Notices by Emmanuele Bassi (ebassi@mastodon.social)

His Grace, the Duke of Ankh, Commander Sir Samuel “Sam” Vimes has passed peacefully today. We managed to get a few more months after his chronic kidney disease progressed to stage 4 earlier this year, but we knew he was on borrowed time. He spent the last two weeks looking for secluded spaces in the house to sleep during the day, and we knew it was time to let him go. He truly was the best boy.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ebassi/116538582607574908

Channers found this, and are malding in the replies, fucking hilarious.

I was exposed to an Android 15 phone, and it was the most "damn, you live like this" experience I've ever had since the time I had to use Windows 10 after more than 15 years of desktop Linux.

I had to look "how to turn off the phone" in the help, because long press on the power button now brings up the chatbot assistant, and there's no affordance in the UI that lets me know I have two swipe the screen twice to access the quick settings.

- "GTK2 is better than everything else that followed": ✅
- X11 fetish: ✅
- mentions XLibre: ✅
- "Just another Ruby user" in the profile: ✅

Yeah, that's pretty clear where this guy stands…

@fesshole whoever lists “proficiency in brainfuck” on their CV is either a quirky geek who also bought programming socks “ironically”, or the most belligerent “uhm akshually” nerd ever

Even without acquihires…

The countdown to the announcement of a new Python packaging project has now started…

Happy GNOME 50 release day!

https://release.gnome.org/50/

#gnome #gnome50

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by the slop machine, hysterically feeding tokens to an LLM looking for an angry fix.

This is definitely not how I imagined my Thursday would start

@forteller I literally cannot parse that description. Care to give more context?

@forteller @cassidy it wasn't "removed": it was never implemented in the first place. You're confusing the old gnome-screenshot utility with the shell screenshot functionality that replaced it five years ago

“You cannot disable this thing! A ton of people use it!”

People file bugs and write docs on how to disable it, too. You know what would be great to verify claims about use? Telemetry!

“You cannot enable telemetry! Mah preevacee!”

@uriel it *is* configurable already: the whole thing is deciding whether to turn it off by default or not.

@GerryT you didn't bother checking what we're actually doing, before launching yourself into a tirade?

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gsettings-desktop-schemas/-/merge_requests/119

The setting exists already, and it can be toggled in the CLI and using apps like Tweaks and Refine. The discussion in the merge request is: 1. disable by default and 2. add the toggle somewhere that's easy to find

Folks, please stop using an application written like the world stopped in 2004

“Donate to open source projects to support their maintainers!”

[project asks for donations with a notification]

“How dare you?! What’s next, taking my pets hostage?! Shame on you for having the gall of asking me money!”

The piss babies on the green site forum whining about the reduced motion setting, wanking themselves to death with "animations are inefficient I disable all of them", or going straight to "people with disabilities should not use computers", like the absolute dickheads they are

Seriously, what the fuck LEGO.

https://www.lego.com/en-gb/product/star-trek-u-s-s-enterprise-ncc-1701-d-10356

Me: for my birthday I was thinking about getting a Switch 2…
LEGO: We release the Enterprise D in three weeks
Me: