As someone who routinely used to sink thousands of hours into games, and by that I mean 3000 hrs. on R6-3, 2500 hrs. on Squad and so on, the predatory practices of Microsoft, Steam and game developers have just turned me off gaming completely.

It makes the OS and general interface more pleasant to look at and tickles the estethica oblongata.

Part of using GNOME (at least to me) is expanding on the interface and building a personal experience through extensions.

Cover-flow when and-tabbing? Extension. Dynamic opacity of top bar? Extension. Wiggly-wobbly effects when dragging or minimising/maximising windows? Extension. Installing custom themes? Guess what, that’s an extension too!

I think you understand where this is going.

In terms of polish (looking sharp), GNOME is the best on linux, still it can look much better in terms of eye candy if you add extensions. I think I have like 50+ extensions myself.

No, I’m just going to adblock harder.

pledge loyalty to pineapple pizza

Truly a sign of absolute madness.

How’s your eyes, that green light given you glasses yet?

But what if they aren’t happy to chat on their coffee breaks either?

What you’re suggesting is basically just hitting the snooze button. “I’m sorry but I’m just the type of person who don’t do small talk.” in a polite but firm manner have worked wonders for me before.

Dystopia is having to learn a whole new system and manually punch in commands in VIM instead of just entering “0400” and clicking “Every day” in a GUI simply to run a scheduled backup because some cyberpunks think it’s cool to stare at the black and green terminal emulator into the early morning and think that everybody else enjoys doing the same so we really don’t need a GUI.

it’s just frustrating to think about what could have been and what’s waiting in the future.

Modern existence in a nutshell.

We and our 1287 partners

Hahaholy shit!

Now we’re talking proper dystopia!

I’d love to inherit a house even if it had no appliances and was falling apart…

And do systemd timers come with a GUI?

What sort of performance are you looking for? I run NC’s from Raspberry Pi’s, no problem.

SMS for everybody not on a self-hostable encrypted messenger. Why fool oneself into thinking a US managed messenger is private?

Many Japan businesses still require official documents to be endorsed using carved personal stamps called hanko, despite the government’s efforts to phase them out.

Please submit your résumé in cuneiform.

Syncthing is like a base layer for a personal P2P system, beyond the basic file sync I use Syncthing to sync Joplin Notes, Money Manager Ex, KeePass, RetroShare and what ever else I can.

We get further with pitchforks, torches and a smile than with just a smile.

https://neonmodem.com/

yeah

As standard replies and sub-replies. It works fine, though the ranking algo didn’t work last I checked.