Strawberry is great and so was Clementine before it. It’s really a step up compared to what the average distro bakes into their default bundle of applications.

This is so whack. I don’t get it, but it strikes me as true for many people 5-10 years younger than me. I’m the opposite. I want to use my desktop for everything and I’d sooner use a dumbphone/laptop combo than a smartphone with no computer. One thing I will never do on a phone is game. Sure, snake in the doctors office is one thing, but mobile gaming is so trash and scammy and bullshit that I just can’t have any fun.

Probably sitting at 16-20 years with a short windows break in the first 5 year. I run Linux distros on my main computers, but have a windows disk I kept around for gaming only. I hear Linux has gotten better with games, but I don’t mind the separation of not being able to go straight from productivity to games without a reboot.

I followed a similar path. When I was on Gnome I hated plasma. When Gnome 3 dropped I tried a bunch of stuff like Cinnamon, Budgie, Xfce, Lxde, etc. and settled on Plasma which has only continued to be great over the hears. I value the tweaks and the fact that it can be configured 100% desktop centric without a bunch of touch/convergence stuff getting in the way.

Junkie Elmo is the correct character to use here. Why do we crave enshitification so badly?

Willingness to independently learn and the capacity to let the frustration roll off of you. You will occasionally want to bang your head against the wall, but give yourself the grace to learn.

I particularly like what you said about supporting one thing. One is better than none and there is nothing to stop you from supporting more developers later. Just pick something that gives you utility, a project that you think is undervalued, or a friend’s project. Also, send the devs some encouragement on Mastadon or wherever they keep a public presence.:)

Thanks for sharing. I remember reading about this while it was happening. Interested to see how it turned out.

Germany can’t decide. Every few weeks I see an article that says “German city/company/institution is Ditching MS for Open Source”, and the next article is “Germany Cucked by Microsoft for Ten Billionth Time.” Can we just completely ditch all MS and agree to an open standard?

Oliver Welke is funny. Thanks for sharing.

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

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’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?

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.

I know several people who run through the house screaming “Siri, where are you?” Does this not work on Android? This is a serious question because I don’t really use voice assistants.

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It might be a dumb question, but how does it have it’s own OS like a NAS, or is it basically a box attached to the host and everything is done via software? I encountered some confusion between enclosures, DAS, USB array and some of the other terms I was seeing.

Huh, I hadn’t heard of CachyOS. It seems like everyone went Arch>Manjaro>EndeavorOS. It looks good from the screenshots and I like seeing my favorite DE/WMs in there. If I don’t know what any of those acronyms and technical terms on their page mean, would I still get something out of it? I’m about due for my every-few-months wipe and reinstall.