This is the type of high-brow conversation that keeps me on Lemmy.

“You will love the cloud and we will sell everything you upload to it. You won’t own your data, OS or hardware when we are done.”

Mastodon managed to just confuse the hell out of me before boring me. Take that with a grain of salt, though, because I was never on Twitter. It may be me, not the platform/concept.

Poo poo!

How come? I don’t have a stake in it, I’m just curious any time someone has a strong opinion on an instance, especially since I just joined .world and never looked back/around.

Ubuntu but with an Arch wallpaper? You madman

All media will be reality tv and marvel movies and you will love it or else

I’ve seen footage!

The number of times W11 menu has tried to convince me to install TikTok immediately destroys the OS’ legitimacy in my eyes.

And then there’s the lack of customization; the shovelware and bloat; the random crashes and hangs with only a blue screen with an emoticon frowny face; the constant advertising; and the tracking of everything you do with the OS to feed advertising; the forced integration of cloud services like OneDrive…

Fuck windows. I’m not a programmer but I’ve been running Manjaro (I know, I know) as a daily driver on three different devices for 7 years now. The only true problem I’ve ever had was theming grub2 and fucking up the config, which was entirely my own fault.

I think that’s a perfectly reasonable stance. Just mention the need to install the “words” package if it it throws an error saying /use/share/dict/words can’t be found. It took me about three minutes to solve and I’m only a hobbyist!

By the way, love this project! I forgot to say that in my initial reply :)

I’ll have you know that fixing things that don’t work for no reason is my favorite thing to do on a distro /s

While I kid, I have been on Manjaro for 5 years as a daily driver. I know it’s team gets a lot of hate, but it’s been rock solid for me for all my normal usage.

Quick pointer you may wanna add to the readme:

This depends upon /use/share/dict/words which doesn’t necessarily exist on all systems. To try this out on an arch-based district, (Manjaro,) I had to install the package “words” with yay.

As a poor person with low-end, old hardware, I love XFCE. It has extended my laptop’s practical use-life by at least 8 years now, and counting.

No way that’s true: possums are known for the natural majesty!

FreshRss! It’s a selfhostable web app/server with a browser reader.

The full text extraction takes some technical fiddling and reading, but it works like a charm!

I like bash scripts + auto key! Custom commands with custom keybinds.

Off topic, but how do you like the pine book? I have been on the fence for a while now!

Oh my god I can’t even tell you how much I love you for posting this!

This is a question I had oh….a decade, I think?….ago and gave up on! Glad there are people smarter than I am out there!