xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

@pyrate @monsterislandcolonizer You will regret that. It might be the only place to escape the Great Reset, assuming that the agorists don't bankrupt the state.

@pyrate @monsterislandcolonizer Catch me if you can, statist.

https://atlasisland.org/

@hachi @ArdainianRight @ChristiJunior @PonyPanda @verita84 Learn the fucking gematria and you will see the patterns! And chemtrails are the reason why you are a tranny.

@djsumdog @atyh @ryo @purism I think they are being boycotted to hell and back after the Librem phone fiasco. I have not heard a single positive thing about any of their products since then (people seem to rather stick with older laptops), and I have never seen anyone use their Email service. They are nowhere near as big as Microsoft, Apple, or Google, so it's a good chance that they will either go bankrupt or radically change their ways.

@djsumdog @ryo
>Purism is still garbage tier and I have yet to get a phone I preordered in 2019 and they've refused all requests for a refund.

Oh they still won't release their phone yet? It makes me wonder if the government secretly intervened. Their Librem.one email service also sucks. Not only is it more expensive then other privacy email services like Posteo (or maybe even just renting a VPS + domain for email), but they also require you to fully dox yourself (home address and all) just to use their service, even if you are paying with crypto. Last time, I checked they also require you to pledge an allegiance to freetardism just to use their services.

As for Framework, I know that it's not focused on a particular OS, but they still sell their laptops with Windows pre-installed, if the user wishes to do so. I don't know if the so called "Microsoft tax" applies to their computers if you buy one without Windows though. The so called, "Microsoft tax" is another reason why I think people shouldn't buy (new) Windows computers just to install Linux on them.

http://www.linfo.org/microsoft_tax.html

@pawlicker @ryo Why do people like Ethereum so much? It sounds like the most scammy cryptocurrency. The person behind it even appeared at the World Government Summit last year and it's blockchain seems to be behind a lot of the digital ID programs being rolled out.

@ryo
>My guess is rather that the whole chip shortage thing was more related to the NFT hype

It was probably both, given that a lot of chips are manufactured in China and other East Asian countries, and yeah there was the NFT hype going on at the time. I remember the shortage being part of the reason why there weren't that many Xbox Series X|S and PS5 consoles at launch.

Smaller manufacturers like System76 were probably the most affected. I just ended up biting the bullet and buying a mid-range gaming laptop at Best Buy and installing Mint on it, as usual. Surprisingly, the store clerk that helped me make my purchase was also a Linux user who understood my situation.

And before you tell me that I should just stick with older computers, I was still in college at the time, and I had to deal with using bloated software for some classes. There were still some classes that were online only so I had to use Zoom (thankfully there is a web-client).

Anyway, I would like my next laptop to be one of these Linux laptops. Framework laptops also seem like a cool option because they are designed to be repairable and long-lasting, and if you know anything about newer computers, especially laptops, you are lucky if yours lasts more than 2-3 years without some sort of hardware failure. Yes, I get the whole "just stick with older computers" stance, but I don't think that may be a viable solution. Even the most well-built hardware will eventually fail and it can be difficult to find older computers in some cases as normies aren't looking for them so they are either recycled or just collecting dust in someone's garage. Which is why I'm glad to see companies like Framework, ThinkPenguin, and maybe System76 (if they realize their mistakes) providing alternatives. I would still like to give System76 the benefit of the doubt because they did (at least partially) mitigate Intel's Management Engine.

>As for maintaining a server for a storefront, it doesn't require much, you can host one on a low spec server pretty easily even.
If anything

I actually did do a brief training course on AWS for the job I tried to work at. I remember some "advantages" they point out being that they offer autoscaling and their own circuit breaker, discovery services, API gateways, etc for microservices. AWS seems to be the only VPS provider that offers solutions for microservices. Though microservices, might also be just a meme unless you are a major retailer like Wal-Mart. You probably know more about it then I do, so tell me if it is.

@Eiregoat Soon, the top part will be socially acceptable.

Well, at least ThinkPenguin seems to actually stick to their principles. They also let you choose whatever Linux distro you want pre-installed, unlike System76's two choices between Pop_OS and Ubuntu. They also accept crypto payments.

https://thinkpenguin.com/

@wrongthink @system76 I actually decided to do an nslookup of System76's mail servers and I can safely say that at least they are not using Gmail, though I don't know what is this messagingengine.com.