Every year I see more on the map. Have a solar node, good fun.

Ever useful? I doubt it, HAM would dominate in a collapse.

There's a dangerous bet going on right now that doesn't make the most sense.

It's Microsoft.

I just don't really understand their game right now. They're still playing like every card in the game is in their hand and they have nothing to lose, so I wonder, Linux friends, fellow enjoyers of hardware sold to the public, what do they know that we don't know?

It's almost as if Microsoft and every other hardware and mainstream software developer is secretly betting on the loss of private home computing. It's almost as if in the longrun, they aren't worried about our choices.

These Linux wins all over the place are cool and all, but the lack of any sweat whatsoever from these bozos has me on edge. Wtf is their game? From AAA gaming to your email client, it's all getting worse and they know it, they just keep doubling down.

I'm a mechanic.

a trade won't help

This is why I'm a mechanic. Forklifts have to work, or nobody works. Whether industry is rising or falling, something has to put it up and take it down.

I'll get paid in rice and beans to fix someone's truck after the collapse. New boss? Same rules. Machines have to work, or nobody works.

Pardon me, starts?

flips it over

palm oil

"yep..."

"hehehe I'm paid to protect a pedophile lmao"

Apparently the company that owns this is somehow owned or connected to the stablecoin 'Tether' in some way.

yeah nah

Keet isn't FOSS, either. Use XMPP.

Long ago, in a galaxy far away...

...in this specific area, only pertaining to these 2-3 groups of people and no one else, anywhere else, ever despite there being an entire galaxy to fuck about in and about 20k years worth of lore.

you just know

I know, and I hate it.

In 2028 we'll have a AOC > Newsom handoff in the same vein as Bernie > Clinton.

"and to add the finishing touches"

rolls around in dirt and mud for 3 minutes

"I raised a sheep, not a whore."

hides zipper

picks it up with tongs and and carries it over to a box with TOR written on it

I do caricatures.

Right, Linux kernel development is free, philanthropic work, with zero incentive for profit, funded by IBM, Google... 🙄

Still no?

wheels out Firefox

If Google didn't foot the bill, Chrome would be your only browser, also, funded by economic incentives. If Firefox exists, there's no monopoly, which to Google, is why it exists.

They'll either never do it, or do it for a year or so then go back to being pieces of shit.

Also expect this:

"hey windows is better"

yeah? Is it this good?

"well, no, but..."

Literally everything is a farce, almost every product, every deal and agreement is an inherent ripoff, and there's a catch to everything short of taking a walk in a park.

shit, they towed my car

Death to ideology, not the majority race holding the ideology.

slap

Don't even, you know better.

This is the point where you both turn to eachother and say XMPP! at the same time, right?

New boss is the old boss.

"we won the revolution!

now get back to work!"

ya got me! I knew

My prediction is that by 2040, Windows and your entire online existence as a... "normie" will be encapsulated within walled gardens via client access almost entirely.

Those of us still able to host anything will be doing it with ebay finds and crowsourced parts.

...but this is but one of my many branching possible timelines, maybe we get the "America goes KEN mode" timeline, "Mother nature rolls her sleeves up" or the "Humanity finally stands up for itself and realizes a leftist/socialist utopia" timelines. There's always the "China sics robot dogs with machineguns on everyone" timeline.

Hell, maybe a blend, idk.