DarkThoughts

Because Arch users would’ve shunned me for asking for support when I don’t use literal Arch.

I’m specifically talking about the EOS forum, which was just dicks throwing insults towards me having a support request and the admins consequently closing the thread and hiding it, telling me to make a new one if I still need support.

Can’t recommend EOS. Awful community when something breaks. Definitely not something for people coming from Windows.

Ubuntu’s packet manager Apt was already kind of awful in many ways, especially with its PPA hell. But them adding Snap packages somehow managed to make them reach even new levels of awful.

It’s like floating tabs in Firefox, which I still hate to the bone.

Used it years ago, it’s pretty, when it works… but it kept breaking and messing up other things.

An easy way to test, and revert, is to just rename the top level folder.

No idea, don’t care.

I think mine went to 70% or something, even though I had it set to 100%. I don’t know for sure though, because the weird thing was that the slider in the tray icon was still at 100%. So I had to “reduce” the brightness and then max it out again to reach proper 100%.

I disabled the dimming because often it would not return it back to 100% for some reason. Dunno. One of those KDE things.

Good grief. I’m used to edit mode being the cause for everything fucking up and freezing, not fixing things.

It is probably dead but Easy Diffusion is imo the easiest for image generation.

KoboldCPP can be a bit weird here and there but was the first thing that worked for me for local text gen + gpu support.

I was more talking about the logo itself, not the background.

I just searched for “Debian Rainbow” in an image search. I’m sure you can easily hack something together with a rainbow gradient mask over the regular logo in an image editor.

There were installers like today even ~20 years ago.

Ah, I’m not using Gnome.

Personally I think it is too blocky and the colors too random, but I don’t know the original comment that gave the inspiration. I like much more, although I’d rather see the rainbow colors follow the direction of the swirl more.

No, I’m actually with them on that one. The he / they issue in of itself is tiny, I agree, and if they’d just changed it from gendered to gender neutral language then nobody would’ve even cared. Most of us tend to write in a gendered way out of habit or because we think about our own gender, and in a casual conversation that isn’t that important. But this is about a piece of software that, surely, is not just meant for male audiences. It’s just unprofessional to address someone as male by default. Most importantly though, being this stubborn on having the user specifically male is just a weird hill to die on, but even weirder if that particular action is the one that is actually causing the drama - which they allegedly claim wanting to prevent by dismissing “politics”. And I’m sorry, but changing a “he” to “they” is not politics, it’s just including non male users. Nothing more, nothing less. So why is it such an issue to not just address specifically male users? It really only would be because those people hold some very questionable views, which, in my opinion, clash heavily with the whole concept of free and open source software, which is supposedly for everyone. So if your actions and views are this flawed, how can you be trusted on such an important project?

Also, in regards to this news… “no code from rivals” also is just a stupid thing to say and do. There’s plenty of good open source code that they could and probably even SHOULD use. But whatever. I’m not gonna support this project and predict it will fail anyway.

Crucial MX 500 & Samsung 870 Evo are reliable / good & “cheap” SATA SSDs. For NVMe there’s the WD Blue SN570 and the Kioxia Exceria G2 but keep in mind that they tend to have smaller storage sizes too and depending on your use case you might not really notice a performance difference between SATA and NVMe anyway. Personally, I stay away from all native Chinese products. They tend to have terrible quality and fall apart quickly. I’m sure there’s exceptions here and there but wading through all the garbage and having to buy twice does not seem worth it and I rather support that country as little as possible anyway.