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I mean ublock origin seems like a simple answer

Gimp is I think a more challenging comparison to its proprietary counterparts than the others you listed unfortunately, but I appreciate and agree with your sentiment here. Ui/ux is such a big part of where foss creative tools struggle, and while some are better than others, its a difficult thing to improve because there’s a lot less design talent in the foss world than dev talent. And ui design for large creative software is REALLY a hard design challenge, its not as though the design skill involved is trivial

Anyway, I think inkscape no longer opens a blank document anymore, at least with fresh installs. Maybe for older installs it keeps the old behavior? You should be able to switch it to a nice little welcome splash with document templates and recently opened files if you’d like :)

I looked up ratpoison cause I couldn’t remember what it was and discovered this absolute wild ride of a use-net post that the rat poison website says inspired its name

John Dyson said:

not most) users. I attain no high in passive smoking, and only feel the anxiety. The very sad thing is to avoid the anxiety, pot users often either seek more pot, alcohol or benzo’s for temporary relief. This is a really silly vicious circle for a little short term relief. Those who think that pot is harmless are diluding themselves or even simply ignorant.

That’s because your not using the Scheme Configurable Window Manager. I found that having the proper WM while toking is extremely important. You need one that absolutely minimizes use of the rodent, and with scwm’s synthetic events, awesome key binding supports and scripting, I have a setup which allows me to do everything without pushing about the cursed rolly thing. Thank you Maciej for thinking about all of us stoners when designing SCWM.

The reason you want to avoid the rodent is that when your coding while chemically modified you will want to minimize any possible distraction or break in concentration. The slightest wavering in your attention will easily explode into a ten minute setback. If you can keep yourself on-track then I find that productivity is greatly increased, and with the properly trained mindset bug density on first pass is usually drastically decreased.

In the past when working with improper window management I have found that reaching for the rodent and lifting my eyes off my FSF emacs block cursor can trigger undesired distractions, particularly when I’m working in non-Lisp dialects (well except for mercury and Pop-11) because any idle brain wave will be spent bitching to yourself silently about the lameness of the artificial language you are forced to be thinking in presently.

It should also be noted that since SCWM is extended thru scheme, you have another advantage. Pot and lame type systems like in C/C++ do not mix. THC and Lisp dialects (or Pop-11, and sometimes mercury) are wonderful combinations provided you don’t mind spending 20% of your time rejoicing in the beauty that is a dynamic language with uniform syntax and a real goddamn macro system.

For the particularly bent crowd, I’d reccomend maybe starting out with a Luca Cardelli paper, followed by a round of OCaml hacking, and if you have another bowl to smoke and an evening to waste, follow it all up dinking around in mercury. This recipe will not result in much working code at the end of the day, but your mind will be glowing. I should warn you that only people with hard-ons for abstract mathematics and mathematical logic will really survive this course without a major headache.

Of course, this should all be done on a Debian Linux box, because you can install all of these languages with a simple apt-get command. With FreeBSD you would have to compile them all, and friggin compiling alien language implementations from France (OCaml) will break your widdle head when stoned. None of the tools I have mentioned so far are BSD licensed, and most are GPLed or Public Domain, and none of them have patents pending (except maybe if you got a fancy bong). When your done, remember, libertarians are people who think they sprung from their own asshole, the free market is a plot to exploit your sorry ass, and all the real elite programmers are wobblies.

PS: Everything but the last paragraph is a troll.

What a fucking journey lmao

Sick! Great to see this kinda stuff for iPhone users!

I’d never seen column view but I just looked up pictures and man that seems like it’d be really helpful for my ADHD and poor working memory, its so easy to get lost trying to keep track of what level of nested folder you’re in.

And it’d be so nice to just be able to jump laterally instead of navigating up and then going to a different folder

Its a shame now I want something gnome devs will never provide. Maybe someday an independent dev will get tired and build a nice alternative. Perhaps I’ll try a different file manager and use a theme

They were wondering the technical approach not logistical.

Obviously the logistics are “more money” but given that much about steam is devices is open, they were wondering what technical approach may have been taken, and whether it might be open and possible to piggyback off of.

