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just out of curiosity, what's wrong with the more 'traditional' Linux desktops, such as Plasma or Cinnamon?

thanks for the info! i had heard about some drama in nixworld, but hadn't done much reading into it yet. this is a good starting point.

i haven't had a chance to have a play with the alpha yet, but there is a project that is working on making nix "easier" for beginners. its called snowflakeOS: https://snowflakeos.org/

same. firefox with ubO is my best friend.

i 'de-googled' my life quite a bit a long time ago - switched to an android distribution with no G services (lineageOS), moved from gmail to tuta, switched search engines, and like mentioned here, the one i can't fully leave is youtube, for the moment.

i like odysee a lot as a platform, but it can't fully replace YT just yet for me, as a good deal of the channels i watch are still YT-only. i'd say my video-watching time is split maybe 80% yt, and 20% odysee at this point.

thank you. this was also my first time seeing this post, and it was a very heartwarming read, despite the undertone of melancholy.

I'm a current Ting customer for the last ~5 years and have had no issues with them.

i still fall asleep to the selected ambient works. aphex twin was truly ahead of his time. If you want another awesome ambient album, i highly suggest BT's If the Starts Are Eternal, So Are You and I for awesome ambience.

also a favorite album of mine, and contains one of my favorite guitar solos in history ("Comfortably Numb")

the whole album is timeless, but that solo in particular has always stood out to me. David Gilmour almost evokes something ethereal in those notes.

Over the last little while, I've fallen down the Nix rabbit hole.

I don't currently use it in any serious projects aside from tinkering about with it, but it has been a lot of fun to learn and study.

Between the Nix package manager, the associated language, etc., there has been a lot to learn about, and it's been good fun. I have nixOS on my spare Thinkpad for toying with, and I have Nix on my main Debian systems, if I want to pull something from nixpkgs.

I've been getting back into some work on a text-based adventure game for GNU/linux (current title Dark Nights Rising) that my wife and I have slowly been building up over the last couple of years as a side project. It has an original story we're working on together, along with an original soundtrack.

It's probably only half-finished still, but it has been a blast to team up with her and knock about some ideas on the weekends.

My current mobile setup is simple - a moto z3 play (beckham) running lineageOS 21, zero google services or apps, f-droid as appstore. Minimal apps installed (mostly everything I do on mobile is through the browser, for me fennec/firefox), and the few communication apps i use (telegram, element), podverse, and Newpipe for YT and I'm good to go.

> Countryside roads that normally get very little traffic can quickly get clogged.

Truth. I have a piece of land way out in the sticks here in Mena, AR, and on the rare occasion, our little backroads get very clogged up (think hunting season mostly), though we are right in the path of totality for the eclipse, and the town is even having an "eclipse festival" building up to it.

I'm thankful my wife and I won't have to drive anywhere that day. We're going to hang out in the yard and view it in our little field. Keeping my fingers crossed for nice, clear skies that day. :)

> It creeps women out. It's difficult enough getting them to use an AI tool.

Anecdotally, my wife routinely uses chatGPT for workout and recipe ideas.

She may be a bit of an outlier though, compared to others - she also runs GNU/Linux! :)

nope. hadn't been on all day, but checked when a member of a group chat i'm in on twitter mentioned it. no home feed or posts, but as others here have mentioned, DMs/spaces working fine.

true. there are collections of videos on youtube called "Commercials from $DECADE That Would Be Offensive Today" that are an amusing watch.

Hahaha! Never thought I'd see BeverlyBot and Sorry I Dinged Your Car mentioned on HN.

Been listening to RBCP (The guy who does Snow Plow Show and Phone Losers of America) for a long time now. Great to throw on in the background for some laughs at the end of the day while reading.

A good number of those companies only provide native applications for mobile, and web applications for desktop (Google Docs/Sheets is a good example). If forced to use only native apps, you'd be locking people using desktops out for the most part.

They do this because pseudoephedrine (Sudafed) is commonly used in illegal production of methamphetamine. This has been a common practice since the mid 2000s, iirc.

> Autism isn't a mental illness. https://www.youngminds.org.uk/young-person/mental-health-con....

Hmmm. Multiple organizations see it as a "mental health disorder." At least in the US.

https://www.nami.org/Learn-More/Mental-Health-Conditions/Rel...

> Your opinions need a lot more research and emotional intelligence.

Right back at you.

> The "my friend" thing is so predictable. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280771596_I'm_Not_H...

If you think anyone who has ever had a gay (or other minority) friend or family member espousing their empathy is really veiled phobia, then you have more issues than I could have imagined. Your link didn't help you any, unfortunately.

> Go learn something.

Right back at ya.

> Spitfire Audio. Ableist and transphobic remarks. The ableist remarks are regarding autism.

Thanks for the clarification. I'll look into it.

> Calling it a "mental state" isn't correct either, it is a neurodevelopmental condition.

In other words, a 'mental illness.' Got it.

