The Cuuuuube @ Cube6392 @beehaw.org

Six sided devops engineer and baseball fan

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That really struck a chord. It was probably A Minor

Right? I've been training myself to use this one weird browser feature I hardly ever use called "bookmarks." Shits wild

I had to install a plugin to just close tabs I hadn't viewed in a while. I'm certainly not going to develop better tab discipline

OH! Got it! Thank you! I was legitimately just like "is this new lingo I don't know"

It drains battery on fresh installs for me. I just don't bother. I don't really see the appeal of chrome tbh. Obviously I have to use it occasionally since google content locks shit and so do employers, but there's like... No real reason I'd use it as a daily driver. For my use cases and hardware its just plain worse

Oh for sure. Even the other traditional way of doing windows installs (finding an EXE or MSI and then downloading it) sucks ass. The only good way to do things on windows is with Choco lol

Filly? What does that mean in this context?

And remember kids. Buy your pixel second hand

I'm in a position to call him a groomer. I feel comfortable saying straight up he's a sex pest. There's credible allegations all over the place. What I can't speak to, and I have to implore you to look into, is that many black people in America consider him a cultural appropriator based on his adoption of vernacular and accent that aren't his own.

100%. Everything is under control and going according to plan. So don't forget to break shit and protest things the rest of the year

There's people in this thread saying "well then I'm gonna write in a socialist"

This isn't whataboutism, this is actual existential threat to this country and the stability of all the countries we send our military to. Kamala Harris' comments on the anti-genocide protest are wholly unacceptable and present the overall message as Pro-HAMAS, which it distinctly isn't, but we do still have to think about which piece of shit benefits most from writing in someone who cannot win in a first past the post election

Every election us anarchists gotta bite the wallet and make a deal with the devil because if we don't the world turns a bit further to fascism

I hate that retcon. Let Han Solo be a sleazy piece of shit conman. Stop trying to make his lies real via retains. Don't make him shoot in retaliation. In the original edit he has an arc. He goes from sleazy piece of shit to respected rebellion leader. Almost like he was a metaphor for how a lot of insurgents have backgrounds as pieces of shit. Now the cannon has him as a squeaky clean guy always doing the right thing even when sometimes he doesn't realize he's doing the right thing

I knew a dude who worked at Activision Blizzard and his description of his workplace sounded horrid. The weird part was his fawning bright eyed love for the office culture. He viewed it as a perfect dream workplace. I don't even know it there's a takeaway from all that. It just always struck me as notably odd

Yes. Also plus eye candy with hyprland. Sway is the i3 experience on Wayland. The official roadmap for i3 is to fall into obscurity as Xorg goes away. They explicitly call out that other things exist for Wayland and adjusting i3 would distract resources from those projects

I eventually gave up and decided to see if they were being hostile to my network and privacy settings. Lo and behold, I was able to log in when I adjusted the strictness of my VPN. Fortunately the service I was trying to exchange currency for was a better VPN with more security and privacy, so I was willing to take the L on that one interactions

TBF that is literally the exact motivation behind Cinnamon. Mint was like "yo, GNOME 3 sucks for what were trying to do" and forked. I think that's also why you see such string MATE support with Mint, too. Those developers fucking loved GNOME 2 (with good reason, GNOME 2 was genuinely excellent).

Back in the day I thought GNOME 3 would eventually stabilize into something suitable for daily use, but their constant breaking of APIs frustrates me to no end and makes me view the GNOME project as just being... Out of touch with the reality of the kinds of people who use computers. They're so hyper focused on their usage patterns they don't recognize they've made themselves irrelevant to most of us.

I genuinely mean it when I say KDE and LXDE-Qt (these days just LXDE, but I want to make sure its clear what I'm talking about) are the future. Its not so much because I think their platforms are intrinsically superior, but instead their philosophy to how developing for the desktop works. And for those who think KDE is too heavy and LXDE is too idiosyncratic, running a desktop without any desktop environment has become downright easy as of late. I'm running MX Linux with fluxbox and Antix with IceWM and I rarely miss features of the big DEs and I'm just running what those two ship with.

I loved GNOME 2. It got so much right and really did a lot to get out of your way. GNOME 3 meanwhile has some truly stellar core ideas for how humans computer interactions can be performed but everything surrounding those core ideas (the ecosystem) sucks because GNOME doesn't value stability anymore. That's probably somewhat fine on a rolling release distro, but... I don't... Think the average person looking to GNOME's ease of use are going to trend toward rolling releases and are going to prefer pointal releases. Probably the best place to run GNOME on a pointal releases these days is Fedora since that's where so much GNOME development happens anyway, but Fedora has issues I frankly don't want to deal with because fedora doesn't offer me (emphasized because if fedora is offering you special value, that's fine abd valid) value thanks to being a somewhat unstable pointal release distro (be stable or be rolling release. Ideally be both. Don't be neither)

And all of this is kind of a shame, too. There's a whole ecosystem of GTK apps that are effectively decaying because no one trusts GNOME to provide a stable platform and for people who've come to rely on those apps, there's gonna come a time they're gonna have to migrate to unfamiliar Qt apps. They'll be able to handle it of course, but most people just want their shit to work how they know it works and to not deal with their system being different from how they're used to.

People fear what they don't know. Valve has made Linux gaming stupid easy and still people are more worried about FOMO of that small percentage of games that don't run on Linux. Maybe we'll see a shift if someone releases a banger game that's designed to be really really good on steam deck (so Linux exclusive, basically) and have it out in Linux for a few months before the windows version comes out

Just looked into this drama because I had no idea what the fuck was going on, and MAJOR YIKES

I spent a huge amount of time last night clicking on motorcycles because I absolutely could not convince PayPal or Google I was a legitimate human who wanted to exchange currency for goods and services