In the states it also varies a lot. You have groups like the the socialist rifle association, but lots of american leftists are also anti-gun, there’s a range of views on the subject.

I would guess its the majority of american leftists that are anti-gun, but I could certainly be mistaken

That would make me deeply happy, and significantly increase our ability to accomplish any of the changes we’d like to see in the world

I’m glad its appreciated ☺️

Love your username! Hope you have a lovely day my friend

I think maybe we should stop short of saying we know for a fact what did or didn’t happen with her. An outside investigation does absolutely help, and hopefully if anything was wrong it has now been rectified.

But there are lots of ways that companies can clear their names, and bringing in a company to do an investigation could either be done in good faith, or be a very effective way of cleaning up an enormous PR mess.

I think we should be warry of making snap calls about who was factually in the right in these kinds of situations unless there’s hard evidence available to us. Often these situations are about our gut feeling of what happened, and our gut feeling isn’t objective. And getting it wrong in either direction has the potential to be enormously damaging (though in this case I believe there was no specific alleged perpetrator for the allegations like sexual harassment)

I feel this is one of those situations where nuance and being okay with not knowing exactly what happened is important. Though perhaps you know more facts about the situation than I do, and have more concrete reason to believe it was highly exaggerated

Thats very fair, I vaguely recalled there was some initial handling of the issue that wasn’t great or something, and that was what I was talking about. I’m glad to hear the longer term response has been a lot better! (Assuming I’m even remembering correctly that the initial handling was crummy)

Thank you for adding more info and context!

Are you joking…? I didn’t find anything online 😅

There were kinda three separate things that rolled together, mind you, I’m not especially in the know about any of them, so hopefully others can expand

1. the auctioned something that was supposed to be a small company’s prototype water block or something, it wasn’t theirs to sell
2. they started making too many errors in their rush to do large scale testing and when people make decisions based on the incorrect info you’re putting out thats not great
3. there was an employee who used to work at LTT after being a fan who they built a PC for (maddison, I think?). When the other two items above were brought up by gamer’s nexus and it turned into a whole situation where people were being critical of LTT, she shared that she had an absolutely horrible experience working there, crazy crunch time, I think there was sexual harassment or something, I don’t recall all the details. She explained she didn’t share it sooner because she expected people would just turn on her for criticizing LTT and it makes sense she would feel more able to share if people seem like they might be more receptive to criticism of a huge channel like that

The first two that were brought up in an bombshell gamer’s nexus video were, imo, handled very poorly (EDIT: I should clarify, I meant the initial first reseponse), though again, I don’t remember details (about the very first response I think I remember not being great, or otherwise 😅)

The last item I’m honestly not sure how it panned out but my impression is that nothing really happened with it. LTT was gonna transfer CEO to being a new guy with Linus being more of a face and direction guy, and the new CEO guy I think was the one who had an outside investigation of some kind conducted. I don’t think there was ever an update about that investigation? I dunno. I didn’t watch much before the whole situation and just kinda stopped watching when the initial criticism from gamer’s nexus was poorly handled

As more of an art and design person than a technical one, yeah almost undoubtedly, though I can’t think of specific examples

But I really appreciate the work that goes into a beautiful logo, typography, or UI, and that will often sway me, probably more than it should

Void’s beautiful logo/logotype is what originally got me interested in it as a distro, and the only reason I’m not using it now is cause I’m a dummy and minimal distros require I use my brain a lot more than I’ve thus far been willing to get my computer up and going

Any chance you could give a simple explainer on how to set up a !! abbreviation in fish?

I’m a fairly non-technical fish user and every time I’ve tried to figure out how to do it I’ve ended up giving up 😅

If you don’t know off the top of your head thats fine, but it seemed worth an ask ☺️

Thats fair, I’m not the most knowledgeable on this subject.

