In fact, you’re already likely renting rather than owning in many different areas. Your means of communication are run by Meta, your music is provided by Spotify, your movies are streamed from Netflix, your data is stored in Google’s data centers and your office suite runs on Microsoft’s cloud.

Not this one, no.

This one has never had a single Meta-owned account because it values privacy.

It has never subscribed to Spotify or Netflix because it values ownership and control.

It has, since the Snowden revelations, successfully cut Google and Microsoft from its life and replaced them with AOSP and Linux.

It has started to build servers from hardware old and new, running FOSS services that rival and replace most big tech solutions people feel they “need” nowadays.

And it has started to help others take control of their data and computing, move to software and services that respect their rights, and to see value in privacy, ownership and freedom.

It may not be much. It may not scale. And it may not provide “AI” capabilities. But it’s a start. It’s a lighthouse that shows this dystopia is not inevitable.

We need to answer the push towards centralised consumption with a refusal to consume, and a counterpush towards decentralised cells of resilience. If datacentres aren’t profitable, there is very little incentive to only build and sell hardware for them exclusively.

This one has built its lighthouse.

When will you?

With billionaires now openly buying politicians (instead of greasing their palms under the counter), I’d say the odds of such a law have become even worse.

Naw. This is clearly just 1 monkey.

This. Big tech is complicit in the fascist takeover of the U.S. Ditch their services where you can, and where you can’t leech and starve them using tech like this.

“Harvest” is such an ugly word, mister! We rather like to call it an involuntary donation…

Hannah Montana, Knoppix… a man of culture I see…

I’ll open a ticket with Mozilla.

…who wants to see the world burn!

can that be done without Grub on a primary boot partition or the user accessing BIOS?

I was assuming you’d just write GRUB onto the primary disk and set Hannah Montana Linux (lol, excellent choice of distro!) as the only boot option (because who needs os-prober and a selection timeout when you’ve got the best of distros on disk, amirite?).

I suppose the most problematic part is the partitioning you handwaved as “ok”. Afair, Windows does not allow for live-resizing of the system partition (as it should). But I suppose there are ways around that, particularly if you’ve got another drive or spare partition of adequate size. (OEM recovery partitions come to mind; as much as 10 GB can be enough for a viable Linux system partition.)

Apologies. I’ve seen weirder shit proposed recently. 2025 has severely damaged my sensors responsible for detecting irony, sarcasm and satire.

As for “how would it work”: on systems as old as Win 7, it would be trivial to escalate privileges and install all kinds of shit.

Made the switch when Windows 7 went EOL. Helped plenty of others make the switch now before 10 was killed off. Life is good indeed.

So, basically Microsoft’s “we know what’s best for you” style? No. Fuck that, no matter the purpose.

Junkies high on venture capital, begging for their next hit.

Straight from the horse’s arse. Isn’t that the idiom? Not a native speaker. 🤷‍♂️

Let me join in! All Lemmy users are wasting their time generalising away into the cold, dark void of the internet.

“Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts” [NYT @ archive]

This is all you need to know: these self-proclaimed defenders of free speech are full of shit.

About damn time. People need to stop dancing around the orange turd and his cronies, desperately trying to appease them.

To, in, and about.

Ladies and gentlemen - the party of free speech!