Now get off my lawn!

THE single most right-on-the-point comment here tonight. That's exactly it.

I moved to AlmaLinux almost when it was born, but am always worried that it may get killed, just as CentOS was when IBM bought it and made it the guinea pig between Fedora and RHEL.

An institution like the CERN cannot live with that kind of instability.

ChatGPT Trump Edition.

If your last line of defense against state-sponsored spying is IP-based filtering, you are pwned. Especially with an SMS-based backdoor.

As I sad, they all have their own implementation of "Walled garden".

The Google way is not necessarily the documents standards, but they closed Android sources, prevent you from using Play Store with a rooted phone (though not impossible, they make it harder), have a documented monopoly on online advertisement... and much more shit. We're very, very far from their "Don't be evil" moto.

What do you expect from a company that tries to lock you in its ecosystem?

Same as Apple, Google, Amazon and other large corporations, each in their own way, with anticompetitive practices.

It's called vendor lock-in, and if they could, they would lock you even more in their walled garden.

Repeat after me: Never. Ever.

A very practical scapegoat, to get the attention off Trump's own insider trading...

From a "notorious hacker group"... Sorry, I can't raise my eyebrow this high.

You'd pay me to wear "smart glasses" and I wouldn't want them.

Now get off my lawn!

As with anything "creme de la creme", it was far more expensive for the exact same shit ;-)

Well I think so, but man, it was almost 32 years ago, so I can't remember exactly which one...

I remember having a 3DFX Guillemot graphics card. It was like the "creme de la creme" back in the days, end of the 90's if I am not mistaken.

It was like having a Rolls Royce.

69 nowadays is too young to die. RIP.

"Regime"? You speak like the USA is in a dict........

Nevermind.

I did the switch 9 years ago. Never looked back.

I also ditched any MShit for a self-hosted Nextcloud. I am on par with features, and for the price of an MS subscription, I got a fixed IP for hosting all my data at home, accessible from anywhere.

Not a setup for John Doe, but great for the nerd I am.