Fair if that’s your view point. Mine is different, AI often brings angles that I consider helpful to look into. It also cuts through noise and is not subject to emotional interpretations.
Back to the topic du jour. Do you have hard evidence to support your claims on DHH? Or just opinion pieces?
People share their perspectives, as you have done, it’s perfectly fine to disagree, but nobody owes you whatever clears your personal bar for “evidence”.
Not to mention, we’ve already discussed this at length in this exact thread, if he cared to actually read through it. But fine MarcoJ, maybe this will clear things up:
I just realized Omarchy isn’t even sponsored by Framework, they literally just tweeted about it a few times. What even is the point of this whole discussion then
“Sponsor” doesn’t just mean “give cash to”. They gave DHH hardware, and they aggressively promoted Omarchy and Hyprland. That’s bad, but Nirav’s response was worse.
Attention is a valuable resource, giving Omarchy positive attention (significantly more than any other distro, scroll up, someone assembled a neat summary) isn’t nothing.
Edit, for the lazy: Framework supporting far-right racists? - #1078 by Patrick_1
This. Plus Omarchy is the fastest growing Linux Desktop distribution in the past 3 months. This makes even intensive tweeting about it absolutely legit.
It’s the fastest growing Linux Desktop distribution of the past 3 months, it sure is of interest to Framework.
I still think Omarchy doesn’t deserve the hype it’s getting right now. But I think given the hype it is getting, tweeting about it (without even mentioning or promoting DHH himself in any way) makes total sense.
For context, I definitely don’t support and don’t agree with DHH’s political views. I just don’t think it’s relevant here. Is the assumption that people will start using Omarchy, then decide to learn about its creator, read his blog and fall into a right wing pipeline? I don’t think that’s a likely scenario.
Giving someone support and publicity causes their influence to grow in a million subtle ways. They add up.
Are people with fossil fuel powered cars more likely to be climate change deniers? Probably not, but positive coverage of a white-washing campaign by fossil fuel companies is still considered counter productive by people who care about a turn towards green energy.
Well Twitter is owned by a guy who’s much more right wing than DHH, and Framework posting on there directly promotes the platform and brings revenue to the guy. Shouldn’t that be a bigger problem by this logic?
It’s what many use on their Framework machines.
Take as an example Ayla, who just won a free machine from Framework:
It’s especially praised for allowing for a smooth transition from macOS, it just work out of the box and it looks amazing:
This is the distribution that Linux needed to put the Linux Desktop option on the table for so many people. Why shouldn’t Framework benefit from it?
It’s especially praised for allowing for a smooth transition from macOS, it just work out of the box and it looks amazing:
What an interesting point MarcoJ. If I didn’t know any better, I’d swear you’re a paid advertiser for Omarchy. But have you considered this answer to your many irrelevant questions?
Don’t believe me?
See what ThePrimeagen has to say about Omarchy:
I just hope everyone is having fun!
There’s many of them in this thread that you’ve willingly ignored, but never the matter. Before I stop engaging with you, I will leave the following memes, which you can use as an exercise to figure out what they mean:
You engaged with none of my facts, but drift deeper into off-topic. How suitable.
Not really, because they’re (presumably) not sending Framework laptops to Twitter employees; but I believe we’ve already implicitly established that posting on Twitter is quite an unintelligent move
