Agreed with your closing thoughts. It's never been more obvious that we can't rely on commercial entities.
The fruits of years of organic growth within subs squandered in the name of corporate profits should be the wake-up call the average person needs.
Often when things like this happen (see:dig, twitter) the question gets asked "what can be done?" Well, let me tell you about FOSS..
As awful as it is, this should be a wake up call that systems need to be protected and security can't be an afterthought. Ev charging stations just be money trees for corporate groups to set and forget without consequences.
I don't feel bad at all for them. I will say that the political jab is absolutely trash tier though. What kind of mongoloid berates proponents of clean energy (rhetorical).
Doubt. If it somehow works out, do Google next
All of this is just addressing tangential problems created by the fact that the federal government hasn't done anything about legalizing it. Cowardly move, but not unexpected.
Struggling implies that they tried anything
I mean a core issue is that it doesn't adhere to the unix principle of do one thing and do it well. Aside from that it essentially creates a middle layer where things can happen without you really knowing it's happening. If you haven't I'd suggest running a couple of different init systems to see what I mean.
I'm ambivalent, I like systemd because it's convenient, but I also like openrc because it's simple.
Pretty porthole view of US geopolitics my dude. Peace isn't zero sum, someone always has to give up something, and people don't like to be made to feel like they've lost. I'd never want a homogeneous society either, too culturally bleak.
Gentoo and Debian. Debian will let you get back to what you really want to be doing whereas gentoo gives you excellent granularity over everything, but can be overwhelming and time consuming.
Really should ask yourself what you'll be mostly doing and pick a tool (distro) that let's you accomplish that.
As long as it's moderated in a way that ensures it doesn't devolve into a bunch of thinly veiled or overt jabs at the usual groups I don't see why not. Do i have faith it will succeed? Not really
This is exactly what I thought too. Sad you don't see the same energy being thrown at ending this practice.
The ascii art is amazing, love the overall color theme. Nicely done!
Haha what are the odds, I'll change mine. I have no shortage of cat pictures
What a cute dog, love the innocent look
Awesome! Glad it worked out
No you can always recover, uninstall it and reinstall later if you need it.
Looks like you could just
mv /usr/share/xdg-desktop-portal/portals/gnome.portal /home/<your-profile> and remove the associated env variable. This way you don't mess with your packages. I'd start with the wiki linked in this thread.
Reddit and twitters recent moves were the driving force behind me switching to mastadon and lemmy, but I ditched meta/Facebook services long ago. Adding those back into this fold really makes the choice for me kind of easy. Inviting meta to the party is just a non starter.