We need both.
Technology is awesome and I have a tech job and a house full of computers and all that. But it's important that we don't fall into the trap of "if we just got rid of the capitalists, then we could be on our screens all day in peace and health."
If you cooperate with the primitive parts of your brain that evolved to take cues from the natural world, it can often improve things across the board.
I don't have any issues with KDE, and I admire their work beyond the DE/UI. Kdenlive is my chosen video editor, for instance. I believe it's the flatpak version too, so it no doubt loads a bunch of stuff into ram.
I'm not sure what you mean by "restricting" with the DE since I have a terminal at my fingertips at all times. I assume you mean some design decisions or lack of some customization options that KDE has?
But the weird selection of apps has me lost. It comes with stuff installed that you might expect, like firefox and libre office. It uses mostly the Ubuntu repositories so you can apt or apt-get install most things you're looking for. And since it's linux you can add repositories and all that fun stuff.
I also don't know what you mean by filtering flathub.
I'd expect that most brand new users install Ubuntu or Linux Mint because of how often they are recommended.
Linux Mint is basically Ubuntu with Canonical/Snaps removed and some added polish. The default DE is laid out like windows before 11 ("start" button in lower left) which seems to make sense for new users.
I'm a knowledgable enough user, being a developer on embedded linux products, and I also stuck with Mint long term. It's still a Linux system that I actually control. The fact that it was very user friendly and full featured it off the box doesn't take away from that. It just meant that it wasn't the learning experience you'd get with something like Arch.
Yeah that too. Didn't mean to imply otherwise!
In my old age with sophisticated tastes I do enjoy a little Brutal DOOM now and again.
Oh I agree with everything you're saying here. I use the night mode on my phone AND in Linux Mint!
I've done RGB light bulbs in the past to set them to more orange/red colors at night, but now i've switched to 2700K bulbs with high CRI/TM-30 ratings that I can just dim way down and selectively turn off.
Absolutely insane.
Given how long their conversation was, I wonder if some of those stats and "scores" were actually inputs from the person that the LLM just spit back out weeks or months later.
Not that it has to be. It's not exactly difficult to see how these LLMs could start talking like some kind of conspiracy theory forum post when the user is already talking like that.
Money.
Greed.
Humans (including the rich ones) looking for fulfillment in all the wrong places.
The naming is one thing I legitimately like about the whole Linux/GNU/FOSS world.
Things are still named by nerds/enthusiasts who have some spark of joy and fun left in their hearts. Could you imagine a sanitized corporate software product released today with a name that directly refers to the established product it is meant to displace?
For example, things like GNU's Not Unix or my favorite remotely accessible text/terminal based email client I used around the turn of the century, PINE Is Not Elm.
Then you get fun second-order software names like GIMP, too.
It's all so preferable to the commercial software branding world where even though the visual presentation is extremely samey (everybody switching to the same popular boring fonts and removing logos/artwork), the actual brands are often made up silly words that are easy to get the domain name and the social handles for.
Be sure to follow BONTO! on all your favorite trillion dollar propaganda and surveillance platforms!
Yep and part of that is just letting the things exist and be what they are, even if they aren't for you.
Let DOOM be what it is for those of us who were the right edgy age at the right time to eat it up. Let the calm games be what they are too, without requiring combat mechanics.
People gotta practice letting go. In general. About literally anything. The correlation I see in my acquaintances between not letting go of trivial shit (including the existence of different types of people that like different things) is stark.
I appreciate the juxtaposition between your username and this comment wanting to beat one of the universe's most useless life forms.
Here's my hot take to offer:
The Krunch 106.66 from Saints Row 2 is the best radio station in any city sandbox GTA-style game.
I like metal and there are a couple bands I started listening to because of that radio station.
Ok well this is a simple train of cause and effect that even Mr Nadella should be able to understand.
Make an actual tool that is so damn good and so universally useful that early adopters who pay attention would consider calling it a "cognitive amplifier."
Keep in mind that I have seen the term "second brain" used for note taking apps, usually easy to use and sync between devices. (I'm using AnyType free)
That is how poorly the "market" views your "tech demo with a price tag" product! It loses the brain title to a small collection of conveniently stored text files. Congratulations.