Yes, I find it baffling that this does not yet exist. I was installing debian the other day and the incessant one-question-at-a-time installation with long delays between the question was aggravating. In particular since none of these questions really needed to be answered at the time.

Proxmox does it better, but still with annoying questions and limitation like having a mandatory static IP address and making your enter an email address notification. This is all actually optional stuff and it could all be dealt with after the install is completed.

By photo ID, I don’t mean just any photo, I mean “photo id” cryptographically signed by the state, certificates checked, database pinged, identity validated, the whole enchilada

If the rendering data for scraper was really the problem Then the solution is simple, just have downloadable dumps of the publicly available information That would be extremely efficient and cost fractions of pennies in monthly bandwidth Plus the data would be far more usable for whatever they are using it for.

The problem is trying to have freely available data, but for the host to maintain the ability to leverage this data later.

I don’t think we can have both of these.

If you allow my searchxng search scraper then an AI scraper is indistinguishable.

If you mean, “google and duckduckgo are whitelisted” then lemmy will only be searchable there, those specific whitelisted hosts. And google search index is also an AI scraper bot.

Also you must drink a verification can !

Sounds reasonnable,

Installed should be downloaded by going to grandmasnixos.com On the front page, a single click starts to download a single file, that contains everything It is a tailored rufus executable with the ISO that contains everything to make it to first desktop boot When download ends, no internet connection will be required to make it to grandmasnixos desktop

When the file is clicked and a usb stick has been inserted beforehand, the grandmasnixos ISO is preselected, rufus autochooses the usb stick

User only needs to press “start”

The motherboard version is checked against a lookup table, and the user is told

Reboot computer a press $KEY_TO_USB_BOOT and choose to boot the usb key

Installation is a single screen that says “This will erase everything on this computer, to continue, click the checkbox below” [ ] I understand this will erase everything on my computer buttons below [ ERASE AND INSTALL GRANDMASNIXOS ] or [ CANCEL AND REBOOT] (first button only clickable if the checkbox is checked)

(there is an “Options and settings” button somewhere, it does not have to be clicked to continue)

No further user interaction until it boots into a working desktop

There is no password by default, the desktop auto-logs in, no remote access is possible until a password is set, sudo works passwordless

There should be no updating unless enabled, no telemetry, no call home of any kind, the system should be able to work offline and forever without an internet access and never nag the user.

The desktop environment should be something occasional win10 using grandma will not get lost in

Taskbar at bottom Desktop that you can dump files onto and start stuff by clicking those files systray on the right Large font start menu Start menu includes a single settings panels that does everything a user needs (passwords, wifi, power management, update, timezone, language, locale, host and domain name, remote desktop etc…)

taskbar should have pinned the most important apps file browser, browser, calculator, notepad, word-like and maybe a mail client maybe a zoom? client or something equivalent but open source and usable ?

If updating is turned on, it should be very conservative, updates hand curated by grandmasnixos, basically never uses software that hasn’t been proven rock solid for at least 6 months. Rolling back any update should be one-click-trivial

On first boot there could be an “out of box experience” screen that allows setting up

wifi password region/timezone/locale/language power settings host and domain name password enable updates enable remote desktop and services open easy user guide

So total, from download to desktop it should be 8 clicks total counting press F9 during boot as a “click”

This would not be a problem if one bot scraped once, and the result was then mirrored to all on Big Tech’s dime (cloudflare, tailscale) but since they are all competing now, they think their edge is going to be their own more better scraper setup and they won’t share.

Maybe there should just be a web to torrent bridge sovtge data is pushed out once by the server and tge swarm does the heavy lifting as a cache.

All this could be avoided by making submit photo id to login into a account.

Yes, it would make lemmy as unsearchable as discord. Instead of unsearchable as pinterest.

Open source is also the AI scraper bots AND the internet itself, it is every character in the story.

Cool, so we need two things, The most streamlined installer possible. “Grandma’s Universal Nix.Conf”

The installer should be written using 4th grade simple english, no jargon

In the top right corner there should be a language selector.

There should be only one page of questions.

The installer should work completely offline.

The installer should detect all peripherals and modify the nix file accordingly.

The second page should only be tge warning about erasing everything

The installer should detect if a nixos installation already exist. If it does, then offer the user to repair the bootloader

Optionally, the installer coukd detect a windows installation. Check the amount of free space left on the drive.

