I agree with everything you said, to some degree. I’m just saying that shorts on my account are great, because I’ve honed my algorithm over many years so that it only gives me relevant stuff. I never see anything I don’t want to see, basically. My Watch Later list overfloweth. 😅
the fact that no useful information can fit in that short a video.
Have to disagree with the notion that this is a fact. I watch informative and interesting shorts all the time. Plenty out there if you have the right subscriptions and are careful with how you use the service.
E.g. you must never scroll shorts. Watch the ones you want to see, then back out, so you never see anything that pollutes your account history.
If you see something you don’t like, put a negative vote on it, maybe even click “don’t see this account again” or whatever it’s called. And vice versa, upvote and subscribe to stuff you like.
It requires some effort but for me it’s worth the interesting content.
This is the key. I never scroll shorts. I only click deliberately on the ones I know I want to see. Then back out. This way there is little to no pollution.
“Practicing” doesn’t necessarily need to mean only militarily. Taking over a country here and there. Starting with countries that have bad people in charge. Working up to more and more controversial targets. 😅
Practicing on Venezuela in order to get ready to take Greenland.
Huh. I love shorts. I have a curated YouTube account that shows me very interesting shorts about science, music, gaming, comedy, PC building, web development, tech news, etc etc. I wonder why people don’t like shorts. Using YouTube without being logged in?
I don’t remember seeing any banners before GDPR?
It’s not about making users hate them. It’s about collecting data,
Making users hate GDPR and revolting against it is a means to that end though, of collecting data.
I mean, I agree completely. I chose i3 back in the day to get tiling windows, but also specifically to get my system as lean as possible to only run the things I needed. So I definitely made a conscious choice. As I did with Niri recently.
I just feel like it should be easier. Like you start the dbus daemon or whatever, and then that’s it. That should be it. There shouldn’t be anything left to do after that IMO. 😅
But I mean, I know how to search shit on the Internet, and read docs. I made it work. Others might struggle though, coming from Windows e.g. like I did decades ago. I have a big headstart.
Would be neat if it wasn’t necessary to do that though, of course. 👍 I didn’t need to do that with i3 for some reason, e.g. Feels inconsistent.
Whatever it does, it’s something that must be added manually in your compositor’s startup commands, or in your shell’s init file.
Super misleading title?
It’s very annoying also that you need some weird systemd command incantations to make it detectable by environment variables when using Wayland compositors or X11 window managers that aren’t full desktop environments, in combination with XDG portals.
I struggled so much getting dark mode running well with darkman. And screen sharing with Niri. Hhhrg.
Also any year that someone switches their main desktop to linux is the year of the linux desktop for them personally.
Agreed. I’ve made the same argument myself, fully on board. I had my year of the Linux Desktop two decades ago. 😄
I just… As long as we don’t actually take it seriously that “this might be the year of the Linux Desktop” and get disappointed that it isn’t — by some unknown metric (seriously, what’s even the definition of the “year of the Linux Desktop”?) — then it’s fine. 😊👍
I love the enthusiasm but I think we should honestly stop chasing “The Year Of The Linux Desktop™️”. I think it only serves as a depressant.
Let’s just keep focusing on making Linux great for experienced and new users alike. 👀
Really. I moved away from Ubuntu when they forced Unity on us. 😅
Ooh, okay, definitely sounds cumbersome at first glance.
Well that’s comforting. 🙂👍
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Can you show me one example of me picking a single fight?
Exactly. They are condemning capturing a dictator because they don’t want that shit coming to them.