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This cranky guy sounds too much like me 😂
@rl_dane The arguments against Wayland were weird. A 105% scaling setting in KDE isn't Wayland's fault. Scrot is an X11 screenshot tool, it shouldn't work the same in Wayland since Wayland was designed with security at least as a backburner concern.
And the resource utilization is usually better under Wayland, right? Could be a KDE or driver issue.
The term CSD is a key to unlock a flood of angry rants from me.
Use with caution. 🤣
CSDs... I loathe them.
@rl_dane [*Thinks about doing it...*]
I feel like it's a key example of modern UI design gnome wrong.
And hamburger menus. Hate those. Even KDE is being caught up in that stupidity.
@rl_dane Yeah! Like, what's wrong with menubars? Too much text? Menubars are just so fast.
Must be that some designers believe it takes up too much space. But it's space well-spent (especially, in my opinion, if it is a "global menubar" at the top of the screen like Mac OS. I love those. You can set it up in KDE, BTW!).
I'm not really sold on global menubars.
They made sense when screens were small.
Now I think it makes more sense to save mouse travel.
@rl_dane That's fair. I have a computer friend who thinks the same way.
I remember how Canonical's Unity (despite its flaws) had a feature (maybe it was just part of #compiz (oh compiz! I forgot! So much fun!)?) where the titlebar would turn into a menubar when you hovered over it (IIRC). Unity was so pretty. If only it wasn't so buggy. (It was so bad it was the reason I [temporarily] left Linux as a kid.)
(I wish parentheses worked in spoken language like they do in text lol)
The thing I miss is globally searchable menubars.
Mac OS X has it. Google Drive (of all things) has it. Mate attempts to do it.
Nothing else does it, AFAIK.
@rl_dane Yeah, whenever I have the opportunity to use my Mom's mac I'll use that feature. It even opens the menu for you to *show* you where the menuitem is. \*chef's kiss\* [no I don't have markdown on this Mastodon server]
On the topic of Unity, I think Unity had the feature too. You'd press Alt and then type (and hope the UI wouldn't bug out). I think it's pretty clever.
Speaking of instance, why are you still on librem.one? Purism kinda speed-ran the hero to villain transformation about five years ago. 😄
@rl_dane Oh? Never heard of that... what happened?
I've thought about switching from social.librem.one, but what will happen to my posts?
At any rate, any suggestions for a server to switch to? It would be nice to be on a Mastodon version beyond v3.1.1 XD
Fosstodon maybe?
I'm partial to fosstodon and polymaths, although I think polymaths is now closed to new signups for the most part. BSD.cafe is nice, too, and the admin/"Barista" @stefano is one of my very favorite people. 😉
Louis Rossman excoriated Purism on YT a few years back for how they handled the Librem 5 rollout.
It was low-key vaporware. Left people hanging for a really long time, and then announced a USA version for like $2,000.
@rl_dane @stefano OK, so I looked into Purism, and it looks like they were refusing refunds due to needing the money, right? If so, that's kinda sad but also you can't just refuse refunds and keep people's money.
Thinking about it, maybe this has something to do with Kyle Rankin kinda quietly stepping away from the CEO role. And me emailing them a long time ago (I checked, about 2 years ago) asking about them updating this Mastodon server, and them saying the update was in the planning phase. 🤔
So, they're probably just begging to be hacked.
This is the video I was remembering: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IjUryQOlgk
Your post won't be migrated, but your followers will. That part of the process works pretty well.
@rl_dane I watched the video up to the part where he yelled 'F*** YOU' (yikes, hater)
But anyway yeah he had some really good points -- mainly just reading Purism's email. That email was being culty and they really went wrong with how they lied to their customers. I'll be moving, thanks for the tip. Maybe I'll self-host @ golemwire.com.
There's always masto.host
I don't like swearing, or anger, but it's kinda warranted at times.
I don't like the fact that it's in my heart, but sometimes I don't know what else to say about the times we're living in.
@rl_dane I don't know if this is really an encouraging thing to say or a discouraging thing to say, but -- the world has always been an altogether bad place, since the fall.
I also don't know if this is an encouraging thing to say or a discouraging thing to say, but... I look forward to leaving this all behind one day :)
@rl_dane Keep pushing for [positive!] change though. There's always something one can do.