I hear “girlboss” and I envision someone who thinks in hashtags.

What about that doesn’t sound like a “girlboss” to you?

It’s always going to be a band-aid ripping moment, switching from MS Office to anything else.

When I switched to Linux on my personal setups, it was at a time when Windows and Office were so different to what I was used to, I’d have to retool and retrain anyway. From what I hear from some of my white collar acquaintances, that’s basically coming. I’ve been hearing things like “I wrote this spreadsheet 20 years ago, it’s worked fine for decades, and now it’s breaking because they’re disabling VBA and it can’t run from OneDrive.” So I think we’re going to enter an era when all the things that probably shouldn’t have been implemented in Excel are gonna stop working.

I’ve been in and around Linux for going on 14 years now and this is the first I’m hearing of it. I’m guessing it’s real popular in some nation or region that doesn’t matter like Scandanavia or Arkansas?

which is why by my count there are at least 4 grievance forks of Gnome and I have a vague sense I’m missing one.

ZorinOS? Which uses a very heavily themed and extended Gnome DE?

I’m unaware of any for KDE. There doesn’t need to be; KDE doesn’t have the same preemptive butthurtedness that Gnome has.

Which is why I use a password manager. There are some passwords that I do keep human readable and typeable, like my home wi-fi password, because…enter a password like ghQ953mGh0hY0eo5vgnj;lse%tp[n9a36 into my niece’s Switch Lite when she comes to visit. For that I do the CorrectHorseBatteryStaple thing. But for most passwords for services that aren’t in my physical control I use my PM’s random string generator.

If the computer is in even a marginally secure place, storing passwords on physical paper is better than what a lot of people do.

Of all the proverbial bullets I’ve been hit with, none had my name on them; they were all addressed “To whom it may concern”. The times my identity has been stolen or my accounts compromised it was because somebody attacked some fairly large entity, like Alphabet or Equifax or Microsoft or Visa. Nobody’s going to walk into my house looking for my passwords. They might walk into my house looking for my television, but that hasn’t happened to this house longer than I’ve been alive.

In the case of Mint, Cinnamon and MATE, the answer is spite.

So a good long while ago, Canonical came down with “not made here” syndrome. They were moving away from being Debian Gnome On Rails and they were going to do their own thing. They did their own init system called Upstart, their own display server called Mir, their own DE called Unity, and their own package manager called Snap.

Linux Mint was created basically as a fork of Ubuntu, they kept the Gnome desktop, init.d, X11, APT etc. while retaining some of the Ubuntu codebase. Mint was and I’m pretty sure still is compatible with PPAs, if you remember those.

Around that same time, Gnome pulled a Gnome and announced Gnome 3 and their “MacOS with fetal alcohol syndrome” style guide. A lot of folks balked at it, which is why Gnome has been forked so many times:

• MATE is a continuation of Gnome 2. If you liked Gnome 2 the way it was, go with MATE.

• Unity was Canonical’s “we want Gnome to look like this” thing. Which they eventually abandoned and last I heard some kid is maintaining it for fun.

• Cinnamon is Clem’s idea of What Gnome 3 Should Be. For awhile they tried applying extensions to Gnome 3 but it ended up basically needing to be a separate codebase.

• More recently Cosmic, System76’s thing, which I genuinely don’t know why they did that.

So from the Mint team’s perspective, Mint is defuckulated Ubuntu, and Cinnamon is defuckulated Gnome.

Mint has carved out two niches for itself: It’s a solid, full-featured operating system for installing on older, slower hardware that runs on Windows as well as my dishwasher runs on concrete, and as a beginner friendly Linux distros for newcomers or “grandma who just emails.”

It does get a bit excessive though; I’ve learned to largely ignore the Trendy Distro Of The Month about the last time I heard anyone mention EndeavorOS or maybe Peppermint. It’s…mostly hype for hype’s sake.

No they were full of fruit. Thing is nothing stopped you from squeezing the bag with your hands.

IIRC the excuse for Juicero having internet access was to read QR codes on the fruit pouches that included the expiration date, and it would refuse to squeeze expired fruit. Because at it’s heart, it was a screw press. A severely over-engineered screw press. Like Jurassic Park, they spared no expense.

Sounds like a Juicero.

I don’t want to spend time with my kids. That’s why I didn’t have any.

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calling it an e-CVT is almost certainly a marketing mistake, because of how bad CVTs are in automotive service.

My favorite is it says I “might” live in the town in my shipping address. They’re not sure.

This is probably going to be unpopular on Lemmy, The Nuanceless Platform, but IF the data collection is confined to what they show me here, I’m okay. Because I bought some solder, a pair of calipers, and some computer parts from Amazon, they think I “build electronics.” Amazon has a reason to know this about me as a customer, especially if I can see and even manually delete/change it. As humorous as it may be that they apparently think a customer has a flat ass, that’s relevant information if you buy clothing from them, they’ll steer you away from the bubble butt shorts that you’ll almost certainly return.

The problem is when they want to start installing apps on my phone, new devices in my house, with microphones and radars that are always collecting data about what I do, what I say, where I am. THAT’S the part we need to be dismembering executives over.

Mine is pretty straightforward, “builds electronics” “has precision tools” “likely has a french press” (I do, I bought it on Amazon), “prioritizes high-speed data transfer”, “Probably has a computer system with internal expansion” (I bought an NVMe SSD from Amazon once), “Likely lives in (the town in my saved shipping address)”

So surveillance. Much sleuthing.

I’ve had women actually gasp when told I used to shop at Wal-Mart at 2AM so I can’t tell if you’re being serious or not.

I was about to say “I know! That’s the beauty of it!” but didn’t they integrate Copilot into Notepad?

use Vim.

See?

How FUCKING hard is it to use like, notepad?