Now that’s what I call a quality meme.

I think my “politics” filter list on Mastodon is at 250 words by now, with additional lists for “AI Slop”, “Corposcum” and “Mental Wellbeing”.

Might seem too much, but I’ll definitely never get out of depression if I constantly see stuff going to shit. If something really bad is going on I see that through memes anyway.

For decades millions of (mostly very young) people have tirelessly worked to achieve this and failed…

Not too much though. The way he was hit caused him to be almost immediately knocked out.

The installer is a little bit less polished for now (until Leap 16.0 with the Agama installer drops as stable release), but generally… I guess? It just doesn’t come with Canonical’s shitty ideas.

The problems of (Open)SUSE is in its backend. A lot of tech debt from the days SUSE S.A. was owned by Novell, they screwed up a lot. But their OBS system is solid (explanation: for distro-users it’s basically like the AUR), and they don’t do silly nonsense with Snaps but stick with Flatpak. Or you know, alias’ing apt install commands to snap install like Ubuntu does…

It’s a really solid choice for a daily driver. Just the Nvidia driver sometimes causes issues, but what else is new.

People don’t even realize anymore they’ve adopted corpo speach. They’re getting told it’s “professional”, “neutral” and all that jazz. Especially the “neutrality” bullshit, perfect breeding ground for manipulators to plant nonsense. And we all know all those corpos perfected the art of mass manipulation to the point they employ whole departments to do it and pay politicians to dance by their fiddle.

Notebookcheck.net tries to report “neutral”, and it fucking shows.

Yes, and make them go in almost perfect straight lines like in Africa. Cut through important places and cultures like a knife.

Cynicism aside, it’s great to see them and the EU trying to establish peace and lasting unity despite everything.

<rant> The funniest thing about it is the reason why they won’t create an extension API: developer freedom. Because some extensions would stop working with an API, according to them. (Which is a damn weak reason, nothing prevents them from keeping the unstable patch path open and let users decide if they want to install potentially dangerous extensions or just those marked as “safe”, i.e. API-only).

Despite being told they actively decided against such an API I of course was still hit with the “just build it yourself and make a PR” line. Yeah, sure, who doesn’t want to waste dozens to hundred of hours for an already rejected concept?

That’s the same people who brought us libadwaita, which is in fact so well known for developer freedom that Linux Mint saw it as a necessity to fork it into libadapta to reintroduce more freedom. </rant>

God I’m so annoyed by this. Gnome’s organisational structure screws the whole desktop. At least that’s something they’re partially aware of…

Artists are already suffering this with people accusing them of using AI even though AI copied THEIR style, and it will only get worse over time. Meanwhile the actual AI voices have become so good that everyone gets fooled by them (don’t you think you’re immune, you’re not). Not to mention this abhorrent trend to copy someone’s likeness without consent.

At least those entertainers, creators and artists who were here before this dystopia emerged can point to something. Everyone else is screwed, and will be screwed as long as this economy (where you can monetize these actions, and money is everything) exists.

And because Gnome still lets every extension monkey-patch code right into the shell your whole desktop may crashes in the middle of your work. Especially if the extension devs aren’t monitoring changes in Gnome 24/7.

Happened to me 3 times before I moved to KDE. Which I very much dislike in comparison, but it’s just way more stable. Couldn’t go without extensions in Gnome either because of the very smooth-brained decision to replace the tray icons with their own backend, so any app not supporting their way of doing it either disappears into the void or has their tray icon submenu inaccessible.

Ugh. I love the UI/UX of Gnome, but in terms of stability and compatibility they screwed up phenomenally.

I heard their next gig will have a real impact.

…I mean, I really hated my time in the hospital but that was the single thing that was genuinely nice when waking up in the middle of the night. Not having to go anywhere.

Bacon doesn’t even taste good.

> Go to the Canadian Maintain Police

> Hatsune Miku

You can’t escape her. She will find you.

Their corpo stuff is (incl. Latitudes). Their consumer stuff (like XPS) apparently not so much.

Could all of you please stop being so extremely relatable? I might see it as orchestrated manipulation attempt otherwise.

That everyone has to have a vested interest in something (like technology) if they want to just use it.

Looking at you, old Linux community.

Not saying it’s for free once set up, that would be silly. I just like fair comparisons. 🙂 I don’t concur though that it’s more expensive though.

Heavily depends where you live of course, but in Western Europe and many other “western” nations wood / lumber has become awfully expensive with no indication of it changing, so newer homes are most likely more financially efficient to use a heatpump (especially if you’re able to also afford a few solar panels). We don’t have to fear week-long outages either (even the extremely unlikely case of a national outage like in Spain is fully resolved within 3 days), so even if you don’t have some solar panels and a small battery to power the pump the likelihood of you ever needing a fire to warm up in a new building (which are well insulated) is absurdly tiny. And those pumps really don’t need a lot of power.

Given costs for lumber and regular professional cleaning and maintenance (again, depending on where you live) I’d assume a fireplace with chimney to be at least equally expensive if not more, at least in countries with no easy access to lumber and proper regulations in place (so most of the “developed” countries, assumably). If you have proper quality studies to prove me otherwise please go ahead, it’s all just opinion so far. The only ones I know are comparisons between either heatpumps and classical heating solutions, or comparisons of CO² emitions.

Makes sense if you happen to find a building with pre-existing fireplace of course (even though upkeep is still pricey depending on its construction). Face-to-face less though, adding a proper chimney during construction is also pricey and the additional income / cost-savings of PV over its lifetime will very quickly make it way superior in a direct comparison.

Comparing the initial costs of one with the upkeep costs of the other surely is a way to make a bad argument sound more sensible.