unknown1234_5 @ unknown1234_5 @kbin.earth

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download a virtual machine app (I'd recommend virtual box, boxes is great too but iirc its Linux only), download the .iso file (this is the installer) for the distro you want to try from the official website, in your app of choice create a virtual machine and select the file you downloaded. from there you just follow the installer. it may help to look up how to use the app you chose bc VMs can be a little iffy. if you've ever used an emulator, it's a similar process but with ISOs instead of roms.

in my experience plasma 6 and gnome (idk what the newest one is but I've tried the newest in the last couple days on a couple distros) both boot just as quick and use about the same amount of resources.

if you ever feel like trying it, Linux is easy to try in a virtual machine or on real hardware (do not install it to your main machine when you first try it except in a vm, which does not change your system). I'd recommend trying fedora workstation and fedora kde because they are decent examples of the best two desktop environments. mint exists as well, but I personally wouldn't recommend it. btw, there is no "best" distro, just find one that works for you and ignore the tribalism.

kde kinda just comes like that, taskbar and important apps (system stuff, browser, etc.) only. I've added some stuff but only things I use or anticipate using.

I don't have anything I could back up to rn bc dorms, but setting up something like that is definitely in the plans and the way kde's built in backup stuff works it should be pretty easy when I get around to it.

what's the compose key? never heard of it but any excuse to not waste a key on caps lock sounds great.

no idea, I mostly use it to be able to read microblogs and reply to them while still using threads primarily all on one account. my best guess is microblog-only things don't see the community and threads-only things see it as a regular thread formatted like a microblog.

nice. I should mention that the microblogs need to be put in a magazine (community) as well, but you can always just use the random one.

extensions (in my testing, typically in a VM of fedora or openSUSE) are a pain in the ass to use. it's also difficult to find the one that I'm looking for because there's generally several with the same name. something like a system tray (iirc the extension is "app indicators") or having the dock always visible on the desktop (idk what the extension is called) are features that most people who don't already use gnome rely on to some degree. these things are core functionality of most desktops precisely because most people use and like these features, and adding a few of the most popular features won't add enough extra data to really be bloat.

    
quick sidenote, while typing this I realized the way I have been phrasing things may sound a little aggressive. it's not meant to, this is meant to be more of a breakdown of why I think what I do about gnome as a desktop. I'm not sure how to rephrase this to be less aggressive, so I'm leaving this bit right where I noticed it instead.

  

I personally am very big on having all the customization I can get (kde user, obviously) but I actually did almost stick with gnome once. I tried vanilla is because orchid has just come out and while I was messing with it I found out that it had the dock extension available by default (was new to Linux at the time and didn't know how to actually use extensions yet) and with that dock extension I didn't mind gnome as much. the thing with gnome is that it has a lot of good ideas but it ruins a lot of them by only half-implementing what everyone else is already doing. most people would probably find it a lot more usable if it just had features that have been standard since literally the beginning of GUIs, and used to be standard in gnome.

it's not 'zero oversight', you have to get a background check and wait 2 weeks to get your gun even though you passed (this bit is kinda pointless), and other stuff as well depending on where you are and where you're getting it. all that is irrelevant though because all a gun is is a tube with a stick in the back that hits the primer on the bullet, meaning all you need to make one is some pipe and a drill. also once again, see drugs for an example of how people will continue to attain illegal things even though they are illegan.

my thoughts on that are centered around school shootings because that's the reason schools are adding fences. to address the points you mentioned though, during my senior year when we had a fully constructed fence people still skipped school all the time (same people that always were) so the fence did not help. the whole custody thing is better solved by the parent that should have custody letting the school know about the situation at which point the school will have a legal obligation to ensure the child's safety. shootings aside, this leaves only making kids feel like prisoners for potential changes the fence could make.

fuck you it's January

why do you tend to unconsciously regard someone as the same gender you are until you learn otherwise? humans have a tendency to treat things as like us until we learn otherwise. this is part of why we tend to treat animals as if they have emotions like ours even though that may not necessarily be true for a lot of them. it's simply that the people making stuff about aliens are unconsciously defaulting to something human-like.

most of the things in gnome extensions should be built in and available from the settings. that being said there's nothing stopping me from just using something else, hence why I use kde.

kinda, but you still have to put the microblogs in a community. it's a little odd but I like it.

I use mbin and it does threads and microblogs. it's a little janky at times and there is only one app (interstellar, android) but I like it.

as someone who graduated fairly recently (school added the fences my junior year) it just makes that place feel like even more of a fucking prison. also, fences are easy to bypass so all it would achieve is making it harder to escape if a shooter did get in. on top of that shooters are typically students, so it doesn't keep them out to begin with. this means that the only two things it actually achieves are making students feel like they are in prison and keeping them on the premisis so the shooter can kill them even easier. the real answer to what the fences are supposed to do is to 1) put more effort into mental health stuff as that is often the main reason the shooter is doing it, and 2) teach kids to escape the school instead of teaching them to just kinda sit there. and before anyone replies taking about gun control, getting illegal stuff isn't that hard (see drugs), making guns isn't that hard (see luty submachine gun, or any 3D printed gun), and schools (including the entire campus) are already gun-free zones and have been for a long time. making things illegal does not stop people from getting them. the solution is to make people with mental conditions that make them dangerous to others get help, and to make the drills we already do better by teaching kids what will work, not what sounds nice.

sounds like they are doing what the 3ds did with some upgrades. hopefully the "AI" is actually useful instead of just being injected into a product that doesn't need it.

how does it compare to something like jellyfin (or Plex, despite not being FOSS it'd be unfair not to mention them)?

idk if Boeing is, but either way the issues they've had have been software and maintenance issues.