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  • It’s hard not to have a jaded vision of the future where the US looks and operates drastically different from the rest of the world. Still on fossil fuels and ICE cars, using imperial units and other “standards” with drastically dipping quality while the rest of the world functions together and leaves the US behind.

    You can say that the innovation will still be pushed by companies, but they’ll follow the money and they won’t be able to extract money from Americans since they won’t have any money with how hard rhe economy is being run into the ground.




  • Every time this pops up I have the same thing to say… there is nothing that is stopping them from setting up their own federated instance and via the ActivityPub protocol have everything delivered to them in a neatly formatted package ready to ingest, no scraping needed and nothing we could do except try to defederate with them, but we’d have to know which servers are theirs.




  • Okay. Serious question here. How long are they supposed to support it for? Windows 10 came out 10 years ago. To look back during that time:

    • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - released 4/2016, EOL 4/2021 (5 years)
    • CentOS 7 - released 7/2014, EOL 6/2024 (10 years)
    • Mint 18 - released 6/2016, EOL 4/2021 (5 years)
    • Debian 8 - released 5/2015, Extended EOL 8/2022 (7 years)
    • Fedora 24 - released 6/2016, EOL 8/2017 (1 year)

    So with the exception of CentOS, Linux has less time before it EOLs, and if you want you can always move to a newer version, but at some point a newer version may not support older hardware. Case in point 6.15 removed support for 486 chips, which you may argue is old, but someone will say the same thing “it’s still a perfectly usable computer”