https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/20250425/ also has a good list of grievances

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I wrote and deleted an entire personal anecdote but then remembered this isn’t reddit.

This “trend” is garbage marketing. Dumb idea. Racist rage bait. Awful.

I don’t use either now. I have tried both. When I started with Ubuntu i was great; fast, light, all the good stuff. Then it started to get bloated and wouldn’t run on my old machine… So I moved to Arch and it saved me and I used it for years.

Great explanation

That might be true. They have a Mastodon too https://floss.social/@tde

There are no stupid questions and the attitude of any response would be a good way to judge if using the DE is worth your time.

It appears to be maintained, which is a point in its favour.

You could send them a message on their mailing list and ask the question.

I live in France. For a time we had loads of poke places, still do. Insane that people pay €14 for a bowl of rice…

The biggest up-and-comer now is smash burgers (€15 burger prepared in 5 minutes anyone?), but might be tied with fried chicken which is also everywhere.

Prior to this we had a wave of French Taco joints (which are not tacos at all!).

I don’t live in a very large city though, so perhaps Paris, Marseille, and Toulouse have trends I haven’t seen yet.

Oh for sure, they can be aggravating but I haven’t watched any of their vids in over a year. I wouldn’t take their advice the same as how I wouldn’t want anyone to take my advice. Just because someone says they work in IT doesn’t mean they do, right? I used to work in a pharmacy and people would ask me for medical advice when they saw me in town, but I didn’t work in the dispensary. I knew the answer to their question, but I was not going to risk it.

I was about to watch when I realized who it was. To be honest, many of the Linux YouTubers have turned me off for different reasons, but I never enjoyed this guy’s videos and I’m not the only one…

I guess I should watch this to give a decent opinion. Other distros are just as political and decisions reflect their stance (like how Alpine doesn’t include Xlibre for reasons). As it stands, I’m fine with that.

I am unaware of the particularities surrounding the Debian situation, so I’ll still need to play catch up.

I don’t have any of these devices, but Android devices do have lockdown and stolen phone protection if you use a Google account. Same, there is anti-phishing FIDO, etc…

The alternative ROMs for Android devices are based on Android, but there are users that do no want any Google in their phone and that takes away a few functions (like find my phone stuff [correct me if I’m wrong here]).

GrapheneOS is the strict option and locks the bootloader. e/OS can relock the bootloader on official builds. An unlocked bootloader is a security risk.

Different ROMs have different issues when it comes to banking apps or biometrics.

I don’t use an alternative ROM, but I use an Android phone without a Google account. The most concerning missing function is find my phone, but there is an app for that.

If someone has your phone and it isn’t locked, they can potentially connect it to a computer and extract info. A locked Android device, like a locked iPhone, increases friction for whoever is trying to access the device. Relying solely on what I’ve read, iPhones are far more annoying to gain access to.

Quite a few, but the one that I’ve played the most is Super Metroid. I do like to play through the different Mega Man games too and a few others, but they are almost all well known games.

I have rediscovered other games that I totally overlooked because I thought they were too kiddy or too hard like The NewZealand Story, Gimmick and so many shmups.

I had a light for mine. Took 4 AA batteries. Amazing that I never complained about that… But my mom made us use rechargable batteries.

News company. They’re talking about Joe Ricketts.

It’s what I’ve been using since the early 2000’s. Whatever laptop I can get for free with boring Linux. I teach all my classes across multiple establishments with it. Battery still lasts over 9 hours. Beats the Raspberry Pi I used as a computer for 6 months!

I do have a colleague that installed one of the LLMs on their computer to play around with translation and live subtitles, and another who claims ChatGPT taught him French. Maybe there is something to it, but I draw the line at using AI because, as I said, I forbid it in my classes.

I have a 10-year old laptop with integrated graphics running Debian Stable, so I don’t think I’ll be using a local LLM any time soon haha. I tell my students I don’t want them to use any of these tools so I don’t use them either.

OpenAI doesn’t really have a product in the business sense, which is the fraud and why I compare him to Holmes. But I get what you mean.

Couldn’t tell you, I’ve never used any of them.

I am an ESL teacher. Generative AI is making things complicated for us, but it cannot replace learning the language. Right now, things like ChatGPT are presented as some sort of solution, but it is so far off and sometimes too obvious.

Like you mentioned, you think and reason differently in different languages. Plus, some people just love learning languages.

Aside: I am of the opinion that OpenAI and ChatGPT will disappear within 2 to 3 years. Their investors will abandon them leaving them drowning in debt, Sam Altman will face the same fate as Elizabeth Holmes. At some point his grift of asking for more money, hardware, electricity, water, etc., will be revealed.

Had a random desktop from a mall computer shop that ran Windows ME!

Before that we had some 486 machines with 40MB HDD and Windows 3.5 and IBM DOS…

My first computer that was mine though was a Dell D610 I believe. Lasted 8 years.