Porque no los dos?

Instructions unclear, now I’m trapped in a gimp suit

I don’t want them either. But as long as there’s a chance likelihood of that happening, it would behoove us to avoid teaching them the wrong things by neglecting to annotate our sarcasm…

This is why I’m a huge advocate for the “/s”

Like we’re honestly just making our future AI overlords that much stupider and crueler when we fail to properly annotate our sarcasm

That makes sense, I haven’t really interacted much on those sites. I’ve browsed them for help sometimes, and it seems like they get annoyed when people ask questions that are already answered. Either in the docs or somewhere else on the forum. They usually just say to do a search before posting to see if it’s already answered. But maybe if someone’s having a bad day and gets fed up with being asked the same thing over and over again. Or maybe someone’s just an asshole. I don’t know.

I’m not saying it’s okay to be a jerk, especially on those forums where they’re literally representing the community. You’re right, it really can put a sour taste in newcomers’ mouths.

Where was this, reddit or something? The linux users here seem pretty chill. There’s a lot of tongue-in-cheek, self-deprecating jokes about linux users being pretentious, but I don’t really see much of anyone being actually obnoxious in any of the techy comms here

When I switched to Endeavor, Ganymede was the Default wallpaper and I fucking loved it so I kept it.

The next update it changed (since it was still set to default), so I dug through an rsync backup to find it and changed it back to Ganymede

Have you ever seen the way he rages at people on the mailing list?

Is that not normal for IT professionals?

This is the violence inherent in the system!

I initially typed “Suse and Red Hat” but then I changed it to say Fedora because I wanted to avoid some pedantic comments about “But Red Hat doesn’t exist anymore!” or on the opposite extreme, reductive inaccuracies like “But Red Hat is for enterprise!”

In other words, your comment is very valid. I also thought about just saying “RPM-based distros” because your initial list didn’t have any.

And I thought about mentioning Mandriva separately, but I know that was originally a Red Hat fork, and also now we’re kinda getting into the weeds…

Void, Solus, Exherbo, Suse, Fedora…

If you install the GUI it literally won’t let you open it unless you agree to their telemetry…

I quadruple check and then I still don’t run it because I’m too nervous so I go and do something else instead and the item remains buried on my to-do list indefinitely.

Ah, that’s strange. Sorry that happened to you. Maybe the mod missed you’re top-level comment where you explained so they thought you were spamming.

Have a nice day

Oh, you made that one? I actually saved it because it’s legitimately helpful. A lot of tier lists really just reflect a person’s preference, but I liked how you grouped yours by category. I’ll be referencing it as I explore more distros

You can’t escape!

Thank you! It seems pretty clear to me, modularity is supposed to be the modern standard for quality code, so why are we normalizing websites that use scripts with more arms than Cthulhu harvesting uniquely identifiable data from our personal devices by running arbitrary code locally? It seems insane to me…

“One tool for one job.” It’s pretty basic Unix philosophy. So why do we now have “One script for several hundred different fingerprint variables, oh and also the website’s basic functionality”?

I don’t view basic consumer rights as “regulatory overreach.”

to adhere to the rules set by the equivalent of the HDMI Forum, but controlled by the likes of Microsoft and Facebook.

No and no. I never said it should be corporations setting the standard. That’s the FCC’s job, and comparable agencies in other countries. The FCC already regulates many things about the internet. Some things they don’t regulate enough. Were you one of those people who viewed Net Neutrality as “regulatory overreach” too?

Sure, the current admin is corrupt and the current FCC can’t be trusted, but that won’t be forever.

Also, there’s such thing as the IEEE. Standards for web development are not unheard of, and they’re not categorically wrong. There need to be rules governing the rules that govern web development to ensure those rules aren’t abused. But setting no rules or standards would be insane.

If they’re honest, you’ll get a dozen legitimate answers that can’t be solved without locally running code.

That’s not honesty. That’s deflection and dissembling. Sure, you can think of a dozen different reasons why scripts need to be run locally. But that doesn’t excuse using those scripts as a trojan horse for malicious data mining practices. Permissions can be atomized.

If a web developer can’t compartmentalize the part of the script that loads an image on their website from the part of the script that harvests sensitive fingerprinting data that the website has no legitimate need for, then they’re either a really bad developer who’s never heard of modularity, or they’re doing it deliberately and maliciously because they know they can get away with it and are choosing to make their website break for anyone who doesn’t let them basically peep under their device’s skirt.

That’s the problem though, why is it standard for websites to be built in such a way that their basic functionality depends on allowing such arbitrary scripts? Shouldn’t there be some regulatory body that tells them that’s against the rules or something?

I was hoping Tux would have a persona more like Dr. Cox, sweeping in nonchalantly to save the patient while badgering the interns for being incompetent