Time to find a new VPS host.
You guys! You guys! I heard of this computer program named Wayland and there’s this Linux dis-trib-u-tion of it with a sick vampire-looking intro screen. AI! AI YOU GUYS! The same AI that makes flyers for my youtube tech channel. Use it too so we can collectively change the world.
There goes my weekend migrating off of DO. I should have left sooner but supporting this crap is lighting a fire under me.
but why? its a shitty distro made by an amateur. there are real who needs support
I have a meeting with a DigitalOcean Account Manager scheduled for tomorrow because I wanted to move my business iver from Azure. Guess it’s time to cancel it and tell them why.
This is hilarious
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/23/israeli-military-gaza-war-microsoft
Yes, go with the MIC, actual fascist supporting megacorp to stick it DO
Honest to God, I’m not a tin foil hat kinda guy, but I can’t wait to read the papers on the strategies around centralizing technically adept ‘activists’ (WH definition lol) onto cooperative platforms by hugely exaggerating tiny shit like this in 40 years. This is even more poorly sighted than the Mullvad stances from a few weeks ago.
How many killings did digital ocean orchestrated with AI?
I think your comment is needlessly antogonizing. I’m not unaware of MS’s complicity in the genocide, which is why I’m moving away in the first place.
Ah good, the last bit of motivation i needed to get my final VM off DO.
Wonderful news.
And with that after probably more then ten years of a DO VPS I’m in the process of moving it. Bonus to a Canadian provider.
I dont like Omarcy and DHH but its pretty obvious why hes getting the funding and not other projects. The reason this gets funded and stuff like Gnome and KDE doesnt is because DHH has influence, he isnt a foss purist and he has no bureaucracy holding him back.
No one cares when KDE makes a post trying to drive linux adoption. When DHH does it drives thousands of new linux users. DHH alone can market the distro to new people in a way most foss projects cant.
When a company tries to partner with another project not only do they get very little exposure because the community is small and resistant to advertising but they also often get attacked and purity tested by the users and it generates bad press. When DHH partners with a company his users think its cool and try out the product. It doesnt matter how scummy the company is or if its closed source subscription only.
Investors also see Omachy as something where changes can be made without needing 4 years of arguing with one guy rejecting every change. A fast moving tech focused platform with a good marketer could pull people out of the microsoft apple ecosystem to a place where products can freely compete without entrenched platforms stealing their idea and making their version the default
What if we like Linux stuff because it is hard for corporations to feel good in there
This too shall pass.
But why? Why is everybody funding this piece of shit? Besides being shit politically it’s also shit technically. I don’t get it.
Well, you see, it’s somehow using AI and it’s run by a dick.
What’s not to love about it?
Guy who made a popular thing once announces revolution in efficiency, looks impressive on the surface but is just desktop riding for the uninitiated.
I’m more flabbergasted
how littlewhat you have to do to get 3 millionEDIT: Changing this up as I’m sure a lot of people work hard on this thing and perhaps more did before this guy outed himself as a douche
Have you seen GoPros stock price in the 30 days?
I’m so lost. What does GoPro stock have to do with Omarchy and DO?
GoPro was kinda washed… They had huge success early but they thoroughly over-saturated their own market and then stagnated in the face of competition. Maybe about a week ago announced they were now an AI/datacenter company…
Point is, if you slap an AI label on just about anything someone out there will give you money
Oh it’s like that shoe company declaring they are an AI company.
@statelesz @selfhosted @bretton.dev
You just explain why…
For anyone who is struggling to figure out how to delete their DigitalOcean account (it’s not obvious):
- In Account Settings, delete all of your teams
- This redirected me to a different setting page with an option to deactivate my account
- Click Deactivate Account
- Select the checkbox to purge your account data
- Confirm that you’d like to deactivate and purge your account
- (Optional but recommended) Fill out the exit survey and tell them that they’re supporting a neo-Nazi
- In Account Settings, delete all of your teams
Grunge question. I’m very much a surface-level Linux user. But is Omarchy more than just a hyprland rice?
Fascist arch, from what i can tell. Just a bunch of lazy config files on top of arch with as much AI and spyware shoved into it as possible
Omarchy is a Linux distro developed by the guy this article is about.
thanks for the clarification
I think Omacom is just the small fish “player” wanna-be’s trying to do what the big guys are doing with AI. Playing 3 card monte with a few million dollars running the same few bucks around in circles so many times a quarter they all get to make numbers go big on balance sheet in the hopes of getting new real money from idiot “investors” before the FTC (or other regulatory body) wakes up and remembers they are supposed to regulate something occasionally and catches on.
