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The creator of Zig is a dope dude, one of the best Killer Queen players to have played the game.

The billionaires have won, we are not getting the implementation of AI that helps us the most until we FIGHT the class war.

Yeah totally buy in with the guy that cratered Intel’s volume, he seems trustworthy.

This thread is everything I needed to convince me to leave instead of fight.

If you don’t plan to help at all then yes, might as well stick your head in the sand. It doesn’t matter if you pay attention or not if you don’t offer any form of resistance. Indifference is the default response for a significant portion of Americans and it’s a huge part of the problem.

The deck is stacked against us, no doubt. But we can look to historical examples of what happens if you don’t fight Nazis coming into power, and I refuse to be one of those examples.

There really are only two pragmatic options at this point. Fight or leave. Anything else is a waste.

Let them die.

Keeping it brief but drilling down a level deeper, enshittification results in an increase in short-term profits which is a positive for publicly traded companies who are legally obligated to increase profits or risk litigation by shareholders. The vast majority of consumers, once in an “ecosystem” of a product (social media is a great example here) will not leave the ecosystem due to the mild inconvenience of leaving. The profit lost by the very few who have the wherewithal to leave the ecosystem is made up for by those short term profit gains.

It’s a cycle that continues on and on, sometimes saved by vast changes by the company to reel in those “lost” consumers. Or sometimes the company messes up so bad that they never return to their pre-enshittification days.

As long as companies have a duty to shareholders to increase profits at all costs, we will always see enshittification. This is a feature, not a bug, of capitalism.

Enshittification is a result of capitalism…in which venture capital plays a huge part. So…

Long term support will keep going and going and going…

I would just worry about GPU drivers honestly, Intel seems to be doing fine on Linux for the most part.

Add onto the pile of no Facebook, no Amazon, no Microsoft, no Apple.

Nailed it. The transition to Linux should be as smooth as possible for newcomers.

For those about to switch, welcome to Linux! If you have AMD hardware give Linux Mint a shot. If you have NVIDIA, Pop!_OS is worth your first install.