Christopher

Am I having a stroke?

I’m actually seven right now. 👶

Not a bad recommendation, but I disagree.

Rocket chat is just as heavy (in fact, it federates to Matrix), uses MongoDB, and has steadily pulled features behind a paywall for years. To me, if I’m hosting the service on my own machines and I’m not using their live support, the idea of paying for the privilege of using it is absurd.

Matrix has come a long way, including integrated voice and video chats.

I wonder if they’ll take into account that, had I signed up at (the youngest possible age of) 13, the age of my account would then make me 21. I suppose they can’t really sell that inferred data…

Yes indeed. It’s now failing. 😞

Man, this kind of sucks.

I wrote a nifty script a few years ago that pulls the popularity metric of a song, converts that to a star rating, and writes that to a tag with Mutagen. At a glance I can see the hits. If I like the track, I’ll “love” it (side stepping the need for a personal rating). It’s a system that’s been serving me well for a long time.

Locking down APIs does seem to be the trend. I’m not sure I’ll look to adapt.

Giving money to Spotify is out of the question, but I may pay for Deezer or something.

A general strike is one of the only non-violent levers of power the people have.

It sucks. It probably won’t do anything. But I’ll take this over open war with ICE any day.

Lol, “on about.” Oy!

But yes. Alt-tab.

But, like, that’s just my opinion, man. Run what makes you happy.

Yeah, most likely. The reason is simple: folks want a desktop that doesn’t fight them, has fast window switching, navigation, and task management… and then stays out of the way.

GNOME knows best, though, right? pArAdIgM sHiFt ™! What is a desktop? Hide everything!

For all it’s faults, KDE is much more usable. Xfce is great, too. They treat the desktop/laptop computer as exactly that – not some strange hybrid between traditional desktops, mobile UI, and kiosk GUIs.

Europeans do be like that.

Thank God.

Nice. I’ll check those out.

I realize I sound AI AF.

Welcome to the world of Linux. Check out Fedora Kinoite. Here’s how they’re similar:

✅ It’s immutable – core OS files are read only. Just like the SteamDeck, this is more stable and secure. Updates happen all at once and the entire system can be rolled back to a working configuration (“snapshot”) if it all goes south.

✅ Applications are containerized and installed via a software store. Flatpak via Flathub is my personal preference, here.

✅ It uses the KDE Plasma desktop environment. In Linux there are a handful of DEs to choose from. The SD uses KDE and so does Kinoite. This is probably where you’ll see most similarities (that Windows '95 feel).

✅ Fedora’s community, like the SD, is large. Got a problem? There’s probably someone on the forums who had the same issue and can provide a solution.

I’ve been running it exclusively for two years now. As a self proclaimed distro-hopper, that’s really remarkable.

https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/kinoite/

I can only speak to my own personal experience: Fedora and Suse are doing the best, especially with immutable distributions.

Hochul’s wait-and-see approach on Mamdani came after the Queens assemblyman bested former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in Tuesday’s Democratic mayoral primary – sending shockwaves across the nation and prompting soul-searching among moderate members of the party over its leftward drift.

No soul found here, apparently.

How’d it work out?

I mean in terms of hijacking DNS. Might be worth a look.