Yes.
Also, Ubuntu is on the governing board for Debian, as a major stakeholder in their upstream distribution. They use the same tools to distribute software.
3rd party repos like PPAs are Sometimes (though not always) compatible with both.
Its how most Distros get started. Ubuntu is just tweaked Debian, with more than a decade of tweaks (and amazon spyware) piled up.
I’m 100% in favor of this. Erode that trademark!
I’m not a Leninist by any means. But on a mass scale, the need to grow for a Capitalist economy? Manifests itself in ways Lenin described as “Capitalist Imperialism”. If you only reach one chapter, the author says that’s Ch7, which becomes a short essay.
Lenin Argues against Carl Kautsky’s assertion that such a prospect looks like grabbing Land. Lenin argues that Capitalism needs no such political arm directly, only ownership of the economy by a foreign body. Eventually investment capital runs out of fertile ground at home and must find new markets to control.
As Russia’s economy stagnated, and the room for investment dried up, much of Putin’s moves were to open other countries to Russian Finance Capital. When that failed, taking new land became the fallback for having new oil and shipping investments. Not just land, but resources as Kautsky discussed.
And here Doctorow breaks down how that looks for single firms in monopoly or oligopoly, specifically in the tech sector, and its drive to constantly " invent new markets". A perfect compliment.
That’s what these data centers are - Empire. They will swallow your ability to compute. Moderate it. Control it. Direct it towards only their ends. Because at the end game, the most value extraction comes from not simply selling you a product, but selling you as a product to other businesses. Enshittification will continue until you can out-bid the corpos for your data sovereignty. Reverse Centaurs are easy to train, replace, and shift. Centaurs? Require actual investment, giving the worker some power.
The need for control? Emerges organically from the consequences of noncompliance. In both the puppet-state in response to its international industrial overlords, or its alternative in direct management by a foreign state. The money must flow, the growth must happen, or the party is over for much broader than their own dinner table.
The growth must happen, or the very laws of a market crush the entire society down to well below this peak. No more growth stocks in growth industries, just cutthroat competition from the same corpos that keep out upstarts… Until some shock ruins somebody’s bag, and we get a chance at something interesting like the tech sector used to be.
Accurate? Certainly. Politically Feasible? That’s another story.
Thanks, read too quickly after work and completely misunderstood.
RAM isn’t really expensive at all right now either
Uh… You’ve missed some news. https://www.dimmprice.com/
You uh missed some news https://www.npr.org/2025/12/28/nx-s1-5656190/ai-chips-memory-prices-ram
Orca on Archlinux user here. Its perfect.
What kind of hack-trash distro are you hearing about problems from?
Step 1 - raise awareness.
Step 2 - gather active participants
Step 3 - collectively do legal things that make life harder for anyone with the power to enact this, yet does not.
Step 4 - repeat Step 3, making it clear why this is happening.
Step 5 - make memes of the affair to further drive engagement.
Step 5.1 (potentially American/Russian/etc Exclusive) - get declared a terrorist for doing a perfectly legal thing.
Step 6 - build support structures and tools to mitigate consequences.
Step 7 - keep going anyway, in spite of what consequences can be brought.
Step 8 - profit build incremental victories to bolster the movement.
points to ads in the start menu and surveillance in the OS
I still want FFmpeg to send google a $100 million invoice, exclusively for GPL violations in Chrome.
When the time comes for you to use AI, if ever? You’ll be better prepared for it. Keep up the good work!
It means load Letter size paper. The printer is out of paper.
I love the idea!
I absolutely despise it when it is locked down from the user, owned by the corporation that produced it, and operating as an arm of the surveillance state.
Even discounting the need for safeguards, sanity-checks, and verifiability of information.
Those monstrosities are not allowed in my home until I can remove the spyware operating system.
Nice username. I remember when they got away with using that name (minus the numbers) for the handshake to WPA3, and were deeply suspicion-inducing about whether the mathematician who authored that was on the NSA payroll or not.
You don’t need GPUs to do traffic analysis you just need more Five Eyes, TIA, room 641A stuff.
Oh, entirely. But that also theoretically benefits from AI: https://www.sciencedirect.com/org/science/article/pii/S1546221824004636
Hence things like: https://mullvad.net/en/vpn/daita
But further? I’d encourage you to explore what Gospel and Lavender are.
Valid and real. Good luck.
The only way the AI bubble won’t burst will be its complete integration into the military industrial complex and surveillance state, which is already underway.
AI traffic correlation for deanonymizing VPN users, ai tracking of all cellphone users across the US carrier networks, tracking of all people across all security cameras,…
This is just the beginning. And its all propped up by military spending from the US government.
“Data is the new oil” and all that? Is about undermining any 4th amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure. And AI is the latest (glitchy) tool to automate all of this.
But consumer facing side? Yeah, that’s gonna burst.
Is your country taking American Refugees yet?
First they actually came for the trans people, but the poem author didn’t care to notice because he was a Catholic Priest.
But ya know. Its like that again.