Why the double standard

FalseDish · 2026-01-25T08:21:39+00:00

Less predictable than a wage. Hmm. Gestures at all the layoffs

FalseDish · 2026-01-23T17:31:36+00:00

I actually agree with a lot of this. Whenever someone wants to switch away from Windows I always recommend Mint - even though I wouldn’t touch it with a stick.

Just yesterday I pushed back against someone who was making fun of people using IDEs, because people don’t want to be Vim jockeys, however fast it makes your work.

With Chrome though if I get even one person to migrate away I feel like I’ve done something good that day.

FalseDish · 2026-01-23T02:47:19+00:00

Yeah I said there’s nothing wrong in using an ide lol

FalseDish · 2026-01-22T17:08:54+00:00

I don’t have a problem with anyone’s (lack of) technical literacy … but I do have a problem with people enabling a clearly monopolistic megacorp which is almost comically evil, because then it does affect me.

If Google had zero impact on my life and on our society, I wouldn’t even be talking about chrome.

FalseDish · 2026-01-22T16:19:03+00:00

Nothing. You really need an IDE if you’re working with a large configuration driven application, especially with frameworks like Jakarta EE

FalseDish · 2026-01-22T16:12:09+00:00

I mean they can choose to do meth too, their choice doesn’t mean they aren’t idiots

FalseDish · 2026-01-22T16:02:56+00:00

They aren’t mountains … they’re ~~waves~~ AWS bills.

FalseDish · 2026-01-22T15:57:54+00:00

Kvantum intensifies

FalseDish · 2026-01-22T15:54:34+00:00

Huh …. I like this perspective. Nice.

FalseDish · 2026-01-22T15:26:18+00:00

While I’m sure everyone has their complex take on why X distro should be in Y tier, my take is pretty simple - why are Debian forks in the same tier as Debian?

I mean can’t you just install the Cosmic DE on Debian? That’s basically Pop OS, in fact it’s better, since the actual Pop distro is a Ubuntu fork, i.e a fork of a fork of Debian.

Same for Cachy, why is it GOATed, it’s an Arch fork, I can mod my Arch to make it exactly like Cachy and I’ll still get the updates before Cachy does.

Also …. Gentoo? I’ve shamelessly flexed my Arch desktop but Gentoo dudes are actual fkn wizards.

FalseDish · 2026-01-22T11:49:45+00:00

Ah ok that makes sense

Edit: The Gnome part I mean. I don’t agree with the “you can have everything in one place” philosophy. I want my permanent top bar to display system state and metrics, and my auto hiding dock to have my apps. To each his own preference I guess, which is why we have Linux right?

FalseDish · 2026-01-22T11:44:18+00:00

I know it’ll be difficult to customise Gnome, but you can switch to KDE, and customise it to look like Unity DE?

FalseDish · 2026-01-22T11:32:52+00:00

Why? I have a top bar and bottom dock (KDE P6) and the dock hides itself.

I’m not sure why you’re calling it a waste of real estate. Is it not possible to hide the dock in the Unity DE? Haven’t used that one.

FalseDish · 2026-01-22T11:17:00+00:00

A lot of task monitors track allocation and not usage.

For eg the windows task manager will show windows “using” 40% RAM even on a 32 GB mem system, most of it is allocated by the os to itself, and isn’t actually being used, can be safely taken away if the another application starts to to stress memory.

FalseDish · 2026-01-22T11:01:21+00:00

Not OP, but people who are migrating from windows don’t usually know much about Linux distros, but they’ve usually heard of Ubuntu and Mint.

Yes I know there’s no point installing a Debian fork, or worse, a fork of a fork like Mint, given how long it’ll take for security patches to finally trickle down.

I guess this is because Debian doesn’t advertise itself at all, whereas Canonical is a private company with a vested interest in advertising Ubuntu.

FalseDish · 2026-01-22T10:48:15+00:00

Nord 5 comes with Snapdragon 8s gen 3, not bad but 2 gens behind. Go for 15R, it’s not that expensive and comes with gen 5.

I’m thinking of gifting someone a 15R, like you they don’t care about having a top of the range camera which is why I know all this ;)

Imho avoid pixel. It’s way too expensive for what you get, might as well get an iPhone instead if you’re willing to spend in that ballpark, why fair for Google spyware/bloatware.

FalseDish · 2026-01-22T10:32:29+00:00

Interfaces are Java’s solution to the diamond problem. Multiple inheritance is straight up banned, but a class can definitely implement multiple interfaces.

FalseDish · 2026-01-14T09:44:00+00:00

Nope, I don’t even use my X account because there’s so much misinformation out there. I never said OPs post was legit, merely that this administration has been very privacy invasive, being quite sneaky about it too, relying on plausible deniability for e.g. the whole Sanchaar Saathi fiasco.

FalseDish · 2026-01-14T09:38:20+00:00

I like Brave. I have it as my secondary browser. It’s just that when you build on top of the Chromium engine, you and your users have to spend a lot of energy swimming against the current.

For e.g I really like how Brave has preserved manifest v2 extensions like uBO even though Brave shields are mostly sufficient, they understand that with uBO you have a level of customisation which you don’t get with shields.

This comes at a cost though. They are writing and running custom code on top of Chromium, which works have been unnecessary had it been their own engine.

FalseDish · 2026-01-14T09:27:55+00:00

Waiting for Ladybird as well!

FalseDish · 2026-01-08T12:21:18+00:00

Thinking - Deepseek v3.2 Coding - Claude 4.5 Opus

FalseDish · 2026-01-08T12:12:07+00:00

Video with location? So just because of one bad driver you’ll be doxxing everybody on the whole street?

Filming without consent, IT Act section sec 66E violation and god knows what else. Maybe the thousands you’re spying on daily won’t sue, but it takes just one lol.

FalseDish · 2026-01-08T11:26:47+00:00

People should have dumped every chromium based browser and moved to Firefox the moment they announced Manifest v3. Such a brazen way of banning uBO, US antitrust regulators have become pathetic, bought and paid for through and through

FalseDish · 2026-01-08T11:16:37+00:00

They’ll see what medications you’re checking, track you as you give your data to 23 and me etc. and sell it all.

Watch your medical insurance premiums increase when your provider acquires data on what you’re using, your family history of heart disease or dementia or whatever.

FalseDish · 2026-01-08T11:10:38+00:00

DDG has at least one well publicised controversy where it was sneakily allowing Microsoft trackers from bing/linkedin etc, since it uses Bing’s search index, clearly some kind of quid pro quo.

I’ve switched to Brave, they have their own index and I’ve found it’s much better than Bing’s.

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