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By communities, but not the manufacturer. Custom ROMs is the only way to keep it up to date for long enough for the hardware to become too old to be worth it.

No custom ROM for cars anytime soon.

Your want to store a copy of the private key on the encrypted machine so it can automatically sign kernel updates.

Odd phrase and I've noticed your on Lemmy.world. You not a Brit?

Anyway, it fell apart didn't it. In 2019 Boris made it look like it could hold, but it absolutely couldn't. Though I would say a lot of that election was really anti-Corbyn.

2015 was pre-Nazification of the Conservatives. Before Brexit made them bat shit. 2024 was it all coming home.

My point is they can't have those voters who have gone Nazi, and those voters who left for the Lib dems. They can't win on the Nazi vote alone. The Nazi vote isn't really growing.

2015 - UKIP - 3,881,099 - 12.6%

2024 - Reform - 4,117,221 - 14.3%

They also lost a lot of votes to LibDems too as voters were appalled by how far to right the Conservative had gone. Going further to right to chase the Reform/UKIP/Brexit party down the crazy rightwing hole will have lost them more still on the left & centre.

But that's the whole problem. People haven't been turning Tory as they get older. So the Tory base is aging out of the population.

The Torys probably have at least another term of crazy, before they get their ship in order. They'll have some new "hug a hoodie" centrist leader and stop being so visibly the naughty party.

I'm sorry, but competition is good.

Installing some closed blob into your kernel, that's on you.

The problem is if anything is not enough competition. We just saw a centralized monoculture fall over.

The joke is Mac and Linux users, who aren't actually effected, are incapacitated due to being busy gloating on social media.

It needs to be faster and more stable. Crashes and slowness are killer issues. Slowness is single core issue. You can see one core working it's ass off, but the other like 15, sitting doing nothing. Plus it freezes during that often because it's not async/multi-threaded enough. Crashes, well that's just bad, but in this case it's normally when even 48GB RAM isn't enough. Bloody curved geometry from external sources with massive messes. Needs more exchanging files methods that isn't mesh based. But also mesh rationalization tools are need too.

It'll catch on at some point. KiCAD did. Blender did. Many other FOSS apps have!

Few things, in rough order:

• Smaller = less attack surface. You can strip a Linux OS down to only what is needed.

• Open source, so it's can be peered review. There are Unix distros like OpenBSD, that share lot of user space component options, where auditing is a big thing. The whole sunlight and oxygen stops things festering as much. As abosed to things locked in a box in another box down in a cellar.

• Open source transparency forces corporates to be better. We can see what they are and aren't doing.

• Diversity. The is no "Linux", it's a ecosystem of Linux distros all built and configured differently, using different components. Think of Linux as just a type of base board in a sea of Unix Lego bits. There are plenty of big deployments on BSD bases that share a lot with some Linux deployments.

• Unix security is simplier than Windows security, so easer to not mess up.

I think we loosen connections with US and increase them with sane European countries. The US is heading for isolation, and decline because of it. We have friends right next door.