I love this sort of guerilla open source activism.

The whole "manifesto" style of the main webpage is extremely well done and makes a compelling argument, even if we don't choose this as our core distro.

I like that it also serves as a good page to send to even non-Linux folks, to explain why these dystopian cudgel laws must be resisted at every turn.

EDIT: I see some comments saying the Mastodon post didn't add anything to it. I agree!

I am a little new to posting so I thought it was polite to include the source.

It was late and at first glance my sleepy mind thought they just saw these two images coincidentally side by side on their phone. Not like it was just a single meme. LOL

Here's the raw image for fellow meme collectors. :)

Original link: https://chaos.social/@gsuberland/116037932568933433

GoG is freely releasing a bunch of games that would likely be targeted for removal by these moral panic lobbyists, for 48 hours, as a protest. Honestly not interested in the majority but hey I can get behind the sentiment!

Link is here:

https://items.gog.com/freedomtobuy/index.html

Found this on iFunny lol.

Basically title. I'm a digital artist in the USA and not rich by any stretch. In fact, somewhat in debt. (Aren't we all.)

I also try really hard to not be a mindless consumer. I use old equipment as long as I can, repair, refurbish, etc...

All this talk of upcoming tariffs has me worried that, rather than being able to get a day-job at newly opened US manufacturing for electronics or something, I'll instead be paying +60% more on like everything.

I know tech is a depreciating asset, but should I try to upgrade now to hold out for the next ~5 years or so?

I was considering hunting down a motherboard/cpu/RAM combo for instance.

Are worries about tariffs overblown? Trying to figure out how to prepare as best I can with my meager resources before everything just...keeps getting worse.

I am getting paid for my digital art, it's not living money though. My spouse has a more stable income that enables me to keep trying.

Thanks in advance. <3

EDIT: Thanks a ton for all the helpful replies! I'm glad I'm not being overly paranoid.

Some of you have asked for system specs so here they are for the curious:

::: spoiler System Specs:

• OS: OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
• Mobo: Z590 Aorus Elite AX
• CPU: i7-10700k @ 5.1 Ghz
• GPU: Nvidia RTX 3090
• Mem: 32GB DDR4 (forget the speed...3000?) :::

I want to be clear: I don't mean to sound too panicked and I'm more than happy to be content with what I have and see my blessings for what they are.

However, as I'm trying to break into being a 3D Blender artist and gamedev professionally, I'm trying to strategize whether standards will significantly increase and leave me behind in the next 5 years or so. (Game industry, not trying to do Hollywood VFX models on my home rig or anything lol)

I don't game so much these days unfortunately. And if I do, like 5% of my library is particularly demanding. 😂

The Hated One has been pretty solid in the past regarding privacy/security, imho. I found this video of his rather enlightening and concerning.

• LLMs and their training consume a LOT of power, which consumes a lot of water.
• Power generation and data centers also consume a lot of water.
• We don't have a lot of fresh water on this planet.
• Big Tech and other megacorps are already trying to push for privatizing water as it becomes more scarce for humans and agriculture.

---personal opinion---

This is why I personally think federated computing like Lemmy or PeerTube to be the only logical way forward. Spreading out the internet across infrastructure nodes that can be cooled by fans in smaller data centers or even home server labs is much more efficient than monstrous, monolithic datacenters that are stealing all our H2O.

Of course, then the 'Net would be back to serving humanity instead of stock-serving megacultists. . .