Re: Not Much LINUX Stuff of Late

On 7/26/26 17:24, Farley Flud wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Jul 2026 20:00:30 -0000 (UTC), John McCue wrote:
> 
>>
>> For example, users want a browser that blocks ads, no
>> java script, no AI, fast and lite on memory and can read
>> any site without dealing with cloudflare.  What are
>> corporations giving us ?  Nothing but spyware, ads, DRM
>> and soon ID checks.
>>
> 
> There are alternative browsers.  Palemoon is a good example.
> But since browsers have stopped being just a program to
> render HTML markup and have become a portal for executing
> foreign software on user machines, development of an alternative
> browser is almost an impossible task for an independent team.

   Yep, it ain't 1989 anymore. To be even remotely useful
   for most anything browsers have to be very complex,
   sometimes a bit evil too. Just try to use Lynx and
   related on any modern site ... you won't get anywhere.
   Forget buying from Amazon or doing yer banking.

> Web standards, defined by international authorities, should
> be strictly enforced but they are not.  The fault in large
> part lies with the user who does not take the time and effort
> to demand from web sites that they conform.

   I'm never happy with "international authorities".
   Often some sinister/totalitarian shit involved.

>> To me, most distros are very close to becoming an exact
>> clone of M/S Windows or Apple OS.  The way things are
>> going it will be almost impossible to tell these apart
>> in maybe 5 to 10 years.
>>
> 
> Yes.  Quite correct.

   No, Linux can never be a massive clusterfuck
   like Winders !  :-)

> The single thing that is making this monolithicity possible
> is SYSTEMD (that is its purpose).  All the users (i.e. moochers)
> who blindly accept systemd are complicit in this corruption
> of GNU/Linux.

   Aww ... I like systemd in many respects. It's
   not like the Winders registry, don't see any
   INTENTIONAL evil.

> Fortunately, this only applies to "most" distros.  There
> are alternatives but these always will be in the fringe.

   Look at MX and a few others ... the start-up options
   allow you to run a systemd or sysV version. You can
   use grub-customizer to pick yer default, but still
   have the alt easily available.

> Once Torvalds retires, for whatever reason, from his stewardship
> the degeneration of Linux will only accelerate.

   Which is why I'm looking into the BSDs more and more.

> The GNU project needs to make their Hurd kernel a top
> priority as the future of Linux is total corporate
> domination with a lack of freedom.

   We need alt development streams.