We’re a deeply un-serious country.

In an economy that viscerally sucks already, this is just another body blow.

Good luck. At my shop, we extended from a 36-month refresh cycle to “when the hardware is no longer capable of running a supported operating system”.

SMBs can’t absorb these hardware costs.

No surprises there. They’re more difficult to drive and have bigger blind spots. Yet, Americans love them even when they don’t need the added space.

Literally the only thing I want from modern vehicles is blind spot cameras. And you could argue that’s not particularly modern since they’ve been available for over a decade.

Otherwise, today’s new vehicles are privacy dystopias and it’s becoming quite difficult to find a decent sedan for a midrange price. I have no interest in light trucks or SUVs.

In short, we’ll be sticking with my ICE 2012 Toyota Avalon and 2015 BMW until they stop running. I would like to buy an EV to pair with our solar panels and insulate myself from the whims of the bitch baby in the White House.

But I think I basically can’t do that without giving up my privacy.

Everything sucks.

Thanks for the clarification. I am relatively new to arch.

I think I’d be satisfied with just not allowing people to take over orphaned packages. That seems like a glaring attack vector and closing it would not harm the AUR in any way.

And yea, arch (and its derivatives) probably should not ship with AUR helpers pre-installed.

So uh, what’s that mean for Senua–the game that they literally just announced at their showcase less than a week ago?

I realize that I am part of the problem. Unfortunately, I am not motivated to build anything in the tech sector atm. There is no sense of duty or redemption that could override the dread I feel for working in tech. Hopefully that fades with time. But for now, I think any future contributions that I make to society will be in other domains such as politics or social services.

I wasn’t bragging. I was stating reality and how my situation would be a lot more dire without financial autonomy. I feel for those who are not so fortunate and I don’t think it’s acceptable that we’re basically hollowing out the middle class.

Unbelievably naive.

I hear what you’re saying. But as of right now, I have no interest in any of it. The minute I start my workday, I’m already looking forward to turning everything off so I can go do something else. This whole digital information economy is repulsive to me.

I think I’m basically done after my current rig dies. I have no interest in being a peasant in some techno feudalist dystopia. Instead, I’ve been dedicating more time to reading books, writing, traveling, some retro gaming, and working around the house.

It’s enough for me.

These days, as a tech worker, I immediately log out at the end of my workday and shut everything down. I have no further interest. It’s not fun anymore. Frankly, I don’t think I can last until retirement in this space even if my job isn’t automated. I could retire today if I wanted to. But most people aren’t in that situation and I have no idea what I would do if I didn’t have the financial autonomy that I enjoy. And I got here–in part–by building parts of the platforms that harm us (social media). So that feels great.

We live in a dystopia. Everything fucking sucks.

At least for now, the consumer DIY PC market as we know it is gone.

It is FOSS.

And securely hosting a password manager that is accessible over WAN links is beyond the capability of most users.

Gr8. Yet another critical service soon to be gobbled up by PE. I guess I’m moving to Proton Pass.

Cool. Just canceled my sub. Back to Freetube it is.

Good. As an American, fuck Microsoft. And fuck Trump.

They can fuck right off.

For the foreseeable future, DIYPC is dead.

The other thing you’ll need is for compliance and risk management frameworks (e.g. CMMC, ISO27001, CIS, etc.) to fully embrace Linux controls and environments. As of right now, it’s a patchwork full of holes and if you need to demonstrate compliance, it’s likely to be a lot more challenging running Linux workstations.

It’s such a shame to see high-performance computing and gaming more broadly become largely unaffordable. Hell, prior to the DRAM shortage, the current-generation game consoles were already MORE EXPENSIVE than they were at launch. And it’s just going to get worse.