I would also interpret it this way, though California’s government is profoundly technologically incompetent, despite being the home of “Silicon Valley.”

Knowing California, they would try to twist the word “vendor” to cover any entity that does any kind of business, similar to how they dismantled interstate commerce protections for the entire country. If that didn’t work, they would argue that donations make something a vendor.

The situation is stupid and I am long past tired of idiots pushing idiocy on others en masse.

Both are wonderful. I still recommend Fedora to most new users, but I decided to test drive CachyOS almost year ago and then never went back. Cachy is so cozy.

Jetbrains has free non-commercial licenses for open source projects. If not that, I’ll use Kate.

I won’t touch anything associated with Microslop. Not Windows, not Github, not Office, and not VS Code.

Always start with Bazzite for gaming. If you decide you want more control, switch to Fedora KDE. When you want to explore whats out there, put everything that interests you on a Ventoy thumbdrive. I don’t recommend Mint for new users primarily because it doesn’t officially support KDE Plasma.

Bash is in the epstein files!?

Good thing I use Fish.

/s

Thanks, I hate it.

The real question is whether the Affinity installer works. Adobe can get lost.

Try Winboat. If your needs don’t require GPU acceleration, Winboat is flawless.

This is small potatoes for a company that murders it’s employees in cold blood.

KDE is the secret to winning over Windows users. Plasma 6 is everything most people want Windows to be. It’s also why I am very unpopular with Mint acolytes — I am always trying to steer new users away from Cinnamon, which means away from Mint.

RbP created a publicly traded company for their hardware, which is almost-wholly-held by Raspberry Pi Foundation, which is a charity.

That sort of thing ought not be allowed, ever. It’s similar to the path Arduino took to get here. There are still other competitors, but for the time being I’m happy enough with RbPi’s dirt-cheap microcontrollers. Their mini-PCs are a different story. We’re already seeing enshittification and price gouging there. It’s just a matter of time.

Arduino has been irrelevant for a while. There are better alternatives for everything they offer. For a start, take a look at Raspberry Pi’s microcontrollers.

How wholesome! I also appreciate the move to Codeberg. Don’t forget that Codeberg runs on donations. Please help if you can.

https://donate.codeberg.org/

I asked about them earlier this evening and was considering getting their new printer. I didn’t really need one, anyway. They just seem fun.

You know what isn’t fun? Genocide. Fuck genocide supporters.

Doesn’t anyone else use things like OpenSnitch to audit all outgoing connections? I block all phone homes until something breaks, then investigate.

If you are trapped on Windows for some corporate reason, there is SimpleWall.

We’re all friends here, and friends don’t let friends let apps phone home.