Nina Kalininanina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt
Oct 14, 2026, 10:49 PM@nieuemma I hope it'll work out, feel free to tag me for moral support!
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- Nina Kalininanina_kali_nina@tech.lgbtOct 14, 2026, 10:50 PM
@nieuemma maybe start with a virtual machine to get comfy with it in a safe way? Unless you have a computer you don't use
nieuemmanieuemma@mastodon.deOct 14, 2026, 11:01 PM@nina_kali_nina maybe. I haven't tried using virtial machines in a whole, I'm not eben sure what software is good or not anymore. I'd need something that plays nicely with my current alpinelinux/sway on my laptop.
I also don't know if I could even keep using sway on BSD or not. If I couldn't, I don't know what I'd do, maybe I'd end up being command line only but that would be a bit hard.
- Nina Kalininanina_kali_nina@tech.lgbtOct 14, 2026, 11:26 PM
@nieuemma it looks like there's a sway port in the packages!
As for the emulation, if you're on Linux, qemu, with or even without kvm, is the way to go. IIRC they have decent anti-AI policies (or used to have until recently)
- Nina Kalininanina_kali_nina@tech.lgbtOct 14, 2026, 11:33 PM
@nieuemma also, if you're attached to Alpine, there's a very new thing that is explicitly anti-AI and based on NetBSD kernel: https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/alpinebsd/
linear cannonlinear@nya.socialOct 14, 2026, 11:35 PM@nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt @nieuemma@mastodon.de notably, by the original author of sway- nieuemmanieuemma@mastodon.deOct 14, 2026, 11:37 PM
@nina_kali_nina I absolutely love using alpine. I really got back into computers years ago with archlinux, and once I found alpine it was like starting over again (in a good way). The happy fun feelings of setting up my own system and having it work just the way I want came back again.