isn’t that pitch then?

to be fair, to Magastanians, the eyes are more valuable. That way they wouldn’t lose anything they’d miss.

Totally unrelated to that line-up I just thought of just how much one high-velocity object can make an impact at times…

Samesies :)

Interesting how that goes, innit? Nazis and fascists happily supporting Russian & Chinese campaigns to destabilize Europe.

Yes? Same thing… aptitude upgrade, aptitude dist-upgrade, edit /etc/apt/sources.lst to point to the new major version (s/bookworm/trixie), aptitude upgrade, aptitude dist-upgrade Done. Typically takes 1 hourish at most.

Whole weekend upgrading debian? I am confused. That’s not how debian works?

Yes.

Between equals it’s not a class war though, it’s infighting. And agreed, we should avoid that. Rich parasites love to see us divided.

well, if they are indeed using similar amounts of cpu (my idle XFCE shows in top at a steady 0.3%, I have a hard time believing KDE can do that), then someone did indeed tweak KDE. When I last used it, KDE3 was freshly out and I hated the UI, so I stopped using it - only to realise that I had been missing out on a lightning fast Window Manager.

However, that extra functionality may or may not be useful to people.

The only thing that would make me consider switching would be if a window manager offered to organise multiple desktops on the inner(!) surface of a cube and I could swap environments having a concept of up, down, left, right, front, back.

Scroll to the bottom, there’s a link to a spicier phrasing.

Also, quote from there:

You’re just making someone lose respect for you in real time, in a way that’s hard to walk back.

I feel that, I have lost respect for people that way and don’t want to be friends anymore :(

Assuming you are a DS citizen, your definition of a large shopping center may vary. Also, your definition of rural :) That said, I was referring to “large junctions with shopping centers”, not “junctions with large shopping centers”. What I mean is a road crossing with 3-4 supermarkets, each of which has a parking lot around 200x100 yards

oh right - samesies :D

Less capitalism so far, more small bakeries.

I think the way most cities are organised in the divided states of southern northern america doesn’t work as well with smaller shops. You need walkable city centers for those, and especially rural areas have these large shopping center junctions with Target, Walmart etc and big parking lots - then bigger cities where living downtown is unaffordable and again you have the suburbs with these shopping areas that are almost industrialised. In most of these environments, smaller shops that could sell more or less homemade / handmade flour-based products wouldn’t stand a chance.

Having worked in a smartphone after market organisation, I can assure you that phones do break due to user error also in the first few years. Screen breaks, phones are dropped, charging ports are subject to user violence…

Having not worked in a smartphone after market organisation, I can assure you that is pretty much exactly what I wrote up there.

They deliver security updates for the pre-installed OSes they support. Those updates are no good for most users that load their own flavour of OS. What counts is hardware that has open source drivers (Also - holy fuck - the homepage almost gave me a seizure and I am not an epileptic). Where they are doing OKish, but not great.

As for “7 full years of stocking parts” - the first 3-4 years are next to useless, almost no phone breaks that fast unless physically damaged. And it only becomes relevant for most people who take care with their phone after 5+ years. And that’s exactly when the support period ends. Which is unfortunately, the opposite of the “sustainable phone” that they promise.

As said, they do have a great team, and they do do Fair Trade, and they do engage with the community - all good things. But I am quite disappointed in the “by the time you need a replacement part, it’s out of stock” lesson learned.

They have a great team, sadly they continuously aimed for a broad target audience in lack of support for degoogled OSes (only doing the bare minimum) and the headphone jack indeed. Also, sadly, the long life thingie is a joke when you are a cautious user and you don’t break your phone. 5-7 years after purchase, spare parts are no longer available :/

No it isn’t. Unless KDE has had a major debloat since KDE4. XFCE is lightning fast.

Ah, so it was IT management deciding, the ever corrupt, ever incompetent fuckers in every organisation. Okay, I feel that pain.

Why would you go to microslop?