> Whilst you don't think you need to answer "yes" to have an opinion, you degrade the signal-to-noise ratio with your words when there are the voices of others who need to be heard.

I disagree. I don't believe you have to be one of the affected parties to be able to form an effective opinion. I'm capable of looking at the world around me and deducing my own conclusions - when it comes to homosexuality, it is particularly close to me, as I have a sister and a close friend who are both gay. Of course, neither of them base their software decisions around the opinions of those who hold some kind of leadership position for the software in question.

> If you don't have anything supportive or constructive to say, then it is the time to sit, listen, read and learn.

Thanks for the tip. I put myself in the shoes of those who might be more disenfranchised than me every day - I have a nice roster of friends and family from all walks of life - different races, sexual orientations, and gender identities. Doesn't change the point of the argument.

> Of course, the cishet white dude doesn't understand bigotry and the concept of fighting for the right to exist because you have never been marginalized.

You don't know a thing about me. How do you know how my life has unfolded? There are more marginalized classes in the world than just skin colour, sexual orientation, and gender identity.

I've been using Brave since 2019, and I am unsure what a "Brave Account" is.

In fact, I don't know of a desktop browser that requires account signin. Chrome encourages it, but you don't have too to be able to use the browser.

> If I can help it, I don't buy the products or services from which the proceeds go into supporting outright hate groups.

Unless I've missed a post somewhere, I have not heard that anyone inside of Brave shares Mr. Eich's religious/political beliefs. Maybe some of them do - and that is their right in the United States to practice the beliefs they choose, so long as they are not doing something illegal. While I disagree with Mr. Eich's stance on homosexuality, it is his American right to hold that opinion, and my right to have my own.

> Christian Henson made transphobic/ableist remarks on Twitter, now I won't be buying any Spitfire Audio products. Sure, they're great, yes, there's a team of people behind them, but so what? There's plenty of other great options out there, why would I want to indirectly fund hatred?

Your right to do so. But again, you're lambasting an entire company when public remarks have only been made by one person. An aside, Brave is free and open-source software, unlike Chrome. I'm sure some people at Google also have opinions I disagree with (in fact, I know they do when it comes to how some of their internals are handled). But their political stances? That belongs to the humans who form those opinions, not the software. And in the case of Brave, it is a great, FOSS web browser with sane defaults "out of the box", enabling me to use a browser I enjoy with good privacy defaults, why do I care about the political opinions of the "leadership?"

Every single company is going to have someone within their ranks whose opinions you surely disagree with. Might as well stop using technology.

> Same goes for companies that fund racial hatred. Likewise for misogyny.

Which companies are funding these things? I've yet to hear of it.

> Are you gay? Are you trans? Are you autistic? Are you non-white? Are you a woman? If you can't answer "yes" to any of those questions, then why are you having an opinion on these matters?

"No" to all of the above. But that doesn't matter - like everyone else, I'm allowed an opinion, regardless of my race/sexual orientation/mental state (when did any tech company insult autistic people?). You don't have to fall into one of these classes to have an opinion.

> Ultimately, yes, we agree that a product or service should just be a product or service, and that bigots should stop with the bigotry, but using their product or service to fund bigotry should be inexcusable.

You're free to do as you please. But, for me, Brave is a great piece of software that I barely have to configure out of the box, and it is one of the only browsers in existence that makes privacy the default. You'll excuse me if I value this fact over the fact that Mr. Eich has some opinions that I might disagree with.

Sure, except your initial post said nothing about profits.

It read like: "Mr. Eich has some involvement with Brave, so F Brave."

It's a good browser built by a team of people, and you discount it because of one man's involvement that you don't like. I ask you, do you refuse any involvement with any software whose "leadership" has opinions you disagree with?

I'm not trying to be rude. I've just never understood this mentality.

And what do Brendan Eich's personal views have to do with the software or how it functions?

If you refuse to use anything with any connection to Mr. Eich, don't use JavaScript at all - he wrote it.

I have never been able to understand this sort of take- I don't agree with everything Richard Stallman has said, but I follow him for his views on free software, not his political stances.

thanks for the recommendation! Love f-droid, will download the infinity app in a bit and give it a spin.

> IMO the biggest waste of life is wishing that you're elsewhere. You end up wishing for a different present and future, then find that all your present is now the past.

A profound statement, and one I wish I could have heard when I was in my early 20s.

Another great example lately is Reddit. Reddit's mobile experience had become awful. Every time someone sends me a reddit link and I click on it, I'm taken to Reddit's mobile site, which should function just fine and dandy, but the minute it detects you are there on a mobile browser, it spams you with "Reddit works best in the app!" messages, and won't let you view some subs at all without signing in. Reddit is a great example of mobile done wrong. Don't be like Reddit.

This isn't really "changing the look and logo", but I do miss the dessert-themed Android names. I thought they gave each release a bit of their own personality.

Terminal: Alacritty Font: Envy Code R

A nice combination in Vim on my minimal Arch setup.