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onlinepersona,

That’s a good question that I don’t have an answer to as I have no legal training. I’m assuming if you can sign a contract online where the legal text is behind a link and the main offer is what you see… maybe? Technically, it wouldn’t be too difficult to simply erase any mention of a license in a pre-cleaning phase of the data, but I don’t know if the act itself would be an even bigger indication of guilt. There would be no excuse like “oops, I just copied this data into my training set, teehee”. But as I said, not a legal expert.

If there are copyright experts that want to weigh in, I’d be interested to hear their opinion. Given that there are running, unanswered cases (most notably again Microsoft’s Copilot), and Japan on the verge of drafting into law that AI training data can ignore copyright, it’s possible even legal experts would have a hard time answer the question.

I’m putting them here just in case. Only costs me a line carriage and a Ctrl+V.

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onlinepersona,

Tell me you know nothing about computers without telling me you know nothing about computers.

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onlinepersona,

AI

onlinepersona,

If that’s what you get from a paid product, why would you assume it’s better for a free product?

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onlinepersona,

IMO you’re thinking too much as an advanced user for a simple user. The only point I agree on is the NVIDIA GPU. If you feel up to it, contribute. The website’s code is on Github github.com/distrochooser/distrochooser

I’ve never heard of nor used Garuda. As I said, feel free to contribute.

Do you feel the same way about excellent websites like DistroWatch.com and DistroSea?

Never heard of DistroSea. It seem like a good complement to DistroChooser. It works for most usecases:

  • narrow down what fits for you by answering a questionnaire (DistroChooser)
  • if you feel like it, test a few of the suggested distros from the questionnaire on DistroSea

DistroWatch as useful as statista.com for suggesting your next travel destination. If you had to travel somewhere and had a list of criteria, but didn’t want to spend all day researching, would you go to a travel agent or open an encyclopedia?

I think many in the community, like yourself, have forgotten what it’s like to give just enough of a fuck to change something but not to want to be too invested. A beginner isn’t going to want to understand why a system is stable or not: they just want a stable system. You don’t have to explain to them “Yeah, so the configuration is a file, you see? Only you edit that file. Then you run this command that interprets the file and build a dependency tree, downloads everything necessary, to a partition that’s temporarily mounted as read-write, symlinks to…”. Nobody cares. The average user DGAF.

Imagine if you just wanted to get a vacuum cleaner at the store with 3 criteria. Imagine you don’t give a rat’s ass about vacuum cleaner. You just want to point the thing at the ground, let it succ all the bits, but as quietly as possible, and not break down in 2 years to force you back out here. But the sales person you get harps on about the genius of the person who invented some internal component you’ve never heard of, goes on to explain why, ideologically, getting a certain brand is the only way because blablablabla. Maybe you’d buy a vacuum cleaner just to shut them up or walk out of the store.
My optimal experience would be the sales person listening to me, lining up the best candidates, and explaining, in bullet points, why they are there. Then finally, ask me if I have a favorite and to give me a test environment. If I don’t understand something, I can ask more questions.

  1. narrow down options --> DistroChooser
  2. test them --> DistroSea
  3. more questions --> right here

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onlinepersona,

If that’s for FF, what about chromium?

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onlinepersona,

Only free jazz

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onlinepersona, (edited )

No I don’t.

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onlinepersona, (edited )

Looking at that list, no option seems particularly good at the moment.

opensource.builders looks nice, but has the code on github and the DB is a single JSON file. Editing requires running the thing locally and then creating a PR.

switching.software is a single page that lists all the software. Upside is that the code is codeberg, not github.

prism-break.org/en/ is focused on privacy, very out of date and code is on github.

Privacy Guides is also all about privacy, so it won’t be a generic alternative finder.

I stopped looking after that.

Up to the mods which one they want to pick, but honestly, a link to alternatives might cut down on the “I’m looking for a recommendation for an alternative” posts.

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I agree. Either use a business source license like Elastic and others, or fight for the installation of a third party that audits proprietary code for license use and sues if the rules haven’t been followed. It’s why I like the creative commons. They are quite realistic. Most of their licenses say: if you use this commercially, you have to pay. If not, then it’s free.

People who claim business source licenses are “not opensource” sound like such capitalist shills to me. It’s as if they’re shouting from the rooftops “it’s OK to fuck over opensource developers because principles matter more than reality”.

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onlinepersona,

I honestly thing we need that third party instance that audits proprietary code for the licenses it uses to see if there’s a breach. Then they could sue all the companies that don’t abide by the license. Most likely GAFAM would lobby against such a thing because they know they use a lot of opensource stuff that could force them to opensource their stuff, but honestly, fuck them. They’ve made a killing on the backs of free work.

onlinepersona,

I honestly thought this was going to be about AI 😅

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onlinepersona,

It’s nearly an hour long and Nick said they only covered a portion of all questions.

onlinepersona,

Slint

onlinepersona,

Missed that indeed. Weird sorting 😅

onlinepersona,

I plan to continue using linux 👍

onlinepersona,

NixOS’s documentation is dog. It’s not absolute dog, but it’s dog. The learning curve is brutal.

But… the (mostly) declarative management is its strongest feature. It’s very solid and you can easily unfuck you system if you haven’t done stuff like mess with partitions or delete files manually.

If NixOS had better documentation and GUI to manage the system, it would be a no-brainer, but unfortunately, it is about 5-10 years away from that. The community is very top heavy, but it’s easy to just do your own stuff.

onlinepersona,

You will be welcomed back with open arms my (future) friend.

onlinepersona,

It BSOD’ed its last screen.

Fuck that OS.

onlinepersona,

Welcome to the degoogled fold 🤗

onlinepersona, (edited )

Sail!

(We need some piracy memes with this)

onlinepersona,

A vim user finding nano too difficult? Impressive.

onlinepersona,

LMAO. That’s hilarious, babe.

onlinepersona,

The speeds are as fast (or slow) as the slowest member in the chain. If most people who participate have slow connections, then most of the times it’ll be slow. But if the majority uses fast connections, then most chains/tunnels will be fast.

Again, it’s a chicken and egg problem: people who want fast downloads (and thus have fast pipes) won’t participate because it’s slow, but in doing so, they miss a chance to be part of the solution.

onlinepersona,

Why tho? AMD’s 7840HS performs better at 35W and is x86_64.

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