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  • As someone who used Gnome 1 in school, tried KDE 1 and 2 on the family PC for a while, then later switched their private PC to that same Hardy Heron Ubuntu Gnome 2 install and moved from there to Gnome 3.2 or 3.4 when it became available in Ubuntu - this was nice, the cheese theme especially.

    I don’t really know what kind of demographic misses switching to different window managers in this way though. I never did. But I don’t really get the tiling window manager craze either - that is certainly easy enough to set up as a different session.

    A few things he missed though:

    • Previewing media files in the Nautilus side panel.
    • Gimp had no menu bar, most everything needed to be done from the context menu. The saving grace was that most menus could be torn off into little palette-style windows though.
    • The Gimp installation with the orange window he shows is just a user setup wizard. I remember that e.g. at my school, it was important to fix the DPI setting for our monitors on the first run because the window manager wasn’t reliable on that front.
    • I believe there was a sliding animation when hiding a desktop panel with the <|> buttons at the side. That was nice at the time.
    • I am not completely sure whether Sawfish had that feature or whether it was only available on the KDE window manager, but you could double-click the title bar of windows to hide the window content and show only the title bar.



  • This seems like a really bad take.

    Do take a look at the age pyramid @Miaou posted. Germany needs a lot of young people to herd its old people. German ministers flying to the Phillipines and Kenya and Brazil to find care workers – that’s for a reason! And dropping the birth rate lower does not mean more high-paying jobs, it means more low-paying care jobs in relation to total number of jobs.

    In addition there are a bunch of jobs that Germans don’t really do anymore (plucking asparagus, slaughtering hogs, cleaning office buildings, …) because they are badly paid hard labor which are however in some way useful to society.

    Granted, preventing migrants from taking bad jobs may mean that high-paying automation jobs open up. But that’s the only silver lining. (Fwiw, Japan had a very strict immigration policy, because they figured that elderly care might be something easily accomplished with robot dogs and other gimmicks. It turns out though that that assumption was wrong. It also turns out that a lot of people from countries like Malaysia and the Phillipines would love to work in Japan, despite the racism. So Japan has adapted its policies on foreign labor somewhat now.)











  • That’s a big [citation needed]. Trump is a narcissist, a would-be legacy builder, and he’s enormously jealous that Obama (unjustifiedly) got the Nobel peace prize. He wants that thing too. The unfortunate bit is that Trump does not understand human rights or modernity or synergstic relationships. The other thing is that Trump is a bully and a coward.

    What I’d buy is that Trump would not defend Poland in the slightest and just move US troops in Europe back to the US, especially in the face of a Russian attack.