kshade @ kshade @lemmy.world

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And the endless testing that sometimes, especially if it's not gone well, feels like your whole future life depends on it. No thanks, I hated that, with work I can just quit if it becomes overwhelming and all-encompassing like that.

Void and Alpine are great for their simplicity and speed, I'm using those two exclusively outside of work.

They have been here tomorrow for people who bough one with an 11th generation Intel CPU in 2021. I don't think they are looking to get acquired either.

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Give up your darn secrets before I start fumbling around with strace and get even more frustrated!

That's a very Brent Spiner thing to say, doesn't mean he actually hated that cat. And it wasn't just one cat playing the role anyway. Most if not all of them were good cats I'm sure.

Relatable.

Under the fake stuff that looks nice on the outside is a deep culture of judgment and shame and fear.

Funny, that's what Christianity seems to be mostly about anyway.

Banning it for everyone is OK, telling some people that they can't ever because they were born too late is silly, discriminatory and will inevitably create a flourishing black market.

Weasyprint kinda is that, except that it's meant to be rendered to PDF.

Hey awesome, I want to do deconstruction, we can work together!

Locked away in a box for years and suicidal?

Not an answer, just a warning: This is par for the course when it comes to Rocketchat, every major version seems to come with another piece of nagware, another limit, another thing paywalled. I run a server for the non-profit I work for and they haven't even replied to my mails about maybe offering a more affordable licensing tier before Enterprise.

We don't need a lot, just push notifications (which they have to pay for, so absolutely fair to limit) and LDAP integration that isn't intentionally gimped. A supporter tier with no real extra features (we don't need their customer-facing-type features) and very limited tech support would be really nice, but I guess they don't want our poor people money. Gotta try just really hard to squeeze something from that stone instead.

Example: First they removed automatic LDAP syncing, then they blocked people from still doing it with cron. You now have to enter your admin password every time to sync "for security reasons" unless you pay at least $10 per user and month or something ridiculous (for a non-profit) like that. Not that you'd know from their website, they've removed all pricing information from there.

They've also limited the amount of (free, third-party) add-ons you can install while also adding a new feature that lets users see and request add-ons from admins. So many dark patterns.

Rocketchat narrowly won out over Matrix when Covid started but it sure as hell wouldn't now.

The big reason why I'm still on Xorg and will be for a while is XFCE. I've tried everything from KDE Neon to Sway but they are either missing features I want or were too buggy to bother. Should try Budgie again when 11 comes out though, that seems to be close to XFCE in terms of scope and is supposed to work well with Wayland by then.

I also don’t see how this relates to anything specific to gen z as I see the exact same behavior in my gen x / millenial peers.

Yeah, my whole life feels like a parade of shitty messengers winning.

every distro I install I am eventually greeted with something just completely breaking for no reason whatsoever

This happens on Windows too and the fixes you have to apply aren't less esoteric.

For example: User complains that Spyder won't start on her brand-new laptop. Installation seems perfectly fine, nothing wrong there, no corruption or obvious missing bits. Dig around in the Windows log files, find some fairly generic error. Do a bit of googling, eventually decide to just search Github for issues mentioning Spyder not loading. Turns out the laptop is just too new and the AMD graphics driver Windows installs on its own has issues with the IGPU. So replacing that with newer the version AMD distributes fixes it.

Or, with Windows 11, if you want the start menu on the left and the Explorer context menu usable: Sure, just open powershell and run these commands to create new, weird registry keys to force it, btw these are not supported by Microsoft, you're on your own.

I'd rather choose the OS that doesn't have the audacity to charge money and then blast me with ads in the start menu.

Can this be the new GNU/Linux copypasta?

Yeah, it's really weird seeing these blanket statements from the CEO of Zoom, of all things.

I've grown up with ICQ, IRC and forums, later worked with a very distributed, international volunteer team and made connections just fine, even though we barely used voice chat (it was still the Skype days) and nobody ever actually saw me or knew my real name.

Those people and connections weren't somehow less real to me than the superficial, safety-first chit-chat you sometimes get into at work. This obviously isn't everybody's experience, but maybe, just maybe, the CEO should "get" this instead of being out of touch with what he's selling.

Maybe he was left on read one time too many.

Oh no!

Anyway, here's your annual 10% increase in service cost because "there is no alternative"

That stuff is literally what the furry fandom is about though.

The specific term furry fandom was being used in fanzines as early as 1983, and had become the standard name for the genre by the mid-1990s, when it was defined as "the organized appreciation and dissemination of art and prose regarding 'Furries', or fictional mammalian anthropomorphic characters". However, fans consider the origins of furry fandom to be much earlier, with fictional works such as Kimba, the White Lion, released in 1965, Richard Adams' novel Watership Down, published in 1972 (and its 1978 film adaptation), as well as Disney's Robin Hood as oft-cited examples.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furry_fandom

No idea why people would lose their minds about this either, though.

No one comes back from VIM.

5x ESC (for good measure), then type :q!