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Simplicity for users and support staff.

I don’t think that the average user cares for customisation far beyond wallpaper, and perhaps theme. Note I’m not saying average Linux user, I mean average person using a device. Think your aunt who can’t plug in the printer. Faced with too many options people shut down.

If you have a distro and need to offer support for it, it also helps if you can write guides and instructions for a single type of scenario. With Windows you can say “right click the start menu, click device manager…” etc, but that’s not quite as easy on Linux. You can always direct people to the terminal, but again, the average user is likely to balk at the idea.

Choosing a dedicated DE means you have less to maintain, and less to support, and can focus your efforts elsewhere.

I wrote off the product when they got bought by Canva. Unless it’s open source or libre, it’s never going to be free. There’s always a cost. Likely it’ll be the usual pipeline of enshittification.

I’ve no hopes of Affinity 1 or 2 coming to Linux.

Given Buddhism and duhkha, this quote doesn’t even make sense.

You know that the problem isn’t that they’re verifying the gestapo, it’s that they’re platforming and subsequently legitimising them.

The new corporate platform is just as problematic as the old corporate platform made by the same person? Wow, what a revelation.

Datacenters in particular have been noteworthy for pushing for ‘off-grid’ power plants to give them more control over their power and costs.

Yeah, like how Elong Musk is poisoning Memphis with his illegal generators spewing smog all over the place.

The problem is hierarchies. The entire point of feudalism was to create a caste system where the ruler of each segment won’t be touched by the people below them. That’s exactly what modern society by and large looks like.

Until everyone’s equal, no one is. Hierarchical systems are antithetical to peace and equality.

Right, so DeepSeek proved that you can make slop more efficiently and at a lower cost than what the American companies are doing, which obviously is a threat to the massive amounts of money that they’re pretending to throw around. If you can make it more efficient you won’t need billions for data centres, or trillions for GPUs.

So I can see how this is a problem for Big Slop.

Die mad about it.

How much meat does one need to eat? I’ve eaten one bite of a flesh hotdog in my entire lifetime, as well as a handful of things that have been cross-contaminated. I’ve made it to my 30s, so clearly the required meat dosage is very low.

They’re doing this again, pushing to be a kind of market place and data gathering tool for games.

Yes, finally! I’m ready for this shitty platform to fucking die already.

Hardly a surprise.

Being a parent has often had this virtuous narrative attached to it, and I think a lot of society is clinging to that. It’s undisputable that bringing a child into existence cannot be done consensually, and equally so you cannot do that and guarantee that they won’t suffer. To exist is to suffer, the two are intrinsically linked.

However, people don’t like to have their world views upturned, so it’s easier to dismiss, diminish, or ridicule an argument that you don’t have a proper response to, than it is to absorb it and consider that perhaps it carries some merit.

I’d sooner post them some cash and pirate it, honestly.

Maybe they’re just anti-Rockstar, which everyone in their right mind should be.

Orion is great. You can install Firefox extensions on it, and use the full desktop version of uBlock Origin if you’d like. Hell you can install Chromium extensions as well, if you for whatever reason feel the need to have those gutted useless things.

We can’t opt out of the system either because too much of it is necessary. Can anyone truly say they don’t need google? ever?

Yes. I switched to Qwant some years ago, and about a year back I switched to Kagi. Haven’t seen the Google Search page in years at this point.

The only thing I use from Google still is YouTube. There are also alternatives, I’ve spent some time with PeerTube and found things I enjoy, and I don’t mind supporting Nebula, which is also a nice platform. That said, I could probably just cut it all off. It frees up time to do something else.

Neutrality is a lie.

We were all high and mighty about our neutrality here in Sweden as well. Which took the form of eugenics, feeding the Nazi war machine with iron, and letting the Nazis use our railroads to invade Norway. So the truth of it is really that we were just as excited about that white-übermensch idea as the rest of the nazis were.

We overturned one such eugenics law in 2013, and I’m not even sure if that’s the last one. 2013 is really fucking recent for realising that eugenics is bad, actually.

Ah, I’m talking about Frankenstein and 1984 as stories. Frankenstein still a fun read, 1984 is definitely not. But yeah, that’s obviously a subjective thing.