I’ll give that a try. I actually never figured out scanning on linux

Brother printers have a good reputation in the linux world. Not sure what the current status is… My printer is over 15 yrs old

Sometimes i use ai to analyze spreadsheet data for me and spit out an excel sheet with the answers. It says “thinking” for like 10 mins, and i can just imagine some GPUs on fire in a datacenter somewhere…

Sure, but why do meta/goog/MS need to be there? Are they opening up research to each other?

OSS is a corporate lie. What you are describing is free software. Freedom to modify and distribute

I dont really understand their business model.

Hosting these huge model files. Why cant facebook/goog/m$ just do that on their own?

How did these massive ai giants end up relying on huggingface for everything?

There’s a bit in the simspons where activists burn down a lab and a robot runs out of the building screaming “why??? Why was i programmed to feel pain?”

On youtube, you’re not the customer. You’re the product being sold

Does the boot screen look ok? Does the login screen look ok?

I had a problem with my new 9070 on debian KDE, and the issue was with color accuracy setting

I’ve been full time linux since 2017, i think (it was a long time ago)

Honestly, linux gaming with steam/proton has been really good for a LONG time. Like even “AAA” games like RDR2 have been working well whenever i buy them (not on release day, but maybe a year after)

In 2025, there’s really no reason not to go linux unless you play some very specific game that absolutely doesnt work on linux

What if fdroid goes rogue or gets hacked?

I’m an fdroid user, but i often wonder if it is safer than google play store

Likelihood of google getting hacked/rogue is much lower than a small, community run volunteer project

“If dev goes rougue”

Isnt that a risk for all app stores?

(Is debian considered a “debian-based” distro?)

Debian users, ignore the above. Debian explicity warns against using ubuntu ppa

The correct way to get libreoffice in debian is just to apt install libreofffice… It’s already in the main debian repos

https://wiki.debian.org/LibreOffice

I have 2 servers, 6 containers, a raspi, a desktop, and a laptop all running linux just fine. My two phones send notification updates to my laptop via kde connect

I have lots of devices on linux and they all play nice together

Zram

Sounds like NHTSA needs a visit from DOGE!

My desktop has been running debian for 5 years no problem including 2 major debian version upgrades, and a new(er) GPU.

I had an old laptop that ran the same debian install for 8 years. All upgrades in place, no reinstalls.

boring, and works. Stable + backports should cover the majority of people with new hardware support needs.

But my chromecast transports digital signal to my DAC. Probably better quality than the DAC in the bluetooth speaker

I hate that i can no longer trust what comes out of my phone camera to be an accurate representation of reality. I turn off all the AI enhancement stuff but who knows what kind of fuckery is baked into the firmware.

NO, i dont want fake AI depth of field. NO, i do not want fake AI “makeup” fixing my ugly face. NO, i do not want AI deleting tourists in the background of my picture of the eiffel tower.

NO, i do not want AI curating my memories and reality. Sure, my vacation photos have shitty lighting and bad composition. But they are MY photos and MY memories of something i experienced personally. AI should not be “fixing” that for me

i bought a roomba 2 years ago. It wasnt the cheapest, but it was the only company that isnt some cheap, chinese knockoff brand. American designed and operated still had some advantages for me at the time.

This was before USA plunged into facism though. Now i’m not sure what i would buy.