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The "why can't you be normal meme", where a panicked mother in the front seat of a car yells, "Why can't you just be normal?", and the young boy in the backseat is making a chaotic screaming face. This is a metaphor for users appreciating GNOME 50's new features (including the improved parental controls) vs the haters in the #GNOME hashtag calling it "child abuse" and complaining about seatbelt laws (also considered coercion/abuse/etc.), and even about drunk driving laws.

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The "why can't you be normal meme", where a panicked mother in the front seat of a car yells, "Why can't you just be normal?", and the young boy in the backseat is making a chaotic screaming face. This is a metaphor for users appreciating GNOME 50's new features (including the improved parental controls) vs the haters in the #GNOME hashtag calling it "child abuse" and complaining about seatbelt laws (also considered coercion/abuse/etc.), and even about drunk driving laws.
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Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo) (nekohayo@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Mar-2026 01:14:00 JST Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)

Very happy about the new @gnome release, and I'm proud about what my fellow contributors have accomplished together in this cycle. Tons and tons of bugfixes and new features! The release notes at https://release.gnome.org/50/ cover a small portion of the most user-visible changes, but there's a lot more to discover.
Meanwhile, in the #GNOME hashtag…
(after 40 minutes of reading through https://fedi.absturztau.be/notice/B4O8ucxRQoQyBxrrpg, I cannot imagine a more insane thread in the #fediverse)
#FLOSS #OpenSource #gratefulness

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