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   Danielle Foré (danirabbit@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 09-Oct-2025 21:57:03 JST Danielle Foré

   We’re getting to the point where as a tech company all you have to do is not be fascist or actively sabotage your own product with AI bullshit. You don’t even have to be good, you just have to not actively be bad

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     Danielle Foré (danirabbit@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 12-Oct-2025 00:55:56 JST Danielle Foré

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     I happen to own a little open source software company that is expressly anti-fascist, has a “No AI” policy, and has recently been called “aggressively queer” in case you’re interested in supporting tech companies like that:

     https://elementary.io

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     Cap E Bara (cap_ybarra@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Oct-2025 12:33:26 JST Cap E Bara

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     @danirabbit I have always had one eye on this distro because I liked the cut of its jib and now this just confirms it.

     I may have to virtualize it for a test drive again -- or maybe even dual boot if there's a path to that on m1

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     Cap E Bara (cap_ybarra@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Oct-2025 12:33:38 JST Cap E Bara

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     • firebreathingduck

     @firebreathingduck @danirabbit good to know. i'm an apple only hardware person so that'd be a brick wall for me atm

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     firebreathingduck (firebreathingduck@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Sunday, 12-Oct-2025 12:33:39 JST firebreathingduck

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     • Cap E Bara

     @cap_ybarra @danirabbit

     Danielle can correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe Elementary has any ARM64 builds right now. I tried to boot the Elementary standard x86-64 .iso in QEMU with x86-64 emulation on MacOS on an M2 Mac Studio, and it works but it's painfully slow.

     I have Elementary installed on a relatively high end HP laptop, and it runs well. Not perfect, but well enough that I'm happy with it. I won't buy another high end HP laptop, though, but that's unrelated to Elementary. The laptop got painfully hot and had awful battery life with Windows 11 and Ubuntu too.

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     firebreathingduck (firebreathingduck@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Sunday, 12-Oct-2025 12:34:23 JST firebreathingduck

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     • Cap E Bara

     @danirabbit @cap_ybarra

     Awesome, thank you!
     Ha! I *am* sponsoring Elementary through GitHub, but I guess I never looked into the sponsor perks. I'll take a look now.

     I'm so glad I spoke up, this is cool.

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     Danielle Foré (danirabbit@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 12-Oct-2025 12:34:24 JST Danielle Foré

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     • firebreathingduck
     • Cap E Bara

     @firebreathingduck we have experimental ARM builds at https://builds.elementary.io for sponsors. Hoping to publish a stable ARM build for everyone before the end of the year!

     @cap_ybarra

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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Oct-2025 12:38:26 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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     • Cody Boone Ferguson

     @xexyl Someone in the thread says it’s based on Ubuntu so probably yes

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     Danielle Foré (danirabbit@mastodon.online)'s status on Sunday, 12-Oct-2025 12:38:27 JST Danielle Foré

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     • Pablo Majster :clippy:

     @ppaluchowski64 make sure you report any issues you experience in GitHub. We release updates every month!

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     Cody Boone Ferguson (xexyl@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 12-Oct-2025 12:38:27 JST Cody Boone Ferguson

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     @danirabbit it's not for me (use rocky for the server and macOS - fedora box down for a year and a half but that's another story) but recently I got my mum to use Zorin (for the Windows theme - it was a long time ago she used any unix). Out of curiosity though: I presume both firefox and thunderbird are supported? Along with libreoffice? In other words like a linux distro (or maybe is?) but with looks that might belie it? I love the anti-AI view. Best wishes!

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     Pablo Majster :clippy: (ppaluchowski64@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 12-Oct-2025 12:38:28 JST Pablo Majster :clippy:

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     @danirabbit I used to use this distribution. However, I stopped using it because it had some issues that really annoyed me. That was a long time ago. I hope it's improved now, because the system really had potential. Maybe I should test it again sometime? In any case, I'm keeping my fingers crossed for further development - I really appreciate the policy :blobcatsmile:

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     Deadly Headshot (dheadshot@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-Oct-2025 12:40:40 JST Deadly Headshot

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     @danirabbit
     I might be, it's just I'm not keen on the interface of Elementary. I happily recommend it to people coming to Linux from the Apple ecosystem though...