Tell a normal gamer to install bazzite. I bet you the majority will stop at “put the installer on a USB stick” or any other step in the installation. From getting the PC to boot from the USB stick, figuring out MBR vs UEFI, or “install $distro” or “install $distro (OEM)”, partitioning, or whatever other technical stuff pops up. Most people want it to Just Work ™ . Nothing more, nothing less.

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I am increasingly disheartened by the obsession over “Desktop SteamOS”. People don’t want Linux or even “a desktop computer”

My guess is that people how the installation will be made easy enough for noobs that they aren’t even aware they’re installing an OS, or it will be the default on devices. The latter is much much stronger than forcing some poor sod to deal with installing an OS and Valve also makes money in the process, which they can hopefully dump into Linux.

My hope is that the linux community wises up and learns about the power of defaults + not estranging noobs. The elitist “oh eternal september” and “but muh terminal” users can get fucked. Linux needs more people, not less.

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Isn’t it because SteamOS is based on Arch?

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Wasn’t Signal messenger also funded by the NSA+DARPA? And TOR too?

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yeah the concept is great, but open sourcing often takes a lot of work

Why do you say that?

closed source code often relies on proprietary libraries etc

I don’t see how that matters. If you write code that depends on something and opensource it, your product might not be buildable/compilable/usable without it, but your code is still opensource, and that’s what matters. The same thing will go for the library: if the person/company that made the library stops supporting it, it has to become opensource as well.

or perhaps there are secrets embedded somewhere - even it source control history

That’s up to you to clean it up. It’s just like publishing any repository online.

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who enforces the law?

There are many ways to solve this, but you could have a regulatory body that does spot checks itself or where companies must register their products and their end of life / end of support dates with links (or whatever the law stipulates) to the source code, schematics, designs, etc. . Companies that don’t abide by it get slapped with a fine (if the law is well-written it’s a percentage of global revenue), repeatedly, until they are taken to court.

It needs to be worldwide (at least for some products)

Doesn’t have to. Any goods imported into a zone have to fulfill it, otherwise they are not allowed. There many regulations for products to be imported, so this would be one of them. If some small country introduced it, they might see their imports drop, but if the EU introduced it, even Apple would have to abide by it. See EU’s Digital Markets Act or the CE Marking.

how are mergers handled?

I’d assume the way they always are? If the end result is a product being discontinued or unsupported --> opensource.

what to do if the company goes bancrupt or is closed otherwises? Who will outsource the code where? And who will be accountable

Not sure why this would be different from current proceedings. When your company goes bankrupt it doesn’t wipe the slate clean, nor are you absolved of all laws. If that were the case then a company could kill people, wave the bankrupt “get out of jail free” card and move on.
This is also where insurances come in. You’d have to be insured against the loss of your product designs, code, schematics, etc. as losing them would mean inability to abide by the law.

does that also count for private people? (e.g.: if I take a picture, I own the copyright for it, do I lose my copyright if I don’t sell the picture? Or does it only count if I sold it once? What if I sold it exclusively to someone?)

I would ask back: if you sell something on ebay that you designed and made, do you legally have provide support for it? If not, then this wouldn’t apply to you. If it does, then the law applies to you.

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I like the alternative better of “support or opensource it” as it can be expanded to nearly any product. You stop selling your game and thus don’t provide support to those that bought it? Better opensource that shit bud. You made some dropship product that sold 100k units but stop supporting it a year later because $reasons? Tough shit, opensource it bucko!

Things like Amazon’s Astro business robots being bricked after a year would be much less interesting to companies. There are probably also a whole lot of devices out there that aren’t supported anymore and just junk, but could be serviced if they were opensource.

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How slow is qubes? I imagine that virtualising everything is slow. Does it have a containerised mode?

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Ahoi, Genosse! Wie läuft die Germanisierung? Verbreiten Sie erfolgreich das Wort von Linux in Ihrem Heimatland?

(Übersetzung von DeepL)

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Was IPFS considered? I’ve tried it myself but it seems like an unstable product and I’m not sure if it’s living up to its promise…

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Sounds like a place for toots 🤔 Signal supports admin only chat rooms. Maybe they’ll be able to support >1k in the future. Dunno if MLS will be able to do that.

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What the fuck? I’ve never seen a chatroom that big. Must be absolute chaos…

Or are those “just” distribution channels aka admin only posts?

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How big were the telegram chat rooms? Did they ever get that big? The only chatroom I’ve seen with over 1k people is on matrix and it was relatively quiet. If there’s a 1k limit, probably the admin will have to kick inactive users.

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Maybe present what it’s for and why you think it should be used? To me, you just proposed a random tool and just shared a link. Sorry dude, I ain’t reading all that.

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