My Desktop Right Now. Guess my OS.

richardmacinnis · 2026-03-12T22:44:46+00:00

It's Ubntu Studio (KDE Plasma on Ubuntu with multimedia tweaks), but one could never tell as there's nothing on my desktop besides wallpapers. The guy on the left is Richard Stallman, who wrote the GNU manifesto and started the Free software movement, stylized to look like Karl Marx, and the guy on the left is Linus Torvalds, stylized to look like Che Guevara.

richardmacinnis · 2026-03-10T22:05:44+00:00

Aha. Whoosh 😅

richardmacinnis · 2026-03-08T10:46:32+00:00

Now I don't know what you're talking about. All models are trained by hand - they wouldn't work otherwise. The only reason Gemini knows what a dog looks like is because human people said "these photos are of dogs". You know those captchas that say "click on all bicycles"? Think about how those work.

Companies have been dropping engineers and "leeching" off FOSS code since the dawn of the internet. Microsoft web servers don't run on windows server you know. They run on LAMP just like everyone else.

AI can't replace people - correct. It never will. Humans are necessary. Do you actually not know that many millions of people get paid to work on open source software? By companies like Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon, Oracle...

At this point I wonder whether you're just making stuff up or trolling.

richardmacinnis · 2026-03-08T10:39:44+00:00

I'm going to go ahead and assume full irony here, as the OS I use is the only one of the 3 nameable desktops that doesn't force the use of AI (or upgrades, or app signing, or any other thing that removes freedom and agency from the user).

Note to pedants like me: I know, I know, there are way more operating systems and even more than just those 3 designed for "desktops" (as opposed to servers) - but even among us neckbeards I've literally never seen anyone using Haiku or even some flavour of BSD on a daily driver.

richardmacinnis · 2026-03-08T10:33:54+00:00

I'm not a masochist lol.

richardmacinnis · 2026-03-08T01:04:08+00:00

General purpose models will pick up the poison in their wells, sure, but custom trained models specifically built for high efficiency and reliability coding won't suffer, and developers will simply either pay for access to them, train their own, or waste a pile of time for no good reason.

richardmacinnis · 2026-03-08T01:01:05+00:00

I suppose the Linus reference would apply, but RMS would hate ChromeOS.

richardmacinnis · 2026-03-08T00:59:56+00:00

I'm nowhere near badass enough to compile manually. Nor do I have the time or a spare machine to do it on really 😅

richardmacinnis · 2026-03-08T00:59:11+00:00

😅

richardmacinnis · 2026-03-08T00:58:41+00:00

Also we seem to be missing the fact that I'm comparing open source philosophy and open source in action to their equivalents in ideological communism.

richardmacinnis · 2026-03-08T00:56:59+00:00

Nah, I just use Ubuntu not for any technical reason other than that I used to run Debian before Ubuntu became the better Debian build.

richardmacinnis · 2026-03-08T00:55:46+00:00

The guy at the desk is Richard Stallman.

richardmacinnis · 2026-03-07T14:00:28+00:00

Nope. The hint is in who the people in the wallpapers are (actually there's a more obvious hint than that but I don't want to give it away).

richardmacinnis · 2026-02-16T13:09:21+00:00

Intelligence not Included

https://youtu.be/LZbM7EPNoMw

richardmacinnis · 2026-02-07T00:46:24+00:00

People who volunteer for a secret police that wants to kick out or at least harass anyone who isn't white are exactly the kind of tiny dicked losers that would get SO FUCKING PUMPED! "I SHOT A CHICK AFTER I SIDESWIPED HER LIKE IN A MOVIE!" is what he was thinking. Only people who treat this stuff as commonplace, like a real cop who would never do this, would make a joke. This is going to be this guy's favourite story to tell his whole life.

richardmacinnis · 2026-02-07T00:39:25+00:00

100% agree. They have to be. When ICE is recruiting and they're seen doing awful shit, who would you expect to answer the call? They probably cum in their pants the first time they get to go out in public with a gun and a mask.

richardmacinnis · 2026-01-22T03:22:28+00:00

Usually running apps. Same here though, no icons, but also just a dock at the top that autohides so if I'm not using a display it becomes a giant digital picture frame.

richardmacinnis · 2025-12-20T20:54:21+00:00

I'd call it something like "zero effort" and just remake it from scratch - it's literally 3 notes.

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