@onomatopoeial 14 hours ago they are sellouts and it will become more obvious in a few years. I'm pitying any real person who is still contributing to this, their energy is leeched. 1
@mitch9668 1 day ago We will need to recompile our own custom kernels with the driver blobs.
@jamesvanzeeland1749 2 days ago Seems to me that such drivers could be fenced off and disabled by default if really necessary and optionally enabled by those who need it instead of removed altogether? 1
@Codytherudeguy 2 days ago If anyones going to move to netBSD and has experience please help us port things to netBSD 1
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Anonymous2026-08-12 1:22
@santoshk1983 2 days ago Lunduke, someone as experienced as you should sure realise that this sounds like a transparent excuse to remove stuff they have already wanted to remove since a long time? Blaming AI is childish. AI has no agency or it would be AGI. It simply does what you command it, just like a non-AI program. Blame these kernel devs. They've all become corporate employees over the past two decades. With the amount of money the Linux foundation is getting (as you yourself covered), no wonder Linus, Greg etc have been co-opted. Do they have a choice any more? There was a time in the past when Torvalds boldly gave the middle finger to a tech giant. Can he do that today? Will he dare? Every time he writes something these days, he just sounds to me like a tired, exhausted to the bones, corporate middle manager, incensed with his employees... The spirit that made Linux Linux is thoroughly gone. And it probably ain't coming back.
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Anonymous2026-08-12 1:23
@juanconnor8224 2 days ago (edited) Linux development has been compromised by big tech and government. AI is not a tool, AI is an enforcement mechanism
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Anonymous2026-08-12 1:24
@uksuperrascal 14 hours ago This Just an excuse made up by the microslop war on Linux, microslop have bribed the Linux Kernel team to sabotage Linux by removing drivers. TIME TO FORK AND TAKE BACK CONTROL.!!!!!!!!
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Anonymous2026-08-12 1:26
@apaijmans 1 day ago More reason to switch to the BSD family. 1
@wWvWwWvWw 2 days ago I actually don't think this is a bad thing. OpenBSD frequently nukes stuff because no one is maintaining it and its buggy/messy/etc. 1
@nicolaspinto2927 1 day ago We had to fork X11 to keep it from being deliberately killed off, it's looking more undeniable that at some point the linux kernel will have to be forked for the same reasons.
@prjndigo 2 days ago getting your IP block banned permanently globally without any chance of government overturning it is NOT a good way to go down... then you have to deal with the people who will defend linux with thermite, carbon fiber and mortar systems.
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Anonymous2026-08-12 1:26
@Shonicheck 2 days ago So... Linux foundation spends like less than 5% on actual development if i remember correctly. Yet we have kernel team complaining about lacking man power
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Anonymous2026-08-12 1:32
@42crazyguy 2 days ago Ridiculous. A huge number of people(including myself) got their first taste of Linux by installing it on an old laptop to mess around with. What are they thinking?
@riwjin 1 day ago Can't one day go on without fucking dystopian news?
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Anonymous2026-08-12 1:33
@tarose71 2 days ago Did you notice also this is the outcome of people allowing the big corporate players to take control - this all happened since Microsoft and others like that got involved ... when are people going to understand that conspiracy is not crazy, conspiracy is COMMONPLACE, and anyone who thinks no two people ever conspired IS CALLED NAIVE ... ffs people, wake up, Microsoft got involved for the purpose of stealing code for their own systems and trying to undermine and sabotage its greatest competitor, THAT is its only reason, it does not care about open source or free software or anything else like that.
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Anonymous2026-08-12 2:32
@brainslayer666 2 days ago if i see he first picture in the video already. great i have such a moxa device. so its trash now. thanks
@MrStevetmq 2 days ago I liked Linux because it supported so much hardware.
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Anonymous2026-08-12 2:33
@AkisShade 2 days ago If the bots can find the problems, they can fix em. Just have some tests that the bots need to pass for that particular driver and just check in once in a while to make sure things haven't blown up. We've have version control for decades so it's not hard to roll things back.
