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careful bud you are lacking empathy for gnome devs /j
Is this a reference to one of their crashouts I missed? I stopped paying attention to them lol
No, just someone that responded to my comment earlier. Apparently I need to start volunteering in my community more because I don’t think Gnome looks good, as if I didn’t just cook and distribute meals with my local food not bombs yesterday 🙄