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    11 hours ago

    Brendan Eich. Specifically his stance against same sex marriage. He was pressured to resign from Mozilla, which he cofounded, due to his support of California’s prop 8. Then he founded Brave. The Brave browser also has some annoying crypto and AI features turned on by default. I think it’s a perfectly fine piece of software. I use it as a second browser.


  • Yeah, I agree. “Stuttering” doesn’t sound like a touchpad-specific issue. My guess is there’s something funny about Fedora, either drivers or kernel flags or default plasma settings, that just isn’t playing well with that specific device. I wouldn’t be surprised if another distro magically fixes it.

    Edit: Or there’s a hardware issue. Gnome caused the device to grind to a halt?


  • I’m intrigued, but I’d need to know more. Do I have to be an “accredited investor”? Would we be buying the entire airline, debt and all, or just its assets? How are day-to-day decisions handled; surely there will be some kind of leadership structure rather than pure democracy on the smaller details, right? And if there is, is democracy enough to prevent corruption, like we’ve seen in the supposedly democratic American government, or has there been any thought to the game theory behind the bylaws? I know they’re not collecting actual money yet, but what are the chances this whole thing is a scam?


  • I’m somewhere in the U.S. Our local politicians suck. I want to relocate. I supported someone last election cycle who was opposed to flock cameras, but they’ve completely fallen in lockstep with the established authoritarians since taking office. So I have been trying to avoid flock cameras on my route to work. But every time I find a minor detour, a new camera pops up. And even then, many of those detours are through residential neighborhoods, where every third person is a collaborator has a ring camera. My current route has me circling around the entire town before slipping back in on the other side. My commute has gone from ~20 minutes to ~40 minutes each way, which is just barely within my tolerance before I throw in the towel. There are several businesses I won’t even go to anymore, either because every possible route is surveilled, or because the business owners actively work against my interests (e.g. Whole Foods), which is actually good, since I find myself rabidly supporting local businesses, just as I should have been doing all along.






  • My wife wanted Linux on her tablet. She read online that Gnome was the preferred DE on touchscreens. I warned her that I personally dislike Gnome, but it’s not like I’m going to throw a minimal window manager at her, so I told her that’s fine and she should try it out.

    Since I’m her tech support, I installed Garuda, a distro I already use. She played around with it, then asked if she could have desktop icons. It was stupid that she had to press a whole extra button just to see her “home screen”, she said. So I installed the desktop icons gnome extension, but it lacks basic features like either right click or drag, or maybe both. I can’t recall at the moment.

    Then the onscreen keyboard wouldn’t appear automatically when using certain programs like Brave. And using the stylus to press the OSK would close it entirely. The stylus was really fidgety and oversensitive, too. I have zero touchscreen experience on Linux, so I was disappointed with gnome’s lack of GUI controls to fix these kinds of things.

    She started to complain that Linux is too hard, then signed up for the 1 year extended Windows 10 support on her old laptop.

    So I reinstalled Garuda with KDE this time, told her I tried something new, and she’s been happy with it so far. Turns out my wife just hates Gnome. And she expressed this hate completely unprompted.

    That’s right, my love; fuck Gnome.

    I’ve never been more proud.




  • Unpopular opinion, but I actually don’t like the comparison. Not advocating violence, but if you’re going to shoot someone for political reasons, it’s not a good idea to shoot someone who can easily be turned into a martyr. This shooting seems counterproductive and, in my fallible estimation, will probably make the world slightly worse. Luigi picked a smarter target, one more likely to benefit mankind long term.

    There are plenty of people whose deaths would make the world a better place, but many fewer whose murders would do the same.







  • As long as I’m mocking help forums, I might have a stupid solution for your window decorations, which you can follow at your own risk. I saw your comment and, just out of curiosity, started playing around in a VM with imagemagick, a program I’ve never used before, but that might be useful for you. Here’s what I did:

    1.) I copied a theme I liked, in this case “Sassandra”, from /usr/share/themes into ~/.themes.

    2.) I renamed Sassandra (in ~/.themes) to Sassandra2 and switched themes to Sassandra2.

    3.) I opened up some of the images in ~/.themes/Sassandra2/xfwm4/ and made note of the geometry of the buttons. In this case, they were 24x17.

    4.) I opened a terminal in ~/.themes/Sassandra2/xfwm4/ and ran a command I got from an AI chatbot and fiddled with it blindly like an idiot until it ran:

    find . -type f -exec magick {} -scale 12x17 {} ;

    In this case, I wanted to use magick to shrink the icons from 24x17 to 12x17 (though you could just as easily replace “12x17” with an increased size instead), and I wanted to do all the files at once, using the find command as suggested by my robot overlord. It didn’t work as I intended. I never bothered to read any docs. I’m not even sure I put the “{}” in the right spot. But it did shrink the images, preserving the aspect ratio. It also threw up a couple errors because I forgot about the readme and themerc files in that directory. Speaking of which, you can fiddle with the themerc file to make any minor adjustments, like offsetting text.

    Edit: In retrospect, the original image files were actually all different sizes and now Sassandra2 looks like crap, but you can always run magick on files individually.