Xfce

I’ve daily driven every major DE except KDE (GNOME, Xfce, MATE, Cinnamon) and I always ended up switching back to xfce. I’m not a fan of GNOME’s workflow and since it’s not that customizable without extensions, that made me switch from it very quickly. I used Cinnamon on Mint for a few months and while the experience was mostly fine, it sometimes felt a bit laggy. As for MATE, while I love the GNOME 2 layout and it’s a relatively lightweight DE, I encountered plenty of visual bugs there and I could very easily replicate that GNOME 2 layout on Xfce (without a system menu, but still).

The only REAL Mozilla logo

It’s SUSSY Linux time

Why are you still using uMatrix in 2024? Wasn’t it discontinued 3 years ago or smth?

A Xiaomi smartwatch. I never found any good use for its “smart” features and I had to charge the fucking thing all the time. So I ended up dropping it after a year in favor of a regular digital watch.

Nowadays, pretty much yes. I more or less use the command line as much as I did on windows. Of course things like installing software via the repos is more efficient via the command line, but most GUI tools will work perfectly fine for most people.

Debian Sid

Phones

You don’t really need an 8-core CPU and 12 gigs of RAM for making calls and browsing the web, which is what 95% of people use their phones for. Not even buying such phone for the sake of longevity is worth it since most manufacturers drop support for their phones after 5 years at most.

ChromeOS if you consider it as one.

I have to say, they’re certainly an impovement over Breeze, but I still prefer the Oxygen ones

There’s no age limit.

A laptop with fully libre firmware that actually has good specs.

They take up too much space. Considering that you need to install flatpak versions of stuff that you already have on your system, this makes 200MB applications take up like 800MB or smth.

HTTPS everywhere has been phased out since Firefox already has an HTTPS-only mode in the settings.

Firefox also has the ability to reopen closed tabs even without having to enable browsing history so you don’t need the “Undo Close Tab” extension.

When I mean movement complexity I refer to arena shooter level of complexity and no, Halo is not an arena shooter.

As a fan of FPS games, I prefer games which have a very high amount of depth and complexity either in terms of movement or shooting. That’s the reason why I’m not a fan of arcade shooters like COD or Halo.

Mod support is also a decisive factor for me.

The generic and uninspired look of flat design

It can be used to track your movements even without internet connection.

I exclusively use wired earbuds because I fucking hate bluetooth as a technology

The revolution is coming!

Cuz I got nothing better to do.

Apparently “modern” means hiding options behind extra clicks

Great to see good ol’ Mandrake still going.

FIRE IN THE HOLE!!!

None. I prefer reporting an issue manually.

F-Droid

“Κλάσε μου τα αρχίδια” which literally stands for “fart my balls” in Greek.

It’s a way of telling someone to go fuck himself.

Mass Surveillance.

Companies and governments alike have successfully convinced most people that they have “nothing to fear”.

Your instance seems to have downvotes disabled. If you don’t like that, well, just move to another instance.

Lemmy has zero monetary gain from you being addicted to the platform unlike Reddit.

Lemmy’s smaller community means that there’s not an endless stream of content to keep you hooked.

Even with millions of active users though I don’t see Lemmy being nowhere near as addicive as Reddit

Swearing shouldn’t ever be censored.

Out of all the distros that I’ve tried, probably Manjaro. The distro itself is ok, I don’t like how kind of bloated the default installation is, but it’s not too bad.

However what really pisses me off,among their numerous other controversies, was when they replaced perfectly functional open source apps with proprietary ones…twice. Though the former has since been reversed.

I thought that Hexbear wasn’t going to federate with lemmy.world to begin with, but apparently it was according to this archived version of the post announcing the federation. Yeah my bad :)

I was initially on lemmy.world, but the frequent DDOS attacks and the fact that Hexbear and Beehaw had defederated from it really put me off. Also, communities like !linux and !privacy were much bigger on lemmy.ml compared to lemmy.world.

Soo I jumped ship to lemmy.ml

None of these politcians who push for all those “protect the children” laws actually gives a shit about child safety. The only thing that such laws mange to do is restrict freedom of speech and expression for everyone including children.

If you are a careless parent, then no law is going prevent your kids from watching porn.

Digg was essentially a site for sharing and discussing various links across the internet. It used to be extremely popular before the rise of Reddit, but it declined heavily after a controversial redisign (the infamous Digg v4) with most of it’s users fleeing to Reddit.

Fine! I’ll change it

grammar nazi

I learned that the internet (at least in the parts of it that are really mainstream) is a shitty place