I remember thinking “this could be possible” ten years ago when I realized that The GameCube, Wii, and Wii U were all running what was effectively a G3 processor.

Definitely happy to see that it’s since come to fruition. 😄

I’ll be honest, I forget that NodeBB has become federated. Despite having run into an actual incompatibility problem between Piefed and NodeBB. 😅

I personally use Lemmy/Piefed/Mbin/etc. for social news rather than bolted on forum-like features. That’s where I think this software shines.

If you want a decentralized forum, I’d seriously recommend you look at Usenet and NNTP. Then again, I promote the usage of network protocols for what they are good at over forcing everything through the web. 😂

Yeah, iirc it was a former NetBSD developer who made Void.

Alpine still honestly feels more BSDish in some ways than Void to me. Probably has to do with Alpine’s install scripts being similar to OpenBSD’s.

I’ll be honest, I’ve learned the hard way that there really isn’t any 1:1 BSD experience on Linux. Some may have similar packaging systems, but the base system depends on packages on Linux-based OSes. A shame because my favorite thing about BSDs is that packages are optional.

That being said, I do think the most BSD-like experience with the Linux kernel is going to be Chimera Linux, which was, funnily enough, created by a former Void developer.

We don’t really experience this, though we’re very switchy and had accepted that there is no one in the body with our legal name.

That being said, we do hope you and your headmates are able to get into better working conditions. ❤️

Definitely a very good post.

It reminds me of Chimera Linux’s stance on systemd, which I found to be the best explanation on systemd before these blog posts.

Yeah, I describe OpenBSD as very easy… for those already who are already quite familiar with Unix.

Very nice for setting up quick servers.

Getting more into the BSDs.

I have OpenBSD as a desktop on a laptop I have and it’s great.

Also wanting to get back into retrocomputing.

Fair enough. A lot of us are something along the lines of androids, and that’s probably more an oversimplification of the species that’s the primary demographic of the system.

We can probably fairly easily modify this/make our own graphics to represent us at the least. Might have to get the resident graphic designers in our plural collective onto this.

The artist likes foxes.

Not my instance (I’m posting from PieFed lol), but I noticed that lemmy.blahaj.zone has five UIs, including mlmym, set up.

One of us in the plural collective running this account is admittedly interested in modifying the fox in the notice to her specific species of fox for our notice. :3

I can second AirVPN. I’ve never had an issue with it, at least one that wasn’t ultimately user error.

Wow! I guess AI was worth all that water!

…seriously, what’s the point of making it an image aside from posting a (probably unpaid!) ad on Twitter?

Makes sense to me. As I said, I’d find this a mild annoyance (at worst even!) if this weren’t a Linux distribution. Could (theoretically anyways) be fine enough for OP though.

The policy doesn’t seem to be a full ban on AI within the distribution’s infrastructure, permitting some usage such as for translation and for research.

For anything else, this would be a mild annoyance to me.

For a Linux distribution, not fully banning AI is a dealbreaker for me due to the direction that the Linux kernel is going. Thus the resistance that a Linux distribution does against AI must be stronger for me to consider it, especially when there are other Unix-like OSes that have less AI-generated code due to not using the Linux kernel.

This line of thinking also helps me narrow down Linux distributions to recommend.

Regrettably, I don’t think there’s a good middle ground distribution that’s anti-AI. It’s either very technical distributions like Chimera and Gentoo or opinionated distributions geared towards newcomers like elementary OS or more specialized distributions like Nura (formerly postmarketOS) that are explicitly anti-AI.

I think your best bet would be to go with elementary OS, honestly. It uses its own DE, Pantheon, rather than KDE, but I think it’s easily your least worst option. I’ve never used it extensively myself, however.

Of course, I also am obligated to mention that the Linux kernel is extremely pro-AI. However, an anti-AI Linux distribution is leagues better than using, say, Windows when it comes to AI.

That being said, here’s a list of distributions known to be affected by AI as well as those that are anti-AI.

Went to an auction and got a cash register for rather cheap. Now I can run a store from home as I have a scanner, thermal printer, and a credit card terminal as well!

Don’t know if I want to, but I at least have everything now lmao

I’ll admit that it’s stuff I’ve seen more on Tumblr (where, for the past decade, there is somehow a “debate” on what can cause plurality) and I hear it’s also a thing on TikTok.

In all fairness, collectively we don’t consider ourselves trans beyond a political solidarity sense, though that’s because our body is also intersex than anything to do with our plurality, we consider ourselves collectively ultergender. Though the experiences section doesn’t have our experience, which is “our visibly intersex body is fine the way it is, and we refuse to binarize it”.

That being said, some of us do consider themself trans, a few of us consider themself cis, and some of us consider themselves ultergender or ipsogender.

Oh, there’s even a word for this phenomenon because of how strongly it parallels with transmeds: sysmeds!

As a plural collective that was heavily traumatized by a cisgender transmed (probably better known as a transphobe), sysmeds really feel the same way to us.

Funny thing is, internalized sysmedicalism is also why it took us years to realize we were plural! This is in spite of two of us having argued about how the body will be presented as, and in spite of us being quite interested in plurality. We don’t really relate to a lot of trans egg stuff, but we do relate to that feeling in regards to our plurality.