TheGrandNagus

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TheGrandNagus, (edited )

Nobody says that. Literally nobody. It’s just a strawman you made up.

Racism exists literally everywhere where humans live.

TheGrandNagus, (edited )

Your school day was 8 to 6? Damn. That definitely doesn’t sound normal.

TheGrandNagus,

Fun fact: the same guy also wanted to burn girls’ clits with acid so they wouldn’t masturbate either, though that didn’t catch on.

TheGrandNagus, (edited )

Debian is one of the distros where flatpaks are most appropriate lol, it’s the best way to not have programs that are really old

Adding weird third party repositories that can cause all kinds of issues probably isn’t the best idea

TheGrandNagus, (edited )

first of all why would anyone steal pills?

Remember, people in the US often have to pay a shitload for medication.

But even outside of the US, there’s still the issue of people wanting to steal prescription medicine if you can get high on it/sell it to people who want to get high from it.

TheGrandNagus, (edited )

Plenty of Linux projects have had a focus on UX.

Back in the day, Ubuntu made huge strides in UX and usability, and they’re still riding the coattails of that success even now that they’ve shifted to the corporate sector.

ElementaryOS came out and was super polished, simple, and beautiful. That’s still kinda true, but their small team has meant that they’re now falling behind the likes of Gnome, who’ve set out to do a similar thing.

The Cinnamon desktop is ugly out of the box, but other aspects of UX have been pretty great - everything is simple, they were pioneers in making everything a GUI option, rather than the last 5% of things having to be done in a config file or via terminal.

And finally, Gnome. Extremely polished, consistent, beautiful, and heavily UX-focused. That applies not only to their own system, but also to their third party app ecosystem. Just look at the apps on Gnome Circle - a Gnome project for showcasing apps that nail the Gnome design guidelines. Tell me they don’t look like they have a focus on UX.

Honestly, even MacOS struggles to feel as UX-focused as Gnome, and that’s saying something. UX is like, Apple’s entire schtick. Everything from trackpad gestures to UI elements, subtle animations, etc in Gnome is about UX.

Tbh, Gnome is sometimes so focused on UX that it arguably becomes a detriment to their development cycle. They’ll spend months deliberating on things like accent colours, chatting about all the potential ramifications, legibility, how it can inadvertently lead to destructive user actions, and the best way to implement it as a feature, rather than just doing it and moving on to the next feature.

Even KDE Plasma, which is often mocked for being hilariously inconsistent and filled with bizarre clunky UX, has made major strides in the past couple of years, and Plasma 6, releasing very soon, will fix a bunch of fundamental things that currently hold Plasma back from being consistent, and a significant portion of bugs have been fixed - it looks like it won’t be the buggy mess that Plasma 4 and early Plasma 5 was. We’re about to see a major improvement.

TheGrandNagus,

Nobara is just Fedora with some tweaks.

TheGrandNagus,

Yeah but we aren’t talking heat-of-the-moment shoving someone into traffic during a bar fight, we’re talking heat-of-the-moment naughty thought during an aerial bombardment from a hostile force where his wife was killed.

TheGrandNagus,

Adult-humour comedy/comic strip magazine from the north east of England. It has a bunch of material like this

TheGrandNagus,

This is 100% from Viz

TheGrandNagus,

I like Ezri. It was somewhat crazy to me that they never originally intended on killing her off to begin with.

Like, they created a race that can (sort of) Doctor Who style turn into a brand new person, and their plan was to never utilise that beyond one season 1 episode where someone steals the Dax symbiote?

That’s crazy to me. Don’t get me wrong, they did utilise the “I have multiple lifetimes of experience” aspect, but never intending to give her a new character was a little odd.

I really liked Ezri. It’s just really unfortunate what happened to Terry Farrell that made it happen.

TheGrandNagus,

[Gently pushes an Engineering Ensign against the wall, staring at them with a cold rage]

“If you mess up my engine I’ll come down on you so hard you’ll need to be reassembled by fucking air-crash investigators.”

TheGrandNagus, (edited )

Don’t forget when she tortured Tom Paris by giving him 30 days of solitary confinement, no reading material or anything to stimulate him, and gave him purposefully bland food the entire time.

That was already considered a breach of human rights in our unenlightened 20th century, but Janeway saw it as a fitting punishment for… checks notes… saving an entire species of sentient alien life, albeit ones whose ruler decided that they didn’t want to be saved.

TheGrandNagus,

Crusher eying up those chains 😩

Ending support for Windows 10 could send 240 million computers to the landfill. Why not install Linux on them? (gadgettendency.com)

With support ending for Windows 10, the most popular desktop operating system in the world currently, possibly 240 million pcs may be sent to the landfill. This is mostly due to Windows 11’s exorbitant requirements. This will most likely result in many pcs being immediately outdated, and prone to viruses. GNU/Linux may be...

