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Whose agency? Ads are designed to reduce agency. It’s a red queen’s race from there. It leads to a high level of optimized manipulation and intrusiveness.
That was one of the core points of anthropic’s article.
sama is right that anthropic’s and openai’s businesses are differently shaped. Thank goodness for that.
Gentoo attempts to provide independent choices, e.g. one should be able to use KDE with either systemd or OpenRC, or XFCE with either systemd or OpenRC, whichever the user wishes.
If KDE will become dependent on systemd, then the possibility of free choice will be removed from the Gentoo users, so they will have to decide which is more important for them. As a Gentoo user, using OpenRC instead of systemd is certainly more important for me than using KDE instead of another desktop environment, so KDE will become unusable for me.
But I actually see what you mean about the degradation of options. Gentoo sort of supports 32 bit, but most modern packages are not tested against these systems anymore and receive little attention. That caused me more work recently getting one of my old machines set up.
I mean, there is so much that maintainers can do, and portage specializes in helping you make a “niche” system that no-one else bothers to create. I’m not sure if that means that the spirit of Gentoo fundamentally changes as a distribution. I think what makes Gentoo Gentoo is that it is un-opinionated.
Honestly, I see the list as a category problem, because Gentoo is kind of a meta-distribution.
Gentoo lets you choose the init system (including systemd) so it doesn’t belong in this list.
Still a terrible apples to oranges comparison.
Learn to consider whether you are mis-intepreting the person or there's something you don't know and ask questions. You literally wrote that you had an issue reading the whole comment, and dialogue would have resolved that specific misunderstanding instead of your antagonistic comment. I literally wrote "in jest" for a reason and you conveniently continue to miss it even after resolving your rendering issues. Jokes and tongue in cheeks are ways to open a conversation, not to invite lazy or stupid comments.
It's not my problem that you can't do these simple things like asking questions or reading/listening closely. And when you decide to be antagonistic about it, then you're just digging yourself into a hole (your loss and I don't feel sorry for you). Still, I don't think you understand what I was saying, but that doesn't matter because you seem to only care to vent.
You haven't contributed anything interesting to this thread. Just stop. You want to argue? Use your head, for your own sake.
Oh, that's without even going into the security risks and loss of portability.