“Waiver Expiration: This permission to receive updates for existing routers is currently scheduled to last until at least March 1, 2027, at which point the agency will re-evaluate.”
I didn’t realize this either until this persons comment you replied to. Scary as fucking hell shit dude. Honestly. We have lost so much freedom over the years.
I think they will, but I will wait and see confirmation before I go scorched earth and re install another version of Linux.
I know ultimately that you are right though, but I stills expect pushback and I’m hoping all this shit just gets overturned or an exclusion made for FOSS at the very least.
I would wait and be very vocal about not wanting it in the forums and stuff first.
This isn’t decided and nothing has been added yet at the time of me writing this.
It deserves to be ridiculed and shot down through so that it never makes it through but the problem is Red Hat is an American company.
So I always knew this was going to happen to fedora. Still though, let’s see what happens.
Oh yeah! I forgot about that one. Crazy times ahead for everyone.
I read it and just like the systemd merge, this isn’t the end for this.
We can circle back when it turns into full blown identification standards though if its more comfortable for you to come to terms with the reality then.
Also, “won’t necessarily send the data anywhere” isn’t exactly comforting.
Lol I remember watching that YouTube video about a north Korean phone that took screenshots every few minutes.
Freedom™
I already got BSD on a spare laptop. Granted it was freeBSD and I think I might switch to OpenBSD since the latter’s foundation is Canadian and not US based.
But yeah if they go through with this I will be uninstalling it off my gaming machine and switching to Arch 100%. I really appreciated that line about it “not being April fools” when it was introduced in their github thread.
Oh wait, there aren’t people chiming in to call me and others a fucking idiot and a stupid man child and all the other talking points for suggesting that the systemd merge was going to escalate?
Fascinating. I wonder where they all went. Maybe they’re on the BSD forums now, but somehow I doubt it.
Dude right wouldn’t it be wild if instead of taking as many nickels dimes and pennies as humanly and economically possible for any and every single purchase you just took like, still an insane life changing amount that would make you rich and were able to provide for your entire family on and put everyone else out of business?
“Turns out instead of taking 80% profit margins I got 30% instead and that’s how I put Amazon out of business” meanwhile you’re still able to be stinking rich with more than any human could possibly ever spend in 100 lifetimes.
Ah, I see you are not an American billionaire.
I was thinking this too like “I’d be the lobbyist you would want to be lobbying”
You know I think about this all the time. A lot of those rich fucks are on the hook for meetings and bulshit all the time. If I had to wake up at 430 am every morning to get ready for meetings would it even be worth it to be rich?
We’ll… Yes, probably lol but still it makes me feel better about it. At least I can kind of choose myown schedule with my current job. Not rich but I do get to sleep in sometimes.
And sometimes, every once in a while, that is priceless.
Surveillance.
He probably means Neuro Divergent
This is true but I always felt like there was an ulterior motive behind it.
Like wow all of a sudden MicroSoft cares about open source code and contribution? I always felt like they did it to figure out how add backdoors into stuff somehow but then again I am a paranoid person and always assume the worst with companies in the tech field
Holy shit this is insane!
Microsoft is truly one of the worst companies for the user experience in my opinion. Its like they hate their users.
I finally got fed up with it last year and blocked the internet access of my TV on the router level becuase upon contacting support I learned that there was no way to turn off the microphone setting. For real. They just didn’t add that feature in to my model. I still can’t believe that.
It is a little incovneient that I have to turn on my PC before I can watch anything but man the freedom of knowing that TV won’t be spying on me 24/7 is freeing.
Next time I buy I will be looking for commercial displays with HDMI and DisplayPort if its even possible by then.
I’d be shocked if any other country let’s Americans use their banks and markets but I mean I guess its possible I know there’s forex and stuff like that.
I’ve always heard no one wants Americans to open bank accounts if they aren’t living there
For sure and maggots in pasta sauce and all kinds of other fun stuff. You can’t take stuff like that out completely in mass produced food.
Although, that was pretty bad for them to have issued a recall the FDA usually isn’t too strict so it was probably pretty bad.
But I was just making a joke because you were like “damn why don’t these taste the same” and its like, boom rat shit. I know it wasn’t in the chips but it was just funny to me.
Neither is a bank account though either. And one is sanction proof, the other isn’t.