Not really. Having heterogeneity among operating systems is better than pure homogeneity. Say, if everyone ran Linux, and some massive security flaw was discovered, we would all be screwed at the same time. However, if we ran different stuff, and some massive security hole was found for just one operating system, then only a small portion of the world is vulnerable at once. Besides, more operating systems can lead to more innovation, as long as there is good competition between them.

just works, is easy to use, easy to configure, doesn’t require an IT degree to use, and that we can recommend to our grandma

TempleOS satisfies all of these conditions

Personally, I don’t like the idea. Government policies aren’t good substitutes for parenting. even if they implemented these changes, kids and adults alike would likely move to other websites that don’t have the government ID scanning feature in, or kids would use things such as a fake ID or their parent’s IDs.

If someone wants porn online, they will find it. It’s up to the parents to ensure that their children don’t become porn addicts in the first place.

I think the “infinite growth” here is referring to our expectations of some systems we use growing infinitely, even when the system itself is bounded by finite terms, such as population or hype.

For example, US Social Security works on the assumption that there are more people working and inputting money into it (via payroll taxes) than retired people taking money out. That assumption requires a growing (or at least very stable) working population, as a shrinking working population means that there will be more people taking money out than there are people putting money in. This growth, inevitably, will have to stop at some point. However, many retired people expect, and in some cases financially rely on, Social Security giving them money.

A large portion of the Fediverse have expressed their disdain for such systems, and molave here is finding it ironic that they’d expect this platform to infinitely grow, as well. The initial hype from the whole Reddit shenanigans are dying off, and the platform will soon stabilize, at least until Reddit pisses off its users again.

Qubes OS

The virtual machine workflow has made me completely rethink how I use computers, and there’s huge security benefits of compartmentalizing your digital life through Qubes. Qubes OS successfully compartmentalizes your VMs and brings them together under one unified desktop, so even though you have several VMs running, you can see all of them at once because you see their windows as if it was a regular Linux desktop.

There are some issues with it though, such as lack of 3D acceleration for gaming, and its rather picky hardware support. Along with needing hardware that supports Linux drivers, you need a crap ton of RAM (I’m running 20 GBs on my Thinkpad T450s) for all of the VMs you run at one time. It doesn’t take as much CPU power as you’d think, though, as it uses Xen’s PVH emulation, instead of full-blown virtual machines like you’d see with VirtualBox.

However, if you have the right hardware for it, and you don’t mind dual-booting or using another machine for gaming, I urge you to give it a whirl.

For real though. I swear, some of those animations are more detailed and well-animated then anything Pixar could produce.

Lord, forgive me for what I’m about to do