when you look... you'll see quite how different the gnome devs are from the kde devs. kde & plasma respect the user -- that's us, the community. gnome fucking hate their users.

Photoshop is such a lil twerp. Even with 9GB free space, it refuses to run because "the scratch disks are full". Well I even attached a second SSD with 70GB free but it didn't accept that (despite it working fine last week)

more reasons to abandon systemD "Disallow usage of generative AI to write code #41085" -- "Closed as not planned" Poettering and Bluca, both microsoft shills, weigh in on how they adore "AI" and then closed the issue as "not planned". Linux is being destroyed & betrayed from within.

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Disallow usage of generative AI to write code · Issue #41085 · systemd/systemd

Component No response Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe Generative AI is actively killing people, driving up costs, and...

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thoughts on words versus feelings, and why LLMs are doomed to remain facsimile of the world of words yet ne'er may touch upon the world of ra View article →

primal has "Reads" and yakihonne has the same thing under "Articles". but some nostr clients don't? snort doesn't seem to have it yet. anyhow here's an article i posted a few days ago View article →

fun fact They don't want you to know: Photoshop runs better without GPU acceleration than with it. That means: Photoshop works *actually pretty well* in a virtual machine. You know, that very stable way of running Windows inside Linux when you just need to for whatever reason.

"Facts over feelings" Facts describe the state of the world Feelings can be used to give rise to a new world Don't get caught up in the psyop that makes you ashamed for having and expressing feelings The world is a co-creation, but if you dwell in the belief that facts are superior to feelings, how can we ever change anything? Use feelings to guide us on the path to making the world a better place — for everyone.

If you could care less, then why don't you? 🤔

Pretty shitty that Figma, an entirely web-browser-based app, which works flawlessly on Linux, decided to implement their local font connection service using a user-agent string that whitelists Windows and macOS and for literally no reason. Several people have made font connector apps for Figma on Linux but Figma themselves have not cos apparently it's too hard

Do you ever just randomly re-realise that like most people go to bed before midnight?

nearly 2 years ago, my chrome got hacked. (I don't use chrome any more don't worry) All my accounts were compromised. my mastodon account got used by someone in dallas, texas, usa; obviously not me since i'm in da nang, viet nam anyway, my account was protected totp 2fa yet they still got in after trying and failing to get back in, and filing at least 2 appeals, the mastodon team have "reviewed" my appeal and rejected it. based on what, i wonder? despite the amount of time it took to respond to me, this reeks of ai-management and is very clear that a human wasn't involved in this decision. anyway, tl;dr: mastodon accounts can apparently be accessed using session tokens even when you have 2fa/totp set up AND the staff/system will ban your account even after you regain control 🤷

I've just written a page about all the extensions I use that make my Gnome desktop actually usable. They're of course personal to my use cases, but some of them are fundamental requirements for me and it took a long time to discover them! So if you're looking for ways to ease your workflow (because KDE is always a bit too beta for you) then check it out:

Gnome extensions | Linux | FarrAndDroid Tech Support

just a reminder if you use yay on arch, failed builds don't seem to clear themselves out! check your ~/.cache/yay for oversized folders :))

I so desperately want Linux to be my daily driver but every time I try to use it at my workplace, it fails on me. Today the failure was HDMI connection to the random TV in the classroom. The screen wouldn't stop flickering, totally unusable. My HDMI works perfectly with my monitor at home. And my HDMI works perfectly with this TV when I'm running Windows. How does a bug like this exist? For the fourth time in a row — for different reasons each time — my Linux laptop failed while teaching my class, due to unforeseeable issues. My laptop is from 2021, I think the GPU is 2019.

Remember the old days when you just used cash and ATMs? Yeah those days are still available actually

A reminder: If it's not a resounding "yes", it's a no.

For anyone who claims this is a new problem under Trump — it's not, he's just made it easier to be open and brazen about it. "Police in Sacramento, California, in 2018 worked with neo-Nazis to pursue charges against anti-racist activists" More quotes below... Original:

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For those saying, 'Call the police', during kidnappings - think again: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/27/white-supremacists-militias...

Warning for Windows update kb5058499 When it rebooted, it randomly decided to boot a different uefi boot entry. No idea why, and I couldn't test it further.