I use i2p for torrents exclusively. It’s slow but totally private so I can seed without needing to mess about with a VPN.

There is a slightly smaller community but the people on there have similar tastes to me: linux textbooks, GOG games, jazz albums, etc.

Not weird enough to be Pynchon but it was a good comment nonetheless

Part of why linux has been a successful long term project is by making decisions conservatively. Other projects like cURL do the same. Incremental improvements over time.

It seems like there is a culture clash with the rust devs who are pushing for changes faster than the long term project maintainers are comfortable with.

It has worked successfully for linux for decades and other FOSS projects like Python have successfully followed the same model.

I had an ok experience with Arch and a 2012 macbook pro back in the day. Wifi and suspend all worked without any tweaking. Moved on to using a ThinkPad after that though.

They were just trying to prevent people from being tricked into installing Manjaro

I reckon this suggests GTA 7 is being planned to return to NY

Is “ricing” not originally related to customised cars from street racing or something? I personally don’t see an issue with it.

The activity itself is quite good for making people aware of how a desktop linux OS is working but doing it excessively is a bit silly so makes sense for jt to have a silly name.

Gentoo also cured me of distro-hopping

Whatever the UI in Jurassic Park is was a genuine linux interface at some point so maybe that

First thing I install is git, followed by emacs.

Then I download my init.el and my PC setup is complete.

I think new projects in Rust make sense but my - uninformed - opinion is that we should be wary about porting old C/C++ software due to those other classes of bugs you mentioned. The logical type errors I see at work and in open source projects using memory safe languages can be fiendish in their own way.

I know “fun” is subjective but I’ve heard mixed reviews from devs who have tried rust programming. The compiler is very strict for example.

Merry Christmas!

Sue me lol

Genuinely never heard of it before yesterday. Libreoffice just worked.

Back in the day it was just OpenOffice and LibreOffice. When did OnlyOffice come out? And, more importantly, did they call it that after OnlyFans became famous for some reason?

Edit: have done some googling and I thibk personally I’ll be sticking with Libreoffice. I can see the utility for Windows folks making a switch but I often find open source tools which do not try to copy the proprietary alternative. Some of the best FOSS like Krita were successful because they broke the mold of slavishly copying UX and tools from bigger companies. Ditto with Godot to an extent.

Btw it was indeed called OnlyOffice after OF had taken off. Their name change was in 2022. Maybe I can sub to clippy and get him to uncurl! FOSS projects are so bad with naming and logos.

Uh I guess we’d need to extend it to Linux + FOSS in general.

Power users: I think we should steal whatever the latest IKEA marketing team have come up with because the appeal is kinda the same as IKEA furniture where you feel more ownership over something having built it from the flat packed box your self.

Average users: does a degoogled chromeOS exist? You just need a video of someone playing with a tablet like interface, then choosing to postpone an update with no dark pattern om the textbox prompt.

One line slogan: Did you ever wish the people who made your software were more passionate about the product than their next promotion?

gnome is broken but there are better DEs imo

Classy