Like Han Solo in Star Wars. The “ancient” religion of the Jedi was like… when he was a kid or something.

I hate that I can hear Lore saying “…because of the implication.”

Software Engineers: Wait, you guys are getting certifications?

You actually can buy quality dumb TVs, but you have to do the legwork and do research on what are often referred to as “commercial displays.” I see them everywhere in businesses for ads and showing the menu. They’re sometimes a little pricier, but they’re usually built a little “beefier” too, as they’re expected to deal with more rough usage in like a restaurant context.

However, the other solution is the one you’ve already mentioned where you never plug the Smart TV into the internet, and instead bypass the “smart” on the TV with your own streaming boxes.

I think as more people realize there is a market for dumb TVs, you’ll start to see that market grow more and more until they no longer just “commercial displays.” Just gotta get enough people buying them and not buying Smart TVs.

Some people shouldn’t be cartoonists, or they should lean hard into absurdism.

This is a conversation that needs to be happening, and not just around whether you are okay with the government using your work to kill people.

Are you also okay with giant corporations that have enough money to develop their own tools use your volunteer labor to profit wildly and harm the public? (Also, private companies make tools to kill people as well. Just look at Palmer Luckey’s Anduril, which produces military-grade drones and such. Or hell, any company that makes Tasers.)

Because the story of Free Open Source Software is also the story of the biggest accidental transfer of wealth from the working class to the capital class in world history.

Amazon Web Services wouldn’t exist without Linux. Sure, they run their own flavor of Linux, but they’ve put in a bunch of their own proprietary bullshit and AWS is a fucking juggernaut. A big reason they’re able to do this is because they use off-the-shelf Linux as a starting base and work from there. It cuts out a massive amount of labor to just lean on the labor of volunteers.

Now, not all companies are like this, I’ll admit. Valve pays people to improve Steam in Linux and has wildly benefited the WINe team.

However, the vast majority of private companies lean on the labor of FOSS volunteers to make money without investing the same labor themselves.

It’s honestly kind of a fucking travesty.

EDIT: Also, it’s a bit ironic that RMS always claimed that his plans with GNU/Linux was to free people from proprietary gardens, yet FOSS has actually been one of the biggest creators of such gardens. I always had a soft spot for RMS, but he’s wrong as much as he is right.

I see very few memes and far too much political content. Of that political content it’s all the same.

That’s funny because the meme subs still far outpace posting from politics subs for me, and I mostly see memes.

In fact, a few weeks ago, there were lots of complaints in meme comments of how the only thing they saw on the site was memes.

I don’t think so, I think people are more concerned with having tools to switch their username/posts/comments from one server to another.

Also, in general, if you don’t want it “on the internet too long” you probably just shouldn’t post it. Anyone can scrape that data in the time it was posted. It’s never really gone if someone else doesn’t want it gone. *shrugs

If you’re dedicated to YubiKey, that’s fine, but I strongly suggest Open Source and Open Hardware implementations of security keys, such as SoloKey.

SoloKey supports Linux, in that it has been tested on Linux Mint and Manjaro.

https://docs.solokeys.io/udev/

Perhaps their documentation will help you figure out how to get your YubiKey to work?

On Linux, by default USB dongles can’t be accessed by users, for security reasons. To allow user access, so-called “udev rules” must be installed.