what practical alternatives are out there? every gaming and streaming community seems to use discord, but i hate it on the basis of it being an enshittified, proprietary walled garden.

hardware compatibility is only one part of the problem. the other is binary compatibility. vendors are not going to ship binaries for a range of linux distributions and versions. vendors are not going to ship source code. and if they do, it's going to be a pain to get it to compile (e.g. trying to compile epson scan 2 on arch right now and grappling with a boost version that is too new).

thin client machines that you have to lease with a cloud subscription and which are locked down to the intended purpose only. basically the death of generic computing. delevoper machines will be tied down devel kits.

free palestine from hamas

Win 11 got so bad over the last years that Linux is the better option now.

Dobrindt ist doch Trump-Fan, ich vermute letzteres.

Der Beweggrund ist für die diskriminierenden irrelevant.

Hätte mich jetzt auch gewundert wenn die Union was mit GG Art.1 anzufangen gewusst hätte.

Why would I pay for premium if it doesn't remove the ads? It's like they don't do market research and just make shit up.

Kann man telepolis wieder lesen oder wird da noch geschwurbelt?

Should have called it "Black ICE".

We've just had 500 billion in infrastructure investments over a span of 12 years approved by our goverment. That's 41 billion/year. Obviously we have those 3 billion to spend.