I’d be interested to try their distro when it’s done…

I’ll just need to remove the french language pack first. Let me look up instructions for that real quick… Oh no…

With the resources they have – and the goal of having security and control over their digital supply lines – I don’t see why they wouldn’t roll their own distro. Maybe heavily based on an existing distro (looking at you, Debian) but something that’s completely under their control, so they can choose for themselves exactly what packages are included, what security settings are used as defaults, when and if to update things, etc.

Edit: after (gasp) actually reading the article, it seems that each department within the French government will be responsible for their own implementation, which means they might all end up using different distros in different departments.

Yeah, that’s why I included the word ‘openly’ in there.

more-and-more a hyper focused bubble of what you want to hear, and only what you want to hear

*and only what Elon Musk wants you to hear.

There are plenty of mainstream platforms to reach such people on that aren’t owned by (openly) Nazi billionaires.

Well, better late than never.

So you’re saying we can sabotage the robots and improve public transit infrastructure at the same time?

Maybe if it starts costing them money. Until then, nope.

Disease is still a thing in the MLP universe. And so are crime and capitalism, though to a much lesser extent, usually.

The forced cockfights are a wild thing, sure, but they’re never (or at least very rarely) permanently injured from it, and (at least supposedly) a lot of them seem to enjoy doing it. And going by the anime style, battles don’t happen every time you walk in front of someone – it’s usually more of an arranged challenge that you’re free to decline if you’re busy or just don’t feel like it.

Plus, on the disease front, in the Pokemon universe, you could get injured or diseased, sure, but there are a lot of things in that universe with mysterious healing powers that might be able to fix you up – not just pokemon with healing moves (which sometimes seem to also work on humans?), but also just a lot of random semi-mystical places and objects that have healing properties. Then again, MLP probably has some pretty good medicine too, with all the magic and potions and whatnot.

I’m starting to think the biggest differentiator here is the danger factor. In the Pokemon world, even young children can freely explore pretty much wherever they want, without needing to worry too much about their safety. But in the MLP universe, the edges of the map are full of very dangerous places that only the most hardened adventurers would ever dare to visit, with very dangerous and hostile creatures in them. Once you get outside the boundaries of Equestria proper, that world is a very dangerous place.

Oh, and Pokemon has much more prolific and advanced technology… If I’d like to continue watching movies and chatting on the internet, Pokemon is the way to go.

Wait a minute… I’ve been going about this all wrong!

I’m an author! I could make a fictional universe, perfectly tailored to exactly what I want! Pokemon/MLP/furry crossover with immortality, no significant danger or disease, transformation at will, rampant horniness, and Fully Automated Luxury Communism! Let’s fucking go!

Really torn between My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and Pokemon.

No big evil.

Except, you know, for big bad supervillain types who – with troubling regularity – come up with plans that will destroy the entire region/world. (But it’s okay, you can usually count on some plucky 11-year-old kid to come along and defeat them.)

Yep. Definitely a great choice, and way up there for me.

A universe where basically everyone goes to ‘the bad place’ to be tortured for all eternity?

Hm… Maybe … but I’m also shopping around for a universe that includes immortality.

you do know at some point the whole ‘hallucinations’ line is going to be as fresh as calling things ‘woke’, right?

The truth doesn’t care whether it’s “fresh” or not.

As long as AI still hallucinates, it will be useful for entertainment purposes only and never for anything as serious as healthcare.

your life with ai will look the same.

lol, tell that to every other business fad that has come and gone.

The AI bubble will pop, the economy will crash, and in the long run, that will be a good thing.

Ah, I see you speak from experience.

A 30-year old woman hanging out with people who are 20-29?

That’s extremely predatory, especially with the 29 year olds. A 29 year old is basically just a child, and at the age of 30, she should be well aware of that, despite the coma. It’s creepy and gross for a 30 year old to hang out with a 29 year old. In fact, once you turn 30, you should probably never speak to or look at anyone even slightly younger than yourself, just to be safe. Be sure to say goodbye to any younger siblings before your 30th birthday – you won’t be seeing them for a while. Personally, a 30 year old tried to hang out with me once while I was 29, and it was absolutely devastating. I’m still in therapy because of that, even a decade afterwards. My therapist says I’m making great progress! However, she’s 33 and I’m 39, and my birthday is just about a week from now, so obviously I won’t be able to go back to therapy for the next 7 years or so.

Forgot one ugly bastard of a giant lumbering in the background: oil subsidies.

so you can do a lightweight desktop based on Ubuntu.

Honestly, I suspect the main issue here is Gnome.

Despite their insistence on ‘simplicity’ and ‘elegance’, Gnome is by far the most resource-hungry DE that exists in the Linux ecosystem.

That, and maybe snap packages. It can’t be good for RAM usage to have every app trying to load its own independent system of dependencies. That’s got to lead to a lot of duplication in dependencies loaded into RAM.

I’m using my 2016 Chromebook with 2GB until it literally dies. (Sucker has 16+ hours of battery life. Pretty nice, actually!)