Do you… Actually think that’s what the right wing wants to tear down the US to do? Because it isn’t. Not even a little. They want to plunge the world into fire

Yeah which if that’s the argument we’re having… I kinda don’t want to give people that dumb any influence. The fediverse symbol is not a pentagram and if the rainbow giving gay people visibility is somehow wrong, then… Fuck me I guess because I’d rather make gay people comfortable than a bunch of folks who’ve fallen down some manner of christofascist rabbit hole

The weak argument they make is this doesn’t look good at small sizes. Personally I don’t think that constitutes a good enough reason to rebrand the fediverse

Only reason I unblocked them was in case I needed to refute their claims anywhere. Suffice to say though, for anyone reading this, a good rule of thumb is if Possibly Linux says it, decent chance its untrue

It was good! I really enjoyed it

Oh. Sorry. Didn’t realize risking bodily injury from tear gas, rubber bullets, beanbags, and nightsticks because something fucking matters was cowardly. You bring up such eloquent and well reasoned points. I’ll keep them in mind the next time the police are kettling me or a Nazi throws a brick at one of my friends. I’ll say to myself “you know. We probably deserved this for being so cowardly”

And what do you think the negotiators are negotiating about? Why do you think anyone took Martin Luther King serious? They were fucking scared of Malcolm X and Marcus Garvey. “We make a deal with you so the scarier people don’t get any scarier than they are right now”

And Martin Luther King STILL got killed for speaking out. You’ve shown some really ignorant and privileged views in this thread. I’m glad Sweden’s been so kind to you, but maybe don’t chirp about shit you don’t know about if you don’t want people to say you sound like a tool for oppressors, especially when your nations wealth comes from the fossil fuels that’s killing everyone else. You are a beneficiary of colonialism even if you’re not the beneficiary of colonialism.

The top level comment mentions freedom?

100%. I wanted to summarize things as succinctly as possible but its basically impossible to deny this person is a complete bastard

Yeah. Like… I can’t think hyprland offers enough to make it worth promoting. Its like… Yeah Drake put out some tracks than when they show up in my feed I like until I realize its that massive piece of shit. You can’t really have death of the author when the author gains more audience through hype of their output. I’d recommend people interested in hyprland look at river, sway, or dwl instead

The lead dev thought it was no big deal that the moderators of his official discord server were going out of their way to harass trans people. Then when someone said “hey this isn’t okay” he was like “why am I to blame I didn’t do it”

I’ve recently gotten good at DCSS to consistently gather a few runes. Still haven’t had an orb run. I don’t want to talk about how long I been playing the game…

I mean… Not YouTube specifically but YouTube is representative of why us programmers are unhappy. The era of feeling like the tech industry and the internet are making the world better is over. All of them media platforms exist to co-opt our social interactions and replace them with ads for microwavable meals. They’re spying on us, and for what? They control major elements of how we live out lives, and WHAT THE FUCK DO THEY EVEN GAIN? A lot of them are going bankrupt because it wasn’t profitable. Their ads are less effective than the oldest forms of advertising. Ultimately, these platforms were about control, not about… Any other stated goal. And us programmer? We got tricked into thinking we were developing platforms to connect people and create a global culture of interconnectedness. Turns out we were building the infrastructure to implement genocide

I’m opinionated, too, and I’m of the opinion that GNOME’s opinions get in the way of me getting work done lol

Linux Mint is one of the lowest effort (from a user perspective) options out there

I’d say then YaST is your friend but SUSE has overwhelming issues by not labeling settings as being common tweaks or advances options. Well… Maybe it’s better these days. I don’t think about SUSE that often. It just always stays on my horizon as being pretty much good enough for anything I’m interested in doing without it being perfect

Is “humor” what we’re calling it these days?

MATE is how almost all Linux distros used to be. It’s my beloved mostly because of the age thing haha. I was excited about GNOME 3 at first because the thinking at the time was “Oh, they’re a good set of developers, they gave us our beloved GNOME 2, after all. GNOME 3 will develop into the wonderfully customizable, stable, and user friendly DE GNOME 2 was”

13 years later… Nope. Or… GNOPE. None of that has panned out. GNOME 3 is just as unstable and frustrating for sustained use as it ever was. Their libadwaita moves have been total horseshit. GTK 4 sucks. Meanwhile KDE and Qt have been becoming stronger and stronger, better and better, and more and more if you’re running a GTK based DE you’re gonna wind up with some Qt dependent apps anyway because… Well… Qt doesn’t suck. I’m for sure going to wind up with a mostly Qt based system in the nearish future.

Just out of curiosity, what do you consider a modern DE? Like not trying to start beef, I’m actually factually curious and I think am currently being confronted with that I’m an old man now. For transparency here’s basically my categorizations:

Ancient

• CDE
• ROX
• Enlightenment
• GNUstep

Real Old, Not Technically Abandonware, But Let’s Be Real Here

• Sugar

Long in the Tooth, But Still Developed

• XFCE
• LXDE
• MATE (My beloved)

Almost Modern, But Basically Abandonware

• Unity
• Pantheon

Modern

• KDE
• Cinnamon

Hypermodern

These follow development patterns that lead me to consider them bullshit

• GNOME (Stop breaking APIs, you jackasses!)

Why?

(Probably to be condemned in the future to "Almost Modern, Basically Abandomware, but I may be wrong, what do I know?)

• Deepin

100%. We all play the game because if we don’t we die. The metaphor you see all the time is that the reason were all swimming in this sea of capitalism is because if we don’t we drown. Our participation is not representative of consent I don’t really know what we do in the short and medium term but long term we need to kill capitalism