I call bs, he’s mid at best at throating

What the fuck‽

Yeah they’re a totalitarian theocracy

I love the eyebleed aesthetic of it I’m just now skilled enough to get that on something like fedora or Debian. And these days what I want is for more things to work easier which puts me out of the arch sphere. If garuda hadn’t committed hard to the aur I’d probably love it but the aur does everything 3 ways 1 of which may still be maintained and it leaves you just wanting the actively maintained flatpak.

Like I don’t hate it, it was the right distro at the time for me as it was noob friendly and had plasma 6 when few others did. But I don’t need the bleeding edge anymore.

As someone who tried it for a few months then switched back for several years before returning permanently two years ago: Linux has long had the problem that it’s completely ready for different people at different times.

In 2017 it was in pretty good shape if you weren’t a gamer, didn’t mind tinkering a fair bit, were prepared to learn a completely different two ways of installing software, and didn’t rely on proprietary apps (I couldn’t get Netflix to work). I was only ready for the tinkering. Also I’d used Ubuntu and gnome just added more changes.

Five years later a lot had changed. I wasn’t using Netflix (especially not in the app) for one. But Proton had come around and made gaming just work. My wifi drivers just worked unlike before. Years of mobile app stores and a few months of lemmy had prepared me for repos, even though it still took some getting the hang of to switch from just downloading and double clicking an exe file. But also the software options are increasingly available rather than having to learn to use old school wine while in the middle of a massive change. I still think I should switch away from garuda at some point as I dislike some of the choices it made (no flatpak support for one), but I love aspects of it. And all throughout that time that Linux was getting more accessible to someone like me who isn’t a coder, but was tech nerd curious, windows was increasingly getting in my way and becoming anti user.

I think adoption will continue to increase as Linux continues to get easier for more people

I wish it was spelling reform. I’ve been wanting that reform for over a decade

I like the þ but not the long s. Þ is actually useful when it clicks. Long s is just an “what if we had another letter for s thst looks like l and does nothing different or more efficient”

The word for R Studio fan is “scientist”

Mood, though it seems they’re just excited to have a tall girl with abandonment issues

Oh she knew. Even before they got married everyone warned her that jfk wasn’t suited to monogamy.

Oh that one’s because he goes nuclear when they do. He funded the killing of Gawker because they outed him.

I love how the nyt goes out of their way to treat transphobia as a reasonable position

The cunt’s got a point

Does Thiel not have more money?

After decades of fear mongering they thought there were millions of illegal immigrants

Yes. Especially upper caste Indian Americans. But your average right winger from bumfuck doesn’t know or care the difference between a Brahman or a Dalit. When it comes to east Asians it’s basically this scene. They think of all west Asian, Arabic, and north African people as basically terrorists. The only group they might actually think of as different is very light skinned Cubans who don’t speak Spanish.

Indian Americans spent a weirdly long time with so many of them actually believing the model minority shit. There is no model minority. The people who hate Mexicans and Venezuelans hate you too if you’re darker than a german or you speak a non English language.

It’s Activision-Blizzard. It’s the same megacorporation

Please don’t cost me my rights

Alternatively 8 months of 5 weeks of 9 days with 5 days spread between them. 3 days off each week. Each month begins on a solstice, equinox, or halfway between them.

We can go as crazy as we’d like