Downvotes rewarded with hugs.
“He”, not “they” — if I understand correctly this was way back when Eugene Rochko was the sole developer — but yes. Same as Lemmy being named after Lemmy Kilmister, and Debian major versions after Toy story characters.
I don’t see what’s “rich” about that, it’s just developers having personal tastes outside of coding.
That’s how filters work, yes. Follow a few hashtags of interest to find people who post about stuff you care about, it’ll fill back in.
I can co-sign that. I had several low grade laptops in a row that would choke on KDE and the like, almost as bad as on Windows. So I just went for a light window manager instead of the big memory hogs.
Now I have a fairly current, capable machine, and guess what? The light WM is still outperforming any DE, and I never bothered changing that habit.
Yeah, and even if it’s just a preliminary scheduling of an actor in fairly high demand, “sometime next year” is encouraging. Hopefully The war between what was it again will be a tolerable buffer between proper Doctor Who seasons.
you don’t sell a novel tech named after an extinct animal
They didn’t, Mastodon is named after the metal band (which is named after the extinct animal) 🙂
Either way, back in 2008 I bet people were making fun of Twitter for being named after bird sounds, so.
The first rule of Mastodon is “filter the term ‘Mastodon’”.
While you’re at it, filter out mentions of any other social media you can think of. All of that metadiscourse is apparently important for people to get off their chests, buy it’s numbing to read.
I’m fairly happy using Mastodon, but the lack of algorithms made it necessary to curate my feed very strictly. I turned off boosts/reposts in my app, too, and I now have a slow-moving, low-drama newsfeed that doesn’t stress me out just opening it.
Is a lowly Doctor Who star implying that all the online armchair doomsayers declaring the show "dead/woke/Disneyfied/the source of the Western world’s decline” … were blowing smoke out their asses?!
Looking forward to at least three full, if too short seasons of Ncuti at the TARDIS controls! 💙💙
Edit: somebody actually watched the episode of Graham Norton, and it seems the line in question has been cut from transmission?
Let the wild speculation begin…
Honestly, when you say
are these distributions doing anything beyond repackaging the latest software?
— I have to wonder what you think is so trivial about keeping your system current with latest bug fixes and security updates?
I don’t need or want a distro to radically reinvent itself with every release. I had enough of that fuckery with Windows, way back when — incidentally, also a direct reason I quit that OS. And seeing “big changes” like Ubuntu deciding to functionally deprecate deb packages is… unappealing to me as well.
There are probably sexier updates going on in DEs, but (insofar as a distro isn’t wedded to one particular desktop environment) I’m fine to let them hog that glamour.
If Zuckerberg wanted to simply takeover the control of ActivityPub, they could just
Gah, don’t give them ideas! 😨
No, never.
I believe in the importance of strong opinions, loosely held.
For a generally positive and motivational resignation post, I’m pretty sure Mullenweg felt the burn of that from across San Francisco.
Different strokes, dude. Don’t get that on your shoes.
It’s… a website, they’re fairly widely supported. Fill the URL into your iOS browser of choice, it should open.
I haven’t actually used it either, just came upon it as a possible replacement for Libreelec/Kodi. It looks interesting, but a full Linux DE might be too much for my home theatre needs.
There’s Plasma Bigscreen if you’re into the whole KDE experience, specifically for TV usage.
Aaand welcome to “Wherever you think you are, you’re not”.
Yeah, that was my thinking — that for most purposes LibreOffice will replace Microsoft Office fairly well. But I’m always keen to hear what bumps people run into when they switch from the latter. For you it seems there haven’t been any worth mentioning?
Glad to hear it’s gone so smoothly!
Welcome to the resistance! 😄
I did pretty much similar as you, but about a decade ago. Was it really Windows 8 at the time? 7 perhaps? Even then the OS was becoming increasingly bloated, and crudely implementing channels for Microsoft to milk data from users.
For me it wasn’t so much editors and development environment that kept me around, but the Adobe suite — specifically the lack of CMYK support in FLOSS alternatives. In the end I was quite happy to just find workarounds for the few print jobs I would have to do.
Quite often I think people are less resisting a new OS environment than the software available. “I couldn’t use the same shortcuts in [FLOSS package] as in [proprietary software], so I went back to Windows”…
I’m not exactly a hardcore Excel user myself, but I’d be interested to hear how your transition to LibreOffice (I guess the most viable alternative?) will work out.
I genuinely thought we were training Google’s self driving car algorithm, like back when we were proof reading their illegally scanned books’ OCR.
Specifically Lemmy is exactly the same — a direct namedrop in tribute of a known musician or band. It’s really no weirder than a band naming itself after archduke Franz Ferdinand, or after Nikolai Gogol 🤷