KnoLord

Because its basis was an FOSS package manager, which in typical Microsoft fashion got EEE’d.

From an colleague of mine, who bought an M1 Macbook Pro when they were new; he told me that there was a Wine fork (don’t know the name sadly) for Apple silicon which kinda worked with most (older) Steam games, not as nice as Proton on x86-64 Linux, but good enough for his game tastes. Don’t know if it’s still maintained or not…

Yes, I understand that GNOME (3+) has a place in Linux/*nix world and that, from a common user’s perspective, it might be enough or even more intuitive than Windows and MacOS ever were. Blind hating never helped anyone, especially in FOSS.

For me, as someone outside the common user’s realm, the weird aftertaste of internal dev drama and their decisions which features are “needed” and which are not needed (server-side decorations, tray-items, etc.) deter me from using GNOME more than the annual one-month tryout (“Maybe it isn’t that limiting to me as I thought?”).

Okay, I’ll bite:

Why GNOME? I personally find it very limiting, especially when attempting a Vanilla GNOME config.

“Rules for thee, not for me.”

From what I could witness, most likely the “first abuser” is most likely a close family member, either the (step-)father or some uncle or grandfather - people who themselves believe in such values they call “traditional”.

Again and again, I am very grateful that you keep this instance alive! <3

please reconsider and don’t change yourself - you are unique and brought me, a lurker mostly, smiles everytime you post or comment :)

if people can’t handle the real you, how you want to be, that’s their loss

apt on its own isn’t safe to use in shell scripts while apt-get is. At least, that is the output I get when using apt in a script on Debian.

That is the only reason, for interactive sessions use apt, for automated scripts apt-get.

A sad day for this instance indeed.

While I am glad to hear that otherwise all federation goes on, only blocking the site directly for UK residents, the underlying issue still remains. I am not a UK citizen nor do I live in the UK, but it’s just disappointing nonetheless.

Oh thank you! Had it on my phone without any notifications or anything else to tell me that!

Am an EU resident, so that’s very worrisome to say the least.

Thanks for context!

I hope that as soon as the US will act more iffy, these countermeasures will kick in, as even the US should know then that they aren’t all mighty.

I don’t know if you have more info, but are these measures reversible or absolute?

in years

Yeah, depending on when you left “conventional social media”, you missed out all of that.

That is the very same mechanism that, as of recent, censors/censored every mention and discussion of the Fediverse, alternative OSes, or any other way to fight back against these corporate forces. How dare people want to communicate freely and in their own way!?

I also left my plan, even refunded the amount, since my renewal was set on January 1st.

Main reason I used Proton was their VPN, especially their wide range of servers and countries helped me. But now I don’t need that many individual country servers anymore, so I settled to Mullvad, mainly because their prices are very competitive and they are considered “trusted” (even though I kinda miss port forwarding, I’d rather not have it, than trust in AirVPN or other smaller services).

I used their mail for a little while, so migration was rather simple. I currently test out Posteo, when I am happy with them, I might stick to them.

Same with Drive, I didn’t use them, mainly because they do not have proper Linux support (no, rclone isn’t sufficient).

Thankfully I didn’t use them as my password manager (and definitely not as a crypto wallet service) :D

Okay, I’m now hooked:

How?