escapefromlinux

i feel disconsolate & shellshocked, but here it is... this is me now giving up the fight... resistance really was useless

i loathe the scourge of gen-ai/LLMs, for the four dot-points i have repeatedly posted over recent months:

• largest theft of private IP in human history
• massive water + energy demands as climate crisis intensifies
• authoritative bullshit generation via unsolvable hallucinations
• whole-internet continuous DDoS attacks by web-scraping AI-feeding bots

and so i have felt increasingly bereft as one by one important pillars of gnu/linux have fallen, indeed, eagerly given themselves over to slopbottery

i've loved linux since my belated discovery of it in dec 2013, but so aghast have i been at the ingress of slopbottery that in recent months i began contemplating possible escape routes, including:

• #OpenIndiana
• #haiku
• #GhostBSD
• #OpenBSD
• #FreeBSD
• #NetBSD

already by now from actual VM usage &/or research i'd eliminated the first three, am badly struggling with the fourth in VMs, with the others still ahead

tbh i was not enjoying it... i am now too old, fat, lazy, & stupid to cope with the extreme level of new learning needed, & i suspected that even if i managed it, my new UX would be full of unpleasant compromises & omissions i simply do not have in linux. yet, i deplore slopbottery, & so tried to make myself continue

until now

coz now, i have closely examined https://codeberg.org/ethical-foss/ai-free-foss-alternatives

and so i despair

even if i were able to come to terms with one of the BSDs, & get a viable desktop going [coz that is mandatory; i am a GUI user, not a server admin], then what? my desktop [though i delight in fiddling with its bells & whistles] is extant simply for me to run my preferred GUI apps... that's the whole point

but that link, those lists of systems & apps... it is brutal, & it has crushed me. almost all my preferred apps, across a range of genres, appear in that list, as being at the very least slop-permissive, or worse. in several of the cases even my second-preference alternatives are ditto

so, what's the point? what possible fucken benefit would i get in continuing this quixotic quest? i would [at best] end up in a new OS & desktop with multiple compromises & omissions, a huge learning curve having been needed [that i am not capable of anymore], running apps [if they even exist in the chosen BSD] that are slop-tolerant or already slopped. it took me many years to curate my present wide suite of apps, predicated on fitting me well re functionality, practicality, aesthetics... & along the way i tried & rejected very many.

so... i would endure a large amount of pain, to emerge on the other side... still slopbotted anyway

per that list, the fucken slopbots & their acolytes have won. i am so very pissed off. it's over now

fuck it 😡 😭

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