I already know about it, so there’s no need to tell me.

What’s a better alternative that uses apt and KDE and has relatively up-to-date packages (other than Debian testing)?

Corporations can go out of business, have an incentive to enshittify, etc. Communities/non-profit foundations generally don’t.

The only way a community project can cease to be “stable” (in the “not going away” sense you’re using it) is if literally nobody competent cares enough to maintain it anymore, and if that’s the case, was anything of value really lost?

You’ve got that backwards. Community distros are more likely to be stable than corporate ones.

I think Duolingo requires it in order to do speaking exercises.

“I’m not locked in here with you. You’re locked in here with me.”

Emissions from AI datacenters offend because of just how unnecessary they are.

It shouldn’t ever be, because The Beaverton is basically the Canadian Onion.

🙁 Booooo for satire getting my hopes up!

They made an EV version!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Ranger_EV

Look up Horst Wessel.

If George had written Anakin like that, and if he had followed through with Darth Jar Jar, it would’ve been absolutely brilliant.

It’s mainly that I just don’t bother marking things read, so that’s like two and a half years of replies.

I regretted not cropping that as soon as I posted it because I knew someone would comment on it, but I couldn’t figure out how to crop after-the-fact on my phone and re-upload. The screenshot utility can do it, but the image viewer can’t.

There’s more you can do than that! It’s not as if we live in some sort of laissez-faire hellhole where corporations can do whatever they want; we could lobby the government to regulate it.

(I’m invoking Poe’s Law so hard even I don’t know if I’m sincere!)

Or valor, or velour.

Ah, I see how we differ now. I think the key isn’t just that they’re stupid, but more importantly that they’re incurious, mean-spirited, cowardly, and duped by propaganda. And that the leadership is malicious and corrupt, not merely incompetent. As such, I think just about every other dystopia is a better fit than Idiocracy is. 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Star Wars: Andor – take your pick!

It’s a shame about the licensing issues Qt had back in the day, because otherwise there was no reason GTK (and therefore GNOME) ever needed to exist.

I suddenly realize you may have thought I was criticizing you, individually. Just so you know, that’s not what I intended: I meant it as a general reaction to seeing that comparison made over and over again, and your instance of it just happened to be the one I attached it to.

Sorry about that.

And also, at least in the case of reading an article you understand that it’s a human with a point of view, rather than a tool that’s assumed to be neutral.