It’s not necessary for LibreOffice to fully replicate every nuance of MS Office to be valuable to people who aren’t just those who “would be Linux users anyhow.”

Especially for the light users of MS Office, which are the vast majority. They just need something to create Aunt Bobbie’s birthday invitation, and they won’t care at all whether that thing is MS Office or LibreOffice.

As an anecdote, I’m the IT person at my job. I quietly removed MS Office from a shared PC used by dozens of people. I installed LibreOffice instead, and selected the ribbon UI option. Months later now, and literally nobody has complained or even remarked on it, despite using it every day for their document work. There has not yet been a single instance of anyone contacting me for tech support about it.

Yeah the bottom housing of my Framework 12 laptop developed spiderweb cracks in it after only 3 months. I’m the most careful person I know with my electronics, so it’s not because I’m abusing it or anything.

Framework is dragging their feet on a warranty claim too, which is frustrating since a new bottom housing replacement is only like $60. I really love the concept of Framework, but so far I’m not impressed with their durability or support.

The old Dell XPS laptop that I had before this is 13 years old and still in great condition despite being too slow for my work needs now.

There’s no need to be an ass about it. I didn’t say this is definitely slop, but it is unsurprising that people think it is. I don’t think it’s without merit to wonder if someone committing 12 million lines of code within a few weeks is using AI.

I think it’s more-or-less accurate to say that it’s “just a single developer”.

While it’s technically true that more than one developer has committed code, the comically overwhelming vast majority of commits were made by a single developer and a battery of automated tools. If we exclude those bots (at least, the obvious ones), then the remaining maybe-human contributors have been responsible for less than 0.2% of the total codebase.

Source: did some math on numbers from their github repository stats.

12m lines of code committed in the last 3 months (the bulk of that within the last month) by one committer doesn’t exactly scream human input.

I think most people agree. These fascists aren’t being criticized for their software contributions. They are being criticized for being fascists.

Ignoring fascists and hoping they go away is one reason why fascism is having a resurgence right now. Immoral behavior should be challenged as widely and publicly as necessary to make everyone aware that it’s inappropriate. People don’t stop doing immoral things unless there are social consequences for it.

Ignoring fascists and hoping they go away is one reason why fascism is having a resurgence right now. Immoral behavior should be challenged as widely and publicly as necessary to make everyone aware that it’s inappropriate. People don’t stop doing immoral things unless there are social consequences for it.

Most (maybe all?) of these items listed in the settings page for private spaces are differences from a work profile.

I definitely require my work profile apps to be able to run in the background at times, so a private space is not going to cut it, unfortunately.

The person posted the same thing in multiple communities and got very little feedback aside from a bunch of downvotes. I was trying to help them by explaining why their approach is getting a bad response. I apologize for coming off like an asshole, that wasn’t my goal at all.

It sounds like you just need to go do some simple searches in the app stores for icon packs that you like. What exactly do you need help with?

I’m guessing all the downvotes are because nobody wants to be your search agent, and the way you’ve phrased this makes it sound like you’ve put very little effort into finding things for yourself.

I don’t know for sure what that person is referring to, but I believe the default in GNOME is for alt-tab to switch applications, which is a bit unintuitive. There is a simple built-in option to change it to switch by window instead, which is probably usually what one would expect. To me, that’s not something that needs “fixing”, it’s just a default to change, which is perfectly fine.

This can be a great idea, if it’s done well. For example, the Street­Complete app has achievements to encourage contributions to the OpenStreetMaps project:

How would using NixOS have made OP’s system immune to the critical hardware issues that they discovered were the root cause making their computer fail to boot?

I don’t see this one mentioned often, but Frogatto & Friends is a lot of fun if you like platformers with an old-school aesthetic. I keep it on my Steamdeck to play a few levels every now and then, it’s a smooth game with a nice feeling to the controls.

The source is here.

her activities. They range from very productive performatism to useless but mostly inert lip service

You seem to be using the word performatism in both senses of it’s meaning, as performative has become a contranym. Here you are contrasting it to “inert lip service” as opposed to your earlier comment that implied the opposite meaning:

what she does is performative and doesn’t really accomplish much

Putting the confusing nature of your comments aside, I do think it’s worth highlighting very clearly that - as you yourself pointed out - performative action can be quite useful in the original sociological sense of the word. It means bringing something into being through speech/action, which is the polar opposite of “inert lip service”.

Many of Thunberg’s actions have inspired and informed others precisely because they include a performative aspect (in the sociological sense), and she doesn’t do anything that is “inert lip service” as far as I am aware. In fact, based on interviews I’ve seen of her, I suspect that “inert lip service” is incredibly annoying to her as well.

FWIW, if you self-host Adguard, you can do those things without needing to bother with touching individual hosts files. It’ll also then just work for every device on your network. Create your own domain and expose adguard via a subdomain and you can just point your phone at your DNS server while you are on external networks too.

Nothing is too on-the-nose for capitalists. Look at Palantir.

Like you, I am excited about it for the sake of the community, though I’m hard pressed to find any reason to play games on my Android phone as it is. Android games are either ad infested junk that isn’t interesting to me, or open source and playable on Linux already.

I’ve messed around with Waydroid because it sounds cool in theory, but every time I get it installed, I’m like “now what?” I can’t think of anything to actually do with it, so I imagine it’ll be the same for Lepton.

Still, very cool to have the options, and I’m happy that Linux is getting more attention as a preferred platform such that gaming companies recognize the value in supporting translation layers for it.

You might be right about this software, but regardless of this specific use-case, I was responding to your overall sentiment towards containerization in general. It’s worth looking more into, that’s all!