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It’s part of the larger fascist organization of free software that was dominated by disaffected white libertarians who now feel threatened by woke (code of conduct saying you can’t be racist)
Any project that accepts this money is a project run by Hitlerites.
by woke (code of conduct saying you can’t be racist)
on hexbear?!
Honestly feels like it. It’s incredible how actual good free software projects are always struggling for money, then one nazi comes in and vibe codes a bunch of dotfiles bundled with an Arch installation and suddenly he’s showered with money non-stop and becomes news everywhere in the FLOSS world.
Buh-bye DO
I’ll remember not to use you for VPS service since you openly support fascists now.
3 million dollars for configuration files, and all you have to do is be racist and have clout.
What is omarchy?
It’s an archlinux remix that focuses on a “hacker aesthetics”. That’s a bit cringe but wouldn’t be a big deal in itself. It was made by a rich fascist.
Open source has gotten more visibly queer and the reactionaries love to pretend that this some sort of invasion when it’s often people who have worked on these projects for decades. Omarchy is now at the center of an effort to make open source white, male and straight “again”.
Real ones remember archcraft as the nerdy souped up WM arch install that was made by a single guy as a side hustle. Omarchy are real yuppies by comparison.
Actually it’s still online: https://archcraft.io/
There is also thousands of people who customize their own desktops to similar effect. Like r/unixporn. Not really my cup of tea, I prefer a good out of the box experience, but I respect the craft.
This feels like for office workers who want to pretend to be neo or something.
He definitely struck at a particularly vulnerable moment in time with the large influx through steamos and win11 but also foss being in crisis mode due to LLMs.
It reminds me of one of my posts where chuds were mad that elementary OS made accessibility a priority last year, they kept calling it “woke” and “gay”
Vibe coded os, which is in effect arch + hyprland + dotfiles. It’s also maintained by
the hyprlandDHH ruby-on-rails guy who is a nazi.Edit: correction as below
Not by the guy that makes hyprland, by a different fascist fuck. DHH, creator of ruby-on-rails.
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mr we need more inequality?just a standard nazi leech nothing funny about it
I haven’t been following but it seems to be AI techbro Linux
Did we really need Linux for fascists?
what are some similarly priced VPSs, i’ve considerend ionos because the bang for you buck is gud but the cheapest tier is like $11
Yeah, not sure who’s even decent anymore after being with DO since near their inception. Hetzner keeps coming up and they seem nice but they’re EU focused.
At least have everything containerized these days so ripping it out’s NBD.
Hetzner is no longer cheap
$15/month for my VPS. It’s shared, but eh.
They also do have US servers. Just no US storage pools.
They doubled the prices for everything a few months ago
I just got my bill and it’s still ~$17 for my 2 vps instances. One of them is basically idle right now, but the flat rate seems to have stayed the same.
Existing contracts didn’t get more expensive
Damn.
i don’t remember why but i switched from digital ocean to ovh a good few years ago and i don’t have any complaints
Started typing a response but I accidentally deleted it, rip.
BuyVM (aka Frantech) is a small hosting company that has been pretty good in my experience. They have really cheap block storage and reasonably cheap VPSs. They often sell out quickly (right now they’re out of all the lower tier offerings), but they usually restock at 9am on weekdays and if you’re willing to wait a week or so it’s doable to get one. I started renting servers from them almost 10 years ago because they’d give a 1tb block storage drive you can attach to the VPS for just $5/mo.
Vultr referral link for free money. starts at $5/month for 1 vcpu 1 GB ram 25 GB ssd, and it’s an impressively fast vcpu
a cheaper one that I haven’t tried personally is GalaxyGate, you can get 2 GB ram for $5/month there
I’ve been using tierhive as a NAT vps and it’s 5 dollars a year for a simple wireguard router that connects to physical hardware you have + gratis static hosting.
If you don’t need a static IP address it’s a perfect solution.
Pangolin is another good one to use on your VPS. I don’t want to pay for the beefy ones, so I just expose a computer to Pangolin running on my VPS and you get automatic auth and ssl.
Whoops, I should’ve added a source.
Details from the linked post
DigitalOcean is pledging $3 million to Omarchy, joining the Omacom Foundation as a Founding Corporate Patron.
The deal will provide $1 million per year for three years, bringing Omacom Foundation’s total reported funding to around $18.5 million.
But the announcement has drawn attention for another reason. Just last month, DigitalOcean reportedly ended its sponsorship of GNOME and Flathub infrastructure, which was worth around $50 per month.
That means roughly $600 a year in canceled sponsorship compared with $1 million a year now going toward Omarchy.
There’s no evidence that money was directly shifted from GNOME or Flathub to Omarchy, but the contrast has sparked discussion across the Linux community.
Omarchy is still a relatively new, niche Linux distribution, yet it has attracted millions in funding in a remarkably short time. Meanwhile, long-established open-source projects often struggle to fund developers and infrastructure.
The growing Omarchy funding will support full-time developers, infrastructure, artists, grants, and other open-source projects that the distribution depends on.
