ExtremeUnicorn

Yeah, don’t do that.

You may have been lucky, but the testing repository is really not meant for daily use.

Noone cares about packages there, so depending on what you have installed and when you update, you might have critical security vulnerabilities that have been patched for weeks on Stable or other incompatibilities/broken dependencies.

Unstable is not meant for daily use either, but at least you brainlessly get pushed the latest updates at all times. I have used it for a while, but it broke on me, too.

If you need newer software, just use Stable with backports or Flatpaks.

It does not accept them, does it? I have used it before, but stopped for some reason, but I can’t remember why exactly. I don’t think that was it, though.

Are you still going on about this? How often do you want to reply to me?

Or are you one of those Russian bots just spouting the same stuff over and over?

Which is, in all honesty, the correct way to cover news reports.

And what apparent side would that be, if I may ask?

Why would you attack me by implying I have alterior motives when I simply replied to the top comment? It doesn’t mention an “imperialist machine”, it states that there will be a world war against the US & Israel.

I simply stated that I can see no “good” allied forces against the “bad” axis in this conflict as in WW2 (let’s just say that, for all its own problems, the lines were more clearly defined back then). Everyone’s kinda the baddies now.

Regarding your sources: Wow, someone has certainly been busy. I simply haven’t had the time to read it all, but if you consider a paid journalist on a curated trip to the region and a professionally produced video series with apparent residents as credible sources, I am not convinced. It’s no secret that Bejing has a heavy grip on the media and censors basically all critical outlets. I do not expect any official account of anything bad ever happening there.

Oh wow, yeah if they’re at least undocumented it’s all good.

Just because Trump is basically the worst possible example of a human being there can be, I’m not gonna believe for a second that any other ruling politicians or oligarchs are saints. Just that those others have better control over the media, which Trump wants to achieve as well.

Just like the rogue terrorist state Russia needs to be stopped in their attempted annexations and political psyops.

Or China needs to be stopped in their aggressions against Taiwan and ethnic cleansing of Uyghurs and other “undesirable” people.

I feel like there is no winning scenario left in this.

Who are “we” anyway?

Tried it a couple of times, wasn’t my thing. Last time, I had some more serious issues with it (file manager doing weird stuff), so I tossed it for good.

Also Mate is heavily tied to the whole Ubuntu/Snap thing, so that’s a bit yuckie to me.

That it doesn’t work.

I can’t on Debian. Can’t even enter my password like that. Not sure if it’s related to some config, it just does not work on Wayland, but works immediately on X11.

• Try using software with a lower resolution on a 4K display (e.g. laptop) without it displaying as a small 1:1 pixel box for ants
• Try typing uppercase letters on a mobile device over KDEConnect on Wayland
• Try remapping any key on your keyboard to print a different character on another layer
• Try using an older Nvidia card that doesn’t get proprietary drivers on a system that wouldn’t need them

Yeah, we’re just inventing shit all the time…

Yes, it fills the screen the moment I select the X11 session. I even looked it up, Wayland just can’t do it.

I tried it on KDE (or rather, it forced me to after it simply updated to Wayland by default). I tried to set it up correctly, but it just didn’t quite work.

I also need no fractional scaling, but some software does not honor that anyway (e.g. VST interfaces).

Simply reducing the resolution is a simple fix, also easier on the GPU, but Wayland will not fill the screen and intead just shows the tiny original 1:1 image in the middle.

It may be the future, but it’s unusable for me.

I have a high dpi screen. Upscaling does not perfectly work for me in every program, but simply setting it to Full HD does work and looks fine.

However, when I set it to the lower resolution in Wayland, I have 50% of the display active with black bars all around.

So far, there seems to be no fix for this?

Same thing happens if you start older, lower resolution fullscreen apps (retro games and such).

You’re spinning in circles. I already admitted to understanding your point.

Since you like writing in proverbs, sometimes you have to fight fire with fire. Give them a taste of their own medicine. Let them feel what it’s like to be on the reciving end.

Those rich fucks tend to only pick fights with underpowered opponents, which is not that difficult due to their vast financial advantage. It’s only fair to level the playfield by such measures and one of the few things we can do.

The paradox of tolerance.

It’s a fine idea, but you can not equate the right to privacy of an innocent person and a perpetrator. (I know courts see this differently.)

The only point I would agree on is leave out the kids, they had no choice.

Unfortunately, disagree.

Last time I checked it still had double menus all around the place, not a sign of a “polished” experience.

And since a lot of users still recommend to install the dash to dock extension before doing anything else, doesn’t seem plug & play, either.

Imagine living in a country with 900+ billionaires, with growing tendency, where regular people are discussing about the best ways not to starve.

Not thar it’s much better where I live, but damn, what the hell is wrong with this world?

There’s a bit of hyperbolism and distortion in that comment.

So first of all, the FSF did not create Libreboot, that was just a coreboot distribution by one (or two) people and I would not call it shitty, it had prebuilt binaries with working GRUB configs for the models supported, even allowing for full disk encryption with a well written guide on how to do so.

Secondly, it’s hard to create a chain of trust without trusing the hardware. As long as the manufacturer remains in control of any part of it, you will get the same situation thay we have now. I would rather use a deblobbed device than wait for obscure security features that provide no real-world benefit to my use case.

However, I think this may not catch on. Hundreds of millions of people use completely outdated phones with spyware of some form on them right now, they simply don’t care.

Seems like a cheap excuse, the law doesn’t say specifically that.

But, of course, manufacturers like to lock down their devices as much as possible. And such laws play into their hands.