Leon

As a former macos user (2013-2024ish), macos has become IMO a very user hostile experience.

I haven’t really used Mac OS since Mountain Lion, so that makes me sad to hear, but I’m not really surprised.

If you’re capable of that you should be capable to use something like Snapper.

I want to see this done in governments. Tax the corporations, fund FOSS.

Depends on the distribution and the defaults, but yeah it’s decently common for middle click to paste. I’d no idea Mozilla doesn’t respect the OS setting for this though, because I can’t recall ever turning it off in any of the browsers I use, but that could be because the forks are more sensible than Firefox itself.

In GNOME you have to modify a gsetting, or use something like GNOME Tweaks to disable it. Which is ridiculous, it should really just be under Accessibility > Pointing And Clicking

I think GNOME is trying hard to overturn the idea that Linux has a rather bad layman user-experience, and part of that is the assumption that a layman doesn’t want too many options because it gets confusing. As a UI/UX person I definitely get this, but as I always argue with the head UX guy at my workplace, we’re not necessarily dealing just with laymen, but people who use our software as everyday tools and they’ll want the options to customise things to their liking.

Some extra toggles won’t change that. Hell you can hide it behind an “advanced mode” toggle even. Google does that with their idiotic “tap build number umpteen times to enable developer tools.”

The font stands out, too.

Changed my AD password today. Teams noticed, as it always does, and refused to load the login page in the window that popped up after it signed me out. Too bad most everyone is on vacation because on any ordinary day it would’ve been quite welcome.

Is it a generational thing, or perhaps a local thing? I’m from the Stockholm area. Never heard anything but “jag har mensen” or something along those lines.

As a Swede, I’ve never heard lingonveckan before.

I feel this. Initially I just closed the lid on my work laptop, but I kept waking up to my work monitor just sitting there shining in the middle of the night, because despite having put it in hibernate, it decides to spontaneously wake up and sit at the login screen. Couldn’t ever fix that, so now I unplug it when I quit my workday.

Thank you! I did actually spend some time yesterday setting up some AppImages with Gear Lever, and so far it seems alright. The update feature seems very neat.

I might give AM a whirl on my laptop though!

I’ll give it a whirl! Thank you!

My biggest problem was that Electron applications just refused to function, so for a while I’d try it, get annoyed and swap back to X11, and then give it a few months and try again. Back in August or so I swapped to Wayland pemanently, decided to just toss the Electron applications that wouldn’t work.

Since then the only problem I’ve had has been with DXVK and games, but only on a particular NVidia driver, so I think we can all guess who the real culprit is.

I used a daemon to manage my AppImages, worked great until fairly recently where it began mounting way too many FUSEs and just make AppImages stop working altogether. I miss it, because now I have to manually manage the AppImages, and that makes me sad. :(

I’m lazy.

Absolutely. Brutalism has its place, it’s an art, and like with any art you can execute it either poorly or well. I think given its name it likely shouldn’t evoke feelings of boredom or disgust.

We have a funny example here in Sweden where this old brick building was torn down.

And replaced with this!

I wouldn’t say that the first building was beautiful or anything, but it was definitely more pleasant to look at than the new building. The ironic part is that the new building houses the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology’s architecture branch.

Personally, nothing on PornHub.

I do laugh at this. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes and all that.

That’s the one.

Sounds like the problem is with the game and its developers. There are still cheaters in games with kernel level anticheat. It’s not a substitute for having moderation functions, staff, and reporting functionality. And at that point, you might as well go with something that isn’t invasive rootkit spyware to safeguard your game.

I appreciate verbosity. It’s much nicer than the opposite.

You’re missing the point. Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, and Google aren’t people. They’re criminal corporations given free reign to poison the rest of us.

I’m not arguing that you shouldn’t try sustainability. I was brought up with the mindset. We sort our garbage, I mend and reuse as much as I can. It’s good not just for the environment and your wallet, but it’s also a protest against the consumerism pushed onto society.

That doesn’t mean that we should focus only on individual action (or inaction) and turning away from the actions of these massive corporations particularly not when they’re blatantly flaunting them right in front of us. What point is there in me criticising you for taking an aeroplane to visit your family once or twice a year when you have Donald, Musk, and Taylor Swift riding private jets on a weekly basis? Like it doesn’t even compare.