TheGrandNagus,

I’m like this with windows these days tbh

I get to the desktop and I’m like how the fuck do I even use this thing

TheGrandNagus, (edited )

Everything opens up immediately. My PCs perform well. I dunno where you got the weird animations lie from.

I’ve used XFCE plenty. XFCE would hinder my productivity massively, so nah I’m going to pass on that.

Still nothing on the “gnome massively reinvents the wheel every 2-3 years” thing? Not surprised, considering it was BS.

TheGrandNagus,

Richard Stallman on paedophilia:

“The nominee is quoted as saying that if the choice of a sexual partner were protected by the Constitution, ‘prostitution, adultery, necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography, and even incest and pedophilia’ also would be. He is probably mistaken, legally–but that is unfortunate. All of these acts should be legal as long as no one is coerced. They are illegal only because of prejudice and narrowmindedness.”

RMS on June 28th, 2003

"I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren’t voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing. "

RMS on June 5th, 2006

"There is little evidence to justify the widespread assumption that willing participation in pedophilia hurts children.

Granted, children may not dare say no to an older relative, or may not realize they could say no; in that case, even if they do not overtly object, the relationship may still feel imposed to them. That’s not willing participation, it’s imposed participation, a different issue. "

RMS on Jan 4th, 2013

TheGrandNagus,

Hoooo boy people here get angry when you remind them of Stallman being outspokenly pro-paedophilia.

TheGrandNagus,

Been on it since 2016. No issues.

Cope and seethe.

TheGrandNagus,

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TheGrandNagus,

Like you said, these companies help KDE too. KDE also has more hardware partners, and more contributors.

Even ignoring all that though, it still doesn’t answer the question: why cry over Gnome getting money to aid in accessibility improvements?

I have never once heard anybody cry about the companies that support KDE, yet some people here go on like Gnome fucked their girlfriend. It’s pathetic.

Nobody’s forcing anybody to use Gnome or any any other DE. Just be happy when nice things happen in the FOSS word.

TheGrandNagus, (edited )

I’m not complaining about gnome getting support

You literally are.

I’m complaining about kde being overlooked

KDE isn’t overlooked. KDE gets funding too. Valve and others have put so much into KDE. KDE has the most hardware partnerships. KDE has more contributors.

Kde is just a better tool for people wanting to just get things done

In your opinion…

I do all my work on Gnome because it’s got an amazing and highly productive workflow, minimal distractions, and it’s extremely stable.

I like Plasma, I like the options it has, I have it on one of my laptops, but it’s not what I’d use for work. The last thing I need is for kwin to crash and take all the programs I had open with it, losing hours of work. Yes, I’m aware this should be fixed in Plasma 6, but as of right now it’s a massive showstopper.

stubbornly refuse compromise when working with others on creating useful tools and standards

Gnome has championed a lot of open standards, and worked with others. You’re just repeating a Reddit meme. They’ve done so much flatpak, portals, open-desktop stuff in collaboration with KDE and others.

Just think how many times they broke extensions without any regard for the individuals using it.

You’re showing a complete lack of understanding about what extensions are.

Extensions are impossible not to break from time to time. Extensions don’t use some unchanging API to work - they’re modifications on the DE itself. That’s why they’re so powerful.

There’s no way around DE mods sometimes becoming borked when the DE gets a big update.

Why are you acting like Gnome is against portals lmao, they’ve been massively pushing portals and open desktop standards, even going as far as refusing to implement features unless there’s a cross-desktop standard way of handling it (e.g. accent colours, which they are only now putting in place now that they and KDE have hammered out a sensible standard for it. Or a better system tray, which they’ve been trying to spearhead an open, cross-desktop solution for for years now, although little progress has been made by everyone). Of the DEs, Gnome has pushed for things like portals and flatpaks the most lol

We get it. In your mind, Gnome = bad and evil and nasty, KDE = good quirky and kool.

TheGrandNagus, (edited )

I kind of have the opposite experience.

I use Plasma for a bit but instability, odd bugs, or visual inconsistency just becomes too much for me.

Gnome was a pain for a couple of weeks when I kept trying to use it like a Windows PC, but once the Gnome workflow “clicked” it just made so much more sense than the Win95 UX paradigm.

And it’s particularly annoying when kwin crashes, because it takes everything else down with it (that’s getting fixed in Plasma 6 though!) For me that’s an absolute show-stopper. I don’t want to lose hours of work across multiple programs because something caused kwin to crash.

5.27 is better to a ridiculous degree compared to how Plasma 4 and early Plasma 5 was, though. KDE is doing a lot of work to put the meme of their software being a buggy mess to bed.

TheGrandNagus,

Boys interesting and quirky, like cool things like sci-fi, Spock, and pew pew lasers

Girls dumb and generic, probably like titanic, have cooties

TheGrandNagus, (edited )

You could also list a bunch of insane stuff about X11. The security being hilariously bad, random tearing all the time, terrible multi-monitor support, terrible gesture support, etc.

X11 lacks basic functionality.

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