It’s been great almost since I started using it.

I started using it exactly when 4.0 came out, because that’s when I started using Linux and I thought learning 3 didn’t make sense. But 4 only got stable around 4.4 I think. The problem was that 4.0 wasn’t intended to be for end users yet, but distributions didn’t realize that and packaged it right away.

KDE didn’t repeat that mistake. 5.0 was almost completely smooth sailing (some applications took a long time to port and looked ugly, that’s it), and 6.0 was completely seamless.

If I had to guess, probably variable refresh rate

Relevant, maintained? Zero.

You know what, I completely agree.

Not if there is a clear trend. If most movie posters are blue, three average will be blue.

But i agree, it is useless if there is no clear trend.

The average of 0° and 359° is obviously 359.5°.

it’s a radial scale.

Huh, I found it to be so much easier to set up than nginx that I wrote the devs a little thank you message

Because that’s how the spoiler effect works.The more support a leftist third party gets, the easier it is for the Republicans to win.

I can’t tell you how to fix it, but I can tell you that an election with 10% Socialists, 40% Dems, and 50% Reps will scare people away from voting Socialists.

At least as long as MAGA is a thing and the Dems aren’t seen as totally corrupt and basically the same as the Reps by the general public. And believe me: they aren’t.

I’m not doing anything like that, the will never be public support for a socialist candidate in the US without first changing the voting system.

I wish it wasn’t like that but I’m convinced it is.

Meanwhile you “peacefully” increase the probability that the guy who destroyed women’s reproductive rights gets voted in again.

I say you should help punish the Republicans for MAGA and once they try a moderate candidate again you can vote third party. But don’t ignore the consequences of your actions.

Hilarious. Let me think about who I’d vote for if I was US-American. The Fascist or the at least slightly socially progressive neoliberals? It’s anyone’s guess really. NO. Of course the Dems, fucking obviously.

So if I was US-American and also hit in the head enough to consider voting for third party in a country with a first-past-the-post boring system, I’d not vote for the Dems as a result.

This is called the spoiler effect. This makes her a spoiler candidate, no matter her intention.

That’s just completely wrong. Just try e.g. replacing the journald backend with the old text based syslog, and not only will you discover that is possible (which directly contradicts what you just said), it’s also easy!

The only thing I liked was arch’s pretty boot sequence … which I stared at for a while because SysV init was so slow.

systemd, not SystemD, or system d.

But yeah, wonderful talk!

Because they just have their own brain chemistry as the basis of it whereas the above comment clearly states:

Rust has proven empirically that the tradeoff between performance and safety doesn’t need to exist.

Which is truth. And it’s much easier to base a coherent argument on truth rather than vibes.

I had a female boss.

Adjective is fine, using it as noun is icky

Yeah, but a satirical one, not one to be taken literally.

I mean, if you treat your inbox as a to-do list, that’s not that far-fetched

Wow you’re insane. “I know, I’ll discredit the woman who just pointed out that it’s hard to get credit in her field as a woman ”

Python is just glorified shell scripting

Absolutely not, python is an actual programming language with sane error handling and arbitrarily nestable data structures.

I don’t like the indentation crap

Don’t be so superficial. When learning something, go with the flow and try to work with the design choices, not against them.

Python simply writes a bit differently: you do e.g. more function definitions and list comprehensions.