Is this some new money laundering thing? Are companies “buying in” to hobnob with other wealthy people? Is this just the latest Country Club or whatever?
I seriously don’t understand why all these companies are throwing money at a project that is almost assuredly going to “mismanage” it.
When capitalism can’t find a new way to grow and is challenged by dominees, it funds fascism as an investment towards to guarantee their dominance
If I had to guess, this is the techbro/epstein crew trying to get a foothold in Linux. The writing is on the wall; Windows is dead, and they want to funnel the migration into their new Omarchy ecosystem. They’ll probably start advertising bigly once Kushner and MBS invest.
Windows isn’t dead, anyone that actually believes that is lying to themselves.
They are too ingrained in business. Yes a couple countries will save a couple billion over the next several years getting off it but that is nothing to the 90 billion MS made in the past 3 months.
I think they might mean that Windows is ultimately a dead end. I agree that its far from dead, but Valve really got the ball rolling with Proton.
Now that there’s a bunch of bigger influencers “trying Linux” as a daily driver and often having a good experience, coupled with Windows/Microsoft shooting themselves in the foot every other month, I think we’re seeing a shift in people’s perception (at least regarding what their possible options are). That said, Linux still has a ways to go until it even breaks 10% desktop share, and I don’t think it will be a threat even to Apple until Linux hits 15%.
To be honest, I think you are the one lying to yourself here. From the linked report:
Productivity and Business Processes $37,847 14%
Intelligent Cloud $39,306 32%
More Personal Computing $12,854 (4)%
“(4)” equals “-4”.
Even MS isn’t using windows exclusively. And they don’t care, as the long term scenario they are aiming for, is, that everybody only uses a minimal system and rents compute in the cloud. That’s, where the money is for them. I am quite sure, they don’t give a single eff, what those devices are using as an OS. It won’t be win 11 for sure.
So everything Windows as we know it, is what’s consumer GPUs are to Nvidia.
A real life example, I know a company whose low level employees use a Dell mini pc with a custom OS whose only job is to RDP into Citrix. All the data and compute is on the cloud.
Even Microsoft knows Windows is dead. That’s part of the reason for the push for office365 over locally installed applications. It’s not dead as in everyone will stop using it next year, but it’s dead as in it might only have 10 years left as THE dominant desktop OS, maybe more, maybe less.
What they’re really ingrained in business with is their ERP bullshit. Migrating a bunch of users from Windows to Linux is cheap and easy compared to migrating all your data AND users from Dynamics to SAP or Odoo or something. It’s such a headache, you basically never do it in-house, you contract that out to a company that specializes in the ERP you’re moving to. Because it’s not just data you’re migrating, it’s business processes too. Bunch of custom modules usually need to be created, yay!
Isn’t Omarchy built on top of Arch Linux? I wonder what sort of effect it will have on Arch to have companies injecting millions into this downstream project?
They aren’t putting anything worth upstreaming into their shitty Nazi treehouse
My bet is that the tech bros hang in the same bar, and they’re just doing that for fun, and they don’t really care about the plebes not getting it.
Glad I left Digital Ocean like almost a decade ago, yet it still feels I’ve been with them for too long.
Is this some new money laundering thing? Are companies “buying in” to hobnob with other wealthy people?
👨🚀🔫 always has been
I just don’t get it. Separating the art from the artist is not a black and white thing…Like a lot of people worked on the harry potter movies and many people fell in love with those before reading the books, and when Rowling went anti-trans, you could reasonably argue that the films were a collaborative work that you can still love. But this? A pre-configured Arch made by one guy who makes his headline presence maligning minorities? I don’t see how giving money to him is anything other than a company saying his views are explicitly endorsed by the donor.
Even if we do separate the art from artist, what’s the actual draw of this distro?
I think after initial hyprland success showing what’s possible, more similar window managers and desktop environments cropped up and that is the real benefit for all of us and that happened without omarchy. I’m currently on mangowc + DMS and I think it’s better than hyprland.
honestly, if it wasnt for lemmy i would have no idea the guy was racist. i just hear “ruby on rails creator has new distro thats easy to use”.
And if it wasn’t for your post I wouldn’t know he created Ruby on Rails
Really feels like it. Look at the paragraphs and the list here.
Meanwhile the maintainers of the project it’s based on are unpaid.
I don’t like dhh and I think someone like him shouldn’t control this much money going into foss but I think the point of omacom is to pay those maintainers
They are funding the Hyprland maintainer.