@JibunnoKage-YouTube-Channel 1 day ago (edited) Debian 12 and before supported eSATA well. Now as of Debian 13... they have all but destroyed eSATA support. Not even because of A.I.... because it is no popular is the comment. Cannot even use older drivers for the eSATA based disk racks I have... because they ripped out support for the eSATA adapters I have. My eSATA is on the mainboard... is completely stable... just older... now dead, useless. Shame on Linux. I believe the real reason for all of the hardware retirement... is because, using order hardware... that is often better quality... generates no profits! That is the real reason older hardware is being purged from Linux... after all most Linux development is now what? Corporate sponsored! Of course.
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Anonymous2026-08-12 2:34
@fischi135 19 hours ago Linux going evil was not on my List for 2026
@yumbumgardner2394 2 days ago Linus Torvalds said himself that he is the communist you worry about. You'll own nothing and you'll be "happy",
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Anonymous2026-08-12 2:35
caApolzan-y2j 2 days ago As a retro computer hardware enthusiast, this is sickening. They've killed 486 support?! I was sold on Linux because I thought you could breathe new life into even 30-year-old hardware. And now they're taking that away. Sickos.
Imagine if some guy from an underdeveloped country wanted to use their computer again, but Mister Greg Kroah-Hartman decided it was time to take Pentium 4 support away. There are lots of Linux tools that are made for old computers, like Xfce and SeaMonkey. I recently heard Firefox will cut off 32-bit support, so if that also happens to the Linux kernel, I might as well fork it.
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Anonymous2026-08-12 2:38
@bobsobol 1 day ago It's a shame, but I have been moving my old kit over to NetBSD, because it's still supported. 386s, 68000s, PPCs, and usually most of the IO chipsets and peripherals. Sad, but true, Linux is abandoning all of that kit, to NetBSD.
And don't get me wrong, NetBSD is a fabulous OS. I just like to see real competition, even in the OSS sphere. I truely believe this is how things get better. Free, and fair competition.
@elindred 1 day ago First they came for the pcmcia wireless cards, and I didn't say anything because I was unimaginative and incurious...
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Anonymous2026-08-12 2:39
@Tulah 1 day ago This makes me very sad. At the very least they could've disabled those drivers by default and left them there with massive warning about taking responsibility of ones own actions. I still have a bundle of 3c509's and 3c590's that do the job just fine with older hardware :-/
@thedungeondelver 2 days ago Before I got in to Linux I threw out FOUR once-upon-a-time expensive (albeit analog) capture cards because their support had ended after Windows 95. FOUR. Pinnacle and Miro cards. Had I known I could have whacked a Linux box together to run them in (even if swapping them out) I'd have held on to them. At least one of them, for a time...
@NotHereLookAway 16 hours ago I will invest my future efforts in BSD. I guess Torvalds and GPL and all the bribed activism led to a slow decline. I believe the bsd license removes this, as there is no profit motive. There is just good code, which is what matters. (Not enough good code yet, but I hope to help)
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Anonymous2026-08-12 2:40
@jamesm5192 2 days ago Leftists always use words like "interesting" in a sarcastic way to mean something entirely orthogonal to the definition of "interesting." Always a tell. "Interesting = bad". Total brainrot 1
@qweqqweq2090 2 days ago so is there any advice i can get from this? like, a strategy for updates?
@MS-ig7ku 2 days ago Linux is being destroyed. 1
@tenzingyatso5096 1 day ago At least you can compile your own kernel
@shizeeque 1 day ago Linux is getting slower for the past 10 years at least. And the Linux 6.12 -> 7.0+ jump was the biggest dip in performance so far. I remember feeling sad when I've updated from 2.6.16 to 2.6.39 and my system became noticeably slower for no reason
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Anonymous2026-08-12 2:40
@shifureisaikyou2055 2 days ago (edited) Just excuses. they have been deprecating stuff at an increased rate since 2020, maybe they put LLMs up to this on purpose"find issues with old drivers"(so we have an excuse to deprecate/orphan/remove), an none excuse would be use an AI to auto reject these issues for old drivers... this creates documentation if in the future someone needs these drivers and can fix(none imaginary issues),they may be nclined to become a maintainer, but now: no maintainer in 2 days?? let's just remove them ALL. All is corporate influences the donations probably have strings attached which demand to focus on things the overlords want 1
@_M_643 1 day ago In my opinion there needs to be at least some stability within the kernel APIs so that drivers don't need to depend on being in the kernel.
