No point if it’s inherently bad.

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Ah yes, an appimage packaged into a Flatpak packaged around Docker packaged into a proot+bubblewrap script which is packaged back into a Docker container (but a newer version) running under a Snap packaging of LXC under Flatpak Snap.

The app is running Java of course.

It’s a fucking USB HID mouse? OS agnostic. In an ideal world, the buttons should just be really big number scancodes that aren’t mapped to anything. You can then do something like this (says sway but runs on basically everything X and Wayland). Research before buying a mouse. Actually, no, just buy it from a local store, and if the buttons aren’t functioning as buttons without OEM bullshit, return as defective.

Yay, more corporate openwashed software. Also yay, more markdown only repos.

Copy pasting my other reply about the same thing:

I would argue that BSD licensing keeps projects more free of corporate influence if started by hobbyists.

Corpo forks BSD/Apache/whatever software, doesn’t publish source, nerds don’t use it and look for the original, the end.

Corpo forks copyleft software, publishes releases on GutHib with literal zip files in the repo semi annually. Original maintainer gets taunted with “but the corpo one has feature X, the code is free, you should use it”. If they don’t merge it, they get labeled an egoist and people go use the corporate one. If they do merge it, eventually the entire project gets bloated and barely readable, is held together by @redhat.com patches, and eventually all development is just corporate decisions. There’s no escape.

You know, we are all victims of it ourselves. I am using Firefox rn. There was little to no “conversion” as they started out corporate. They have patches merged from the Tor people for actual privacy, although removed from the settings because “meh, nobody would want that” (sponsors would disapprove). The privacy they are marketing for normies is a list of like 20 domains.

Yeah uh so we are very private by default, there’s no google tracking but if a site loads an ad or a youtube embed there’s google tracking, also we block embeds for privacy except specifically youtube.

It’s all corporate decisions. While I don’t use the specific variant(s) and didn’t observe it, I once saw the Firefox home page on someone else’s device. It was football stats followed by “sponsored links”. I thought it was Edge for a second.

And there’s no escape. Web pages are no longer actual pages oftentimes, they are fat blobs of 3 language conversions on top of each other targeting only the specific 3 (sometimes 2) big brand web browsers as the backend: Firefox, Chromium and Apple’s Webkit fork. They are all corporate. The fat blob generators are also corporate.

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Even if taken literally, the second part would still then be my “sincere view” and therefore “the correct opinion”, no?

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OR apply that guy’s patch to get the same shit for free

(nobody tell corporate)

Sooooooo just renamed Anubis? Daring today, aren’t we?

It’s… already partially unintentionally true. One name for IRC and forums (plus stuff prompted by said forums), one for a browser game or two, and this one for everything else. Although are you suggesting I should literally use a random nickname generator for each service? What if I want to cross reference something across them? Also, would imagine multitasking being one hell of a pain. I mean, I can spawn multiple Tor Browser instances and stuff, but then have to make sure I am doing the intended thing in each one. I am a bit of a “social chameleon” and I am already struggling with just using only the correct inside jokes with someone…

Meh, I can talk shit about Putin all I want, everyone knows I’m Ukrainian anyway.

Although good point. I am not sure what meaning to derive from that. This specific nickname I am using right now was followed by a partial burn and partial renaming of accounts since I wasn’t this paranoid (or more like aware) back then. Would this “meh, they can still find you” mean “don’t bother” or…?

Even if not for everything else mentioned here, I see TVs with the official YouTube client stuck at “Are you still watching?” in public from time to time, so there’s that.

Only partially user-centric decisions because the @someRandomOEM.com and @redhat.com people will send drivers with no documentation to go with it due to NDAs. Also only partially user-centric decisions because if someone is backed by a company, their solution will be pushed faster.

People on free software adjacent forums (probably originated on linux {.} org {.} ru?) thought of a standard unit of measurement for how much pedantic force a person is able to apply. It is called “1 Poettering”, named after Lennart “Harry” Poettering. Values greater than 1 have not been observed; it is often assumed to be the highest constant similar to the speed of light. Here’s a table from (my very subjective) consensus:

• Lennart “Harry” Poettering - 1 (the system deez nuts guy)
• Mark “Shuttlecock” Shuttleworth - .9 (the Canonical guy)
• Hans Reiser - .7 (ReiserFS)
• Richard Stallman - .6 (GNU)
• Linus Torvalds - .5 (Linux)
• Theo De Raadt - .17 (OpenBSD)

Maintainers of random projects that everyone takes for given are <=.1 until they riot when it becomes .6 temporarily.

Blame Mitterrand, not people that just so happened to be housed in that region.

Stop with the damn stereotype of “French bad”, even as a joke. The only objectively bad thing about the French I’ve heard was specifically about the locals of Paris being annoyed at foreigners’ pronunciation and rhythm of their language.

“GMail takeout files” aren’t a thing. mbox is a standard file format from Unix. Some Unix-likes provide the mail command and on others you have to install s-nail, after which you can do mail -f {path to mbox} to view all mail inside. If there are multiple files, you can literally just concatenate them like so: cat /somedirectory/*.mbox > theultimate.mbox.

Apart from that, most GUI mail clients allow viewing mbox. When the mbox file updates, the client says you have new mail. For example, in Claws Mail, skip setup, then go to plugins and enable the mbox plugin (while you are there, may as well enable pgp, s/mime, calendar, dillo to handle all formats). Then, go to create new account, and in the “Basics” tab, select “local mbox file” for "Receive protocol ". It will then ask for a file path.

Also, if your Google account settings allow, you can literally just login to Google from Claws mail. Set protocol to IMAP, then set Authentication method to Oauth2 in both Receive and Send tabs. Proceed with setup as usual and it will open your default web browser to login. After that, it will download your entire history of mail.