> What are you giving your mom? A Mac running OSX or a PC running Linux?

I gave my 60 year old mother my old PC running Debian with dwm as its WM.

She likes it.

> The idea that if these devices ran free software they would be more humane than the proprietary software they currently run is ridiculous.

Is it though? I am pretty sure that Amazon already gathers free data from its users, such a thing would not exist in a free as in freedom device.

that... is an ironic example.

To be fair, the community came down on Ubuntu like a ton of bricks for the whole... Amazon search thing.

To be fair, don't the Alexa service and the Echo devices run on Linux?

I dont know if it does or not but even if it did, that wouldnt make it free software. You cant compile your own alexa, or modify it to remove code you dont want, or submit improvements to it. Android is open source (excluding drivers), but google play isn't, and neither are the apps on it.

So this is what poe’s law looks like.