PS: for people who don’t understand:

Using an Algorand-derivative for accounting-transactions, to make “cooking the books” impossible, seems to me brilliant.

But baking money-laundering into currency, as Monero does, gives leverage to organized-crime, & that’s going the wrong way.

Bitcoin? it’s essentially a pyramid-scheme, & the early-investors in it got super-rich as a result of that.

Algorand, the actual/official version?

even that was run as a pyramid-scheme.

Read “Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain” & you’ll get a good overview of the reality of blockchain currencies, without the hype.

I know of no-one who’s doing it with outright proper integrity.

Algorand’s got the correct math, apparently, but … hasn’t ANYbody got the integrity to not run it as a pyramid scheme?

ALL of them work that way, from what I’ve seen!

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Monero’s WHOLE POINT is money-laundering.

Criminal-rule NEEDS money-laundering.

Remember when Valve stopped accepting any blockchain transactions for money, because it was waaay too much crime people involved?

Is that evidence?

Not to you, but it is to those ( like Valve, or me ) whom you deem incompetent, right?

Money-laundering for criminal benefit ought be hard-illegal, both for big financial institutions, including Swiss banks, & for everybody else, too.

Including Monero.

Enabling criminal dominion isn’t justifiable.

& pretending that Northern Mexico, a criminality-ruled region isn’t the result of crossing the tipping-point from civil-society to criminality-ruled region, is … not merely morally irresponsible, it is morally reprehensible, in dishonesty.

Once criminality gains control, rooting it out has become unaffordably-costly.

Obviously, we’re on the opposite sides of this.

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There are costs beyond the physical.

I agree with you that intimacy shouldn’t be for money.

The sexually-transmitted infections ( I cannot understand how the modern population isn’t 50+% infected with life-damaging infections, nowadays, and maybe it is, given how disinformation & “marketing” have completely replaced the value of correct-information that journalism used to have ) seem likely to rule the lives of both porn-industry participants & those who use porn as their frame-of-reference for deciding their own lives.

Getting the torquie out from the sex-work industry, however, de-criminalizing it, getting the pimps & organized-crime out of it, to make it safer for those who ( for whatever reason ) work in it, would require some serious restructuring of our cultures.

You’ve read that in other apes sex is traded by females for nutrition?

Male hoarding of rights/food/power/safety, making female trading of their intimacy for a portion of what the males had possessed as their “rightful exclusive possession”, extends well beyond humans.

The thing is, we’re supposed to be upright, not rationalizing pack-behavior, but instead dismantling it from us, making us all we can be.

That didn’t happen, in the last few millenia.

It’s possible that humankind will earn it, now ( The Great Filter, if survived, will produce this result, in about a century ).

but the prejudice is sooo deep…

You know that there is a story in the Abrahamic religions’ Book of Genesis, about woman eating of “the fruit of the Knowledge of Good & Evil”, which means MORALITY?

& sharing this eating with man?

Wasp-researchers in Panama ( from Exeter & Bristol universities ) discovered that altruism is generalized-mothering, among wasps.

Buddha Gautama stated that this is the case, 25 consecutive centuries ago: altruism is generalized mothering. The Buddhist phrase “all our kind mothers”, in referring to ALL other continuums/souls, is rooted in this.

That the Abrahamic-religion men twisted a statement in their own scripture, in order to change it from meaning that women/mothers ate of morality, & shared it with men,

TO women committed the “original sin”, & it cannot ever be revoked, & punishing/abusing women is now inherently-valid…

& holding that gaslighting for millenia…

Do you have any idea how fundamental the sex-racism is, in our religions & laws?

What culture/country holds that raising children is real economically-required-and-valid work?

Here in North America, that’s a sick joke: raising children is … treated as parasitism.

The male apes who hoard wealth, forcing female apes into prostitution for sustinance…

There’s waaay too much of that, in our cultures.

Remove the need,.

That must come 1st.

Letting people do that if they want to, but cut criminality out from it, completely: criminalize pimping, human-trafficking, certainly, hard-line, but decriminalize sex-work that doesn’t harm anybody.

