Agreed. Tools aren’t the problem generating all the slop, it’s the vibe coding mentality.

They. They outsourced it. Did we ever really have a voice in this? Did we have a choice in what they do with the capitol they control when they wish to reshape society around it? We need to commit to anticorporate lifestyles and genuinely reject their products and services at scale. Until that happens we’re spending our resources to enrich our enemies who use it against us.

Yep. It’s absurd. Who spends that much on a 4TB?

I love my Ally X deck. That’s why I didn’t buy a Thor. I can run emulators on that. I’m afraid to take it anywhere. And yeah, it feels more like the weight of a musical instrument than a handheld device.

It’s healthy to have that core value imo. I’m happy enough to work around that vs the algorithms we have normalized.

Lol me too!! After I looked I wasn’t too interested. Also crazy you mentioned Thor, that’s the device I don’t need that I can’t stop thinking about.

I think if a products budget is mostly spent on marketing it might be worth a miss.

I hate how much this marketing works for me

Any Arch/Debian. If you’re picking Distros based on which UI they package, you’re doing your self dirty by ignoring options that might be more what you want. You can always swap out the UI. It’s not a core part of most distros.