TheGrandNagus

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TheGrandNagus,

Crusher eying up those chains 😩

TheGrandNagus,

Not just America. There are non-urban places everywhere.

TheGrandNagus,

Crusty jugglers

TheGrandNagus,

Yeah no. Your typical worker arriving on a ship would not have been fat/overweight, and it’s unlikely that typical native Americans looked like they spent serious time in a gym lol

I also dunno why you’d think only Europeans have age-related hair loss

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,

The life of a skinny man. Do I choose the clothes that fit me right, or do I choose the clothes with usable pockets?

TheGrandNagus,

Despite running an incredibly busy bar/restaurant/holosuite parlour, as well as dabbling in other legitimate businesses, Quark still finds the time to smuggle in a shitload of contraband.

He has the lobes for business.

TheGrandNagus,

It’s probably one of those toy cars where pulling it backwards winds up a coil thing inside, then releasing it drives it forward.

TheGrandNagus,

Taking a bob the builder joke seriously, cringe af

TheGrandNagus,

Yeah, I’ve seen that. Dubbing Oprah over Attenborough.

I don’t really get it. It’s not like the language is different. Imagine how bizarre it’d be if the UK dubbed over the Simpsons and made them Scouse or something

Actually that’d be pretty funny, I’m all for scouse Simpsons

TheGrandNagus,

I was surprised to find out recently that in the US, they dubbed over the British English in bob the builder with American English.

TheGrandNagus, (edited )

Gnome is amazing, without it I probably wouldn’t bother with Linux. Honestly nothing comes close UX-wise for me. I don’t want yet another Windows clone.

Minimising is a misuse of the gnome workflow, ideally you’d move a window to another desktop. Better than hiding it in some dock IMO.

Maximising I literally never used the button for anyway. I double clicked the title bar, dragged the program to the top, or pressed Super+Up. Aiming for a relatively small button just feels worse than all of those. It’s literally a pointless button and I feel like the only reason anybody has it it just because they’re used to seeing it/having a Windows UX.

It’s fine that you want your UX to work like Microsoft’s, but that doesn’t mean others are bad.

E: people get really upset when you point out that their Windows clones are windows clones lol. It’s not an insult.

TheGrandNagus,

All of Europe, and a bunch of other places, are swinging to the right. It’s not an Anglosphere thing, you just read english-speaking news more.

Funny enough, the UK is in the process of swinging back leftwards again at the moment. Roll on the 2024 general election.

TheGrandNagus, (edited )

Exactly, all these redditors and lemmyers (lemmings??) keep saying “oh he should be working for MI5 or a cyber security firm, not getting court-ordered mental support!”

And it makes me want to bang my head against the wall. Even if we ignore him purposely breaking the law while on curfew from breaking the law previously, has been violent, and straight up said he wants to commit more crime, even if all of that is ignored, no company would trust him.

His application would be thrown straight into the bin in my company, and we don’t even deal with stuff that’s that sensitive.

Like seriously, have these people ever heard of the concept of insider threats?

TheGrandNagus,

And people keep making up bullshit about him.

He’s not in prison, he’s in a mental institution getting therapy because he has issues and was violent. He straight up told the judge he intends to commit more crimes.

I have zero love for Rockstar’s bs and I do have admiration of this young man’s skills, but he clearly presented himself as someone who can’t just be free without any further intervention.

TheGrandNagus,

So your proof of Gnome “reinventing the wheel every 2-3 years” is them removing desktop icons (good riddance btw), idk, 7 years ago or something? And activities view (amazing for productivity and I wish others would catch up to Gnome here) well over a decade ago?

Yes. I will need examples. Because those aren’t examples of what you said - show me how using Gnome is night and day different to 2-3 years ago, and show me how using it then was night and day different to 4-6 years ago.

TheGrandNagus, (edited )

What are these extremely flashy animations you speak of? I think you’re just making stuff up. I’ve never seen any of these long animations. I click on an app icon and it opens immediately. I click close and it closes immediately.

Gnome is extremely productive. It’s a big part of why most Linux workstations use it. It’s stable, keyboard-focused, gets out of my way, and has the best workspaces/virtual desktop implementation I’ve come across. I use it for my work. Getting my work done the Windows way is so cumbersome in comparison.

You gonna provide a source on your “completely reinventing the wheel every 2-3 years” claim, or will your next comment contain another new lie?

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.

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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,

Hold on a second, that’s not Gandalf

TheGrandNagus,

*Nvidia didn’t support Wayland

TheGrandNagus,

Yeah. He had/has some great ideas when it comes to free software, but it doesn’t mean he isn’t a POS in other parts of his life.

I’m tired of the Linux world literally worshipping him. It’s weird. Hilariously it’s no doubt the same people who would cringe at the cultish following of Steve Jobs. Another person with some good ideas but was an awful person.

TheGrandNagus, (edited )

Been on Wayland since 2016 and to this day my only issues (apart from when I had an Nvidia card for a few months, that is…) was video sharing in Discord/steam in-home streaming, both of which still don’t work right.

Other than that, it’s been great. Multi-monitor works way better, far fewer bugs, my desktop feels a lot more fluid and smooth.

On laptops, Wayland+Gnome gestures are exceptional, putting even Apple’s gestures to shame. I cannot stress enough how good of a job Gnome+Wayland does with trackpad gestures. It makes other gesture systems, especially ones under X11, feel like they were cobbled together by a Fallout 3 modder.

Overall Wayland has been great for me. I just wish Discord would fix their shitty app.

TheGrandNagus, (edited )

I didn’t say the US did… I’m explaining it in a way Americans would understand, because they use feet but unusually don’t use its weight equivalent, and ask in comment sections wtf a stone is (bit of a funny role reversal considering it’s usually US units people are asking wtf they mean)

It’s pretty much just the UK and Ireland that use it, and even then, it’s only used for weighing people, boxing, and horse racing.

A lot of people just say their weight in kg, stone is used less and less as older people die out.

TheGrandNagus,

Stones = feet but for weight not length

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