lucas

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[–] lucas@startrek.website 1 points 2 weeks ago

Of course it does. This particular change may seem innocuous in itself, but the idea of compliance with ridiculous laws like this one, in one jurisdiction, being implemented in a project used globally will result in compromising everyone's privacy/security, regardless of whether they are even subject to that law or not.

If anything, it's more troubling for those outside the relevant jurisdiction, since we get 0 say on the laws, and have no actual reason to comply.

[–] lucas@startrek.website 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

That makes sense. I'm generally extremely sceptical of critics, to start with, so I would not generally red flag that discrepancy, generally (Look at the awards shows, they frequently are at odds with what is actually popular, since they are fundamentally coming at things from a different angle). But the other criteria, all taken together, do seem strong indicators, so that makes sense, which is a shame.

Personally, I was pleasantly surprised, but only because the bar of expectation was extremely low. Over all, I still don't think it's particularly great on the whole (although it had its moments). I just wish we could have more discourse about the things it did well/badly without it constantly falling into the woke/anti-woke nonsense, all the time. (For me, at least, 'too woke'/'not woke enough' has nothing to do with its issues - they're all about storytelling and handling of established lore/canon)

[–] lucas@startrek.website 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Genuine question: How do we decide when a site is being 'review bombed' Vs being actually just disliked? The article doesn't really give any evidence of this claim. (To be clear, I'm not saying it's not being, just need a little bit more than 'I personally enjoy it, therefore the negative reviews must be bad faith', which seems to be most of what I see).

[–] lucas@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They don't really have to support the controller, though. Steam input lets you map controller inputs to kb/m inputs, so no degree of controller support is required. If there are any programmes that don't work (which is possible, there are weird quirks in any system), I've certainly never encountered them.

[–] lucas@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

Precisely. SSD puts the decorations in the hands of your window manager, which allows you to customise what information and controls are available in the title bar (or if you even want to display one at all), so you can use the space much more efficiently. With CSD, you're down to the whims and opinions of the application, and their space-wasting choices (and whether they even choose to respect your theming).

[–] lucas@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago

That kind of case makes sense, actually.

[–] lucas@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Wow, that's wild. I guess that's what you get from being such a young/niche project, they haven't had the time/demand to come up against the problems that all the other distros had to solve years ago.

[–] lucas@startrek.website 12 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I DLed Cachy with the torrent. Another thing I wish more distros would offer, haha!

I don't think I've ever encountered a distro that doesn't offer a torrent download option, since it saves the project expensive hosting costs.

[–] lucas@startrek.website 27 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Since when did CSD become accepted, let alone encouraged? Titlebars should only ever be drawn by the system. This trend of individual applications drawing their own titlebars is a disaster that results in fragmentation and inconsistent behaviour. The absolute disaster that is the titlebars is one of the main reasons I cannot bring myself to use GNOME, recently.

[–] lucas@startrek.website 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

True, just clarifying to clarify the last sentence:

In UK, it is just the legal term everyone goes by for when you lose your job

Since I think there's room for misunderstanding that it's more generic than it is

[–] lucas@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

That's not quite true, it's a very specific reason for losing your job. If you are fired for doing a bad job, and said you were made redundant, that would be a lie. Redundancy is about the role, not the individual.

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