It’s protestware, which is great.

There’s also going the Ageless route and making protestware.

Meta’s the one doing the lion’s share of the lobbying for this shit.

Devuan is also a low-friction alt-init option for those who are on Debian, and then of course one could go to Void or Slackware as well.

If you’re already on Arch, Artix will be easier to move to, although you’ll need to enable Arch’s [extra] and [multilib] repos to fix any potential dependency issues from some packages not being available in the Artix repos.

And with any Arch install, which also includes Artix, CachyOS, or EndeavourOS, I’ll still recommend enabling [chaotic-aur] as it makes dealing with the AUR easier as it offers most of the AUR as precompiled binaries.

That’s an option, and one I already took having recently moved to Artix.

Custom ROMs are unaffected, for now, but Google’s gonna find other ways to kill those.

Systemd is pushing age-gating at the init level, which means the majority of Linux will be age-gated, whether they want to be or not.

Also, Amutable wants to add Android-style attestation to systemd, which means if they get their way, the majority of Linux will be as locked down as Android as far as telling you what and what not to install for apps.

Here’s the Lemmy post discussing Amutable.

This is happening to PCs now too, eg. with the OS ‘age-gating’ laws that IMO only exist to quell competition for MS, Google, and Apple.

That’s what Ageless already does, so maybe Artix could implement that officially in their distro by what you’re suggesting?

jefferyjefferson @lemmy.org

Kinda crazy how downloading Linux isos might actually become illegal.

What a fucking clown world we live in.

Welcome to the world of open-source piracy if that happens.

Alt-init distros exist but it’s only a matter of time before either they’re screwed or age-gating goes down to firmware or hardware level.

Some money probably got passed under the table somewhere to get the competition knocked out.

Someone recently exposed all of Meta’s lobbying.

Here’s the Lemmy post talking about it.

Because Meta’s lobbying to kill the free and open internet, and personal computing as a concept. Also, MS, Apple, and Google are probably lobbying to kill their competition before it gets too great.

I hope the alt inits or even the hardware itself aren’t targeted next.

Fuck ‘Madoff’ Altman.

Man, the payment processors got bored with NSFW and they’re attacking free software now?

I was referring to the Windows 365 thin clients that were recently announced, which counts as a cloud-based subscription.

Of course MS would want people to develop Electron apps given they’re trying to move Windows to the cloud anyways.