Cars aren’t exactly a good example on how to curb enshittification, as the car industry pioneered enshittification and found a way around regulations every time so far.

That’s pneumatic Linux, though.

A person working close to a military would avoid many “military grade” products and so on.

It’s as with anything manufactured for a public institution. It won a bid by being the cheapest (and/or bribing an official). Once you know that, you’ll look at the world with different eyes.

Pretty much anyone who speaks of “tech” tends to have no idea of that they are talking about. Same applies to people using “cyber” as if it was a real word outside of Science Fiction, and a very niche niche branch of engineering that doesn’t necessarily deal with computers.

Look what the Nazis did with their SA brown shirts when they didn’t need them anymore. MAGA will have its night of the long knives.

What do you expect from a personality cult of a grifter? Of course it’s grift all the way down.

The original Nazis also didn’t pay all their Nazis. The infamous SA brownshirts weren’t typically paid for instance. They did it because they liked it.

I like calling them “Bullshit Generators”, because that’s what they actually are.

Is it? Haven’t met any very forthcoming NixOS users yet, but time will tell.

Me, too, BTW

Someone using Arch, by the way, in 3… 2… 1…

The problem ist that this is all too obvious and can simply be filtered out based on the location. Better would be to deliberately add all sorts of gibberish to regular posts in order to poison machine learning models.

I know, but I don’t have any half way recent experience with it, so I don’t know whether I can recommend it. When I last checked it out some years ago, it still lacked functionality regular Ubuntu based Mint had.

I am in the same boat as you. I am still running Ubuntu (with snap removed, so I can’t comment on its current performance overhead) on a few of my machines because I couldn’t be bothered to do a reinstall with something less insane, but I’m not recommending Ubuntu to anyone anymore over the same concerns as you have.

If you want to recommend a system that runs decently out of the box and runs a lot of software, recommend Mint instead. Ubuntu used to be Debian with sane default settings that would run out of the box, nowadays Mint is Ubuntu with sane default settings that will run out of the box. Mint also doesn’t subscribe to this snap madness and is continuing to maintain a few packages Ubuntu has migrated to snap as .deb package (for instance Firefox and Chromium).

Indeed, but it only was widely popularised after it had been used to rid France of its king by ridding said King of his head.

I wouldn’t necessarily want to claim the throne in a country that once invented a machine for getting rid of kings by getting rid of their heads very efficiently.