( no protection against infections is harming people: protection ought be legislated, same as in any hazardous work )

do everything one can to prevent people younger than 21yo from doing it ( because brains aren’t fully-developed until about then, which is the same reason that setting the legal-drinking-age to 21yo so significantly reduces deaths on the roads: younger people don’t consider “no” to be as meaningful as people with older brains do ).

Put care in place for people who’ve been “turned into commodities” through abusive relationships, to get them out from that devaluation, instead of just letting the industry use their lives, & pretend that that’s OK…

etc…

Really, living-wage legislation would cut into the “need” for sex-work, significantly.

Oh, & I’ve read that when sex-work is suppressed, rapes & domestic-violence both go up, so there’s some displacement going on, between the categories, that way…

It isn’t a simple thing, & I wish “commerce” & intimacy were so completely distinct that nobody would ever consider a Venn diagram showing intersection of the 2 categories, but … the actual world doesn’t work right…

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Beginning of Part 2…

Here’s an example, which is different-enougn in context, that it becomes culturally easier to see the forest & the trees:

IF the U.N. had enforced that in Palestine NO political/ideological warping/deforming of ANY civil service, of ANY social service, of ANY regulatory-process or rule, of ANY judging, enforcing, education, of ANYthing,

essentially force-suffocating ideological ( Kahneman1 mind, mere-animal mind, read “Thinking Fast and Slow” by Daniel Kahneman & see that the whole world is forcing itself into an ocean-of-tantrum/pogrom, as ClimatePunctuation begins ramping-up through the next few decades )…

force-suffocating ideological-highjacking & ideological-undermining, & holding that force-suffocating in-place for a hard minimum of 2 generations, possibly 4…

( any “leaks” that accommodate ideological warping to displace considered-reason/Kahneman2 mind massively compromise/undermine the force-suffocation of that unconscious-mind-current which wants total-dominion of our lives/world … and we let it have that dominion!

Foolish idiocy, which costs lives… )

So, after hard-disallowing of Kahneman1/imprint->reaction/mere-animal mind’s rule for enough generations, then the ideology/prejudice ( 2 sides of the same “coin” ) … is force retired from authority, & the objective-generations have filled-in the roles, & … then, eventually, a tipping-point is crossed, where it becomes self-sustaining/robust, see?

Anyways, Israel AND Hamas both wouldn’t allow that, in Palestine.

As I’ve said before, what Hamas did in their assault of Israel was very DarkHexad: they sociopathically sacrificed all Palestinians for sake of the inevitable genociding-reaction from Israel, which, of course, will enforce that the Muslim world will focus until its reaction to Isreal’s genociding becomes absolute, & then … & then the prophecy in the Christian bible, that Israel gets annihilated comes true. Sometime before 2036 it’ll happen, probably in the 2028-2036 period…

Here’s a window into that particular bit:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matt+24%3A11-21&version=AMP

The “standing in the holy place” of Daniel … that was his inner place, his place of Faithing on what he knew as G-D, what I’d call OceanOfAllAwakeSouls, since my whole cosmology is different, but that particular infinity is itself…

Anyone who stands in earned holiness within their meaning ( a hormonic of meditation, or, to phrase the same suchness from a different “angle”, a lower-harmonic of G-D: it’s itself, differnet cultures label things differently.

It doesn’t matter that Daniel was Jewish, or Atisha was definitely not, culturally: each earned some remarkable truths, by “standing in the holy ‘place’ within their deeper meaning” and it’s the same for all: earn it, & it’s one’s own meaning.

Fail to bother, & it isn’t, see? : )

So, Hamas sacrificed all Palestinians’ world, for sake of a genociding that would happen later, in reaction against Israel’s genociding of Palestine & Palestinians…

Which is more-machiavellian? Isreal of Hamas?

Both, sadly.

Which is more sociopathic/psychopathic?

Both, sadly…

you get the picture.

There’s a “little” ebb/flow, which makes it look like the herd-beast ( our unconscious-ignorance nature ) sometimes is stronger, sometimes is weaker,

but it’s actually that our underlying limbic/herdbeast nature is ebbing & flowing in seeming present, or seeming dominant, but it’s just the appearance that’s changing, not the underlying substance.

Steven Pinker foolishly bet on the appearance, in “The Better Angels of our Nature”, it looks like.

He holds that violent-aggression just diminished sooo fundamentally, that that trend must continue!