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Anonymous2026-08-12 2:56
@Biblically-Accurate-Clippy 42 minutes ago What a depressing time for me to decide to try and remember why I loved computers in the first place. 😒
@josepholsen9831 2 days ago It’s my opinion that Microslop, Amazon, etc. are hijacking Linux. Linux is what the clouds run on. Linux is what AI runs on. They have infiltrated the Linux development system in order to control it, shape it. AI datacenters are not going to run on Pentium IIIs. Servers don’t need keyboards, mice, etc., but they do only run on the latest processors. Also, it benefits MS to have Linux set for servers only so that home users will be locked into Windows. Linux is the closest it’s ever been to home desktop use.
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Anonymous2026-08-12 2:59
@Notsoknown-411 1 day ago I have a laptop from 1994, a laptop from 2007 and a PC from 2004 that I run Linux on. Sad that they want to take that away.
@multi-mason 2 days ago Video won't play. Weird YouTube playback error, which I've not seen before. Mobile browser, but not YouTube app (I mean, I don't use the app, so don't know whether the error happens in the app).
@neznaika2022 1 day ago FORK IT! FORK IT! FORK IT!
@FunningRast 1 day ago And the Ai brings in crappy bloated overly-complicated non-sensical trash code. 1
@ULTIMA-LordCantabrigianBritish 2 days ago (edited) Seems like we get the fedora update every day or twice a day now they push one out.
@akulkis 2 days ago Something tells me that the Linux Foundation is run by a bunch of MBAs who couldn't even write a program in BASIC if their lives depended on it. 1
@wizardseven 1 day ago (edited) There is likely fear of massive number of vulnerabilities for older drivers
@RenoSCM 2 days ago the problem is - younger devs want to 'fix' everything to current tech - i.e. recompile to Rust, drop apis for systems that are older than they are, etc. i get it that legacy systems can add baggage to old code bases, but they need to be careful about corporations that have older stuff, that they are not aware of and spend $$$ for support on them. it's basically what Microsoft has to deal with every day.
@khelben1979 1 day ago Hmm... I have a question for you. Since this is directly related to new versions of the Linux kernel, why not use a older Linux kernel on older hardware? In my opinion, you often don't want to run the latest Linux distributions on old PC:s and therefor what they're doing here doesn't really matter unless they go back to older Linux kernels and starts to purge hardware support from them as well, which I doubt they would do. Would they? So what you're saying in this video is valid concerns and I can understand your frustrations, but there's a workaround especially for people who are able to still compile your own version of the kernel as well, although you would be forced to use a older one before these changes takes effect (to my understanding). Thank you!
@DustinKrejci 2 days ago I say leave the hardware alone when it comes to keyboards mice and wifi drivers that are stable. Where is a display delivers that the kernal needs? Who is going to refactor that? 1
@Fanalytics 11 hours ago Thanks for the update. Here's a question. What can you going to do about it? They don't have to do anything. It's a free service. Someone needs to put in some work to cater for this use case.
@GabrielM01 2 days ago 7.0 series kernel is the last one im using, iam freezing and not updating it anymore
@Biblically-Accurate-Clippy 42 minutes ago What a depressing time for me to decide to try and remember why I loved computers in the first place. 😒
@josepholsen9831 2 days ago It’s my opinion that Microslop, Amazon, etc. are hijacking Linux. Linux is what the clouds run on. Linux is what AI runs on. They have infiltrated the Linux development system in order to control it, shape it. AI datacenters are not going to run on Pentium IIIs. Servers don’t need keyboards, mice, etc., but they do only run on the latest processors. Also, it benefits MS to have Linux set for servers only so that home users will be locked into Windows. Linux is the closest it’s ever been to home desktop use. 1
@jakobw135 2 days ago Why not get rid of the AI which is causing these problems?!? Do users have a choice? 1
@OsmaniNoriega 10 hours ago Why not creating a new Linux branch or fork to continue supporting those devices?
