The return of the fat client in the age of AI mainframes? Nvidia is selling shovels in the AI gold rush, so they don’t care either way.

I don’t think you can be pro copyleft and pro-today’s-LLMs, which are used to wash away copyleft. Copyleft and LLM poison the code and downstream developers have to play nice.

Guessing you don’t like GPL either. Restricting those developers down stream of you.

Exactly. Right now it is the mainframe era and the billionaire monopolies want it that way. However that is a future not one but them wants. Little tech rebel alliance is the way to go. I’m not interested in big tech’s imperial AI.

If they are commiting code they don’t understand, this is but one of the issues they are going to get hit by. They can’t blame the AI, the buck stops with them.

It won’t go away, but LLM won’t always mean automated-cargo-cult-programming, digital serfdom, climate apocalypse and a financial speculation bubble. At some point, their cost will have to be their actual cost. Bigtech hope is many will be so hopelessly dependent at that point, that they will pay that cost. Also that there is little competition because few can run at those losses.

But I think at that point, efficient small language models you can own/host, train and use at will, will be a thing. No one wants to be (American) bigtech serfs.

Humans are going to be the weak point of any system.

I was thinking this about getting off America servers and services. More a question of digital sovereignty security. But it is all do with hacking via humans by pretending to be support staff.

Is this to help them burn cash on AI a bit longer? That’s how I’m taking it.

Exactly, consumer choice only works as a force in a functional market. Phone OSs are very much not a functional market. This requires regulators to wake up.

Yeah, it’s hard. People don’t want to see the problems because they don’t want to change. Law makers are the ones we really can’t fail to convince.

I’ve donated monthly to OpenRightGroup well over a decade now. I make sure it is always more than my wife’s Netflix (DRM pusher) to maintain a net positive!

It is partly designed to hurt Fdroid. Which will hurt Lineage, Graphene, e/OS, etc. It’s all very anticompetitive.

This is a legal/poltical issue more than a technology one. The good guys are the EFF, OpenRightsGroup, EDRi and others in the same side. Increasingly phone apps are forced on us to do things at all, and those apps are not only closed but only run on locked down OSs. It’s anti competitive, anti-freedom, authoritarian, etc etc.

We need to get better at convincing non-nerds. We need to stop fighting political fights by burying ourselves ever deeper in tech. Which I’m guilty of too!

Good podcast episode interviewing Frank Kolichek were the folk is mentioned : https://opensourcesecurity.io/2026/2026-02-nextcloud-frank-karlitschek/

PlayStations and god knows what is some closed BSD. Apple are not alone in eating the BSD free lunch and giving very little back for it. Kind of the point of the license. It’s why Linux took over in most places, you can’t just take because of the GPL.

Well that is always the risk from moving from stable anything. It is called Testing after all, and I have found and reported things a few times. I just had nothing I couldn’t fix and wasn’t fixed later. As I said, it’s about right for me. I put most people, and any servers, only on Stable.

I’ve found Testing works rather well as a compromise. It’s actually very stable, while most of the time, constantly updating. It’s only during freeze time it stops noticeably changing. At unfreeze, there is a load at once, but it’s yet to be a real problem for me in like 15y. SID is a bit too bleeding edge for my liking. The Arch and SID guys can be on the front line, that’s fine. I thank them for their service, but I don’t want it quite as interesting as that.

Roll with Debian Testing? Or even SID?

Both Darwin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)

Oh you just know people has put NetBSD on a phone. Doubt it’s been done with a GUI though.