I have occasions (many in fact) to go off on rants myself. Many times they are well deserved. But that’s probably because at 65 I no longer have patience or time for BS.
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I don’t think it will land to Rock any time soon.
Maybe to ROME, but just if/when deemed safe for production. That is after extensive testing in cooker.
If anyone has a spare partition to use feel free to install cooker iso and provide as much feedback as possible. Also the success/working-good will help a lot.
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What really stands out to me is that he spent ample time typing up that rant which begs the question: how much time does he actually spend coding vs getting concerned over “Muh Nazis”?
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Username checks out…
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I’m guessing that when a man talks as much about killing a given set of software as he does espousing the virtues of a new set of software, that he’s full of it.
When people talk of killing something to “make way for the future”, they are usually assholes of the worst stripe. This principle applies right across the board of human endeavor, IMHO.
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The man probably wrote some useful code. The issue, IMHO is that they let him post that kind of crap in the first place. GNOME did the right thing by nuking it; it was probably a little too honest about GNOME’s direction.
Here at OM, you can be woke or whatever, so long as you contribute in a positive way, this place welcomes everybody, so long as they are polite and respectful, as a matter of fact, I’ve seen folk ask to delete their accounts here because they were called out for failing to be polite and respectful. I would rather share a drink or a meal with a polite and yet evil fascist than a mouthy self-righteous virtue-signaling do-gooder, and I don’t even like fascists. Lastly, the virtue-signaling do-gooders are usually insane authoritarians to boot, many of whom make the real fascists look like pikers.
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Problem with some people is they see anything other than 100% surrender as authoritarianism, and any hint of national pride or positivity gets equated to blind obedience leading to genocide…like I said, its suicide by intentional societal collapse. I hope these people get the counseling or medication they need to “c03x1sT” in the real world.
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There can be no doubt that a certain segment of society which I will, for convenience, refer to as “the left”, exists, who are more interested in destroying than building.
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Is there a particular Cooker ISO that you recommend installing? Is there already an xLibre build? Or would I need to use the regular x11 ISO and then install xLibre myself?
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The HDR & VRR support in wayland are definitely the main reasons I use it, X resets my monitor brightness to 0% on boot. X11 does somethings that aren’t needed anymore, but I’m glad it’s being forked by someone who will maintain it. I don’t use orca or most accessibility features personally, but it’s a fact that many of them don’t work in wayland. I use this script for TTS of any selected text though
#!/bin/sh
if [ "$XDG_SESSION_TYPE" = "wayland" ]; then
clip_cmd="wl-paste --primary --no-newline"
else
clip_cmd="xclip -o"
fi
$clip_cmd | sed -z 's/\n/,,,/g' > /tmp/clip.txt; cat /tmp/clip.txt | sed 's/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/\\&/g' | xargs flatpak run net.mkiol.SpeechNote --action start-reading-text --text
From here, consider that build ID 3989 is the last without xlibre.
Probably the most recent. All of them have xlibre.
I could test install of 4004 in virtualbox, then upgrades broke it. So I can’t say anything about the others.
But looks like the issue is in virtualbox only.
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When you retire, you no longer care if someone is going to fire you. Because they can’t. Giving you plenty of time to write up a rant, and then letting the Cancel Culture find out that it is impossible to fire someone who is working full time at retirement.
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I suspect 6 minutes of every weeknight goes into actual code.
The rest of his time is spent chasing after shadows, boogeymen, Nazis (anyone who fails to comply), and so on.
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Would I be able to install it on ROCK?
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Not unless you have developer or at least package maintainer skills. Maybe someday but not in Rock/6.0 today. If people want to try xlibre today in OMLx you need to use a Cooker (development branch) iso.
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My opinion is, Gnome should have kept it up for all to see. Expose the problem within and let public opinion produce a judgment.
Trouble is, Gnome knew that a public judgment would go against Gnome and produce so much damage that Gnome would never recover. In the end, Gnome had no choice but to take it down.
How true it is.
In a group I belong to as part of another of my hobbies, unfortunately we have one member who everyone would love to have removed. Trouble is, group policy is the only way to remove someone is for theft, destruction of property, or other criminal activities against the group. We don’t discriminate based on skin color, religion, gender, education, and so on.
Why does everyone want him removed? He goes around virtue signaling, point-blank, in the face of everyone, including the visiting public when we are open to the public, complete with mothers with small children who don’t need to see his disgusting antics. He is gender confused and demands that everyone must accept him and is deserving of special treatment, or else he will call in the Wokesters to back him up.
Meanwhile, we have another member of the group who isn’t quite all there in the mental faculties department. He forgets where he put his stuff, forgets what he did five minutes ago, has trouble keeping track of time, and so on. But he doesn’t go around virtue signaling his problems to everyone, demanding special treatment. Enough members are willing to work with him, to the point where whoever happens to be there will remind him of where he left his stuff, what he did, what he is doing, or when he needs to start packing up so he doesn’t miss his train going home. There is one individual who wants him removed for not being fully Woke. Care to guess which one?
Amazing how much more help and acceptance can be attained by not virtue signaling.
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I see.
Thank you.
I am more concerned with stability and functionality, so I’ll probably go with Rock, and keep my fingers crossed that it winds up in a Rock release sooner or later.
Thanks again.
The useful idiots may be last, but they are still included.
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There are direct parallels between this behavior and documentation, translation, scripting/Rust, and CoC’s It was all incubated in universities instead of teaching people the how and why of programming. It’s why everything has to be rewritten. Like everything else in this world, there is a need to destroy legacy and remove that knowledge from people.
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If every other socialist regime enforcement in history is any indication, that is 100% true. The useful idiots are always last. In the end, they always get what they demanded, but not what they were expecting.
Good luck with trying to explain actual history to them.
Knowledge is dangerous to their agenda, along with having to justify their reason to exist. That is why it must be destroyed. They can’t have a bunch of independent thinkers running loose with documentation of how it was done without them.
If only they had put that much effort into producing something useful. But that requires thinking for one’s self. For them, it is much easier to just follow marching orders from on high and never worry about the outcome.
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