In this case instead of a wipe, offer to shrink the windows partition and install nixos in the liberated space. Install a bootloader setup for dual boot. Auto mount the ntfs partition and place a shortcut to the c:\user folder on the desktop.

Ok, what I am hearing is Nixos but with an installer like this

Rufus ISO to usb stick stick usb stick into computer press magical button to boot usb <-- this should be the most difficult part of the process Screen appears, least amount of text possible Ask only the important questions, on a single screen

then one last big scary page “this will erase everything on your computer”

Check “I understand” then press"ERASE BUTTON" (or cancel and reboots)

then it reboots and everything your average grandmother needs right there a google button an office button and that’s pretty much it

Ok is what is the “META” answer to grandma’s laptop is going to get borked. Put this USB stick in her laptop and press next a bunch of times and she can keep using it. You have 5 lines of text to explain this solution.

Money has no intrinsic value, it’s a dynamic relation between all other humans who would accept it. Even a gold bar will vary in what it can really buy based on the health of the society around you. And that’s just transaction, which is not where wealth is. Land and physical property, and the ability to leverage their use is the mediator of wealth. The people without, will never ever be on a level playing field. How can you be born owing your life to infinite rent and interest and think you’re on a level playing field ? You reach for this utopia, thinking this time you’ll be the one collecting ? This time you can be the landlord without having to pay taxes. But at the end of the day, if the people around you are miserable, are you better off ?

And all of that is assuming it even would work as advertised, which it won’t, nobody is waiting 10 minute to clear a payment.

This technology is a scam sold by the people trying to shit-up everything so that they can get their best pick out of the rubble.

#The Interdimensionalmeme Manifesto

An indictment of privatized power and the crypto-financial techno-cult “There is no escape. There is not another Earth to escape to.”

#I. On Governance and the Role of Money

A functioning society must distinguish between governance and capital — between the stewardship of the public and the motives of profit. When these become one and the same, democracy dies not with a bang, but in the language of venture capital decks and algorithmic markets.

Currency is not simply a medium of exchange; it is a public trust, the circulatory system of a body politic. To surrender its issuance and control to private, unaccountable interests — be they corporations, anonymous developers, or speculative early adopters — is to strip society of one of its last remaining instruments of collective sovereignty.

Crypto is not a revolution. It is a coup d’état in slow motion.

#II. The False Gospel of Decentralization

Decentralization is the sacred chant of the blockchain faithful — but what is decentralized is not necessarily democratized. To spread control across nodes and servers does not spread justice, responsibility, or empathy.

Cryptocurrency is not neutral. Its very structure rewards the earliest, richest, most computationally resourced — and calls this “fairness.” It buries inequality in the code itself, hiding plutocracy under the banner of “consensus.”

The crypto evangelist, addicted to speculative gains, becomes a missionary of self-interest. The chain-letter economics of this new digital order create converts not by vision, but by the promise of unearned value and imagined escape. III. The Corporate-State Convergence

Yes, governments are compromised. They have been infiltrated by the dollar, bought by the lobbyist, colonized by the corporation. But the answer to corrupted governance is not to abolish governance — it is to reclaim it.

Crypto offers no resistance to this convergence. It accelerates it. It hands over power from flawed but at least nominally public institutions to venture-backed technocrats, data merchants, and ideological profiteers.

To abandon the state without building democratic alternatives is not liberation, it is abdication.

#IV. The MLM of the Modern Age

Like all pyramid schemes, the promise of crypto lies not in what it is, but in what it might become — if others believe, if others buy in, if others come after you.

The blockchain isn’t a chain of freedom. It is a ledger of dreams sold and lives ruined, a speculative suicide pact dressed in libertarian robes. It is the digital cousin of the payday loan, the unregulated casino at the end of capitalism.

And yet the faithful continue to preach, because their salvation depends on your belief. The higher the adoption, the higher the price. The higher the price, the closer they are to an exit.

#V. There Is No Outside

The dream of “opting out”, of escaping fiat, taxes, nations, systems, is not just naive, it is delusional. There is no “outside” to the world we have made. The consequences of economic systems ripple globally, shaping policy, resource extraction, and ecological collapse alike.

