@BrightCandle i would be surprised if there were a significant amount of users visiting the usa government websites through a Linux server

sounds oddly niche :P

@The_Picard_Maneuver https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three/Sisters/(agriculture)

a lot of manufacturers are realizing that the OS is not profitable, just merely a vehicle to shove their products

the difference between Android and SteamOS is that SteamOS is funding FOSS devs who were already a part of the linux ecosystem and are contributing back to it

in contrast android built a walled garden while keeping the open source bits for theirselves

but yeah, its slightly possible that valve could become like google, but i heavily doubt it at the moment

@psud ohhh gotcha yeah, that’s something i noticed too reading the comments

i was hoping that it would be a good hook to get people to read the article, but seems to have caused a knee jerk reaction instead. i wouldve posted the entire article here, but unfortunately on mastodon im limited to 500 chars :(

i might have to rethink how i present my hooks in the future. regardless, thanks again for reading and giving ur thoughts! :)

@psud @psud thanks for reading! :)

there are aspects of ai that definitely needs to be systematically addressed (eg from the blog: warfare). im unsure how & why it came across as “not a problem now”

@Franconian_Nomad thanks for reading! :)

@Franconian_Nomad hehe lol thanks

most people aren’t even going to read the post in its entirety and comment on a knee jerk reaction (already getting some which is always amusing). those comments aren’t worth addressing tbh

but overall i think this is a useful article as it tries to tow a pragmatic line. plus im fine with challenging my thinking, and if anyone has a useful comment worth considering, im open to it

there are other humans in other countries that are looking for a better life

the problem is that countries with declining birth rates dont see them as humans

@thingsiplay exactly! that was my point to writing this article: that it should soon be relevant enough :)

np! i dont see this as confrontational at all! on the other hand im glad to be getting constructive criticism (which i cant really say for the other comments)

and all valid points u are making. most important thing is we will have to wait and see, but im very excited to see linux’s growth :)

@AmbitiousProcess the usa gov graph shows a daily stat. if u have any other websites that show linux stats lmk

there are also reasonings listed in the dropdown at the top of the article

@DiarrheaSommelier hm? what’s wrong with the article?

the comments are a little funny to read

when a vendor doesn’t support their hw on windows, the vendor is blamed

when a vendor doesn’t support their hw on linux, linux is blamed

@Pfeffy im from mastodon 😅

click the :fedi: icon on the original post

that’s the power of shared protocols like activitypub! people cross talking from different platforms is possible 🙂

unfortunately seems like my replies arent propagating properly (edit: nvm)

yup it is very active. u can follow the account here: @postmarketOS

as for why the devices seem old: it takes a lot of work trying to get the old android kernel working with the mainline kernel. its much harder than lineageos as we dont reuse the old android kernel and a lot of work needs to be done on both the kernel and userspace

basically one person is doing an entire engineering departments work

if ud like the newest phone, u can get a fairphone 5

@eldavi @1XEVW3Y07 https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices