Oh… right…

Yourself and the code you read and understand. So as long as you don’t use a system where this is possible (say 9Front and the like) you trust nothing and nobody, do careful backups and don’t go on a installation spree.

This makes America as the whole an enemy, not only its government. Just saying.

If they are at the frontlines I guess they are at war. Well… how goes the old saying: “All fair in love and war”

My computer, my rules… and if I want a piece of software out it will move out.

What about the following take: LLMs are an abomination that consumes enormous masses of resources for… well… really nothing besides being a tool to further enshittify the Internet and the world as a whole, being a tool for making it easy creating ever more divisive content (not to mention the special content Grok is now known for), killing jobs and replacing genuine human creativity by a cheap, warped imitation thereof.

My opinion is: Everybody who uses or promotes this technology is accomplice in making the world a worse place.

So… making laws against Nazis DOES work?

As such, I am curious to know how the custom image ecosystem of Vanilla OS is. Like, does something like this exist for Vanilla OS? (FWIW, there was another website that made browsing through these a better experience. But, sadly, I couldn’t find it.)

Well, there is Vib, and there are various custom images out there, but sadly i am not aware of any single website that list them. It’s all in all a much smaller project than uBlue and in things like that it shows.

Well, i am in no way affiliated with the developer team or the project in general and yes, there was some time when everything looked a bit… stalled… but at the moment it looks like they got back their motivation.

is it sensible to be enthusiastic about this project’s future at this point?

No, absolutely not. The chance that VanillaOS becomes a major distribution in the Linux world is minimal and there is the high probability that they just throw the towel at some point in the future. I mean, its like that time when somebody whose name i cannot remember started a Minix clone just for fun as a hobby project…

I am 43 and all I need is a couple of glasses of whiskey…

It’s Debian Sid based so I assume you find the Kernel used therein in VanillaOS

In general it is -as mentioned by @h3ron@lemmy.zip- an immutable, Debian based distribution with GNOME. It uses a quiet interesting system called ABRoot for doing updates. I use it on one of my spare machines now since they did the switch from Ubuntu base to Debian and honestly i like it.

Don’t use Discord!

IRC and Matrix are better, free alternatives.

The current an planned actions of the US will also surely leading to others doing things to them they don’t like…

Somehow, reading this I get flashbacks to Shadowrun TTRPG sessions I did in the 90s…

I am now married to a Vietnamese woman for a bit over ten years and we have a kid, but i can only speak from my personal experience - as always, people are individuals and regional experiences may be utterly different.

As far as i can say: As long as you respect the culture, try to blend in and be friendly you will never find a more welcoming people, multi racial kids (we are talking European / Vietnamese here, ok?) are absolutely no problem. But i have to say: In Vietnam you also find the (i am speaking in general terms here) typical asian dislike for darker skin. You are absolutely fine as long as your skin tone matches roughly the one of the local population or is lighter. As a darker skinned person your experience may be completely different.

I don’t know about our politician, but the population surely is taking him seriously… i am living near an american base in germany and i can assure anyone: Americans are really not popular with the local population right now, and at the moment its a really, really bad idea to enter some establishments in uniform.

Vietnam really is nice (i lived there for a while), but one has to keep in mind: The living standard (away from the big cities) is still not compareable to western standards and - a thing that i find really funny in a way - i would never have thought that a communist country may be THAT anarcho capitalist.

But overall: I really love that country.

You know that you shouldn’t use Discord, right?

Why not self host it? If you use Software like snac or gotosocial its quiet easy and soft on resources.