No, he was looking at the slope of a “wave”, & falsely-extrapolating that the wave wouldn’t “return”.

Until the tantrum/pogrom is finished, whether any survivors live, or not, our unconscious-mind’s ignorance is committed to BREAKING all our world/lives/everything to its dominion/lordhood…

Same as any toddler.

The fact that our ignorance can outright-kill the entire biosphere, now, isn’t sufficient to cause upright/maturity/transformation-in-our-unconscious-substance: only experience-induced-understanding can,

& the only experience which can induce/enforce understanding of our ignorance-nature is… action->reaction… being beaten to near-death by it, until its force forces our unconscious-mind-substance to transform from impenetrable-ignorance to … among the few survivors of The Great Filter, if there are any … transforms into a kind of “sublimation”, changing humankind’s survivors into people who ARE fundamentally different from our generation…

Russia/Ukraina, Israel/Palestine, Deep-South-white-supremacists-and-“christian”-supremacists/all-who-aren’t-white-supremacists/“christian”-supremacists, Anglophones or Francophones against the other, Yugoslavia, if you’re old enough to remember that, South Africa’s apartheid, … it’s the same damn fundamental-script, just with little variations, for centuries & centuries & centuries of our history: WE HAVEN’T CHANGED yet.

And THAT is The Actual Problem™.

ClimatePunctuation’s simply going to exponentially explode the intensity, the number-of-factors, the violent-reaction-to-food-insecurity, etc…

The Perfect Storm, iow.

See how the butchering of Russia by Putin is working? Civil-rights less & less…

same as in Israel…

same as in the Deep South…

same as in the polarization in Europe, with the far-right growing strength to re-create nazism’s possession of it…

Asia’s got its equivalents, Africa too ( did you know that Mussolini stole fascism from Marcus Garvey, a Black African nationalist? he had no problem with collaborating with the American white-supremacists: segregation was wanted by both, right? )

Until human-nature is force-changed, profoundly/fundamentally, then the cause of all this world’s problems remains in control of the world, & the effects can appear “better” or “worse”, but the unbroken-toddler’s still driving our bus…

Force-growing-oneself up into fundamental uprightness, facing into karma, seems the only sane method, to me…

At least one can change one’s own Eternity, then, right?

if everyone else among this world rejects self-transformation, because “the kingdom of god is without”, as the materialists are certain, as the parable of “the prodigal son” symbolically-represented…

but it isn’t without: it’s within, & the only way to earn it is to conquer one’s own unconscious…

and that is waht humankind’s ignorance won’t allow, or tolerate…

correcting/removing the cause of all our world’s major problems…

So, Natural Selection is going to enforce the issue into significance in the rest of this century.

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Action->Reaction.

Reaction against Obama put Trump in, right?

Reaction against Trump put Biden in, right?

I hope Harris wins, but the world-economy is being flushed, with exponential-force, down the sewer, & NO incumbent survives that kind of thing ( backlash-vote ),

AND as the book “The Big Sort” apparently explains, the cultural-segregation that mass-media push so hard creates intolerance.

Which, of course, when escalated by mass media of various alignments, keeps amplifying ( feedback-loops ) until … genociding.

The locking-Anglos-out in Quebec ( we no longer have any access to goverment phone-services in English ) is simply an earlier stage of divide-and-genocide than whan the US is in, but … it’ll get there.

Whether unconsciously or consciously, the heads of Quebec are committed to turning Canada into another Russia/Ukraina, Israel/Palestine, Deep-South racism kind of thing, in a generation or 2, for whatever they win/gain in accomplishing that.

IF Trump doesn’t win 2024, then Civil War begins in 2028, +/- a very-few months, & continues until the US is butchered-carrion.

It’s far too late to save the US: the real problem is that Animals-and-Tribes-Time mode of Kahneman1 mind ( imprint->reaction ) has already successfully highjacked the country.

As … Glubb, was it? realized, empires die at about 2.5-centuries.

