Apparently https://plebbit.com/

Well if you see ActivityPub as the standard way of using decentralized social media…

There’s an XKCD for that, although i do think ActivityPub could be improved.

If Apple had made this change on their own, they would likely have been pilloried in the press

Changing from one proprietary connector to another pissed a lot of people off.
Changing to a standard USB-C connector would piss off almost no one.

Because you’re not contributing to the betterment of it.

Very sad to see the downfall of a once great brand… old Lenovos will easily outlast any new Lenovo.

Dell blocking the BIOS is a bit slim to claim “PC hardware companies”, but they definitely are. HP’s crap too in this regard.

Cramming more and more stuff into a SOC leads to this for sure but it’s hardly the only factor. Built-in obsolescence also plays a heavy role.

how to install bare arch?

You can try Slackware.
Or LFS for a full zero-to-hero experience.

Gentoo’s still around and quite modern. And USE flags are addictive.

I install the minimal version and go from there.

This is called manufacturing consent.

Lives on my shelf.

That new passport of yours most likely has a chip in it already so you can just swipe it a a border on one of those big machines with cameras… most new passports do… yay.

Ah yes, my daily driv… prayer.

Liking the work you do? Are you deranged?! What’s next, fair compensation?!

It’s self-destruct and it’s a feature!

That’s a disclaimer in the bug submission page.

It’s usually the opposite…

Not a simplistic definition at all…

Interesting research, thanks.

You cant legally

Which jurisdiction?