Notices by Akseli :quake_verified:​ :kde: (aks@scalie.zone)

@lanodan i agree with you but also i am not willing to give up

@lanodan might as well have stronger clause to stand on and not throw hands in air, giving up

Good story why permissive licenses like MIT should not be encouraged https://philiplaine.com/posts/getting-forked-by-microsoft/

It shouldn't be "FOSS evangelization."

It should be "FOSS education."

Teach people about potential alternatives. Teach people what the spyware software does: Do not judge for them using it, judge the software using them. Then talk about software that respects them.

Allow them to make their own choices on matters.

At the very least, if you're not a judgemental annoying asshole, they will ask you for advice when need to be.

Be a friend.

#FOSS #Linux

It's ok to not make any changes. It's ok to ignore this completely.

But education will never be waste. It will always be useful. Maybe they won't switch software, but they may talk to a friend who will.

In the world of "AI" slop, education is more important than ever.

I have a friend who hopped to linux side recently. I then asked him again lately if he is still using it. He said no and we ended up discussing why: game modding. Most mod tools are for windows, and even on windows they can be super janky.

Anyway, i think its entirely valid. I dont judge or belittle that.

He did mention he wants to try again some other day, so that's a win. It just wasnt now.

I did the same thing when i started, heh.

To be honest people would use Linux way more if it was installed by default on many devices. That's really it.

So the education is best served for those who have any interest in computers or gaming in the first place.

This all being said, i do get and share the frustration in following scenario:

X: hey thing bad help me

Me: ok heres how: bla

X: ok thanks

...

X: hey thing2 bad help me

Me: did you try bla

X: no i saw thing2 and went with it instead

Me: screaming inside why do you keep asking for advice if you dont even bother applying it

"AI" is here to monetize the human insecurity.

Most of the time i see people using "AI" generated pictures, text, code, whatever.. they mention they are "not good enough" to make their own.

You don't have to be "good."

These tools are feeding on your insecurity. They're there to monetize your insecurity.

Many people are insecure. That is normal. You should not rely on magic machinations to wave your insecurity away. That way relies addiction to these tools, which will make your life more difficult when you dont use them.

So instead, make your own lil stick figure drawings. Make pixel art in 16x16 grid for icons. Write that text the best way you can. Iterate on things, ask for help.

The hurry to get things done is artificial. You can do it without the addiction to chatbots. Allow yourself to take time, instead of producing just for productions sake.

Trust yourself to find the answers and to make a thing.

You're way better than what the scum behind generative "AI" hype think about you.

Don't sell your insecurity and brush it off. Face the facts and work on it.

In art, authenticity, being yourself, creating things from your brain, using your own intelligence, is the main point. Not the quality of the finished piece. But your piece.

You're allowed to fail. To err is human. And that is what makes it art. The happy little mistakes.

We keep seeing LLM bots scraping KDE stuff too, its really bad.

https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externalizing-your-costs-on-me.html

The amount of jank in here is amusing https://blog.tmm.cx/2022/05/15/the-very-weird-hewlett-packard-freedos-option/

#Linux #FreeDOS #HP

Internet needs more fun silly things like this https://fliparealcoin.com

People are glad to tell you to not use firefox forks but not give you alternatives

im using librewolf because i actually liked firefox as core product. i just dont like the mozilla part of it.

librewolf gives me that.

i know its not long term solution or whatever. not everything needs to be immediately solved, or can be.

im personally very interested in using smaller browsers like Angelfish or qutebrowser. but librewolf is what im settling with for now.

the one and only classic, now in KDE Plasma

#perkele #KDE

@davidgerard "thats a promise"

Never trust a corp.

There was the classix VBS dialog that wouldnt go away too:

The 16 showed the error icon.

I like imagining my avatar with this grin after doing something most tame evil shit ever like putting tape under someones mouse sensor

Back in IT-college if someone left their computer unlocked we took a screenshot of the desktop, rotated it 180 degrees, set it fullscreen and then used the gpu driver settings to virtually rotate the screen 180 degrees.

It caused so much confusion, it was beautiful.

@blumlaut yeah i dont understand them either, i always disable them from my system and everyone elses i install fedora to.

its just "yet another thing to turn off" in fedora, which otherwise is a really nice distro. :(