All my professors taught and programmed in linux, but when it comes to exams, you need windows for the lockdown browser to do your exams. If you only had a linux machine, you won’t be passing your classes!

At least for assignments, the professors requested pdfs and not docx or smth.

Yeah it’s crazy. I grew up hearing about how the “robot laws” are still imperfect, contradictory and filled with loopholes.

But these sci-fi worlds at least tried, imperfect as they are. Turns out IRL no one gives a fuck.

I installed arch myself too. But i still don’t see what benefits it brings over a simply GUI installer from Debian or Fedora. Just click a few buttons and I’m done. What was the point of all the complexity of arch installer anyway? I develop open source linux programs too, the arch installer stuff has very little relation to the actual development of linux projects. I don’t see much reason for it, it’s just something unnecessary. Just use a GUI installer and be done with it.

That’s actually not as crazy though. Linus himself said people don’t install operating systems, it’s not what most people want to do in their free time.

We have our own version in linux too. Arch/Gentoo/NixOS, neovim/hyprland/kitty unixporn evangelists who clearly have a very different idea of what’s worth spending time on, compared to the average user. Like gosh, ubuntu, konsole and vscode work perfectly fine too!

Yeah, really do it ok? Not only are you helping yourself, you’re helping the clueless execs at microsoft who still have no idea why people dislike their stupid spy AI thingy.

We’ve got local llm models, we’ve got local text to speech, isn’t it a matter of time until someone puts in the work to build one? It shouldn’t be surprising.

If you follow programming communities, the most popular thing beginners say they want to build these days is “local AI chat assistant” or some variant of the concept.

Who knows. Maybe they have that one dev on the app team that’s on a crusade to detect every single abnormality.

He might also be following the rooting/magisk scene. Back then whenever magisk updates its root hiding system and successfully bypasses apps, mcdonalds are the first to detect it again.

CM5s have 16GB of ram, some people might be building a postmarket os port for it too. Just need someone to design phone hardware for it.

The biggest problem are the banking apps. If you’re standing at checkout and your payment app says

“Unverified apps have been detected on your phone. Please uninstall and try again.”

99% of people will delete FDroid and never sideload anything every again.

They’ll probably also release a new API to allow apps to check if user have enabled sideloading. Then overzealous apps like fucking mcdonalds will throw a hissy fit about and refuse to work unless you turn it off. Also your bank too, just to really twist the knife.