Hello, my name is Cris. :)

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  • That’s a strange take… But even if that logic follows, it’s pretty disingenuous to suggest that’s what ALL users want, and Eugene is the sole opposition. You and I may want global search, but lots of Mastodon users actively loathe the idea.

    Personally I think it’d be a better platform for it, but I get why there are folks who don’t like the idea. I also wish they’d implement quoting people, but again, I understand why some folks don’t like that idea. Downvotes don’t really make sense on microblogging to me.





  • They only work if you organize, and the only white folks with guns who have organized aren’t exactly experiencing state violence right now.

    They also probably have more potential to protect you from violence that doesn’t come from the state. Like, for instance, the kind that comes from those white folks who organized, and have lots of guns.





  • That’s true, but one of the biggest hallmarks of fascism is framing a minority population (or several) as the villains responsible for all that ails the nation, and often times there’s no one to stand up for them save for themselves, ultimately resulting in that old addage:

    First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.

    Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.

    Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.

    Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

    If you’re a minority and no one will protect you, it’s important to consider what means you might have of protecting yourself, and other minorities. If you’re willing to stand up for one another, their safety is yours, and yours is theirs.

    You’re definitely not wrong though. I just think it’s perhaps especially important for vulnerable populations



  • Honestly I feel like a fair part of the problem is just that very few resources for helping people pick an instance are any good. And they’re especially important for a service like Friendica, where if my memory serves, you don’t see activity on the server when you go to their page until after you’ve signed up, so there is no preview of the culture

    I think the tools for picking an instance for most fediverse platforms really need to be improved.

    I’d love to also see instance reviews, which is a fundamentally flawed concept that could easily be abused, but would still be massively valuable to people in navigating the Fediverse








  • Meant to reply to this but it got burried-

    Oh I fully just gave up 😅 the reason I didn’t get it figured out is cause I didn’t stick with it lol. My previous laptop had broken and I decided I wanted to just go ahead and be up and running on the replacement rather than tinkering with void setup. I might come back to it at some point, but it’s definitely beyond my competency. Especially since ideally I’d like to have luks encryption, which I know you can do, but not from the more basic install process if I remember right.

    Network manager (so I could use GNOME settings to change networks), and audio through pipewire were the two remaining things. I gave setting up pipewire a try following a YouTube tutorial, but it didn’t work properly, and at that point I decided I just wanted to have a working laptop again after a couple weeks without. But I did learn a bunch! and got a lot more comfortable with the command line!

    Package kit is what allows graphical software stores or graphical package managers to integrate with the native package manager backend if I understand right. I’d miss being able to browse native packages along side flatpaks.

    I found that fork, but yeah I don’t think it works. There were also one or two graphical software stores specifically for xbps, but I don’t recall if they’re still maintained, and I don’t think there was a GTK option. Part of me desperately hopes someone will make a simple distro based on void that functions as a customized install, kinda like spiral linux or gecko linux, for debian and opensuse. Until then, I know that my perfect distro might be out there, if I can just successfully get everything initally set up 🥲

    Maybe I’ll make an IRL linux friend I’m close enough to harass into helping me with it at some point lol. Hope you have a lovely day!