Did you even read my comment? This has nothing to do with personal preference. It’s a matter of defending a shared commons from a hostile force. Sure, an individual gnome user can coexist with an individual kde user, like seriously who cares its just a DE. But as a community, users of other DEs, WMs and compositors can only “coexist” with the gnome project in the same way that a population of humans can “coexist” with the COVID-19 virus

It’s never about the DE’s themselves, it’s about the devs.

KDE’s devs are just focused on making a cool desktop environment with many features. It’s a little buggy and has some weird design decisions, but whatever, no biggie.

GNOME devs deliberately sabbotage existing linux standards in attemps to take control over desktop linux. Examples: client-side decorations, client-side shadows, systray fiasco.

This is not a question of personal preference. It’s a question of keeping desktop linux free, fair, and accessible for everyone.

Huh? How did you go from “people should have equal opportunities” to lynching and firing pregnant women? At this point you’re just saying whatever you want.

Plus, lmao at the hypocrisy of calling DEI a “boogeyman” while simultaneously accusing anyone disagreeing with you a racistsexistlyncher. It’s totally real, you’re proving it yourself.

The reason they don’t want you to unlock your bootloader is because of security…

…security of their revenue stream, that is.

I guess if he’s getting paid to do the interviews then it’s technically passive… wait no, then the whole interviewer thing would just count as advertising for his vending machine business

I question whether the people hollering that “X11 is held together with duct tape” have actually tried using X11 in the recent years. It’s surprisingly stable. You never have to fiddle with Xorg.conf anymore, it’s all automatic. The only parts where it really shits the bed, in my experience, is either if you’re trying some extremely non-standard setup like mixing and matching wildly different generations of graphics cards, or in cases of deliberate sabotage by gn*me devs like client-side decorations and shadows. I really wished that the X11 -> wayland transition would be just like the pulseaudio -> pipewire transition where a desperately broken system that was causing issues for users got replaced – in a matter of months – with a successor that was not only 100% compatible but offered cool new features on top of stability improvements. But this has just not been the case so far. Wayland has been “the future of the linux desktop” for nearly twenty years, and it’s still not quite there yet. X11 mostly just works, it isn’t abandoned, it’s finished. And what exactly are the new features we should be looking forward to in wayland? Isolation between clients is very cool I must confess, but did it really necessitate an entire protocol overhaul? QubesOS has had that feature working under X11 for over a decade. This guy on github managed to get it working with off-the-shelf X11 tunneling tools. Nevertheless, I’m still optimistic for wayland. The already existing backwards compatibility with X11 is impressive, and I think with enough work it might just be viable as the successor.

When people say that they are “anti-DEI” in the US, they mean that they want a society where the only people with power are white, protestant men.

Source: trust me bro

Is it really that implausible that some people really do just want to have diversity, inclusion, and equity the “old way” by simply giving everyone an equal opportunity to participate instead of embracing DEI ideology? It’s a huge leap in logic to just assume that anyone who doesn’t subscribe to some specific ideology that claims to be tolerant must secretly be opposed to tolerance itself. I think all of those people yelling “nazi” at anyone remotely critical of DEI are just projecting.

you can just send the money to the artist if indeed your objective is to “contribute to the artist” no NFTs required

Yeah, people could donate directly, but some people decided to buy NFTs instead, and they wouldn’t have spent the money otherwise.

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This is my logic which shows that my post is not bullshit. My post is only bullshit by the “logic” that you try to introduce.

And you don’t need to be writing these long-winded paragraphs. The point stands that you’re the one who brought up the argument about NFTs as means of ownership and then started arguing on the opposing side. Who are you arguing against? There is no-one on the proposing side, only the starmen you put there.

You’re putting words in my mouth. I didn’t say shit about “rights” and “respect”. The guy in the original comment mentioned nothing about it either. You said that. You’re bringing this idea into the conversation and then arguing against yourself. Seriously, what is your endgame here?

I genuinely have no clue what you think I “read on a website” about NFTs. To set the record straight, my understanding of NFTs is that you have a ledger where your public key is associated with a token short string of characters, and every computer participating in the ledger agrees on that. that’s it. All of these ideas of “ownership” and “rights” and societal analogies is bullshit you brought into the conversation.

damn those 17 downvotes are so salty it’s making my monitor bezels corrode

yeah exactly I still haven’t heard a single explanation of what makes NFTs a “scam”. People just shout that word and expect you to accept it. Seriously, which part of a consensual transaction between two well-informed parties qualifies as a “scam”?

bruh it’s really not that difficult. Fan sends money to artist. Fan receives some magical bytes in return. Could fan have right clicked and downloaded the artwork without paying? Of course. But fan wants to support artist. Because fan likes artist’s art. It’s how any digital “marketplace” works, NFT or not. All this “legal system” and “ownership” and “legal registrar” nonsense you’re pulling up is completely irrelevant. You’re reading too much into it.

Yeah the dev is notorious for sneaking in irrelevant political virtue signaling bullshit. I get that they want to do good to the world, but there are so many ways to do that without alienating your users. For example, partnering up with a charity. You know. Like VIM does.

No that’s not capitalism, that’s corporatism which is totally a different thing trust me bro! ^/j

Systemd and network manager are deliberately malicious I’m with you on that one but I feel like the new kernel-specific features like capabilities and namespaces are actually pretty neat. Like, they don’t even break backward compatibility. If you had a program that needs a special capability on linux and you wanted to port it to bsd, you could just make it a SUID executable. It’s not like capabilities offers a new API that programs use or something. Same with namespaces. I see a lot of people complaining about docker somehow being bloat or something, but, like, it’s still just linux on the inside of the container. Anything that can run in docker can run just as well outside of it. Worst-case scenario is that you have to change some environment variables from host.docker.internal to localhost. You’re not being forced to use it.

Keyboards with physical F keys higher than 12 absolutely do exist tho.

This one’s ancient, but I also have a slightly less old apple wireless keyboard that goes up to F19. IIRC goes up to a theoretical maximum of F64, but don’t quote me on that.

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See, most people have no clue that “gimp” is a sex thing. They just see it as a funny-sounding acronym. In an actual work meeting, the people who do know wouldn’t say anything about it to avoid being seen as the weird ones.

Honestly I can’t imagine why anyone would use either of these when there are lightweight DEs like XFCE and Cinnamon that are not only easier on the system resources, but also more stable, customizeable, user-friendly and more pleasant to look at. I stopped taking gnome seriously ever since they came up with GTK3. They had a chance to fix it with GTK4 but instead they somehow made it even worse (as if client-side decorations wasn’t bad enough, now theyre doing clientside shadows? Seriously!?!?). KDE is allegedly better because it gives the user more options, but anyone who’s actually used it will tell you that it suffers from the same kind of bloat and braindead design decisions as gnome.

As soon as a dentist deems it medically necessary, it’s fully covered by even the most basic health insurance.

Yeah, that’s the joke. Americans pull wisdom teeth left and right regardless of whether or not it poses a medical risk, it’s a part of their culture. Source: https://www.sciencealert.com/no-you-probably-don-t-need-to-get-your-wisdom-teeth-removed-ever