The lesson to take from this, by the way, is that walled-garden software ecosystems are, fundamentally, centralized power structures which are going to create a conflict over who controls them.

https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1474985481737625606

If something is fully decentralized (an ideal which very few existing technologies or social structures live up to), there is nothing to fight for control of.

With app stores, we see corporations attempting to impose their own content policy rules... and we also see governments making rules about the rules.

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Irenes (many)

@ireneista

26 Dec

well, it's happening: we're trying Gnome. we've been using KDE for a few years... let's see how this goes.

we're not people who actually *use* a desktop manager, other than as a fast way to configure certain services that we don't feel like spending time understanding, so realistically we should probably be trying to do without one.

we have no complaint about KDE for what it is, it's just we have been meaning for a while to figure out how to disable krunner because it gets in our way, and it turns out the system isn't designed for that.

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Irenes (many)

@ireneista

6 Dec

okay! we would like to start a discussion about what it would take to make Linux *fun* for newcomers. please chime in with your ideas!

we've personally always found it fun, we're in the crowd where it's more important to be able to tinker with things than for the things to actually *work*. however, we recognize that this is a minority position.

we do think that there needs to be a lot of work on usability. just, like... taking all the "how to debug" wisdom that's currently spread out across the ArchWiki and a million Bugzilla threads, and turning it into UI that guides people towards the solution.

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Irenes (many)

@ireneista

5 Dec

there's a lot of people who are taking firm stances on this latest anthology that's been going around trans circles, and it's just, like...

we realize you're convinced of your stance. also, many of you were just as convinced of the *diametrically opposed* stance last year when Isabel's story was published.

try not to be mired in the moment like this. try to think about whether the objections that seem so real right now, ... whether you'll even remember them next year.

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