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Oh I want those things too. The current size of Lemmy is not my ideal. It's just really really nice in its current form for me as a unique little nerdy place hidden in plain sight from what most of the internet has become.

It was more the juxtaposition of how the world needs all these open technologies that people band together to create for the good of all, buuuuut if nobody notices this particular one then that will serve my personal interests. And to be clear I'm not hoping for that or trying to hold it back. Just pointing it out. :)

American here, and one who grew up in what is now trump country. Well, I guess I still live in a republican area now, but I started out rural.

Your conclusion about how the society as a whole is sick is 100% spot on.

I don't do much international travel, but I did get to spend a little bit of time in europe in the past couple years. Most of it in scandinavia of all places!

The difference is crazy, even not counting all this recent crazy shit. On the surface things look similar. But being immersed in it let all the little details sink in simultaneously.

There's an air of dignity and respect that I am just not used to in american society. Even just the instances of "we couldn't have that, somebody would immediately ruin it" were constant.

Yep, I'm ready to read the news that this platform surpassed the user base of Lemmy on the first day and never looked back. And I am ready to not be bothered by it.

Good on them for any pain they inflict on reddit. And I do hope the fediverse takes over the global media landscape because that is better for humanity than corpo-governmental gatekeepers. But if Lemmy's user base just hangs around in the tens of thousands rather than the tens of millions, I am content.

Oh no, the US's military strikes now have press-only events, information embargoes, and street dates like it's the damned video game industry?

You have to love it when people whose frickin' job is the law just stand there and say "unlawful" followed by a word from the bill of rights.

I mean, we are way past that, but still fuck this guy.

Intellectual laziness really is a big part of the evil that conservatives/nazis put into the world.

Don't work on yourself. Go with your gut.

Don't question authority. Just go with it.

Don't criticize your country. Just be comfortable in the knowledge that it's the best.

Don't spend all that energy processing and handling your base urges. You deserve what you want, and those "other" people really are below you.

Life is easy. Ignorance is bliss. It's totally normal that you communicate only via complaints and threats!

So are we living in some kind of Bizarro Eternal September?

Where instead of being flooded with normies, a few dozen thousand of us are walled in behind barriers to entry that the greybeards of old could only imagine.

It's like a social experiment that would be unethical if we weren't all self-selected to be here. Will we flourish or will we go mad?!?

Given my experiences so far, I'm gonna ride this thing as far as it takes me. Just today I was inspired by a fellow lemming to format my entire hard drive just to switch to a slightly different Linux distro. On my work laptop! :>

Fun, fun, we skip along together!

Swirling towards the center...

Where there is no pain and we are truly together, forever.

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Eat at Arby's

I don't think the point was supposed to be that Valve is good.

I think it was supposed to be that it is possible for a profit-motivated company to do something that legitimately benefits the rest of us even though the motivation was their profit goals.

Maybe more of the credit for that should go to the original creators of the FOSS licenses than to Gabe Newell, but it's still nice that it happened either way.

Too bad it will be difficult for us to see all their fancy cheap RAM through all the yummy Venezuelan oil covering this place! It's totally worth my eyes and skin stinging a little bit all the time. Oh and my lungs of course.

~sad /s~

In Mint right now if I hit the menu and type "photo" I get five options and GIMP is one of them. But it doesn't say GIMP on my screen, it says "GNU Image ..." next to the icon.

If I type "image" then GIMP is second in the list after photo viewer.

Normally though I just hit super - g - i - m - p - ENTER. Because I wanna run GIMP damn it!

Because the standard version of Mint uses the ubuntu repositories. You get to utilize most of what makes up ubuntu, but decoupled from the stuff Canonical wants to push. It has some added polish as well.

It was more of an ubuntu-specific reply rather than "what's the best distro" thing.

But now that you mention it, there is also Linux Mint Debian Edition! :D

I might actually start using LMDE at work, since we have some stuff that's more focused on debian than ubuntu.