There’s a book “How to Hide an Empire” on the American Empire, so anybody who wants to pretend that all the machiavellian interventions ( remember when Iraq’s intervention backfired, because they didn’t want to be a puppet-state, & wanted self-determination? That was noticed openly in some news item or other, back then… I’d not have clued-in to it, on my own, buth then, through the years… there are puppets of lobbies, aren’t there? & these lobbies work to enforce that accountability never get near them… … whatever: if humankind isn’t viable, & Natural Selection extinguishes humankind, then humankind’s herdbeast games, bullying & majority-domination, & minority-beaten/broken, same as in herds anywhere … we were supposed to be upright-human, you know? if we failed The Great Filter, well, then too bad: we earn what we earn… )

So, the identity of the ruling-class has sooo completely mismatched the actuality of the empire, now, that it’s incapable of surviving.

Same as Rome, Britain’s empire, etc…

12-13 generations, & … kaput.

The Big ( cultural ) Sort seems to be the mechanism, but DarkHexad { narcissism / machiavelianism / sociopathy-psychopathy / nihilism / sadism } is cultivated, if not directly-grown, by privilege-caste, & … well, that’s a feedback-loop too, isn’t it?

Concentration-of-privilege, concentration-of-wealth, which “says” “trickle-down economics”, but is gaslighting…

which “says” “charity”, but … when you see that literally millions of DONATED $ are pocketed by the executives of the US’s United Way … that woke socialist feminist convicted-felon Yehoshua “Jesus” ( Iosa, in Roman/Latin, I’ve been told by an actual Roman-born person ) benJoseph already laced into fake-charity, 2 millenia ago…

Part of the problem is that it isn’t a single problem: it’s actually a fractal and chaotic anti-fragile/robust mesh of problems, which all mutually-reinforce…

Narcissism conserves “validity” & excludes all it can, to prove how “exclusive” its “validity” is, right? Anti-compassion. Sociopathy is … exactly that, isn’t it?

Feedback-loop…

How can “trickle-down economics”, or “compassion for the privileged-caste/class’s inferiors” ( note the contempt in their “charity”… I was born into the upper-middle-class, & it took 7+ years of accumulated homelessness for me to crack the identity-underlying-ego that that ideology/prejudice, as all “race”, “class”, & “gender” is, in social-process, enough for me to get to some kind of objective-honestly, more than a decade later… )

The action->reaction cycle cannot be stopped, postponed, or prevented: US of A is finished.

I hope that Kamala Harris makes this last “calm before the storm” be as spiritually-thriving as she can, enforcing an increase in state-integrity, against lobbies’ undermining of everything, but it doesn’t change the pogrom/tantrum that’ll destroy about 2/3 of the US’s population in … approximately 7y from when it begins ( that is just one of the natural human-cycles, because it’s a cycle that our unconscious-mind “works” at: it’s too “stuck” to work quicker… )

You know how sometimes you have a grandparent or relative or friend or other-family, someone whom you really care about, & cancer/whatever’s killing them?

& there’s nothing you can do??

Objectively, that’s what’s happening with the US: it’s fatal, it’s implacable, only our relationship with its process, & outcome, & the way we make the process enact, can we change…

We can’t prevent the death.

We can’t prevent the reaping of the consequences of our previous-generations’ “sowing” carelessness in education, or in accommodating the “surrender” ( technical-only, not honest/total ) of the KKK/Confederates, who’ve now done to much of the country exactly what McDonnell Douglass’s beancounter-culture did to Boeing ( a “reverse takeover” )…

What has been sown, is going to be reaped, to use the Christian rendition of what the older religions call “karma”.

end of Part 1, as the Lemmy character-count blocked my commenting with the whole thing in a single entry…

Physical Abloy-style lock, not a “smart” lock.

Go see some cybersecurity type people, & see that they put physical security in place where they value real security.

ITIS ( Information Technology Information Systems ) has many vulnerability & attack-surfaces that “dumb” metal doesn’t.

If you look, you will discover that there is a news-story about a company which did the hotel-locks for zillions of hotels in our world, that had a fundamental compromise in their design, & now everybody has to replace all those locks, but … that isn’t going to happen, is it?

IOW, criminality-industry was helped by all that “convenient” ITIS.

Please consider going with an Abloy Protec style physical-lock.

The Lockpicking Lawyer could get in, as could some of his equals, in mere minutes, but for the opportunistic-jackassery of normal robberies?

You can’t EMP a non-digital-lock to kill it, can you?

