Time to move away from DigitalOcean.
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@nixCraft do you guys actually not remember that fighting fascism was done with guns not words? Boycotting does not work in capitalism, ever.
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@diegovsky literally not true. Spend five minutes with a history book.
@nixCraft This is simply just yet more corporate money burning on this AI bubble.
All omarchy is is a vibe-coded set of install scripts for Arch Linux. This will not take over the world, imcrease stability, or decrease compile times.
There's a reason why Arch is a very niche distro. It's the bleeding-edge rolling-release distro where things can and will break. Most people want stability with something that is guaranteed to work, and often settle for a staged release distro like Debian instead.
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@alice_pea_3526 But the marketing material implies everything can be fixed if enough AI gets thrown at it. They even have a domain for it: https://wecanfixeverything.com/
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@retsel Precisely. Omarchy is simply being used as a marketing stunt to promote AI. These corporate losers are funding it in the hopes that idiots hook their paid API keys into it, and waste thousands of dollars of tokens on it.
They need to fund their expensive overbuilding of data centers with something. Many of these companies are 9-12 figure amounts of dollars in the red over this AI stuff, and they desparately needed paying customers 2 years ago, hence the reason for this marketing stunt.
@nixCraft Why the FUCK is seemingly every company in Silicon Valley lining up to throw their money at some random fascist's dotfiles??? So many nice little *actual* Linux distros which could've done great things with that kind of money
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@nixCraft I love seeing people see this project for what it is and what it stands for. Keep up the good fight. We need to create a list of companies supporting this.
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@nixCraft I don't get it, if the guy behind it is so rich already why do people keep giving him money?
![[HANDMAIDEN] xan](https://cdn.xantronix.social/accounts/avatars/109/328/523/052/912/624/original/f496a5e2fef0fcec.png "[HANDMAIDEN] xan")
@nixCraft most expensive repo of personal dotfiles and scripts ever
@nixCraft One more reason
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that’s just lame marketing nonsense, and only someone with AI psychosis would think that’s a reason to drop Digital Ocean.
This is a reason to drop Digital Ocean
https://www.404media.co/ceo-attempted-to-navigate-anti-lgbt-hate-incident-by-telling-employees-his-mentor-was-a-kkk-member/
@nixCraft The list of companies I wouldn't touch with a shitty stick gets longer every day.
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And soon enough we'll be forced to stop interacting with companies, period, if we don't want to be complicit in this. A shame that means going to some commune in the middle of nowhere
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@csolisr Commune in the middle of nowhere, you say? I'm listening.
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@distrowatch @csolisr let's have a server farm on the commune and host services that don't suck for people powered by solar
@nixCraft
That's depressing. But also kind of tracks. They've been pushing AI pretty hard too.
I suppose I'd better get on that project to move to colocation, soon.