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I used to be constantly making tweaks to stuff and distrohopping like none other, but in 2018 I finally found THE setup and settled down. These days it's all about having scripts that set things up exactly how I want them.

TIL. He's a lot more recent than I thought.

I generally avoid giving meaningful contributions to chuds when possible. I was considering getting a Kagi subscription before, but upon seeing this that is no longer the case.

Have you boycotted JKR

I was never a Harry Potter fan to begin with, but if I were then I would be, yeah.

or dropped your opinion about Picasso

I don't expect people who died centuries ago to be woke, so probably not. That someone like Picasso would be racist/sexist/queerphobic is a default assumption for me, so that already lowkey colors my perception of them when analyzing their work.

Is it about the general vibe of a product or piece of media, or are you more discerning? What goes into this decision and why?

It's about applying pressure to provoke capitulation. I want to make clear to both them and everyone watching that being a dipshit in such a way will cost them resources and reputation. This is less effective when the creator is dead, though, so I'm not particularly concerned about their art.

Does Windows software still do that shit where they bundle a bunch of irrelevant crap with whatever you're trying to install? I don't think normies actively think about browser choice and I've definitely found browsers that were installed on systems via what I mentioned above in the past.

They're too busy actively supporting it to want to do that.

Waybar just looks like a Wayland port of Polybar.

Hyprland's Dwindle layout is based on bspwm, so why not try that?

In regular i3, that feature was added in version 4.22. You should use the i3-gaps fork on your distro if a package for it is available.

Perhaps we need a federated search engine - one you can add custom algorithms to…

Well, something that can be done is having search engines that grab from a wide variety of sources. The go-to FOSS example of this would be SearXNG, so if someone is interested in a project like that, then this would be a good starting point.

I agree with the author for the most part, but I don't think it's just "us." I would say that discoverability in general is just a lot worse now due to SEO gentrification and search engines facing enshittification. There's still cool projects like Neocities around, but if it weren't for networking I'd have no idea they exist. When I type "build a website" into DuckDuckGo and StartPage, I just get links to squarespace, wix, godaddy, and a few listicles. In order to curate cool stuff, you have to be able to find it first; have new tools popped up that facilitate this? What are the new heuristics for discovery?

I put my boomers on Fedora with GNOME a couple years ago and there hasn't been any issues with that. Especially now that a lot of stuff that used to be desktop apps has moved to the browser, it's more viable than ever.

It's nice to see how much this term took off. Feels like this sort of thing just gets ignored most of the time.

There's always been absolute fucktons of proprietary software that's buggy garbage. At this point even corporations have conceded the superiority of our development model and have adopted it themselves (even longtime foes like Microsoft). Honestly, most of FOSS's problems could be dealt with by having a tighter relationship with UI/UX designers since that's usually the biggest pain point.

Clearly the wizards at Nintendo know something about optimizing games for the Switch that others don’t.

Could someone share this information with GameFreak? The beats shouldn't drop as hard as the FPS.

The amount of open support for genocide/ethnic cleansing I've seen from even high profile liberals since October 7th has been rather disgusting as well. Fascism is bad except when it's not, I guess.

If you haven't already, you could give Michael Albert's Parecon: Life After Capitalism a read. This text lays out what he calls participatory economics, which includes the values and vision of the system as well as a walkthrough of how life would work in such a system.

That user you're replying to really seems to struggle with thinking through ideas. They're probably the type that would have fallen for Southern Strategy.

Look, we should be on the same side. The most obvious thing missing from the piece was that some people might choose a same sex marriage. I think there might also be something about happiness and longevity differences between the sexes such that marriage is a great deal for men, but not so much for women – but I don’t remember enough details to back that up with anything, I simply noted the absence of statistics on if men or women had any difference in their level of happiness in a not-so-great marriage versus being single (because I think I remember something like that, but I’m not sure).

I don't see what this has to do with anything I said.

but I don’t want to give them ANY ammunition!

It really doesn't matter if you do or not, as they're liars and morons who will use their media apparatus to manufacture outrage if they can't find something organically.

So, perhaps it is unfair of me to hold Democracy Now and FAIR and a bunch of other sources to a higher standard than, say, FOX and NEWSMAX but those latter two fail to reach the lowest of bars. They lie and spin and rarely offer opinions that acknowledge any validity to another point of view. We know how conservative sites manipulate the narrative. Is it asking too much that more liberal sites refrain from stooping to their level? All they had to do was make a title like, “Veiled WaPo Nudge to Women: If You Want Marriage, Compromise With Misogyny.” Too wordy? How about, “WaPo Hints: Ladies, If You Want to Marry, Try Misogynists.” Better? It is the same sentiment without the lie that “WaPo tells Women,” which is too gross an overstatement for me to let slide.

I would say that the unfair part is the bullshit false equivalence you're drawing here, because again, pointing out the logical conclusion of their suggestion is neither lying nor producing spin. It is the practical result of taking their suggestion. Women will end up compromising with misogyny if they do what WaPo told them to do, so they are effectively telling them to do that. You're trying to nitpick over something dumb. The headline is fine as is.

It is, yes. I heard that it's finally out of beta and has a proper release now.

Friendica is the Fediverse Facebook alternative, though I've never personally used it. Probably worth checking out.