Wow, what a supermodel!

Twitter started requiring log-ins just before the rate limits started. Which made Twitter DDoS itself because websites with embedded tweets no longer worked. Hence the rate limits because Elon’s a dumbass.

They’ll get away with it.

I’ve run into this on every single platform. But it is worse on Facebook.

Sure, but most people will still use Google Chrome, and good luck getting Microsoft and Opera to switch to the fork. Google will still have full control over Chrome, and the layperson won’t understand why a browser that looks the same as Chrome but doesn’t work with Google’s sites is better.

That’s the issue.

I’m there for the artists. A ton of artists share their artwork on Twitter because of the enshittification of deviantART. I am not sure where they will end up now.

I didn’t get that with btrfs either.

They add a lot of stuff on top of GNOME and ship a few extra packages to help with gaming. Not sure how they handle snaps these days because I haven’t checked in a while. It looks nice if you like GNOME, but it just isn’t my cup of tea.

I’m currently running Debian Unstable with KDE on my System76, but I’ve also used Fedora and Arch on it just fine. I don’t have nvidia.

His ego is too big.

Fuck FedEx. Whenever a signature is required, they won’t let me have the package held for pickup anywhere, so I get door tags… even if I’m sitting on the couch watching TV. Called them and they said they don’t require the drivers to knock or ring. I only figured out after a ton of aggravation that if you get three door tags, they will hold the package for pickup for a few days anyway (even though they say they can’t due to “shipper restrictions”).

Everybody thought this was OK because Chromium is open-source.

They have control of Chrome, so they could always implement some kind of API into Chrome to check.

Ah, priorities…

Great, but there are no flagship Androids that get the latest OS for five years. And Samsung fans are the absolute worst as far as coming up with BS accusations towards Apple. Apple is doing a lot more than the competition is to support their phones longer.

If you want an iPhone on a budget, there are plenty of older models out there that still get the latest iOS for a couple more years, or you can get the SE.

Lastly, my iPhones have just lasted longer than any of the Androids I had.

This is a big one for me. People keep screaming “Planned obsolescence!” when Apple releases a new phone, but I have yet to see one phone from anyone else that gets 5+ years of the latest OS and a few more years of security updates after that. I don’t have to break into my iPhone and install a third-party OS to get updates for that long.

My issue with GNOME is that it seems like it’s trying to be a weird hybrid of a tablet and desktop interface, and you have to install all these extensions if you want to change any of it.

It always seems like for the last decade or so, Linux fans have been all about GNOME or the tiling window managers. There aren’t really any distros I’m aware of other than KDE Neon that ship KDE as the default anymore, and some of the most popular distros, like Mint and Pop!_OS, don’t even offer a KDE flavor at all.

GNOME just didn’t feel right to me at all since GNOME 3. I can’t get used to it.

GNOME 2 was great. So great that it lives on today as MATE. But I just can’t get used to current GNOME at all and can’t understand why KDE Plasma isn’t popular.

I’m currently using Debian Unstable. I used Fedora for a long time, but it got noticeably worse when IBM bought Red Hat. I also like Arch, btw. I have tried a bunch of other distros too, but they all have some quirk that annoys me (*buntu has Snap, Pop!_OS and Mint don’t support KDE officially, OpenSUSE is based around YaST, Elementary is weird about software installation, Manjaro fails at basic security 101 and keeps DDoSing the AUR due to bugs, etc.)

I have not tried NixOS yet, but I keep seeing it recommended, so I’ll have to try it.

Woody was my first Linux distro ever! My family only had one PC with dialup at the time, and you could buy the entire repo on CD-ROM. I actually keep the CD images around in case I want to play with a VM and feel nostalgic.