Oh, I created an account there two days ago.

Gab also was big, but its role for the fediverse wasn’t.

There are no non-toxic spaces these days.

Probably we don’t need new Thinkpads. And the old either. The main motivation behind the desire of people to by old Thinkpads is a desire to be a part of the club and culture, to look like a hacker, a geek. The same motivation had early apple fanboys. I hope smarter people will become less dependent from such crowdthinking phenomena not more.

Honor is a sense of a child doing things for which parents will praise them. An adult substitutes parents with other people and institutions, but honor is still a desire to be accepted and praised by others and anticipation of it.

Development is not very active in recent years. I doubt we will ever see FCMP++s on the mainnet.

Who is watching you

I don’t. But maybe evilcorp knows better how and why.

WhatsApp is the most popular messenger in Russia, not Telegram.

I’ve tried it and share my few thoughts:

First of all, the first time I’ve tried Smithay-based compositor and it is usable and even supports nvidia. It is a good thing just by itself.

The whole DE is better than I assumed. It in not much polished, but it is good as an experimental thing. I’ve noticed few developer’s creative attempts as “compacted” menubars and dialog pop-ups. I doubt they are good but reveal author’s intent to try create something new.

What I like: The application menu is nice, it also is quite modern: uses Wayland, CSD, Rust and implements modern UX.

What I not so like: UX has some weak parts: unnecessarily duplicated elements between the dock and the top panel. Icon style and preferences is not that good also. I really would like to see icon consistency across the DE which would not harm third-party apps. I also think the project need a designer in the team.

For now there are only few “native” apps. And I would prefer COSMIC will embrace existing GNU/Linux ecosystem and apps without trying to rewrite everything and creating yet another segregated platform as GNOME and KDE do.

Putin is reality.