“But we’re selling the hardware at a loss, so letting you own what you paid for would break our crappy business model” /s

I would love if device makers were forced to open up their hardware to other OSs. Unlockable bootloaders for all as well as allowing users to install their own signing keys so secure boot can remain enabled.

Granted, there would still be black box firmware required to use half the components inside, but that’s another battle.

Probably some use cases for “regular” users. Someone mentioned music production, though that’s probably more professional than hobby.

To my understanding, you mostly need real time performance for specialty cases where timing is absolutely critical. So I guess if you were building custom drones or custom control boards for drones, you could use real time Linux for that now since the timing could be guaranteed.

Doesn’t say, but I am curious. They said their workarounds broke other workarounds which caused a lot of implementation delay, but I’m not sure what the actual compromise was to address all that.

Answer probably lies somewhere in the kernel maintainer’s mailing list, I’d imagine. Just not equipped to search for it right at the moment.

Security tip: Never post your home address on social media.

Lol, yeah.

The Slashdot article that led me to the original was slanted to say “legacy IT” equipment was the cause and had the distinct subtext that had they been using cloud for everything, they would have been fine.

Nope, this is 100% failure to provision and secure equipment correctly. And cloud doesn’t mean anything for security, especially given how many sensitive files have been left in wide-open, publicly accessible S3 buckets.

Hate to say it (re: security theater), but I think that is correct. I’ve read articles stating a drop in crime in places where they just have a cardboard cutout of police officers in the window.

Regardless, all of us combined are a grain of rice compared to the real meat and potatoes AI trains on

Absolutely. It’s more a matter of principle for me. Kind of like the digital equivalent of leaving fake Amazon packages full of dog poo out front to make porch pirates have a bad day.

Let’s go, already!

How you can help: If you run a website and can filter traffic by user agent, get a list of the known AI scrapers agent strings and selectively redirect their requests to pre-generated AI slop. Regular visitors will see the content and the LLM scraper bots will scrape their own slop and, hopefully, train on it.

Further, while only licensed device makers are permitted to modify Google’s AndroidTV, any device maker is free to make changes to open source versions. That leaves open the possibility that the devices were infected in the supply chain and were already compromised by the time they were purchased by the end user.

It’s ArsTechnica, so I wouldn’t think they’re intentionally spreading FUD around FOSS, but that bit did live a bad taste in my mouth.

“But AI isn’t coming for your jobs, we swear!”

I fully expect companies that are replacing employees with “AI” to soon run into failure. I also hope that those laid off because their bosses determined an “AI” could do their jobs find better jobs and refuse to return to their old positions when they’re inevitably asked to come back.

Ah, good to know.

I did know there were two sides of it (we explored MariaDB Enterprise at work, but unfortunately it didn’t pan out).

Any more, I just assume one company buying any other always results in a worse experience post-sale.

Saving this for when people ask why I need root access on my devices.

I’ve never heard of K1.

Should we expect MariaDB enshittification to ensure?

Strategic investment aims to accelerate MariaDB’s mission to deliver innovative, scalable database solutions with new executive leadership to drive the next phase of growth

I’m not reading that as a “no” :(

Some bored person who is good at video editing should remaster GoldenEye replacing all of the actors with their N64 game models.

I’ve used Plasma off and on for years, and every time I just regretted it. Can’t point to one particular issue that ruined it, it was just a lot of little annoyances over a long period of time (mostly with multi-monitor setup and the panels glitching out all the time). So “BugScreen” sounds about right, lol.

That said, this would be more of an “appliance” configuration so I may give it a shot and keep Kodi as a fallback.

Looks like Kodi it is, lol. Which is fine, I guess. I should be able to customize it and remove the unneeded options.

My current setup only really runs Emby and Snapcast, so I haven’t had to deal with any kind of launcher. It just boots into Openbox, launches FF full screen, and loads Emby. I’m aiming to add some new features to the new build since it’s more capable than the old Core2 Duo laptop I dug out of the basement lol.

So it sounds like they did have plans, or at least ideas, for it but are now backtracking after the 100% deserved backlash.

Mom, can we stop and get some Python?

No, we have Python at home.

Python at home…