@kamikarmy 22 hours ago I'm not familiar with this community but some folks need to touch grass. Saying a fork of Linux kernel is necessary because you don't like what's happening is... of little wisdom. Instead, become the maintainer of such drivers. Forking a kernel will be a lot more effort and you'll still need the maintainers for these drivers. I get people are venting, but step forward and put your money where your mouth is.
Otherwise, wishing for the kernel and drivers contributors to be fired is just counterproductive. The content creator isn't making any sense. Again, if you do have a driver with dropped support, send an email and volunteer. That won't make you money though with rage bait content.
@randomname3282 13 hours ago We need to fork the kernel
@isfk 1 day ago I've always known Linux to be more picky about what hardware it supports. I remember when it wouldn't support most modems, and most graphics cards, so this perspective is new to me. Seems like they want to get rid of those drivers because it would be easier to go 100% Rust.
@iqgustavo 1 day ago I USE hardware 20+ years old ! 😢
@RickeyJSimas 2 days ago "A couple of years ago - the early 2000's" bro that's 25 years ago. Can you believe if Windows 95 had driver support for devices from 1970?
@hnefatafl-org 1 day ago I currently think the best option for old hardware is an old version of Debian.
@brunoais 2 days ago I wonder what will happen when subsidised tokens stops.
@Timothy-W-Crane 2 days ago (edited) 'For the Kids' redoux... but what of the baby bots...?
@Veienn 1 day ago These stable drivers are still available to the users just removed from the kernel where they are a security vulnerability waiting to be exploited
@seahorsecorral 1 day ago I have a 24 year old Asus A7V880 still in daily use. My daily desktop is 13 year old ECS KBN-I/5200. It has already suffered from support fade, when attempting to upgrade from Mint 21 to Mint 22. Video not supported. The bit that annoys me is when I attempt to report bugs or problems, even something simple like exporting charts from Libreoffice. I keep getting told, upgrade to newest version, before reporting bugs. It is getting really hard to do that, and so, I can no longer export charts with labels. I keep partitions of old Debian Stretch just for doing some things. Before long, we will pine for the days of running simple OS like Apple II and Commodore, back when there were no upgrades needed.
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Anonymous2026-08-12 2:59
@seahorsecorral 1 day ago I have a 24 year old Asus A7V880 still in daily use. My daily desktop is 13 year old ECS KBN-I/5200. It has already suffered from support fade, when attempting to upgrade from Mint 21 to Mint 22. Video not supported. The bit that annoys me is when I attempt to report bugs or problems, even something simple like exporting charts from Libreoffice. I keep getting told, upgrade to newest version, before reporting bugs. It is getting really hard to do that, and so, I can no longer export charts with labels. I keep partitions of old Debian Stretch just for doing some things. Before long, we will pine for the days of running simple OS like Apple II and Commodore, back when there were no upgrades needed.
@DennisHolmberg-sl1hz 2 days ago It's been years since they all started dropping 32 bit Linux support. So this silliness started awhile back. AI is just the latest excuse.
@alan83251 1 day ago AI pushing us on all sides towards not owning our own hardware. High-end hardware is bought up by data centers, low-end hardware losing kernel support.
@Notsoknown-411 1 day ago Corpos and gov are destroying what they can't control/monetize
@Comm0ut 1 day ago May we have some insight into the REAL scope of the issue as in how many users will be genuinely affected?
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Anonymous2026-08-12 3:01
в4н 1 day ago это практически не прикрытый сговор с производителями железа, с целью предотвратить "повторное использование специализированного оборудования для майнинга в задачах искусственного интеллекта"
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Anonymous2026-08-12 3:01
205 v4n 1 day ago This is a barely disguised collusion with hardware manufacturers aimed at preventing the "reuse of specialized mining equipment for artificial intelligence tasks."
