My father was a farmer for pretty much all of his life (since he could work until he couldn’t) and had a crop of cilantro at one time. I never knew nor heard about somebody saying that cilantro tastes like soap, never even imagined it was a thing. It was only until a few years ago when I started to get my nose into Reddit when I read about people saying that.

You can’t just throw money and devs at it and expect the problem to be solved.

Then nobody will throw money at any project at all, because everything eventually will be solved by “magick”.

Destinating more resources to that quickens and makes better that process, though, incentivating people to work on it and test it.

Phoronix’s comment section is as toxic as it can be, but i found out a comment that puts into words better similar thoughts I have on this:

How about the Linux Foundation forks over a few million to fund the thing in its name?

They could hire more engineers, more testing, more QA. Yet they don’t.

And while at it, maybe Mozilla or any other stakeholder with resources could revamp Rust to produce lightweight binaries, have a stable compiler and for it to be way quicker in compilation?

No? Okay, but then why do all these foundations/organizations exist? And why do they hold such vast amounts of resources, while extorting the projects they claim to help?

I’d only add that it’s not only about the kernel - they are home to a project that could be in the medium-long term a serious alternative to Google’s blink/Apple’s webkit, and of course an alternative to the hegemony of Chrome, but they actively chose to just not give them a single cent. Yes I am talking about Servo.

I switched to it from DDG which I found was enshittifying lately, but to be honest I don’t really like it that much, just gave a bit better results than DDGs and has bangs, but the AI thing is absolute BS and there’s no way to disable it without saving cookies on your browser.

Now that I look at startpage again I’m thinking to give it another try but am not sure if it has bangs too and if you can set settings in their GET method as you can with DDG.

This works in Brave search too, at the beginning or at the end of the query string. There are 12474 bangs available as of the moment of writing this comment (!). I believe all of those work on DDG too.

What’s ridiculous is that people expect one software to behave the same as other software when the FOSS software does not imply in any way that it is a clone of a proprietary software

Well, that was exactly my point.

I edited several videos for work precisely 2-5 years ago and it was really good. That surprised me in the good sense because last time I tried it before that was like in 2010 and was rather funky, but so was my crappy laptop. And there’s been a while since that and since KDE brought it to attention and the fundraising and you name it and it seems it has improven even more. Maybe with time it can be another famous representative from KDE targeted towards content creation as now it is Krita.

That being said, I just can’t take any “review” from a “normie” about FOSS stuff seriously because most of the time they come from a propietary software mindset.

Take for example reviews about Inkscape or GIMP and you’ll find most of them mentioning “they’re not as usable as Photoshop/Illustrator”. So people expect any alternative to work exactly as their non-foss counterpart, which is absolutely ridiculous.

Well I wasn’t thinking about memory (and maybe that’s the reason some people downvoted that comment…) but because in my experience NetworkManager takes time starting at boot and with months/years it was taking more and more time. I reset it once and kept doing the same thing.

As you said you’re planning on a home server kind of thing I’d think setting up a static ip is a good idea and NetworkManager is just an overkill for that - you could very well go along with Gentoo’s netifrc.

If you can live without Networkmanager, I’d disable it and move your network setup to a static ip. Networkmanager can hog resources.

“In the movies the USA always saves the world, but in real life the world has to be saved from the USA”.

Can confirm, just got phishing mail “from Codeberg” containing the n word in its subject (?)

Mannah Hontana

If they did Hannah Montana Linux and Biebian and they were not much else than Debian with some wallpapers and themes I can create Billie EiLishnux or some shit like that and prove than I’m more capable than your average ai and you can’t stop me.

Wait until you learn what “GNU” stands for.

Oh no, don’t thank me - thank Lawnchair devs! Their launcher is actually great (well at least for me it is, hope that it is for you too).

I’m seeing a “Gestures” section in Lawnchair which has the following:

• Double tap
• Swipe up
• Swipe down
• Home button
• Back button

Each one of them has the following options:

• Do nothing
• Rest mode
• Open notifications panel
• Open app drawer
• Open app finder
• Open search
• Open app (this one seems to be the one you are asking for)

Not sure if this are the exact names they show up in english, though

Turns off the system

I like Fossify’s, but I won’t recommend it - it has no predictive text and no symbols on its main keyboard, the first which is a huge deal for almost everyone. Not sure if they’re working on those or if it will never get those features, because if it had those two it would be the perfect keyboard because it’s so great in every other sense.

sudo init 0 because yolo

Not sure if my memory is failing already but I no longer see those “Update portage before anything else” messages.

When something tries to overwrite stuff in /etc and you have to etc-update your shit… that’s when things get real