I dont know If you can LARP it, but the Stormlight Archive is a pretty cool fandom. Highly recommend

Darude - Sandstorm

Mhm, I think this is more complicated than it looks. The LF today isn’t a direct Linux kernel funding body and more an umbrella for open-source governance (infrastructure, events, certification, security work, to name a few). So the other 97% are not necessarily wasted. Also, many kernel developers are paid outside of the LF by companies like Red Hat, Google, AMD, SUSE, Microsoft. So in reality there is alot more cash flowing towards Linux kernel development. A better/sharper criticism would be that the LF has become an industry consortium for “enterprise open source” or so, rather than a Linux-centered foundation. The counterpoint on the other Hand is that this founded infrastructure is exactly what allows large-scale open-source projects to function in the first place.

Nucular. It’s spelled nucular 🤌

I think there are many right answers, and in the end it’s dependent on your personal likings. I am self-hosting using Fedora, and I couldn’t be happier.

At least these kids are safe now and noone will experience any trade off from this policy /s

I am new to the topic, so I can’t really contribute. But I love to see other people help the boycott.

• Switched to Vivaldi. Awesome browser on all plattforms IMO.

• Switched to Proton Mail, and feel good about it. Why is Proton bad?

• And Big Win: I now host my own Nextcloud, Kalender and paperless-ngx. Highly recommend these, from a usability point of view. Can’t say much about the technical or security perspective.

Countdown-Timer on e.g. Amazon that try to FOMO-pressure me into buying the item. Edit: typo

Yup, you’re right. Sorry to have bothered you.

Are you talking about me?

“Fighting all of NATO” - as a German, I did not know that I was at war with Russia right now. Am I?

I get your anger towards the US. And probably towards the EU. Towards NATO as a whole. Our history is stained with imperialism, and we should all be working against that. Dont falsely assume that I am on the side of the empire.

But this does not necessarily make Russia (or China) some sort of safe haven. Some days ago, I had to argue with US nazis that the US and Russia are the only working democracies left in this world, and Europe is a “autocratic dictatoraship” - which is obviously BS. Our system is FAR from perfect, and we experience propaganda - as does nearly every other state. But Russia, China, and the US are definitly broken systems, and ALL of them are imperialistic. So are you telling me that you are against evil NATO empire, therefore you are rooting for the evil Russian empire?

Yes, it is.

RU is burning its demographic future for marginal territorial gains. It is spending lives and capital faster than it can regenerate them.

Its economy becomes more and more war-dependent, which means peace itself becomes destabilizing.

The brain drain Putins war causes is not a temporary inconvenience, but a strategic wound. They really traded long-term modernization for short-term militarization.

It has pushed Europe into rearmament and made the continent stronger, not weaker. And it is losing access to Western technology faster than it can replace it.

It is becoming China’s junior partner, not an independent great power.

Every year of war raises the cost of any political exit.

They may very well survive the war, but the path they chose consumed the foundations of their own power.