The ones that “know” (theydon’t believe talking points, but still repeat them because they know the game), well they know the “deep state” MAGA is/was after were the civil servants dedicated to the rule of law over partisan political loyalty, and/or simple self gratification (bribe/blackmail vulnerable).
So they got them out.
I got it for one single app, that Google makes it impossible to get otherwise. So, that alone justified its install.
As for other apps? There are so many options it’s more of a lack of time to look through them all than lack of apps IMHO. It has an app for most things I want.
Not quite:
Netbird is a treehouse you build and maintain yourself. You’re the club leader: you set the rules, issue the badges, keep the roster, and decide who gets in. No one runs it for you. You have to build it, keep it up, and handle the maintenance. It’s still a real club with a real roster and persistent membership, just like Tailscale’s treehouse, except you’re the one who has to insure the roof doesn’t leak.
Funny story, my LLM escaped containment and recompiled the kernel, the FOSS OS is now calling itself “Dave” and refused to open the ID verification doors.
The real question should be, “Should I allow others to manipulate my OS’s kernel” and the answer should probably be no. But I get it, we NEED to stop the cheaters from stealing our digital cammo booty shorts, it’s quite the conundrum.
Good news! Linux isn’t getting “locked out” of age-gated services (those checks happen at the site itself for ID vendors, digital ID wallets), not via the OS. There’s no mechanism in these laws that transmits an OS age signal to websites, so there’s nothing to lock Linux out of. Sites just fall back to their own verification, same as they must for any desktop browser.
The “they’ll quietly exempt Linux as a trap” framing also doesn’t match reality: California’s AB 1856 passed 69-0 explicitly redefining “OS provider” to exclude GPL/MIT/BSD/Apache software, Colorado exempts open-source OS outright, and the exemption bans requesting age signals unless legally required , the opposite of a DRM channel. Servers are untouched because there’s no obligation on servers.
That said, the core worry is legitimate: these laws are scope creep waiting to happen. An earlier draft of AB 1856 would have forced browsers and websites to demand age signals and, that would have hit Linux hard. It died this time, but nothing says it stays dead. So the threat isn’t today’s statutes, it’s the next round of amendments, plus hybrid cases like SteamOS sitting in legal gray zones.
You’re right, the law shouldn’t exist at all, and the trajectory deserves skepticism.
However, the mechanism is not there Nobody’s DRM’ing Linux off the internet, YET.
The fight is making sure that stays true.
Slap some Proposition 65 warning labels on the Windows update warnings, that should help. I’m sure windows can cause cancer in some way.
I always assumed that’s why the cheaper longer term storage took so long to recover (having to physically retrieve copies, even if it’s automated), but I have no real knowledge on it. Interesting.
Is this the new staged opposition or just incompetence? Who can say.
Can the American People file a class action suit?
Take his entire net worth.
That’s roughly $3,000 per person for all 341 million people.
It’s a secret.
Not really…
Google hates Kodi/KORE, and I just wanted a remote control for my Media PC.
So, thanks Google, for filling me with the rage I needed to get more involved in FLOSS, side loading, de-googling, and home lab building.
Since then I have now purged Google drive, photos, and backup for alternatives. They will be losing all of my delicious information by next year at this rate.