Most Linux people play games, but that was not why they started using Linux. When people who only want to game start using Linux, it will become like any other OS, where protecting the uninformed users from themselves and others will have take more priority, thus limiting choices and freedom.

Gamers will not make Linux better, Linux has been nice since most people using it has an interest in Linux or open source or programming or other values that align with the community. Meaning there is a good balance between pure users, and users who also contribute in some way ( active on forums, code, etc ).

Gamer values generally does not align or even intersect with Linux communities, and the scammers/exploiters/malwares that feed on gamers will follow them. So we get more pure users, and also pure malicious contributions (viruses, misinformation, scams masquerading as game tips etc)

To be fair though, if almost anyone had a 3D printer, only plastics would be distributed, and only the plastic that is needed.

What I mean is that you don’t have to manufacture in advance and actually ship plastic products to every corner in the world so that these plastic garbage cab sit on shelf and then end up in a landfill after not being sold for tens of years.

Basically on-demand plastic garbage production would in most cases where the amount required is not well understood be beneficial if most people did it.

Because almost everything is made in excess, and the wasteful production is just offset in cost.

First I’ll explain NAT, NAT is the root of all evil. Done

It’s interesting how both of these guys who seems to both be firmly in the “don’t break shit for the users” camp, and both are very adamant about quality of code in the kernel can’t get along, saddens me a bit.

I’m excited about bcachefs, I’m even planning a migration from btrfs, but I need to battle test my offsite backup a bit more before having the guts to walk into bcachefs land.

Might wait for 6.18,6.19 or something and follow any future drama

And you are self-sufficient, or whatever the word is. But that’s the key thing for me, not having to rely on others for my services :)

Dude above you over is under the perception that it requires 100% uptime or other users to to be classified, which is wrong. You are definitely self hosting, albeit only for yourself I assume. Which is fine

Agreed, first path towards that is decentralized identities in my opinion

Let people be excited about this if they want, I don’t think it will matter that much tbh.

Let other people suggest Linux to their friends as an alternative, maybe some of them stick to using it, while others just conclude it’s crap and move on.

You should really wonder why you get so upset from this though, it seems to cause you real harm that people might be wrong on the internet.

Federated solutions are just a step in the right direction, to be able to have people access free software and platforms, they will have to do something. Either pay (which they dont) or help provide the platforms.

The first step in helping provide the platform is probably to help host the load, to help host the load, the first thing is to be able to hold your data on your devices, the second is to be able to share your data with other devices.

The first part of being able to hold your data and share it is to own your identity and hold that locally. SSI identities help with this, that means that no server needs to hold and own your identity.

If the identity is kept safe, even though you are the one storing it on your hardware,that means the data you ship, can be trusted through signing.

Once that is the case, it’s just distribution and availability. Which there already are many solutions such as IPFS, or other CDN similar solutions, that means that volunteers can provide as much data storage/distribution as they want from their own hardware.

It all starts with owning your own identity, that enables the other solutions to be trustworthy.

Cool project!

An app?

For a good reason

Those darn lazy engineers. I mean the entire thing is basically done as you can see from the picture!

Those darn engineers just have to put it in that box and make it move, what’s the big deal. Slowpokes