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they’ve been leaning into that since 2020, are the hosting platform for truth social etc

Yes, I know that Rumble is clearly a fascist enterprise. I was talking about Omarchy. It feels like a red flag when a distro rejects software simply because it doesn't allow them to publish to fascist outlets.

Is there any other reason to use this distro other than signal political alignment? I looked into it a few months ago without even being aware of the political controversy surrounding it (I was curious about the whole "Agentic Linux" angle) and all I found was a poorly configured Arch Linux install with some rather crappy bash scripts on top.

Well, ok, I think there's another use case which is to LARP as a Un*x "pro user" without actually having any idea how to properly use a shell.

do you have any non-political / demographical arguments against omarchy?

what is it good at, what is it bad at?

I'm not the person to whom you asked this question, but it seems redundant considering that their post literally contained this critique:

> a poorly configured Arch Linux install with some rather crappy bash scripts on top.

Sure, but arch notoriously is very small, I'm not sure how you can really configure it that poorly at the install level.

What makes the bash scripts crappy, etc?

I asked what it's good at, too, didn't literally contain that critique.

> It feels like a red flag when a distro rejects software simply because it makes political decisions on behalf of the users

Fixed that for you.

So, you agree that it's a red flag regardless of the reason? Good to know!

yes, that exactly

Is this sarcasm or are you really completely unaware of how ridiculous this statement is when it applies just as much to OBS' decision to restrict where their users can stream to?

I was specifically talking about OBS' decision to restrict where their users can stream to, so I'm not sure what you think it is I'm completely unaware of.

I just made his quote read more accurately.

Then I misread your comment. I'm not a native speaker, perhaps that caused it. Sorry for being rude.

This is the paradox of tolerance. How dare OSB not tolerate my intolerance.

yes, using rumble is intolerance

Can you elaborate?

Yes, the guy I responded to is using "intolerance" to describe the users using/wanting rumble.

I responded with heavy sarcasm, because i don't think people who redefine words & describe things in outlandish terms are arguing in good faith, so I prefer to tell them I agree, and restate their outlandish claim.

You're now here to police me based on our other interaction, and your misunderstanding of my positions.

You seem prone to inferring intent based on very little information. I had no intention of policing you. All the best though.

I hate that this whole cluster of beliefs exists, but software on my own computer enforcing what I can and can't do for ideological reason is a bit much.

Unless they just didn't implemented it for whatever reason, but someone else can implement this as an extensions or something. Your software obviously doesn't need to support everything.

It’s the latter.

The snowflakes rounding up people for holding up signs also think volunteers not actively promoting their views are engaged in civilization ending suppression of speech.

That's the most frustrating aspect. They act as if we've trampled on their rights, but all we're doing is conserving our own energy and not carrying water for their ideology.

Since when is anyone freely entitled to my time and attention?

> Since when is anyone freely entitled to my time and attention?

Funnily enough the same people say the same when it comes to pronouns and such. The right (if we can call them that) immediately copied, perfected and weaponized all the attention seeking and whining they've seen and complained about.

What's "and such"?

I'm not that deep in the culture wars. I just know pronouns is not all that the so called right was whining about.

As far as I can tell, it's the latter option. Rumble has a whole section of their website explaining how to use OBS with it [0]. The complaints seem to be entirely based around Rumble not being available in a drop-down menu [1]. It's kind of pathetic honestly.

[0] https://studio.rumble.com/help/guides/obs

[1] https://x.com/dhh/status/2108603279345070205

(Sorry for the X link, but that is the only place that I can actually find people complaining about this).

I may be completely stupid but these instructions by Rumble either completely unhelpful or something on my end isn't loading content in that site. But if that's the actual instructions to get OBS to stream to Rumble, I get why just upstreaming it would've been user-friendly.

But apparently I'm a fascist for this type of wrongthink.

What's confusing about using RTMP or a virtual camera? It's extremely straightforward. I genuinely do not understand how you could possibly need more instructions than this. Do you want screenshots or something?

Regardless, this just means that Rumble needs better documentation. It's clearly possible and fairly easy.

I think my issue is that I don't know Rumble Studio and expected OBS to be able to stream to it without, thus expecting some rtmp links + auth flow in the docs.

Should be as simple as copy pasting server url + credentials or streaming key. My interpretation is that documentation authors either considered it so simple that it's not worth clarifying or since they are pushing for their own software (rumble studio) they intentionally didn't explain it further to encourage people using their software directly without extra step of OBS.

Once you open corresponding panel in Rumble it shows you all the information you need to copy paste in single place with convenient copy to clipboard buttons.

Platforms with "builtin support" require same amount of configuration minus the server url. But since the server url is provided in the same place as stream key, copy pasting 2 instead of 1 value hardly makes a difference. It probably takes less time to copy server url than trying to find it in dropdown containing 70+ other services.

OBS should just do the maliciously compliant here and add the support but throw a little jab in the drop down menu by labeling it "Rumble - Fascists and lunatics only" or something like that.

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