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  • But it doesn’t change how FOSS networks […] are very leftist.

    FOSS is essentially software socialism. It’s not surprising many of the people who love it espouse those ideals in other aspects of life.

    Idk about that

    Yes you do. I can see your post history on the topic. You know they’ve been censoring opposing viewpoints.

    but they’re at least claiming to be removing censorship so let’s see how it goes

    Claiming to be doing that then verifiably censoring political persuasions they don’t adhere to. Clearly following the Elon Musk school of being free speech absolutists.

    (not too well so far)

    Well at least you’re aware of it.

    Hostile? Exaggerated in my opinion.

    Well facts don’t really line up with your opinions, I guess. They were and are being hostile to LGBT people.

    I support letting anti-LGBT and other anti- people speak in a not toxic way

    Ummm… How? Legitimately how is that possible? Being anti-LGBT is inherently being toxic. What does that even mean?

    It’s an impossible position. You cannot be anti-LGBT without being toxic in the same way you cannot jump into a pool of lava unscathed.

    And you say they can deal with people who think differently?

    Not really

    But you initially said they could?

    but this is how FOSS networks (Revolt and Lemmy in particular) made me be so like I’m not sure who’s at fault here and it’s not really the topic anyways.

    Of course. You’re not at fault. Nothing is your fault. It’s those damn other people who made you this way.







  • This is part of why these days I just stick to flatpaks. No fragmentation, same on any distro, I know where all the programs are going as well as all their config files.

    If I want to back up my flatpaks I can do so trivially.

    It’s a godsend. Way better than having a bunch of different formats everywhere, or the windows-style some programs installed in XYZ directory, some in program files, some in program files (x86), with config files saved literally anywhere. Maybe it’s in one of the dozens of poorly laid out appdata folders, maybe it’s where the exe is, maybe it’s in documents, maybe it’s in C:, maybe it’s hidden in my user directory, etc. I’ve even seen config files saved to bloody onedrive by default, leading to some funky app behaviour when I wasn’t connected to the internet, or when I ran out of onedrive space.


  • I love the Framework project, and want one, but my god do you pay a premium for the modularity.

    A Framework 13 with a 7840U, 512gb SSD, 16GB RAM costs £1400.

    I can get a different laptop with equivalent specs (but with a much better OLED display) for £670, £620 for a Grade A refurbished one. I didn’t look hard. Literally the first result when I searched “7840U” at a retailer.

    I love the modularity, but costing 2.1x as much is something I can’t justify.