The ad company blocking an ad blocker is totally about security

- Google stans

Yeah please stop trying to act like multitasking on a small screen is something anyone wants. There’s enough bugs out there for app switching to fix that you coulda focused on that instead of adding another half assed product on top of your current half assed product

Duuuude American mega-churches are PURELY profit oriented

I read it as a law that the bootloader has to be unlockable so that the phone can be serviced by the end user past the manufacturers end of support

Conspiracy theory: got paid to write a smear piece about a piece of technology the spies of capitalism doesn’t like

Um… What fucking paradox? Authy is a know security vulnerability. If you’re installing GrapheneOS before switching away from Authy, you’re putting the condom on after getting fucked

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

Bruhhh, fuck off. At this point the only thing an android phone would be good for is installing another, more privacy oriented, ROM

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

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

I mean… I like it. Eye candy is in the eyes of the beholder. Just out of curiosity what’s your pick for most attractive distro?

I’ve been thinking lately about the industrialization of music. Used to be before the gramophone you’d play music in your house. Sometimes you’d be bad. And everyone was fine with it. We just did it to enjoy it. Sometimes you and your neighbors would go to that one barn everyone was gathering in where the best musicians in town would play. They were your neighbors and friends. But now we don’t know our musicians. We don’t make music. We just consume it. I think we need to reclaim music. I think everyone should download DAWs and just… Fucking… Suck. And share their suck with friends and family. What you produce doesn’t have to be polished, or good, it just needs to be tour own.

Right? I’ve been training myself to use this one weird browser feature I hardly ever use called “bookmarks.” Shits wild

I had to install a plugin to just close tabs I hadn’t viewed in a while. I’m certainly not going to develop better tab discipline

I knew a dude who worked at Activision Blizzard and his description of his workplace sounded horrid. The weird part was his fawning bright eyed love for the office culture. He viewed it as a perfect dream workplace. I don’t even know it there’s a takeaway from all that. It just always struck me as notably odd

You also run into different sets of tools that define an IDE. And especially with language server protocols giving almost any text editor access to the only things that were ever strictly the domain of IDEs, I think it’s safe to say we live in a golden age of being able to write things with as much or as little assistance as you want

We started there of course. The subtlety has far more to do with needing to get clever than with us being clever. Eventually it got to the point where I had to write a python script to reinstall all our .corn antics back on every school machine because the school took to resetting all accessibility dictionaries every night

Ah the olden days of using windows accessibility features to replace “.com” with “.corn”