It was the last straw for me to switch back to Linux after 15 years and I’m eternally grateful for that. Thanks Microsoft.

So free software is actually about freedom, huh.

Money hoarding worker abuser said what?

Nope, didn’t know I had to, I’ve had multiple prints succeed previously, but also clogs often enough to be annoying, so maybe that’s it. Thank you very much for the pointer, let’s hope it’s what was missing.

Elegoo Centauri Carbon, and I’m using Orca on Linux.

That’s Alpaka 0, Alpaka 1 seems to be in stock.

Edit: also https://inputlabs.io/contribute/open_source

You know what can’t be scalped? Open source: https://inputlabs.io/

Since it’s called the GNU Image Manipulation Program, why not pick up the extremely low hanging fruit and call it GNU Imp? It also comes with a free mascot.

Edit: And given that Wilber already has a cheeky smile and two horn-like ears, it wouldn’t even be that much of a new mascot either. I mean come on people, do I have to think of everything around here?

Games have just become too political. In the good old days we could play Castle Wolfenstein without all the woke stuff. /s

We need more tech unions and tech coops.

They will rehire for less. The AI hype is just a wage suppression scheme.

Here: https://huggingface.co/common-pile

Technofeudalism.

That’s a very European mindset.

In fact, “computers” were women whose job was to do calculations in the era before electronic computers.

A heads up that, in 2026, a 70 year old grandmother could just as well have had a 30-40-50 year career in computing. Don’t use grandmothers as the go to trope for tech illiterate users :)

Sudo vibe coding in Bletchley Park.

WTF man, I just want a fucking browser.

Why would anyone install a proprietary freeware browser?

Meanwhile China is going all in on renewables.

Here is a fact: an authoritarian non-democracy is doing a lot for securing the future of humanity, while the “leader of the free world” are vandalizing the climate and accelerating apocalyptic climate catastrophe.

In 2025, China is a net positive for the future of humanity, while the USA is a net negative.

If that makes you uncomfortable about what our political and economic systems in the West that brought us here, well, you know the meme: “facts don’t care about your feelings”.

If you, like me, care about the future of democracy, we have to do a LOT of digging.