There isn’t a backdoor in the thing ( unless you multi-key it, but even then, with 21 iirc discs in the thing… it’s still locked )

etc.

Float-tanks are this:

Imagine a bigger-than-normal bathtub, so you can sprawl-out ( arms & lega akimbo ) without hitting the sides…

the water-density is upped with brine, instead of plain water ( the float-tanks place I used to go to used sacks of “bitter salts” & the texture of the brine was damn-near oily, and DO NOT EVER shave shortly before going into a brine-soak, or you’re going to discover what stinging really means )

also it is brought up to a person’s body-temperature, or close to it.

When there’s no temperature-difference, & you’re floating sooo high that drowning is much less likely ( the Dead Sea is probably the prototype for all float-tanks, btw ), & you aren’t bumping into the walls, then you’re in blissful sensory-deprivation ( total dark, too, obviously, probably use a timer, limit it to 2h max ), & meditation can be awesome in these conditions.

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Then the Kremlin will simply ban them, & the Russian people will have a worse situation than they did with the ban.

shrug

“Responsibility”, instead of pragmatic-responsibility: socio-political-“statements” instead of remaining-in-the-game-still-pushing-for-rightness…

Multiple conflicting definitions for “Conservative”, for 1 thing…

WHEN you tolerate the:

• moneyarchists
• legalists
• class-position worshippers / monarchists
• authority-worshippers

to claim that they define conservatism,

& us who’re committed to conserving

• G-D given LivingValidity
• G-D given LivingWorth
• G-D given LivingPotential
• G-D offered LivingOpportunity

… people are therefore defined to be not “conservative”…

then the framing has been highjacked.

Integrity-conservatives are conservatives.

LivingPotential conservatives are conservatives, who’re interested in competent education for all, instead of accommodating the obliteration of LivingPotential through shit “education”…

LivingOpportunity conservatives are conservatives, who want wastefulness-of-LivingOpportunity to be eradicated, so that we can be inhabiting it, instead of allowint it to be eradicated/wasted…

etc.

I’d begin with the correct qualification of the version of “conservative” that a person is claiming.

Corrupt privilege-conservatives ought be called such, & not let get-away-with claiming that the’re the rightful definers of “conservative”.

This should go for all “conservative” & “liberal” identifications:

Let people claim whatever variant they want, and then enforce accountability through matching their actual-behavior against their claims, with indestructible public accountability.

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I’ve used Linux since about 1996, when only Slackware worked for me ( Red Hat didn’t work right, & I never tried Yggdrasil ).

Ian began his Debian distro sometime around then ( Deb was his partner, hence the distro’s name )

About a year ago, I was using openSUSE, both Tumbeweed & their more-stable LEAP.

They removed the drivers for my wifi adapter, in an update.

They broke my desktop.

Again.

I’ve been told by Steam support ( in 2023, iirc ), directly through their system, that they ONLY support the Ubuntu family of Linuxen.

UbuntuStudio stuck with XFCE for YEARS, even though XFCE is rigged to prevent one from being able to grab the corner of a window, because almost-all of its different options ( themes? ) permit only a 1px thick window-grabber, and that isn’t usable.

Why??

Try installing Haskell Stack on Void Linux for ARM.

You can’t:

Haskell Stack requires GMP lib, for arbitrary precision arithmetic, and you can’t get that to work on it.

They won’t add it, to make Haskell Stack installable.

So, if the only machine you’ve got is ARM based, and you need to learn Haskell, go get a different distro.

( “Haskell Programming From First Principles” requires Stack )

I used Ubuntu Server on ARM, for awhile, and the Ruby it included was broken, with a hard-coded bit in one of its scripts that had the wrong-location for one of the basic things in Linux…

can’t remember what it was, perhaps it was /usr/bin/mv instead of /bin/mv or something … it was stupid, though, and it was in the Ubuntu version of Ruby, which was a deprecated version of Ruby … so…

the upstream Ruby maintainers wouldn’t fix it, because they only maintain the maintained versions of Ruby, AND…

Ubuntu wouldn’t fix it, because they insisted it was upstream’s problem, even-though they wouldn’t include a maintained version of Ruby.

Fuck idiocy.

On & on & on.

