doesn’t lead toxicity cause aggressive behavior? Seems like a pretty bad mix. Almost like you could hypothesize a correlation between our current political climate and lead exposure.

Wouldn’t it be crazy if we could solve a big chunk of our political issues by just banning lead in stuff?

Huh, Nura? I like the name PostmarketOS better, but that’s just me.

Cool that you got it working with ai, but I hope that doesn’t become a standard in device porting. Sure with proper vetting the code can be ensured to be maintainable, but that code had to come from somewhere. These systems don’t just magically know how to make software work, so it sounds like they’re probably just referencing code somewhere else that could be under any kind of copyright. Sounds like a legal nightmare waiting to happen.

The thing I’m really hoping for is these general purpose mobile Linux systems being ported to the plethora of bootleg retro handhelds out there. The majority of these devices already have unlocked bootloaders and are super friendly to third party firmware. The problem is people are only porting these hyper minimalist emulation-focused Linux builds when there’s so much untapped potential.

Literally just defaults. The average person does not care what their operating system is, and will just run whatever is already on their computer.

Kind of a dubious claim, in the context of Windows not having nearly as much market dominance as they used to, and Linux adoption being far higher than it used to. Linux as a platform now has enough of a userbase that even companies like Epic are beginning to take it seriously.

Meanwhile reviews of Windows these days are so nearly universally poor, they are basically coasting on nothing but the inertia of their own previous success - which is eroding.

Edit: I do want to also acknowledge though that if someone is reducing their meat consumption, that is great too. Any effort helps.

This isn’t necessarily true. I’ve seen interviews with plant-based health coaches who’ve talked about adherence being better when people do jump all in with a plant-based lifestyle. That’s what worked for me too, partly motivated by what I saw in documentaries about factory farms and slaughterhouses, and partly motivated by seeing my own family members die from preventable diseases way younger than they could have lived. Our choices have consequences, so there is urgency.

I went all in for as long as I could, messed up, then immediately tried again and pushed for even longer. Eventually something clicked in my mind and I knew, “I literally don’t even need or want this.”

Uh dude, you’re talking about eating animals. What, you think I’m gonna be like, “Yeah eat those crickets! Fuck those guys!”?

But also, in this case I was more criticizing your dramatics about cyberpunk dystopias. Like yeah, meat is unsustainable, so of course things like this will happen. What does that leave? The stuff you should be eating more anyway.

This is the play.

Meanwhile legumes: am I a joke to you?

Miraculous nitrogen fixing nutritional powerhouses with more culinary flexibility than virtually everything else out there, and y’all are so averse to putting some plants in your mouth that you’d start talking about resorting to eating bugs.

To be fair I do regularly take algae oil supplements I guess. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The restrictions on commercial use are what make it unqualified as an open-source license.

No they’re right, cc-nc-sa is not open source or freedom respecting.

Edit: I’ll elaborate. The core principles of the free software movement will follow. All other definitions not only do not conflict with this basic definition, but often expand on it with additional rights expectations. The Four Freedoms:

• The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).

• The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1).

• Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

• The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others (freedom 2).

• The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

Restrictions on commercial use are a suppression on freedoms 2 and 3, and notably (at least as far as I’m aware), none of the licenses to come out of the FSF have commercial restrictions.

And in the Open-Source definition, it’s literally in rule 1:

1. Free Redistribution

The license shall not restrict any party from selling or giving away the software as a component of an aggregate software distribution containing programs from several different sources. The license shall not require a royalty or other fee for such sale.

In a sense I do think this kind of approach matters more than people give it credit for. Most people tend to see piracy as a way to consume media without supporting the rightsholders of that media, but even pirated consumption is still support.

A person who is, say, pirating Harry Potter books and other media is still giving Rowling and her franchise and ideas space in their head, maybe contributing to further conversations about her, and overall inadvertently promoting her whether they like it or not - as opposed to having used that time and energy to consume media from someone more worth the time and effort, like say, Ursula Le Guin.

For example I was watching a video from a YouTuber who does controller reviews. In that video he briefly mentioned two controllers that were of such poor quality that they were literally unusable. He went on to say that he would not be making videos about them, because he found that even when he goes out of his way to give a controller the worst review possible, tons of people still buy them.

Personally, I think that information freedom matters enough that anything published under licenses that are more restrictive than copyleft, permissive ones, or straight public domain is unethical. If private property is theft, and it is, that absolutely extends into knowledge and culture as well. If I were a purist about that, I would go out of my way to use things like the fully free Linux distros, and only consume media under those aforementioned licenses. Truth be told I don’t though, I do pirate corporate media sometimes. But I do try to give space where it counts too - trying to use some time and energy to seek out any kind of media that’s more open.

Tl;dr: play Battle for Wesnoth.

Also, fuck Proton.

This setup is telling me you’re spending too much time on computers. Consider a hobby where you make something with your hands, using tools that aren’t electrified.

I’m aware of this. The problem I have is that it basically means they are subsidizing large segments of our economy, making us more dependent on them. More dependence gives them more leverage, and eventually only continues this back and forth we have now.

I still support it, as I said previously. But it’s never going to solve the root problems, which are executives and corporations as institutions. They need to be supplanted.

While I’m in favor of increasing taxes on the rich if given the option, it’s always felt like such a bandaid measure. Our society should be structured in a way that doesn’t produce these people in the first place.

To give good advice I’d have to know what your budget is, and what systems and games you’re most interested in playing.

For now I will just introduce you to the wonderful world of retro handhelds by way of a well known youtuber:

https://m.youtube.com/@RetroGameCorps/videos