Disaster

I can't even find a decent PCIE USB/Thunderbolt card (one that support VFIO would be nice and actually has a Linux kernel driver, so ASM and Renesas are both out..)

I believe it's a little more sinister than that. There is less education around these issues because many services have adopted a highly polished, "Walled-Garden" approach to their presentation. This keeps people who've grown up with the concepts in their walled garden loyal to that specific service, and makes it difficult for people to dig under the hood and work out how things really function without the sugar coating. They get irritated quickly because they're used to everything "Just working" and don't have experience on more open systems.

Therefore, they would like there to be no need for tech education unless you plan on a professional career as a tech.

As long as ownserhip don't get carried away with enshittification chasing next quarter's finance call and drive users away by annoying them into putting the extra effort in to learning about alternatives, they could keep it that way forever.

There's also the term Xennials , which is 1977-1983.

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

It appears to have ceased development. AFAIK it still works if hooked into a "valid" user account, but since I don't have one and am increasingly less likely to consider that path, it's a moot point.

At least we have Bitwig for music production now (if you can work out how to use it.. I still haven't had the time :-/ )

discord requires a phone number to create an account. hard pass.

Damn I miss 1980's Spitting Image...

Where might I learn more about these issues?

Ever since Nitter died I haven't paid any attention to anything on musks' little fiefdom at all.

I wish the political economics guys would move... I really miss Tim Sahay/70sbachchan & Mark Blyth.

It beggars belief that people still make the argument you responded to after the whole Clownstrike debacle.

reliability problems?

I dropped truenas, ran fedora server + zfs dkms module. It's been perfectly fine for a couple of years (even accounting for that nasty silent data corruption bug..)

And domain permissions work properly now. People have been asking Ix for proper support for IPA for over a decade, they aren't interested in solving it.