r/politics hounds don’t know how to not imperialize other communities constantly.

fewer reposts from reddit, fewer reddit copycat communities, fewer redditors.

There are other mobile OSs besides Android and iOS. That being said, iOS is one of the most locked-down restrictive platforms on the planet, and any “freedom” you have now can be taken away in a single update as soon as Apple gets an angry letter from Nintendo or the RIAA or whatever.

Mocking enablers of zionist ethnic cleansing is edgy? You must’ve gotten lost on your way back to the r/politics DNC corpomedia grifter cult.

Geno·cider Fas·cist

Odysee is a right wing grifter platform, use peertube instead.

vscode is bloated, switch to emacs

emacs is bloated, switch to vim

vim is bloated, switch to vi

vi is bloated, switch to ed

ed is bloated, switch to cat

w3m, as weird as that sounds, for image drawing. links graphical mode is nice, but I’m not a fan of its keybindings, and w3mimagedisplay is hacky at best, to say the least.

How much Microsoft stock is that worth?

As a BSD user, I’m downvoting for the implication Alpine and Devuan are less standardized and portable than Redshat distros; did IBM pay you well, OP?

Electronic Frontier Foundation, maybe.

because a system I worked on was just a bunch of Perl scripts in a trench coat pretending to be a program.

Hmm… OpenBSD ports system and package manager?

Even if we all die, consciousness can evolve again.

Yay! Time to re-evolve and make all the same mistakes again! Infinite suffering, forever!

Nuclear annihilation is the least painful route we can take.

Proprietary centralized corporate mass surveillance and propaganda platform, like the rest of them. Trash garbage, avoid at all costs.

Is Alpine Linux obscure? Well, using it as a desktop is obscure, I guess. The decision to use musl libc is the main limiting factor for desktop usage, but thanks to the existence of runtime package managers like flatpak and/or static linking, you can run basically anything that requires glibc on Alpine these days (at the expense of extra disk usage for glibc libs).

If you don’t know much about Alpine, it is an extremely lightweight Linux distro designed primarily for containers and virtualization, that ships with busybox and musl libc. It’s basically the closest you can get to GNU/Linux without the GNU. The main appeal to me is the simplicity of the tooling and installation, it’s the only Linux distribution I’ve used that gives me a similar vibe to OpenBSD. The defaults are almost perfect, but the first thing I would do when installing it is install the docs metapackage (otherwise you have no manpages), and optionally replace busybox with coreutils and friends (personally can’t stand how non-posix compliant busybox is). I’d also replace the default busybox ash shell with a nice kornlike such as oksh, a clone of the OpenBSD shell.

Honestly, good enough for my usecases.

Debiain’t

Production/Laptop

Framework laptop with x86 Intel CPU, running OpenBSD. All drivers are free, non-free firmware includes intel, inteldrm, iwx (intel wireless device), uvideo (webcam), vmm (virtual machine). BIOS/UEFI is closed.

Hopefully intel, inteldrm, and vmm firmware can be removed after I switch to the RISC-V mainboard that is releasing for the Framework 13 inch soon. iwx firmware can be removed as soon as OpenBSD has better atheros drivers, whenever that patch arrives (or whatever other foss wireless card comes along). uvideo firmware might be unnecessary, but I haven’t checked.

FOSS score: Medium-Low, after switching mainboard, Good.

Phone

OG Pinephone running postmarketOS. I don’t think there’s any non-free firmware (GPU maybe?). ARM64 CPU, only closed firmware I know of is the modem, which I’ve replaced with a free version here. Don’t know about the UEFI/BIOS.

FOSS score: Good, Medium if UEFI/BIOS is closed or there is non-free firmware.

Gaming

Steam Deck, x86 AMD cpu, running proprietary SteamOS. May replace the OS at some point if a good alternative comes along, as SteamOS’s immutable design and lack of real package manager besides flatpak annoys me.

FOSS score: Terrible, will always be Terrible because of all the games, even after replacing the OS.

I’m too deep in USPol brainrot to know if this is sarcastic or not