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Anonymous2026-08-12 3:02
@Edgard3939 1 day ago they're nuts!!! I even don't have a new PC, only a one from 1998 that my dad brought using with Linux, still saving for something used and cheap, and theses dumb devs with their delusional Llm telling them to just delete the problem instead of trying to fixing it are the worse
@user-mt4zr5kp7h 13 hours ago I see no problem with removing stuff this old. They're not removing it from existing kernels. Why does 20 year old hardware need a 2026 kernel update? That's just silly. All the guy's saying is, we need to find someone dedicated to maintain this, otherwise it's gotta come out. And he's right. You can't support the same hardware forever. You just can't. The kernel would be massive. Some things have to go to make room for newer stuff. If your computer's newer than 15 years old, you're never gonna have a problem. And you made the point yourself. They haven't needed to be updated for years and years and years. Yet you want the latest kernel to still support that old hardware? That doesn't make sense. You're wrong, bro. They're not going into legacy kurdles and removing it out of them. What they're doing is perfectly fine.😊
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@mediastreamview9528 2 days ago So create a custom kernel & dual boot it to avoid losing older hardware support.
What is stopping anyone from booting into their preferred kernel ?
@WolfyVoids 2 days ago When you look at it, it's for ancient hardware, like.. processors from 1989 and 99.
I know that it isn't an excellent thing to happen, but AI is poised to make modern (2026l hardware dangerous to use in a few years, so it's a miracle it's only happening to extremely old systems, most Linux users definitely don't use.
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@Handlemybandle 2 days ago couple years ago 2002 👴
@kokodin5895 7 hours ago honestly all those vintage drivers should be transplanted to a linkable external kernel module, so it stay separate from kernel and ai don't care about it, rustyfication of the code would not afect it. and if you belive in less loading drivers is faster computer, it could stay offline if you don't have hardware for it and you be happy too
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@gbmillergb 1 day ago Linux is digging its own grave.
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Anonymous2026-08-12 3:04
@23jfk 2 days ago Microsoftization of Linux.
@saksaelectronicsconsulting2023 16 hours ago (edited) Conspiracy theory hat on. Old Linux computers supported hardware that enabled plenty of electrical interfaces to the outside world locally and without going through internet or intranet. That ability enables internet-independent means of communication, amateur radio being one example, analog baseband modem, parallel and serial ports (direct, no USB).
Enter AI that messes with the drivers by finding "bugs". The kernel project then removes the drivers as a remedy. Hence no interfacing to outside world from old hardware. Force everybody under the inspective lens of Internet (capital I), AI, and you don't own your hardware -consumerism. Hats off.
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Anonymous2026-08-12 3:04
@23jfk 2 days ago Microsoftization of Linux.
@saksaelectronicsconsulting2023 16 hours ago (edited) Conspiracy theory hat on. Old Linux computers supported hardware that enabled plenty of electrical interfaces to the outside world locally and without going through internet or intranet. That ability enables internet-independent means of communication, amateur radio being one example, analog baseband modem, parallel and serial ports (direct, no USB).
Enter AI that messes with the drivers by finding "bugs". The kernel project then removes the drivers as a remedy. Hence no interfacing to outside world from old hardware. Force everybody under the inspective lens of Internet (capital I), AI, and you don't own your hardware -consumerism. Hats off.
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Anonymous2026-08-12 3:21
@JessterKing 1 day ago I've seen a few people talking about how they're trying to remove the ability of enthusiasts to build their own computers and force everyone to use a thin client type box to rent CPU, RAM, GPU ect in the cloud, in all these data centers they're trying to build. This issue seems to be another prong of that attack.
@doomshroom7682 1 day ago And Caesar wept
@brined_soul 1 day ago Linux might just be a very longterm variant of the old bait and switch.....
