Ariadne Conill 🐰

to be clear, i do not think omarchy or omacom is good, but i can understand what DHH is *pitching* to Dell, for example.

it's a bullshit meme distro that he is pitching, but I guarantee you that he isn't selling it that way.

no. DHH is telling Dell that, with their investment, they can eventually ship laptops for developers with Omarchy instead of Windows and save money on Windows licensing.

and if you're not seeing that, you aren't looking at all of this from a product perspective

@sharkfie I haven't any idea why they do that

anyway i am muting this thread, i'll update folks on whether i decide to move forward on this after alpineconf

in the most extreme interpretation, the desktop *itself* is a flatpak app

but i am not actually sure if that is possible atm

given this, such a distribution should be focused on three major things

1. a cohesive design aesthetic

2. providing just enough substrate to boot flatpak apps

3. integrating servo into the desktop environment for "web apps"

omarchy is basically the grifter aliexpress version of the thesis

this thread is not an invite to tell me about your favorite linux distro and why you think it defeats my thesis.

it doesn't.

and certainly omarchy doesn't meet the thesis.

@noel @whitequark or to put it in linux terms, you're thinking distros, i'm thinking SteamOS.

managing software needs to be obvious. package managers ain't it.

on mac, you install apps from either the app store or by dragging them to the applications folder.

somebody has already suggested that we should build this on Nix or whatever.

and like, you're just not getting the point.

the package management? flatpak.

in essence omarchy is a mechanism to take linux and turn it into a product, in the same way that macOS takes darwin and turns it into a product.

traditional linux distributions, by comparison, aren't defined products, they are work output from technical communities, and the design of them is approached from that philosophy.

a lot of people do not understand what omarchy actually *is* and why it is making progress where traditional distributions have failed.

they focus on the fact that omarchy *is* a vanity distro, that it is basically a collection of configuration files and some shell scripts gluing them together.

and omarchy is that.

but omarchy is also marketing and devrel, and a consolidation of the linux experience into a product format.

in fact, that is most of what omarchy actually *is*.

building a technical community that understands & executes on these things would be the goal of what i propose building

maybe i should build something like omarchy that isn't, you know, omarchy

hi @unredacted please be aware that we are considering defederating your instance because you have a troll (epicgaming@unredacted.social) on it for several days now.

edit: they have suspended the account

anyway, the reason why i am not moved by the moral argument around copyright and GenAI is very simple: generally, the GenAI companies have infinity times more money than the artists they are ripping off.

which means making a copyright claim against a GenAI company is both expensive and unlikely to succeed unless you can afford the same lawyers they have

welcome to the US legal system: whoever has the most money tends to win civil litigation

so, you know, when you reply telling me i am an AI lackey and i should kill myself, i just go and report you to your instance admin and bonk the suspend button. no chance of appeal.

i'm going to let you in on a secret: part of the reason why i post, in my opinion, useful and insightful takes on things i know deeply about, is to keep treehouse's blocklist primed 🙃

apparently thinking copyright is shit makes me an AI lackey. good to know. *plonk*

fwiw the copyright arguments about GenAI do not hold water with me. copyright is the tool of the noble classes, and should be abolished. the fix is, and has always been, to abolish copyright.

what arguments *do* hold water with me are the political ones: commercial GenAI represents the greatest concentration of money & political power our generation has ever seen.

my arguments *against* GenAI in alpine, and in my own projects, are based on a risk analysis of that concentration of power: as maintainers we cannot protect our autonomy, nor our projects' sovereignty, in an era where we become dependent on GenAI. the people who control our access to GenAI technology will, instead, be the person who exercises total control over FOSS projects which embrace GenAI.

well, this is yet another red line that has been crossed.

https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2026/08/designation-of-autistici-inventati-as-a-specially-designated-global-terrorist