I do think its understandable to be frustrated with decreasing user choice around init systems though. To me it feels frustrating how often the conversation around systemd seems to break down into:

systemd is Satan incarnate, and poison to linux

And

Actually anyone who doesn’t like systemd is braindead and just doesn’t like it cause it’s popular

I don’t think peoples frustration or unhappiness with the way its impacting the linux ecosystem is entirely unreasonable. I do think the zealotry and lack of nuance with which people voice their frustrations is often tiring an unhelpful though. That being said, if I understand correctly other init systems are still available for MX, so In don’t think its really that big of a deal in this case? Not sure. Original commenter doesn’t seem to think that helps the situation, but like I said, I’m not super knowledgable on this subject 🤷🏻‍♂️

A non-technical person’s best attempt at a useful answer, please forgive and correct me if I get things wrong:

Systemd has become the defacto standard on linux, and was, to my understanding, kinda the first init system to do all its jobs consistently well enough. Though the way distros first implemented it sucked, or something along those lines.

Many people were frustrated by those early issues, and my impression is that its not exactly an elegant piece of software, instead managing to function well through more of just brute force and by being huge and complicated.

People in the linux world really care about the Unix principal, or Unix philosophy (each piece of software should do one thing, and do it well), which is what has enabled linux to be essentially modular, and facilitates tons of user choice, but also fragmentation

Systemd seems to kind of do too many things to really adhere to that principal, and with projects building dependency on it, some folks feel its bad for the linux ecosystem for one massive piece of software that does so much to get tied into every project so that other init systems aren’t usable anymore. It means that if systemd isn’t the best solution anymore, it doesn’t matter, better solutions may not get use anyway without building tons of workarounds for systemd dependencies.

Other folks are frustrated by the frequently overzealous hatred of systemd, and feel what it does to unify linux is more valuable than it’s potential abstract risk to the linux ecosystem, or very complex implementation and maximalist approach.

I mean to be perfectly fair, building hard dependencies on a particular init system does mean it gets way harder for anyone to use other ones, and that does suck

It’s understandable that people would be frustrated by that. I’ve never had any issues with sysd but when I was using void I really liked runit, and with gnome increasing dependencies on systemd I’m worried I won’t be able to use void anymore as a gnome user :(

Only reason I’m not using void currently is cause I’m not quite technically knowledgeable enough yet to set up and maintain a minimal distro.

The Unix principal is a thing people care about for a reason, it’s a pretty core part of how this ecosystem was built up with so much user choice, and while there are some silly complaints about systemd, I do feel like I’ve seen some very reasonable ones. Particularly just that its a huge, very complicated implementation

I’ve been thinking about attempting to make a foss Pokémon go like game, or walking focused virtual pet game, but without the dark patterns and monetization that constantly tries to separate you from your money

Absolutely enormous amount of work for character/monster design though, so for now I’ve just been thinking about it occasionally and will try to doodle creature designs as I think of ones I think might be interesting

At least gameplay doesn’t need to be very complex

I was thinking just a regular android app to make it easy to use the stepcounting activity api or whatever though, rather than using godot, unless I think of functionality it really needs an engine for

It is my understanding that the back-end marketplace for snap is not open, and that snap as a packaging ecosystem is permanently tied to Canonical (company behind Ubuntu) exclusively.

No one else can build a snap repository or source (not sure what the best language would be but I’m trying not to word things ambiguously).

From Wikipedia:

Others have objected to the closed-source nature of the Snap Store. Clément Lefèbvre (Linux Mint founder and project leader[75][76]) has written that Snap is biased and has a conflict of interest. The reasons he cited include it being governed by Canonical and locked to their store, and also that Snap works better on Ubuntu than on other distributions.

Which is why people are unhappy with snap. And why I say that although I wish fedora didn’t set up their own flatpak repo and provide then alongside flathub, to me its a requirement that it be possible to do that. Because then if the people leading the project start making user hostile choices, you have recourse. Same as with any free license, open source project- you can just take what was already built and the community can rally around moving efforts over to the version that isn’t being user hostile.

Snap doesn’t have that. If they became successful, canonical would have enormous power over the linux ecosystem and if they chose not to treat users with respect, they would already have market capture. The more successful they were to become, the more likely things depend on them. Like important packages only being published as snaps. And the more likely that things have been built around snaps specifically, the bigger of a liability it is for linux as a whole. A liability controlled by a for-profit company, with for-profit motives.

People have similar frustrations with systemd as more projects build hard dependencies on it, but at least those are still totally open projects

Sorry to the long wall of text but I hope its at least helpful 😅

Edited to add the section from Wikipedia