Those who seek exile in crypto-fortresses or digital bunkers are not building freedom. They are seceding from solidarity, retreating into nihilistic techno-feudalism.

There is no Earth 2.0. There is no safe haven from collapse when collapse is a planetary system failure.

#VI. The Call

We do not reject innovation. We reject the perversion of innovation into a religion of capital accumulation and anti-social escape.

We do not romanticize the state. We demand a democratized public, a radically transparent and accountable governance, shielded from the ever-expanding reach of the market.

We do not reject decentralization. We reject decentralized despotism, where opaque code replaces public law, and anonymous whales replace accountable representatives.

We do not fear the future. We fear a future owned, not governed, by the architects of financial abstraction and speculative cruelty.

We do not need new currencies. We need new values.

“The people who have infected the body-politic with their narcissistic nihilism, their hopeless, futureless nightmare of a life… have been allowed to fester in the name of freedom.”

Let the festering end.

Let us build systems worthy of the future, not just profitable in the present.

Let us not be fooled again.

Signed, Interdimensionalmeme (And those who have had enough)

The government prints currency, it is a tool to it. Of course the slimeball politicians are just as dollar-sign obssessed as all of the “business community” for they have become one and the same as money has been allowed to be converted directly into political power.

But “money” should hold NO influence whatsoever a properly functioning government. Business should never be allowed to infiltrate it’s putrid tentacles into governance because it will ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS do the same thing, change the order of things to empower itself. If allowed it will suck the bone marrow right out of every newborn infant.

If you think crypto currency, which is the handing over of the money printers to unaccountable private powers and their never-ending shenanigans, is any kind of opportunity, then you have been fooled.

But let me tell you how, since you are obviously been turned into one of their proselytizers.

Like any addict, you have been allowed a little sip of unearned value from the speculative value. And now your entire moral system has been corrupted, like the employee of a multi-level marketing scam, into seeking more converts, to keep the marginal price pressure on “your precious” as high as possible.

Getting others to sink their life’s savings into the crypto currency anti-social disease is for you a way to grow your value. But if you are here, doing the work of the rank-and-file, you should be aware of what happens to MLM victims when then are not at the top of the pyramid.

Increasing the bitcoin value, effectively hands over more and more unearned economic power to speculative early adopters. Who have invested into a technology with no merits and a contagious mental illness with the false promise of escaping the system.

There is no escape, there is not another Earth to escape to. The power of money under a private money regime, just means that it will care even less about you, as an individual than before, which is probably hard to even imagine.

The people most pushing behind crypto, are the naive libertarians, the one they think they can make their big money and escape to their bunkers with it scott free. They are the people that have been breaking society on purpose, creating crises so they can sell us the cure and be our saviours. They are the people who have infected the body-politic with their narcissistic nihilism, their hopeless, futureless nightmare of a life and have been allowed to fester in the name of freedom.

“Private governance cannot be any worse than current governance” This has been the prophecy they have worked all my life to come about. It is a religious belief that nothing can be done unless it is profitable and done for profit. This kind of diseased thinking will make a few people rich beyond measure while leaving the rest of humanity destitute and then outright dead.

So do keep spreading your “good news” far and wide if you like but know that what you are spreading is just the latest of the pestilences of the modern era. Palantir thanks you for your service.

Of course it can be worse, are you so bereft of imagination, so drowned in ideology that you cannot imagine another megalomaniac sniffs his own delusions of gradeur and ride them straight to hell ?

How many more examples from history does there need to be before it will get in the thick skulls of the dollar-sign-eyes that this always ends in catastrophe ?

We don’t have too many tries left before actual stable governance crumbles for good and we have a couple dozen centuries of unchecked warlordism.

“Private governance cannot be any worse than current governance”

You have no imagination

“maybe we will get less mass murder known as war.”

You are a fool

No, it isn’t arbitrary.

Cryptographic money people seek to privatize governance.

A return to serfdom and kingdoms.

This is not the be allowed.

People who try to dismantle and corner a foundation of society so they can keep it for themselves and beyond to reach of the consensus, are thieves and should be treated as such.

Signal and Proton Mail

Hopefully we can send all the cryptobros to prison along with the rest of the elites trying to drive society into a wall, before this ridiculous and calamitous change comes to pass.