most money makes the rules. I mean, it was always like that but they don't have to hide it nearly as much.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 17 hours ago

They convinced a good chunk of the country that it’s a good thing.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

The best weapon we have against these parasites of open source and self hosting.

Don't feed your enemy with funds.

Deny the parasite profit and engagement

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Most IoT devices that died did so because the vendor went out of business and had to shut off the servers. Most lived in hope that a last minute investment would keep them afloat. In a few other cases, it was the middleware software provider (like Google IoT) that shut down and bricked a device.

This legislation might apply to a big company that decides to discontinue a product line and could then send notices out, but most startups won't know (or admit defeat) till the last possible moment. By then it's too late.