Baaron87

I don’t disagree, I meant given the current situation. Obviously copyleft would be preferred and should be encouraged.

Read the entire article, despite not having heard about Vivado previously. I wouldn’t be surprised if a certain company ending in soft slop is somehow involved.

The thing that makes sense to me (purely speculative, no real info to back this) is that Microslop isn’t happy about losing money and the user base, so they are pushing their hardware partners to force users back to the platform.

Redis did exactly this back in March 2024, dropping its long-standing BSD license for the more restrictive dual licensing model, and the blowback was severe enough that the community forked it into Valkey almost immediately.

Sounds like this is probably the best approach and outcome for the Vivado community and software. The end of the article recommends either joining in the discussion on AMD’s forums (which only seems to be getting stonewalled) or joining the growing number of people on hacker news.

Installed a T1 line in my house Always at my PC, double-clickin’ on my mizouse

(Didn’t expect to come across this reference this morning lol)

I definitely get what you’re saying on that. Leaving behind communities that you’re a part of, potentially for years or longer, is not appealing.

The sad reality is that is where each individual person will have to weigh their options and beliefs.

For me personally, I’m already down to just a few personal communities on Discord and for the one that I run, I will be migrating to either something like Stoat, Matrix or even a good old fashioned web forum. This all stems from not trusting Discord with my personal information, which works for me. Obviously not a one size fits all situation.

It would be nice to see Discord realize that they’re making a huge mistake and backtrack the decision, but I don’t see that happening.

Perhaps this will lead to communities migrating to web forums down the road? Only time will tell.

Will do. I need to set aside some time to see about it working with most, if not all my devices and go from there.

I did see someone else mention elsewhere that it is possible, but I don’t remember the source.

There’s also Matrix if you don’t mind tinkering around a bit too as another option.

Yeah, I just learned about that. Really unfortunate. Seems like Stoat is the next option

Dewit

Oof. That’s news to me. I’m seeing some stuff about Stoat pop up. Guess that’s what I’ll look into next

For an exact 1:1 replacement? Yeah, I do agree about that. If anyone looking for options doesn’t mind making some compromises it opens the doors quite a bit.

I shared in another reply a link to some alternatives. Guilded seems to be the closest to a 1:1 replacement for now.

My personal concern is having to repeat this again if the next proprietary platform becomes too big. My friend group has gone through google hangouts (it was a different time lol), the curse client, which became a Twitch product eventually and then Discord.

I’m at the point where I’m considering going back to web forums and things like teamspeak/ventrillo.

For a potential 1:1 Discord alternative? The one that has stood out to me is Guilded. I started looking at alternatives last year when talk about this was starting to float around and forgot about it.

Here’s a recent article with alternatives that I found in a quick search. Don’t agree with all of them personally, but I’m not the target audience for some of them.

To quote general Grevious:

“Time to abandon ship”

There’s plenty of other options out there. Discord has been enshitifying for a while now, so I don’t mind dropping it

I was starting to group together my older computers for potential recycling, but they’re now going to be repurposed after thorough testing. Not a fan of where big tech currently wants to go

What an absolute non-answer Moore provided.

Remember which companies are pulling this nonsense and boycott them going forward.

Ah, no I saw the comment but missed the part where Amazon is letting other companies use the sidewalk protocol. I’m fortunate enough to have neighbors who don’t use Amazon’s stuff, but if other companies are using their tech it’s a moot point.

I wonder if any of these appliances would stop functioning if the bluetooth and wifi module was suddenly disconnected? Not actually asking, just putting the thought out there. I miss “dumb” products.

Would be easier to create a “guest” network to connect those appliances to and make it a LAN (local area network) only. Can’t phone home. Can’t download updates.

You’re probably going to find that the terminal will come up at some point no matter what version of Linux you choose.

For most I would recommend Mint, but since you mentioned having a negative experience previously, perhaps Zorin OS would be a better alternative?

If you want a hardened OS that would be difficult to break, an immutable OS may be a better route for you. Here’s a link with some options to choose from. My recommendation would be Fedora Silverblue.

As someone else mentioned, you will still need to use a password when making changes to the system. You can set it to boot without a password if you prefer to. I use Bazzite (gaming focused immutable OS; based on Fedora Silverblue) and I want to say 90% of the time I only need my password at boot.

If you need office apps, LibreOffice and Open Office should do what you need. MS office can be a challenge to get running, but the online web versions will run out of the box.

Hope that helps!