Right now there’s a huge arms race between the big companies looking to be first in harvesting immense profits. The hype train is rolling, to attract business and investment.

If it becomes clear that its not profitable and won’t become profitable, then the sudden revelations will come.

As far as stability goes, its hard to beat my nixos setup. I use the venerable xmonad with xfce in no-desktop mode, and the command line for things like wifi and etc. Because I do most stuff with the command line I can get around fine on servers with no GUI. There’s no bling and hardly anything ever changes.

I used to fancy up my desktop and so forth, but those things break eventually and don’t really help me get work done. I don’t want to waste time on that anymore.

That said, getting it set up has been a gradual evolution and there have been awkward times. Like zoom screen sharing goes kind of insane with a tiling window manager (stop helping, zoom). And of course nixos itself is fantastic if what you need is already packaged and ready to go, and doesn’t do anything weird like download binaries. Stuff outside the norm, well now you have two problems - understanding how the software expects to be installed on debian or the like, and understanding how to subvert that process to make it work on nix.

I don’t see nixos in there!

msdn.social gives me ‘server not found’

pulled in my K9 settings and good to go, seems like.

Xmonad with XFCE in no-desktop mode.

I can use the xfce tools to configure things like mouse and screen settings, but visually it’s just xmonad.

FDroid itself

Yes that’s a nice thing to fix a problem with a software update. But isn’t it funny how the possibility of updating after purchase seems to mean that products ship without really being well tested. If there’s no possibility of fixing problems once something is in the field, then you make damn sure it works before it goes out the door.

Whoa, better make sure all my pwds are in keepass! Didn’t know the fines were so hefty for that.

Wow never heard of this platform. RIP

Ah yes the “Full Self Driving” brand of limited autopilot requiring constant human supervision.

Brother laser printer, black and white, ethernet connection. So fast, so reliable. Do you really NEED color? I find that its not that important, and if I need quality prints, like for photos, a 300$ printer isn’t going to cut it anyway.

they are only ‘hardcore’ because of the poor desktop environment integration.

BeOS went under.

Ed: I was a huge apple fan, bought an apple clone from Power Computing. Then Apple revoked the licensing that allowed all the apple clone companies to exist. That’s when I went to BeOS which would run on my clone, and got a multicore intel machine too. When BeOS went under I tried Suse. Had kind of a sucky UI in my opinion, but I hung in there with linux as an alternative to windows and went Ubuntu/Debian/Arch/Nixos and I’m still on nixos now. Its pretty much my exclusive OS since I quit my job that required windows 5 or 6 years ago.

link

Probably this article

Looking seriously at this one, especially because my main laptop has power/hinge problems. Waiting on verified linux support tho. Crazy that the thinkpad one is 1K more.

I kind of want to try wayland just to be modern, but I’m pretty happy with xmonad and don’t want to learn another window manager.

I’d leave the sorting up to the users. So for a post where 5 users tagged it as ‘baroque music’, and 5000 tagged it as ‘boring’, one could sort the feed by ‘total tags’ on a post indicating general interest (5005), or just ‘total tags I follow’ which might just be ‘baroque music’ (5). Or maybe reverse sort by tags so ‘boring’ stuff is towards the bottom.

I’d think that ignoring tags would be a thing for users, so “libtards” or whatever could be ignored.

Tag mods could ban problematic users, so someone could get banned for tagging ‘corporate lies’ where the mods think it doesn’t belong. Offenders could make their own ‘corporate liez’ tag though, I suppose.

A tag hierarchy might be desirable, like everything tagged ‘baroque’ also getting ‘music’ automatically. Perhaps through agreements with the mods of each tag.

‘archive of our own’ I’ve heard has a solid system of tag moderation. Not sure it would be appropriate for a system like this.

What I think would be interesting would be a link aggregator based around tags rather than subcommunities. Moderation would be based around these tags. Your feed would be based on tag queries. Posts could have multiple tags, assigned by the original poster or by users. Assigning tags would have a similar effect to voting, so a post might get tagged by 1000 people as ‘corporate lies’, or as ‘music’, or whatever else.

Nice thing about this would be finer grained queries with news, for instance. Could get ‘politics’, but minus ‘corporate lies’.