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Anonymous2026-08-12 3:22
@TheAlchaemist 4 hours ago HAM operator and retrocomputer enthusiast here... usually attending to hamfests and retro meetings, etc etc etc... Linux being able to support ancient protocols and equipment was its main appeal for us. Of course, we are 0.01% of users... and we'll end up using versions frozen. But we will be paying for a problem that we did not create, and the problem is not truly AI, but IDIOTS using AI...
@davemason2290 2 days ago I'll have to look at the Amateur Radio drivers that are being removed. If it affects me I'll unfortunately have to move to Windows.
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Anonymous2026-08-12 7:55
@N3G4T3 2 days ago My brother has a new wireless card that worked fine, but now doesn't.
@Josh-Kelm 2 days ago Computing is over because idiocracy can't keep the lights on, and we won't have electricity in 5 years. 2
@etherallax 2 days ago Good Linux
@Ivan-pr7ku 2 days ago Hardware moat comes for Linux.
@dansabo3562 6 hours ago Blank_Dan’s First Rule of Deleting Code: When you delete code you are doing God’s work. 1
@dansabo3562 6 hours ago Every line of deleted code has no bugs. Takes zero seconds to compile. Zero tests to write. Zero minutes to review. You are as wrong as you can possibly be.
@jose_lucio_br 2 days ago This is hour of BSD...
@brianschuetz2614 1 day ago (edited) A friend of mine had an old laptop that he gave to another friend, but it was too sluggish for Windows, so I installed MX Linux on it with a window manager. Breathed new life into it. If they keep this up, that will become a thing of the past.
As someone said, maybe the kernel should be forked. One fork for modern hardware and another to support older tech. Stable. Rust free. AI free. Modified only when an actual problem is identified. 1
@anotherelvis 1 day ago (edited) Alternatively some of the old insecure divers should be maintained out of the Linux tree, until the bugs have been fixed.
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Anonymous2026-08-12 7:56
@lexlayabout5757 2 days ago My keyboard is 40 years old.
@docchocobo 2 days ago Shows you how idiotic even supposedly smart people are getting these days. This goes against everything I was taught in programming. If the code works and it works well and it doesn't do anything it's not supposed to do then why mess with it? That's called Reinventing the wheel if it works don't touch it 1
@n7565j 2 days ago Linux is starting to sound like Microsoft... MS has been hoping for a reason to "help" make Linux less useful... Guess this is it!
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Anonymous2026-08-12 7:56
@HBT.Dallian 2 days ago Just because my car is not as efficient as more modern cars, that it can not reach the same speed does not mean that it can no longer take me places. A tool is usueful as long as it can do the job. Does not matter if it is 50 years old.
@rockmanx2002 2 days ago AI zealots: "Remove all legacy hardware support and hardware from any and all platforms to appease our new AI overlords" Me: "You will pry my Commodore 64 out of my cold, dead hands."
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Anonymous2026-08-12 7:57
@societefaitfaillite445 1 day ago (edited) hardware taxes was business model of microsoft why linux can't copy the strategy, requesting manufacturer to pay taxes so Ai might maintain the driver. it is totally fair for linus to want to cash in he was clear he didn't like stallman's vision for GPLv3 that would force google to show it's code for free. linus post 2008 beleives money makes for better code
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Anonymous2026-08-12 7:58
@jj49er 2 days ago Things used to be passed down from generation to generation. Now they want you to throw everything sway after a couple years.
@IdeA-InformaticaDeAvanzada 15 hours ago (edited) Just take a look at the MAIN sponsors of the Linux Foundation and you will understand the Trojan Horse that is moving this into this direction.
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Anonymous2026-08-12 7:59
@BSzili 1 day ago You might say supporting 35 year hardware doesn't have much use outside hobbyist projects, but you'd be surprised how viable 20 year old hardware can be as a daily driver. Sure it's going to be slow, but you can even watch YouTube videos on it. Yet what does the Linux Kernel team do at the height of new hardware getting really expensive due to AI? They drop support for more and more old hardware. 6 1
@_mend4mad_11 21 hours ago 386 is not 20 years old... Its 40-50 years old, it literally 70-80s computers. And yes, you can watch youtube on them, but prolly 360p-720p max 25-30fps, depending on what you have. 2004 era hardware is 64bit, more like x86_64. it can load latest linux kernel. Its athlon AMD cpu era, man.
