Thank you.

I read them all, hated them, and spent a good week finding negative reviews so I could fume at them in company.

Absolutely pathetic Tim. Pathetic.

I barely know what to call this. We’re beyond authoritarianism at this point, this is insane.

Absolutely unacceptable and ridiculous.

Me 5 years ago: “Man olive oil sure is expensive, it’s twice the price of the cheapest canola!”

You sweet ignorant child.

I think most of us are struggling with this issue, but I’m really not sure what to do about it. Is banning them outright bad? Maybe? I just don’t know.

We’re all stuck in a planet scale tolerance paradox, and I don’t think any current solution is particularly convincing or palatable.

Oh god.

Distro - System level stuff. A “type” of linux. Mint, Fedora, Arch, Ubuntu etc. DE (Desktop environment) - Surface level stuff, i.e. how it looks, behaves, and often what default apps you use for basic stuff like text editing. Gnome, KDE, etc.

Distros have a default DE but often provide different versions using others for people who prefer them.

You likely won’t need to interact with any of that other stuff except flatpaks. Just think of it as a form of distributing and running software.

Actually great news! Really like the feature and was consistently annoyed when you had to fall back to Google for those languages.

The US is really rocketing toward hard fascism at a rate that makes the gains of the nationalist parties in Europe look pretty tame by comparison.

What the fuck is even going on here, this doesn’t even align with their own weird agenda? This just seems psychotic for it’s own sake.

Oh yeah, definitely this. The economics will probably never allow it to be deployed at a scale where it will make any sort of difference.

Instead, it is used as an excuse to not take any action on climate change which is actually realistic, albeit hard.

Yup.

Sure, the long term productivity and quality takes a nosedive, but the shareholders don’t care about that as long as the numbers for the next quarter look better.

I think Poland is tracking a couple of years ahead of those of us further west, so it’s useful for us to see how you resolve the damage the right wing populists have caused. I think many of us will face the same problem in the future.

Good luck guys.

Good lord, have we learned nothing? At least wait until they’ve actually voted, they can still find some exotic way to block us.

Edit: We made it!

Congrats guys!

It still has to pass in the parliament, so I’m sure there’s plenty of shenanigans and domestic posturing left before they actually let us in.

Did lemmy introduce a fee per letter in the headline I wasn’t aware of?

Personally, I was fine with paying for “Premium Lite”, which was reasonably priced, removed ads, and gave channels you watched some revenue.

But youtube removed this subscription tier a few weeks ago, leaving only the twice as expensive “Premium”. Since I, and I assume most others who subscribed to “Premium Lite”, has no use for the other stuff included in the more expensive tier the cost is no longer justified for me. Back to finding increasingly exotic ways of getting around their ads I guess.

Well shit.