I’m getting whiplash from the Republicans remarks about Labour/Starmer.

One minute he’s a dangerous far-left communist who facilitates the rape of young white girls, the next he’s “doing a good job”.

Perhaps his advisers are saying not to provoke Starmer too much because it might drive a wedge between the US and UK.

You’re only reinforcing that you’re too far gone to reason with. Like I said, goodbye.

Nice.

Always fine for me. But I get it, you want to be angry at the project.

If you think what Israel does (genocide, expansionism, racism, building an ethnostate… you know, objectively the actions of a fascist government) is tantamount to banning someone from a website then you are so far gone that it’s pointless even trying to reason with you, so I won’t bother.

Goodbye.

I never called you cancer, or insulted you.

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Entitlement like that is the biggest cancer in the FOSS community, IMO.

I said feeling like the devs owe you something is entitlement, which is a cancer to the FOSS world. You aren’t owed anything, and neither am I.

Nowhere did I say you were cancer, unless you happen to proudly identify as an extremely entitled person.

Like I said, sorry if my words hurt you, but you aren’t entitled to have the devs carer to you specifically. The project is theirs and if you don’t like it, fork it or use something else. That’s what FOSS is all about.

Why do you think unpaid devs should have to do as you say?

No, no, no, no.

Some developers do some paid work. The vast majority is unpaid. I’m not sure where you heard that, but that information is incorrect.

And I never said they did all of the work for free, I said predominantly. Same goes for other projects.

Please don’t try to twist my words, I feel I was very clear with them.

Yes, it is their project. They own it. It’s theirs. They are the developers.

Linux is philosophically underlined by freedom of choice and personal customization

And Gnome doesn’t go against any of that. You are free to not use it. They aren’t forcing you. You are free to customise it. They aren’t stopping you.

Please stop acting so entitled. This is software they are providing for free, the bulk of the work being unpaid. They don’t have to do free work for your specific needs if they don’t want to. It’s their project.

I never insulted you. If my words hurt, then I’m sorry, my intention is not to hurt you.

I’m just trying to steer you away from the path you’re on of thinking you’re entitled to XYZ and some predominantly unpaid devs have to cater to your whims. They do not. It’s their project, not yours, and they rightly call the shots.

Sounds like you don’t know what fascism is.

I dunno, even a 70 year old can do some damage. Particularly to someone vulnerable, and if they use a weapon.

Which is exactly what he did. He stabbed young kids.

I think a 70 year old psychopath brandishing a knife is still a danger to society. I hope he gets thoroughly assessed to see if he’s fit for release when the time comes.

His government is fascist.

The definition of ‘fascist’ is somewhat more complex than ‘a person who murders 10% of his county’s population due to political differences’.

Do you think there weren’t people against the Nazis in 1930s Germany? The bulk of them weren’t killed either, so I guess by your logic Hitler also wasn’t a fascist or a Nazi?

“We” is obviously the hard-working developers who predominantly work on Gnome unpaid. The people who provide the software for free.

To be completely honest, I’m not sure how you don’t know who “we” is in that context. When the devs of a project say “we”, who do you think they’re referring to, the Jackson 5?

Literally every project makes decisions on what their vision is and enacts it. Gnome is no different.

If you don’t like a piece of software, don’t use it. Nobody is forcing you to use it.

Frankly, you sound entitled. They aren’t obliged to make their project to the way you want it. Especially not when you’re getting it for free. Entitlement like that is the biggest cancer in the FOSS community, IMO.

From what I can gather, they’re only discontinuing sale of blank writable discs? I imagine they don’t sell very well.

I’m very well aware of the Holocaust, thanks. Not only is it taught in schools extremely extensively where I live, but I have family near Kraków, and I’ve been to (relatively) nearby Auschwitz 4 or 5 times.

You’re obviously hinting that someone who is Jewish cannot be a Nazi, but that’s categorically untrue.

There were Jewish Nazis in 30s/40s Germany/Austria, and there are Jewish Nazis today.

Netanyahu is genocidal. He is racist. He is trying to create an ethnostate. He is expansionist. He talks of getting rid of undesirables. He defends people literally doing Nazi salutes.

He is a Nazi.

Yes. That’s exactly what I’m saying. You understood perfectly.

PCs are already modular.

But if Intel actually wants to make it better they’d:

• stop changing sockets every generation or two (AMD still supports AM4 with CPUs they’re selling right now, and seemingly only change socket when a new RAM standard comes out). To make matters worse, whenever Intel does use the same socket across multiple generations, it’s only generations where there’s a minor performance bump (or a performance regression)

• Refuse to certify non-standard OEM motherboards

Same. I hate desktop clutter. The horrors I’ve seen when I’ve been on someone else’s PC. Random desktop documents that haven’t been touched in 5 years. Why?!

Even aside from looking ugly, it’s not even a good place for apps/files! If you have a window or two open, everything is obscured and you have to move windows out of the way to access your stuff.

They get a lot of shit for it, but IMO Gnome was 100% right to say “No. The desktop inevitably becomes a dumping ground and we don’t want that. Your app menu is for apps and your Home folder is for files. We have very good search functionality to find what you want. No desktop icons. If you want that, install an extension.”

This isn’t actually much of an issue.

Although it is frustrating that when Nvidia regularly technically breaks the PCIe spec, people don’t really care. AMD did it with the RX 480 and everyone from written media to half-informed youtubers were out to get them over it.

Market-leader advantage I guess.

Nazi defends other Nazi. More at 11.

Jesus Christ.

I think it’s unrealistic to expect everything to be great. Even if the government was impossibly perfect, the UK would still have issues - be they inherited ones, ones that emerge from outside the UK, nonsense from mega-corps, or mistakes outside of government such as in the civil service.

I will gladly accept what I hope will be gradual improvement over what we had for the past 14 years.

Government is inherently slow to enact changes, so it’ll be at least another 6+ months before we really begin to see any change, IMO.