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Anonymous2026-08-12 8:00
@Kerpymon 1 day ago Linux is great, linux is awesome. Thats something I definitely said in 2004. The past few years...not so much. 4 1
@zacharysandberg 1 day ago I was running FreeBSD and Linux in 2004. Both were awesome back then. Modern Linux feels nothing like the good old days
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Anonymous2026-08-12 8:00
@Kerpymon 1 day ago Linux is great, linux is awesome. Thats something I definitely said in 2004. The past few years...not so much. 4 1
@zacharysandberg 1 day ago I was running FreeBSD and Linux in 2004. Both were awesome back then. Modern Linux feels nothing like the good old days
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Anonymous2026-08-12 8:48
@BetterWorse-ge6ci 2 days ago (edited) The VAST majority of what LLMs put out is garbage... 'hallucination', not actually anything meaningful.
LOL AMATEUR RADIO. Of course, something so incredibly important if SHTF is being (soft) turned off. How political. 1
@professionalelectronics3158 1 day ago The reason i use linux over BSD because of the hardware support.
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Anonymous2026-08-12 8:49
@oldowleye3161 2 days ago Or how big tech gains more control on the hardware and distroys linux once and for all - big tech are criminals and linus tordvals got on there side
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Anonymous2026-08-12 8:50
2 days ago Much of this is probably planned by those behind the LLMs and their friends in the hardware cartel to sell more hardware.
@Enlighten-nah 2 days ago Because the real life "Skynet" realize that humans can rely on linux backward compatibility to run offline or outside the network computers. Now they are forcing the Linux developers to sabotage that ability of the operating system.
@conto7032 21 hours ago Well IT IS BROKE if LLM found bug ... 3:40 Critical vulnerability can live in old code for decades and then we find out some bug like that can lead to remote access ...
@farneyman 2 days ago When Devs deliberately destroy usability with some bs excuse, then you know they are saboteurs. If Microsoft said 'we're removing backwards compatibility because... AI...' no one would believe it, and since many Linux devs immediately threw their support behind government surveillance age verification they deserve no benefit of the doubt.
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Anonymous2026-08-12 8:51
@vec4me 4 hours ago (edited) LLMs will eventually create operating systems on demand, it’s inevitable, but Linux is literally accelerating their fate by doing this… It’s self-destruction.
@x260houtori 2 days ago So now I'm afraid to update my Linux machine great.
@736939 16 hours ago They do the right thing, so many old devices but Linux overloaded with drivers 🤡 On some point, this is necessary to be done!
@geographicaloddity2 23 hours ago (edited) AI is the worst thing to happen to computing maybe ever. But maybe this is a feature to keep on Windows?
@WackyT08 18 hours ago Waiting for Linux to require a TPM chip.
@Minuteworld-s8x 2 days ago linux is dying. i was gonna use it come 2032 after windows 10 ltsc but it seems like it won't even last till then
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Anonymous2026-08-12 8:52
@Minuteworld-s8x 2 days ago linux is dying. i was gonna use it come 2032 after windows 10 ltsc but it seems like it won't even last till then. 1 1
@0x07AD 2 days ago Move to a BSD. It supports binary Linux applications.
AI is trash. 1
@deniskhafizov6827 2 days ago 3c905x is one of the most generic NIC drivers I can imagine, and an immensely popular in 90x corresponding network card. Dropping it is a crime against compatibility
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Anonymous2026-08-12 8:53
@tryscience 1 day ago Sounds like someone is trying to sabotage Linux adoption by submitting these bug reports. The less hardware is supported, the fewer users will adopt it.
@michaelhubbard623 1 day ago this is all stuff i use. the old science stuff cant dissapear. if you can hack it you do need to find a way for it to be safe.