fulano @ fulano @lemmy.eco.br

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Let's invert the question: what makes it worth the switch? If I'm going to change something, you have to prove why it's worth, not me proving why I shouldn't.

I used to think like that, but now I think about it in a different way.

These small distros often come with new approaches the big distros aren't willing to risk yet, or provide an alternative to their dependence. Most of them will fail, but they're important for bringing innovation to the linux-based OSes space.

Small distros come and go, but sometimes, even if they fail, their proposed idea gets integrated into the main ones, and that's a bonus.

That particular one might not be so innovative, because there are already big distros pushing the immutable system concept, but, is doing the same while maintained by community effort, uses debian as a base, and focus on ease of usage. I think it still adds some value to the community

App lounge looks really interesting.

When I first heard about /e/ os, it looked a bit too weird, and I was too skeptical, but they're growing so nice and creating interesting tools. I think I will give the project a shot.

No, but they accepted to publish political fake news ads for one of the running parties (the fascistoid one, of course) in the last elections here in Brazil.

That party has lost, but it was too close. In the 4 last years, during their mandate, hunger, violence, discrimination rape, and other problems rose to the highest levels in the century.

Google and other big tech companies have been influencing elections in a lot of places, and the consequences are enormous.

People also have that tendency to personify AIs. I don't really understand why.

Would be even better if we did our own on lemmy.

The thing with grapheneos is that it's not available to anyone. For example, pixel devices are extremely overpriced here in brazil. So, the best we can do is something like lineageos or /e/.

Such definitions are becoming more and more complicated. I think we should standardize a name for the family of systems we use, or it will become uglier and uglier.

Recently, I had to write an academic work in the area, and an entire section was dedicated to explaining this controversy and defining what kind of system I was talking about, so that the work is reproducible.

Everything adds a little. Another thing happening are the newer Windows versions requiring stupidly high minimum requirements, pushing people with older machines into alternatives.

You can simply replace the charging dock cable (it's sold for cheap on places like aliexpress) or, if more adventurous, replace the port (requires good soldering skills).

Looks like your boxes will soon need to meet a new antarctic friend.

8GB minimum RAM is a lot of requirement for an OS. It makes Microsoft look like they have forgotten what an OS is supposed to be doing.

I wonder if they have plans for the developing countries, or if they will support windows 10 for much longer, because, if they expect most of us to meet the minimum specs, they're crazy.

And without google tracking your used apps.

I joined the community before the 1% mark. It has been such a nice journey.

When you get your tablet ready for usage, you definitely need to post here, so we will know the conclusion of your saga :D

It goes against the base principle, but, at the same time, is something quite possible to happen if things get out of control. Decentralization is complex, and brings several challenges for everyone to face.

You made a great point. This is exactly my issue with piracy. I believe it's a movement in the wrong direction, because it actually benefits the big media in the end.

Sorry, I was trying to make a joke, but didn't work well, apparently.

By the way, I've heard about that case. It was very interesting to see how people are trying to use chatgpt, despite all warnings that it can provide false data.

Yes, it's possible. This link has a list of desktop distros supporting kde mobile at the bottom of the page: https://plasma-mobile.org/get/

Hold on, piracy isn't necessarily not caring about copyright, but can be (and is, in a lot of cases), about fighting against the big corporations who take advantage of historically abusive copyright laws to dominate the market and prevent small authors and companies from surviving.

These AI companies, despite being copyright violators, are much closer to the big IP monopolists than the small authors, which are victims of both groups.