Eldritch

GNOME is not meant to be customized. Don’t even try. If your concept of customization goes beyond adding a panel in a different spot. It’s truly asking for grief. Their add-ons/plugins are fairly neat with all the different languages they can be written in etc. But with all the breaking changes that are constantly being done to the API you never know if they’ll be functioning in the next week. It’s part of why pop started Cosmic in the first place. The GNOME team would regularly roll breaking changes with minor point releases.

I used to get that as well but that was largely due to NVIDIA drivers. Either have to get a tty on the local machine or SSH into it and do a reset. But I haven’t had so much as a peep out of that machine since the Nvsync or Ntsync or whatever it was got merged. I had it happen outside of KDE as well.

I remember when KDE first rolled out plasma and the shit show it started out as. That’s when GNOME really blew up. But since the late 5.X and especially 6.5-6 its been solid. They broke off with a lot of those old abandoned themes etc with the 6.X series as well. That would often fail to function and shit the desktop. I haven’t encountered anything like that in the 6.X repos. My biggest gripe with any of them currently is the deskbar macos style that’s poorly exposed and configured. But comes by default from a few distro like garuda. And predictably isn’t consistent. When it works it’s nice. When it doesn’t it’s confusing.

Last time KDE gave me issue was when they switched to Wayland by default I think. And even then that was mostly on me. 🤷‍♀️

Same. However, if you don’t need that functionality it’s solid. Just definitely not for me.

He chooses pop over and over again at the worst times. The beta of cosmic was buggy for his use. And he installed it in the middle of a lanparty no less. That said. He eventually switched to mint same as Luke I think. Luke who has also been using, by the way. And he and Luke have had pretty positive things to say this time. Between windows actively going to shit and Linux continuing to chug along and improve.

No better way to prove there’s no oppression than to oppress over the claims of oppression.

Tom usually is. Extremely nerdy as well.

No it doesn’t. I think the fact that they’ve looked long term for links and found none does male a song argument however. Yes we are being poisoned in multiple ways. But we can generally prove them.

That’s a correlation, not a causation. It’s infinitely more likely it’s the mass propaganda outlets that have only gotten more effective. Especially with the advent of algorithms and the brainwashing brick.

Yeah. I believe it was under the sha. Which was problematic in its own right. Even if it was more identifiable to the west. No returning to X nostalgic time. Just moving ahead, abolishing those that would oppress. Empowering individuals to govern themselves.

Absolutely. Though I don’t know that people trying to bait others into defending Iran. Rather that there are plenty unfortunately on the fediverse that genuinely will defend Iran in all its actions. Maybe I’m spoiled and it’s just my perception. But generally on the fediverse thankfully trump has no defenders.

Don’t defend either one. There’s no reason to. Iran legitimately is killing its own citizens wildly. The US interfering doesn’t suddenly make that acceptable. I condemn my countries actions and don’t think it should exist. And every time Iran embarases our government or strikes our soldiers and bases that it is deserved. That doesn’t atone for their other actions. Defend the peoples, call out the oppressive states.

Cachy is pretty solid. If you can name a distro I’ve at least tried it. Though I would still recommend mint for someone who has no idea what they’re doing and just need things to “work”. But garuda, endeavor or cachy are all pretty solid and straight forward. And with the talk of a new independent graphical package manager for Arch. It’s only going to get easier to operate and maintain.

Definitely, but the sad truth is that it may as well be secret. Because our mass media failures either just don’t talk about it. Or claim it wouldn’t work here for racist reasons.

Democracy is unfortunately never absolute. That would be anarchy and we could never be so lucky. But yes. Less democratic than the United States by a little for all that means. But slightly more than Russia or China perhaps? Either way, its a cluster no one should want to be part of.

4D tiddlywinks and he’s still on zeroies.

Worse. Salad tongs from the dollar store. Draw it out a little as they have to keep replacing the crumpled pair. Thinking he got a reprieve. But nope, always another cheap pair.

Fair enough. And yeah I’m not horribly opposed to them using llm stuff. It’s more of a hindrance than it is a real help anyhow. Much more concerning is their assholish behavior about it. If you’re going to use it use it just own up to it and be clear. Spitefully trying to hide or obfuscate is the behavior of someone who would try to hide or obfuscate data loggers back doors or other malicious code knowingly or unknowingly. Not something you need a higher risk of when you’re trying to pirate binaries.

In Orban’s last election he got less than 50 percent of the votes but 90 percent of the districts. If the same number of people vote as last time even a 20 point lead may still fall flat. Only a massive boost in turnout and disgust will see it through. And then we get to the real issue. His opponent in American terms is rather bidenesque. Not in terms of senility, but having a lot of the same uninspiring or awful positions. Having been a member of Orban’s party Fidesz. This in some ways is like 2020 in the US.

Have you checked out heroic? I’ve never really used lutris myself. But the devs behavior definitely makes me never want to try again. Heroic works awesome tying into GoG, EGS, and Amazon. Granted I don’t game like I did 30 years ago. Nor do I even pirate games at this point. I could, I just don’t feel a need or desire to. So YMMV.