We also need megadesk. More megadesk
We need more real Linux – GNU/Linux, with compliant copyleft licensing – not Tivoized crap like they put on TVs.
Roku OS, Amazon Fire OS, Tizen (Samsung TV OS), etc. – all technically Linux, but you wouldn’t know it because they’ve systematically butchered them to destroy everything that made Linux good (the users’ freedom).
scripthook@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
grue@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
That’s great for the folks who have access to decades-old pre-enshittification technology and the means to maintain it, but what about everybody else?
“Just go live in the fucking woods like the Unabomber, eschewing modern technology” is not a valid solution for normal people! The law must be changed to protect them from predatory abusive corporations.
Rothe@piefed.social 10 minutes ago
Continuing my smart TV OS analogy, your answer is like saying just to use a dumb TV instead. There aren’t any dumb TVs anymore! The TV manufacturer cartel colluded to quit making them!
Yes there are, every smart tv becomes dumb as soon as you disconnect it from the internet. Just use it the same way you would use a monitor for your computer.
14th_cylon@lemmy.zip 36 minutes ago
i use my tv as secondary display on my desktop and run anything i want to watch from it.
deleted@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
A modern tv without internet connection is a dump tv.
unphazed@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Eh, the printers should be swapped for laserjet to save money and ears. I don’t even know where one could buy paper for dot matrix printers either.
Sightline@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
What’s the point of being so pedantic?, they were obviously not advocating for more Roku installs.
grue@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Because the distinction matters. The corporate raping of Linux has to stop being tolerated or else nothing is solved. The technical details of the kernel don’t actually matter; the licensing and openness is what matters. Hell, if the Windows NT kernel got magically relicensed to AGPLv3 tomorrow it would instantly become the superior option just because of that.
Linux doesn’t fucking matter. Copyleft matters.
Rothe@piefed.social 7 minutes ago
Sigh. This kind of nonsense is why so many people get scared away from even trying linux. Who cares which distro you use, as long as it is linux it is a step in the right direction, and a whole lot of people (including myself) have taken that step very recently, despite some arrogant linux bros doing their best to gatekeep us away from even trying.