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   SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Monday, 24-Nov-2025 22:01:19 JST SuperDicq

   @q66@gts.q66.moe Maybe I'm taking this too seriously but there are actually a lot of potential downsides.
   
   Like you are denying people a package that they actually want to use.
   
   And at worst people can see that you're unfairly applying your repositories rules for the inclusion of packages.
   
   But that last one could be avoided if you can actually point out that the code is not fit for production environments for legitimate reasons.

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Thursday, 27-Nov-2025 17:36:19 JST SuperDicq

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     • Em 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦

     @emma@mathstodon.xyz @q66@gts.q66.moe I'm not talking about human rights.
     
     Just saying that of your userbase is asking for a package and you're not giving it to them because of arbitrary personal reasons, that's incredibly toxic and a good reason to get your project forked.

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     Em 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 (emma@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 27-Nov-2025 17:36:20 JST Em 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦

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     @SuperDicq @q66 > denying people

     Unless the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights got expanded a fuckton whilst I wasn't looking, people don't actually have a right to get the packages they want from a Linux distro. They can, get this, *use something else*.

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Thursday, 27-Nov-2025 17:37:37 JST SuperDicq

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     • Em 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦

     @emma@mathstodon.xyz @q66@gts.q66.moe Also Guix is not a Linux distro but it is a package manager and distro of the GNU operating system with either Linux-Libre or GNU Hurd as the kernel.
     
     There's no Linux is Guix.

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Monday, 09-Mar-2026 17:22:55 JST SuperDicq

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     • mateusz6768

     @mateusz6768@esp32fedi.cjdgrevival.com Yeah I mean you can of course always compile it from source. But honestly I would suggest to avoid using Chimera FreeBSD/Linux altogether. I don't think it is a very serious operating system.

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     mateusz6768 (mateusz6768@esp32fedi.cjdgrevival.com)'s status on Monday, 09-Mar-2026 17:22:59 JST mateusz6768

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     No Hyprland? Fine... i will do it myself
     
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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Monday, 09-Mar-2026 18:01:10 JST SuperDicq

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     • mateusz6768

     @mateusz6768@esp32fedi.cjdgrevival.com Having no official packaging policy and the main developer just going off of gut feelings is already quite a hard deal breaker for me personally.
     
     Chimera also packages a lot of proprietary software in their main repositories, such as iwlwifi, nvidia drivers, linux-firmware, etc. I would avoid it for that reason too.
     
     And I know this is mostly a personal preference thing, but Chimera is not a GNU operating system (it's FreeBSD). I personally prefer to have the actual GNU coreutils and glibc.

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     mateusz6768 (mateusz6768@esp32fedi.cjdgrevival.com)'s status on Monday, 09-Mar-2026 18:01:12 JST mateusz6768

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     the only downside it seems is the artificially limited packages by the developer, what else is bad about it?
     
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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Monday, 09-Mar-2026 18:36:04 JST SuperDicq

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     • mateusz6768

     @mateusz6768@esp32fedi.cjdgrevival.com Yeah I personally feel like distro maintainers should ask questions like:
     * Is the license free and does it respect my users' freedom?
     * Does this package put my users at any security or privacy risk if they choose to install it?
     
     And they should definitely not ask questions like:
     * Does the upstream developer have the same politics as me?

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     mateusz6768 (mateusz6768@esp32fedi.cjdgrevival.com)'s status on Monday, 09-Mar-2026 18:36:05 JST mateusz6768

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     Its weird how can a singular person can control what packages they want what they don't, like with Xlibre, luckily i got that sorted
     
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 09-Mar-2026 18:51:59 JST 翠星石

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     • mateusz6768
     @SuperDicq @mateusz6768 Chimera is not NonFreeBSD - it merely includes its coreutils and other tools.
     
     There's more GNU in Chimera than there is BSD.
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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Monday, 09-Mar-2026 19:28:44 JST SuperDicq

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     • mateusz6768

     @tobias@poa.st @mateusz6768@esp32fedi.cjdgrevival.com Oh yeah of course. You like to have privacy so you must be some kind of pedophile!
     
     Why won't you give me a 247 livestream webcam so I can look inside your home? What are you afraid of? Do you got things to hide? Are you some kind of pedo?

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     tobias (tobias@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 09-Mar-2026 19:28:45 JST tobias

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     @SuperDicq
     
     > security/privacy
     helping pedos stay under the radar since 1996
     
     @mateusz6768
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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Monday, 09-Mar-2026 19:30:09 JST SuperDicq

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     • mateusz6768

     @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @mateusz6768@esp32fedi.cjdgrevival.com I disagree. Chimera is definitely more FreeBSD than GNU.

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 09-Mar-2026 19:45:31 JST 翠星石

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     • mateusz6768
     @SuperDicq @mateusz6768 The default installer contains libunistring, gnuTLS, gmp, libidn2, ncurses, the GNU GRUB OS and more.
     
     What packages from NonFreeBSD other than its coreutils and sed?
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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Monday, 09-Mar-2026 20:02:40 JST SuperDicq

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     • mateusz6768

     @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @mateusz6768@esp32fedi.cjdgrevival.com We have had this discussion before but I don't wanna say "GNU/Linux" to a system that runs no coreutils and glibc.

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 09-Mar-2026 20:07:30 JST 翠星石

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     • mateusz6768
     @SuperDicq @mateusz6768 If it's not GNU/Linux, then it cannot be "FreeBSD/Linux" moreso.
     
     Chimera/Linux is a fine name.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 09-Mar-2026 20:47:00 JST 翠星石

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     • mateusz6768
     @tyil @SuperDicq @tobias @mateusz6768 Most of them are not in fact pedophiles.
     
     They're rather all monsters - it's about the abuse - attraction is at most a secondary concern to politicians.
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     tyil (tyil@fedi.tyil.nl)'s status on Monday, 09-Mar-2026 20:47:03 JST tyil

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     • mateusz6768
     @tobias@poa.st @SuperDicq@minidisc.tokyo @mateusz6768@esp32fedi.cjdgrevival.com Pedos who are on the radar are still walking free, and holding important positions in political offices. If you hate pedos so much, go shoot Trump and his lackeys, rather than cry online about how "privacy" is the real issue.
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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Monday, 09-Mar-2026 20:54:40 JST SuperDicq

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     • 翠星石
     • tyil
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     • mateusz6768

     @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @tyil@fedi.tyil.nl @tobias@poa.st @mateusz6768@esp32fedi.cjdgrevival.com If they were on Epstein's list they were in fact pedophiles as well.