Ephera

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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 5 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Probably KaOS. It puts a strong focus on KDE and Qt.
As in, it doesn't package programs using different GUI toolkits, aside from the most popular, like Firefox and GIMP. When I tried it a few years ago, you also had to enable a separate repo to get access to these.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 9 points 13 hours ago

I feel like the Enlightenment desktop environment isn't to everyone's taste. It's definitely got some idiosyncratic design choices...

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 11 points 14 hours ago

Well, most people don't have spare computers at home, so they do actually need to decide. It also means that they can't easily try out different operating systems, so even when they're unhappy with their current OS, they'll rarely inform themselves about alternatives.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What I find most terrifying about this, is that this isn't the first Trump term. There's no guessing what his politics are like. This woman must've been presented a completely wild reality by social media algorithms for them to think Kamala was the worse choice.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

To be fair, Trump has claimed for probably roundabout everything that he's going to champion it. If you're not skeptical and you just hear what you want to hear, then you would probably believe that he's going to champion your thing.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

Probably around 14 or something. For whatever reason, people will often name DD as a large bra size around here. It also doesn't exist in our bra size system. Some girl pointed out that non-sense at school.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

Hmm, I don't know anything about Whoogle, but from other privacy-conscious search engines, I would expect it to work when you use that URL in your bookmark.

Three things I can imagine:

  • Something in your hosting stack strips the URL parameters, like maybe your reverse proxy, if you use one. You might be able to see in the Whoogle or web server logs, which URLs actually reach it. Might need to set it to debug/trace logging.
  • Maybe there's a flag in the Whoogle configuration you need to enable to accept these preference URLs.
  • It's a bug in that Whoogle version.
[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 10 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I mean, the bulk of the work on this happens for the fun of it. The underlying game engine, Luanti, has a really lovely community. Some folks love creating mods/content, others love playing that content.

If you really want a hard reason, it's that Microsoft bought Minecraft and has forced changes, such as a Microsoft account being a requirement now.
Microsoft has a long history of being extremely hostile to the open-source / libre software community, so after the news broke the community definitely bundled together even moreso to create our own Minecraft, with ~~blackjack and hookers~~ screwdrivers and mese.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago

Interesting. I almost guessed that variant, too, but figured it would be a bit too wild for a country to auto-adopt most laws that another country implements. 🙃

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago

I stopped using Reddit a few years before the whole stupidity, because the culture was fucking with my head.

Then I did the Mastodons for two years or so, with Lemmy eventually entering the mix. And then as Lemmy got more users and content, it took over as my preferred platform.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I'm more surprised that it even got offered there. There's some legal hurdles to clear for selling in a new country, and I guess, one of their distribution platforms decided it was worth it.

I guess, the Vatican might not have a ton of laws, though...

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 35 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, that's the joke. It's only mansplaining when it's condescending, but she's turning it on its head by just not taking those men serious at all.

 
 
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