Lmao I thought of Allegro Common Lisp at first.

It’s quite obvious that it’s very different to use it as a verb and as a noun to refer to someone.

Signs like this make me sad

Vowsh

SDDM is still X11 based, no matter which desktop you run with it. I have tried enabling Wayland on it, but it’s been… Unstable to say the least.

Spotify is CEF, I think, and it works pretty well.

No OS is perfect, as you likely do have to use a proprietary modem and some proprietary apps, but CalyxOS works well for me on my Fairphone 4. I like the base install being as free as realistically possible on a modern Android phone, especially replacing Google apps with microG. Just don’t enable SafetyNet if you don’t want it to run (sandboxed) Google blobs. That API is deprecated anyways.

The experience is smooth, free and I get a repairable phone without having generative “”“AI”“” shoved down my throat. A win on all fronts in my opinion.

Also, SafetyNet is deprecated, and Google has said that app developers shouldn’t use it for a long time before that, so I’ve never had to use it. My experience of a blob-free microG has been really good, and I trust FOSS code a hell of a lot more than sandboxed proprietary code, because I can’t be sure what it does with the data I inevitably do provide it.

MicroG has also been very clear IMO about SafetyNet not being a reimplementation, but rather a sandbox when it was relevant.

Swaylock?

I remember reading that this is because studios don’t compress game assets any more. I’d gladly trade a few seconds load time for reasonable disk usage.

That sucks. I’ll have to watch my usage of this term, or at least use it in circumstances where it’s clear that it’s not meant to critique leftism. Surely there’s gotta be some new term now, though? The term is quite old at this point, and comes from a very specific situation where it was clearly one authoritarian side, which was criticized from the left using the term tankie. I think someone ought to have come up with an apt term to describe authoritarian “”“communists”“” today.

I have genuinely only seen tankie used by anarchists and libertarian socialists generally. Didn’t even know that liberals knew of the term. :/

Also, when I have rain clothes, I love rain, so I think you’re on to something.

Ayy, I read the book back in elementary school! Might be time to re-read it as I remember enjoying it.

Yep, this is the daily routine of a Linux user.

lemmy(grad).ml has their own

I think the comparison with Lemmy is moot, since Lemmy (or the Fediverse as a whole) isn’t owned by one centralized entity. Twitter quite literally has a Nazi as its owner. Sure, progressive people still have tools at their disposal to be able to use Twitter, but I think it makes sense to question why we should use such a platform.

I like Sway, it obviously needs a bit of configuration to be useful, but that’s partly what I like about it, and using a distro like Guix (Nix configured with Lisp) makes it easy to have the same settings on multiple PCs. Otherwise I like GNOME; it’s well supported and has many good apps. Touch/touchpad support is really good as well.

Happy to help! Have fun!