I 100% agree, but I didn’t want to come across too accusatory in my article so I chose to indirectly adress it in this paragraph:

The real problem is the idea that GNOME project shouldn’t cater to [people who want SSD]. It would be like GNOME not supporting xdg-file-chooser and saying that each app should ship their own file picker. But GNOME does support it, and only apps that wish to implement their own file picker do so.

Since both approaches are used, and liked, miscellaneous advantages and disadvantages of either approach are irrelevant, and so are other arguments pertaining to design. This is why I haven’t brought them up.

basically saying I think their vision doesn’t matter when it comes to supporting things like that for third party apps.

Using an imac in the cover image for this specific article is quite ironic.

He’s been on my desktop for a while now, wholly unnecessary but I love it

looks great! Thank you for making this

Looking foward to seeing what they do with qt and kde libraries!

France and Canada seem quite advanced on this technology too, looking forward to seeing who gets it usable first!

I have no source for this but I remember reading something about the new login manager a while ago that said it would follow the plasma theme. So hopefully that.

do copy paste ad hoc without altering your clipboard content.

Thing is modern clipboard managers like the one on kde server and equivalent purpose.

My mouse’s middle click is easy to hit accidentally, and so I often paste stuff on accident, I just wish I could disable it. The “select to copy” doesn’t work for me either, since I often absentmindedly select things while I’m reading.

The reaction that I see here explains why, I guess.

It’s cool, but I cannot count the amount of times I was confused by that and accidentally pasted after switching, I would be glad if it became configurable.

It’s a tad slower than a desktop rx 480

If you don’t understand that the motivation is to target kids with ads and influencer content designed to push products, you’re not going to solve anything.

I 100% agree that social media companies are incentivized to make their platforms toxic to children, and that people on those platforms are motivated to exploit them, but immoral people existing is not the problem here.

Kids have to have spaces to communicate with each other in order to develop healthy socialization skills.

They don’t have to use social media for that though, not only are third spaces alive and well in many places including much of France (and where I live), chat apps are 100% enough for kids to socialize.

I know that every teen where I live uses instagram to communicate with friends, but only the group/1to1 chats and stories, which are available in chat apps. The main feed(s) never show you things from your friends anyways.

I feel like you are envisioning “chat apps” to mean “text-only”

No, when I think of chat apps I think of signal and discord. Both have a ton of social features, the difference is that there isn’t an algorithm that acts as a vector for harmful bullshit or public profiles. Public rooms are still an issue, but from experience being a tween/teen on those platforms, it’s not even close to being as bad. Said bad actors do not exist in anywhere near the same capacity. Imo the harm of public chat rooms falls under the “parents can handle this” umbrella.

If it was the case that it was just individual actors on the platform causing the harm and not the structure of the platforms incentivizing said harm, then we would see more of this type of thing in real life as well.

I struggle to think of a more complete solution to the harm caused by social media to children than just banning them.

Which part do you think I’m lying about?

Most parents either don’t know how to do that, or don’t care enough to stop their kids from using social media, despite how harmful it is for society as a whole, and especially children, and since all their friends are on social media, a child can credibly argue that they need to use it to maintain their social life. If social media is banned for under 16’s, then children would have to communicate with normal chat apps. Also I know from experience that parental controls can easily be bypassed by a dedicated child.

A propely implemented (as in ZKP verification that gives no information to the service other than the age category) age gate is a good thing in my opinion, because at some point some systemic problems are better served by systemic solutions. We don’t let parents decide if their kids should smoke or drink alchohol either.

Odds are someone would make an open source service that does the age verification that server owners could setup easily, that is, if the verification is done using franceconnect or some Zero Knowledge Proof service.

If it’s ID verfication then it would be awful.

said older shooters are things like doom and quake, if you played those in your early twenties when they released you’d be nearing retirement, I think it’s a fair descriptor.

I mean, it refers to the games that are like those older shooters that old people used to play, I think it works well as a term to distinguish those games from more standard shooters. Also it’s catchy, which really helps

There is playtron, although it doesn’t look particularily promising atm