No shade to Gnome, because there is a place for them in the ecosystem, but this is why I moved from Gnome 2 to KDE (with a few stops along the way). One size will not fit all.

KDE for the desktop and xfce for the laptop

Is yours under the surface? I tried using one, but didn’t like the clutter of the pad on my desk. I’m a special kind of neat freak in my immediate work space though.

Also, how many of you have ridden in the car with someone who experienced or witnessed too many accidents? Some of those people would pogo stick 2 miles to the nearest store rather than sit next to you while you back a car out of the garage. I think a lot of people who have experienced the downside of cars have sympathy for the idea that it doesn’t have to be like this. We could have… options!

In my experience flirting effectively has been about being open to possibility without becoming attached to any particular outcome. Someone sent me this video as a joke years ago and I’ve come back to it dozens of time because there’s a lot of truth hiding behind the silliness. We view flirting as thing you do, but I prefer to see flirtatiousness as a mindset I sometimes embody. https://youtu.be/B4g-IlGtpZg

So much of it comes down to this. Many Lemmy users are smart people who can identify what’s wrong in the world, but discerning what you can impact personally vs what need to change is not the same thing.

I’ll repeat what you said: “Be the change you want to see in the world.”

That’s what every company/organization I’ve ever worked for has done. Oh, this intranet tool works okay and no one is complaining. Lets redo it in a “modern” style… (adds whitespace and truncates every meaningful text field so you have to mouseover and scroll for miles to read any of them even on a 4k display).

I think part of why Reddit succeeded initially was because it had some very KEY strengths/advantages. I would say that the old design and the URL scheme are part of that. It fit any screen nicely from phone though 4k TV, portrait displays, whatever. It was a simple design, but extensible by custom CSS and if you knew what you wanted, you could skip straight there by typing r/ or u/ in your URL. Enough reminiscing, if old reddit is gone,I don’t know if I’ll even be able to use reddit at all for anything. New reddit is one of those interfaces, like twitter, that never really made sense or worked for me. I’m just a Lemmy guy I guess.

People seem to really cling to their comforts. Even switching to Mastadon was too hard for people and now a bunch of the normies are all on Bluesky while we’re all watching from the fediverse for the enshittification cycle to repeat.

I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t used reddit even once since I purged it, I have, but I know better than to invest time and effort upvoting, sharing content, and building community in someone else’s clubhouse when I know he’s an asshole.

KDE has been good with this, but I still feel like my mouse pointer gets huge or tiny in different apps and I think it’s just the fragmentation of the ecosystem and all these apps are high-dpi aware in their own way. Nothing we can blame KDE for.

I live in the US and have contracted security for events before. Most of them are just an unarmed visual deterrent wearing a uniform and a big walkie talkie (you called it!). Around here armed security is often off-duty police officers making a little extra money off the clock.

Most airports do it like this, but I’ve been to places hat need a transit visa just to get to your next flight. Odds are you are correct for a US connection.

Agreed. Learned this the hard way with my portable 4g router. It’s the pickiest gadget I own with cord and plug selection and it left me hanging when I really needed it and I don’t carry an A to C cord often. I wish I could find a good alternative to the Netgear Nighthawk M1100

I’m glad java and its array of mods exist. Name one game where mods made it worse! Minecraft is AS great as it is because player-coders made it great.

Longtime java player with a decent PC and I always played with cartoony texture packs and saved the high res textures and shaders for screenshots. Still encountered my fair share of server-side lag, but that’d the price of multiplayer. Glad to see Java isn’t getting left behind. I play on Linux and couldn’t play otherwise.

I could go a lifetime without ever using OneNote again. That goes doubly for a web version.

Serious question: how do they avoid siphoning up data from states or countries with data protection regulations?

Forbidden words… I wonder if I can use them all in a single post.

I’m going to have to convince some family members to do this soon. We’ve used splitwise, but I’ve wanted to drop it for years simply because it’s proprietary and I don’t trust it. Now I have more reasons. Did you use an app or a mobile site to input your expenses?

I’m relieved that people are so into labeling even if they don’t understand it. You can’t become informed without information.

Not surprised at the stupidity. People are dumb, selfish, and entitled. Americans are a great example, but it’s not only Americans. We just did the speed running version.

Try @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu

They seem to mention this kind of thing a lot because they know what pulls fediverse peeps’ interest.