Fix 1 thing, & break 3 more , seems to be the “religion” of the various Linuxen.

I’m old, & tired of being beaten-on by “friends” and “allies”.

Abusers are abusers.

IF I ever succeed in fixing my health, breaking ( permanently ) my health-obstacles,

THEN I want to do a linux-distro that simply excludes all bullshit, & enforces correctness-of-function.

Funtoo seems to be part of The Right Answer ( it is the evolution of Gentoo ), in that people get the benefit of whatever hardware they’ve got, instead of a dumbed-down version which is more sluggish than need-be.

I’d want it to be based entirely on Haskell, & Julia, leaving-out pretty-much all other languages ( Haskell’s correctness & Julia’s ruthless-efficiency ).

Notice how there is a huge push to replace X.org with Wayland?

Wayland removes ability to run The Linux Terminal Server Project, so you can’t have little arm-terminals stuck on the backs of displays, and 1 single real-computer in the back, with an ocean of RAM, for all the students to use for their real apps…

This “improvement” forces all to either have a powerful-enough desktop or … not be allowed to run the modern distros/Linuxen at all.

War against inclusion of people in poorer places, where it is much more doable to afford a bunch of RasPi-terminals than it is to afford dozens & dozens of x86-64 machines, is warring for … fashion & class-status??

The X Window System works. Through it, TLSP works.

It enables people to have their Blender-renderer machine in the other room, where its fans-noise isn’t going to bother them.

Fashion-motivated or fad-motivated “strategy” consistently solves the wrong problem.

Same as breaking people’s wifi solves the wrong problem.

WTF “loyalty” for a distro can ANYone have,

… once one has been “punched-in-the-face” by them, enough times??

I’ve read OpenBSD’s statement that “lack of a manpage IS A BUG”.

That IS PROPER.

They GET it.

There are development/programming methods that hold-to the same kind of properness:

Behaviour-Driven Design, e.g.

Test-1st.

As somebody pointed-out, of all the “agile” methods, XP included engineering-processes, like test-1st whereas … the rest, like Scrum, don’t…

That difference-in-religion, XP’s objectivity MATTERS.

Any “improvement” which breaks the functionality-tests or behaviour-tests, and you don’t get the “improvement” in.

Nobody has the integrity to do that, at the distro-level?

I wouldn’t permit any desktop-environment which is hard-coded to have 1px window-grabbers to be included in a distro, hence XFCE would have to get fixed, or it would be locked-out, explicitly for that usability-defect.

I wouldn’t permit breaking of people’s network-access to be an official update’s component.

MAKE IT WORK RIGHT.

That needs to be SOME distro’s spine, that is usable-by-most, and efficient, and including the capability that people actually need to get stuff done…

I want low-vision people being able to use it.

I want blind-readers working in it.

I want deaf people having full function through it.

I want quadraplegics being able to work through it.

I want TLSP working, so a single x86-64 machine, plus a batch of displays & RasPi’s stuck on their backs, give a classroom the ability to teach calculus with Julia which is the proper way to be learning algebra or calculus ( seriously, try Julia: it’s wonderful ).

Anyways, you’re seeing a tiny sliver of the decades-of-abuse that operating-system makers have put in us, that is in me.

I won’t willingly run any MS software ever again, due to their religion of molestation-of-priivacy & abuses ( I was one of the ones stung by their stolen from STAC disk-compression tech, in DOS 6.20, and their Vista era sending all searched-terms from the desktop to Microsoft violated privacy-law for both health-care sytems & for police systems, but … they’re “too big” to make accountable?? etc. )

But the Linux world seems to have one hell of a religious-problem against stable usability.

Distro-runners need to read a book by Al Ries: “The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding”, and understand that that stability/identifiability is a REQUIREMENT for a userbase to be not-sabotaged by one’s distro.

DON’T KEEP CHANGING THE WAY EVERYTHING WORKS, and expect your userbase to love you for it.

KDE 3.5 had much right-idea, but nowadays … wtf??

Too complicated to be allowed to see where one is, within the menu-system??

That isn’t a “feature”, that is “fashionable” mental-illness.

And I despise the Apple-style contextless GNOME way.

/grouch

just an opinion, of an old, useless bastard, who’s tired of being obstructed/abused by distro-decisions.

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