turning myself (an overweight bearded guy) into an animated hula dancer and turning my coworker into the Terminator and sinking into molten steel don't seem to inspire the same hatred. unless you don't like hula dancers.

And now it's over 50 years since we last landed on the Moon.

US manufacturers want margins, and they're not getting margins on little, efficient cars. They get enormous margins on gigantic trucks that start at $55,000. Have you noticed that all the sub $20k cars went away from all the manufacturers around COVID?

Ford makes the Maverick, which is a small truck. They were priced very reasonably at release, at $19,000 or so. However, Ford didn't make very many of them, and the ones they did make got up to $15,000 over MSRP from the dealers, who scalped them. Why would Ford want to cannibalize their pricy gigantic trucks when they know that they can get their $50k asking price because there's nowhere else for people to go?

Because that's exactly what will happen. This is battlespace preparation for the destruction of anonymity on the internet, because politicians find this inconvenient.

a bunch of viral tiktok videos could bring it back pretty easy.

Even people who didn’t want to break the law might find themselves on the receiving end of law-enforcement if the firing pin wears such that the micro stamping is no longer identifiable.

The micro stamping law does nothing to prevent the flow of guns to people who should not have them, and does everything to prevent the use or purchase of guns by people who can lawfully own them - which is the whole point of a law like this. The people who make these laws are well aware of this.

The age verification law, coupled with the proposed hardware attestation that our good friend Lennart poettering is working on will ensure that anonymity on the Internet is gone. This is precisely what lawmakers are aiming for. And just like the micro stamping law, the intent of the law is not the literal word of the law.

I would like to bring my D levels up, but not at the expense of kidney stones.

Heroic Game Launcher: https://heroicgameslauncher.com/

RPM/Deb/Flatpack/TGZ/AppImage for Linux

DMG for MacOS Intel/M1+

EXE for Windows

Heroic supports GoG, Amazon Luna, and the Epic Game stores.

Heroic even streamlines the app updates so you don't have to figure that out.

  * Literally every game console
  * Literally every smartphone
  * Microsoft, with their Win11 requirements, is moving there
  * John Deere (read on their own hardware attestation efforts to block DIY)
  * Car companies (require specialized tooling and software subscriptions to make certain repairs)
  * Anything that requires a signed bootloader and signed software updates
  * Snapdragon CPUs and e-fuses that burn when you use unsigned software, and brick
  * Apple hardware, literally crypto-signed so you can't use aftermarket parts
  * Google Chromecast
  * Amazon Kindle, locked hardware
  * IBM has locked hardware to their laptops for *years*. Ever try upgrading a wifi card in an IBM laptop? They're already invested in this

Like John Deere. Read about how they use that sort of thing

The problems with systemd are:

  * that once it was adopted, every single package started requiring it
  * which meant that packages that previously could run everywhere, now could only run on systemd-based systems
  * binary logs - a solution that solved nothing but created problems 
  * which locked out any system that wasn't linux
  * which locked out any linux system that didn't want to use it
  * which led to abominations like systemd-resolved
  * "bUt yOu DoNt hAVe tO uSE it" - tell that to the remote attestation crowd, of which Poettering is a founding member of. see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46784572 - soon you'll have to use systemD because nothing else *can* be used.

The systemD developers don't care about any of this, of course. They've got a long history of breaking user space and poor dev practices because they're systemD. I mean, their attitude was so bad they got one of their principal devs kicked from the kernel because they overloaded the use of the kernel boot parameter "debug", which flooded the console, and refused to modify the debug option to something compatible like "systemd.debug", broke literally every other system, and then told everybody else "hey we're not wrong, the rest of the world is wrong." And this has been their attitude since then.

Look, if people want to use systemD, that's just fine. But it is a fact that the entire development process for systemD is predicated on making Linux incompatible with anything else, which is an entire inversion of how Linux and Free Software works.

I actually like unit files. But if systemD was just an init system, it would stop there.

See Android; or, where you no longer own your device, and if the company decides, you no longer own your data or access to it.

You'll be free to run your own Linux, but don't expect it to work outside of niche uses.

The banking apps still won't trust them, though.

To add a quote from Lennart himself:

"The OS configuration and state (i.e. /etc/ and /var/) must be encrypted, and authenticated before they are used. The encryption key should be bound to the TPM device; i.e system data should be locked to a security concept belonging to the system, not the user."

Your system will not belong to you anymore. Just as it is with Android.