Awesome if that ends up happening.

Slowing cars down and fun, double win lol.

I’m on .ml and I’ve said plenty of critical stuff against China, the mods are chill and in general it’s been a really solid community.

That being said, I’m a hardcore leftist, so even though as an anarchist, I am strongly at odds with many statist solutions, I agree with the vast majority of leftist underlying critiques of sociopolitical issues.

In my ideal world, IP and copyright wouldn’t exist at all, but obviously that won’t happen in my lifetime.

Neither would my suggestion of releasing any defunct software as GPL, sadly.

The codebase the would be a great start, even if it previously ran on proprietary tech, having the codebase at least allows engineers to pull out the proprietary hooks and rebuild them to work with something open source.

We need a right to repair but for software, sadly that also is a pipe dream in our current environment.

All companies should be required to release their entire codebase under the GPL if the product is no longer going to be maintained by them.

That way a community of people who actually care can maintain and improve it.

I play several games that run on 20+ year old engines, long since abandoned by their original creators. The community reverse engineered the games and server infrastructure so they can still be run and enjoyed today. Same for all the folks who develop emulators and the entire ecosystem of ROM dumpers, readers, and handhelds that surround them.

Capitalism is a cancer. So amazing that, at least in certain parts of the software world, we have something better.

This is also a friendly reminder to donate to and support your favorite FOSS projects! they need all the help they can get. ❤️

I know, right.

“People shouldn’t be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.”

The penguin is merciful.

In the same spirit, yeah. It has a pretty active community from what I’ve heard.

Absolutely chadified! ✊

Holy shit…it was him!!!

Had basically the same exact scenario with my parents earlier this year.

Installed Linux Mint with the default Cinnamon desktop, installed a “Windows” theme. Put icons on the desktop exactly where there old ones were, and never looked back.

It’s been great for them, does everything they need and took minimal effort from me to set up.

Oh damn…I’m gay…

Hey NYPD, his last name is Ligma!

…No…

Hell yeah!! Welcome, fellow penguin. 🐧