Thom, π’‚π’€€π’ˆΎπ’’π’…•

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Thom, π’‚π’€€π’ˆΎπ’’π’…•32m ago
Dan Sinker2h ago
One in every 70 Americans was on the streets yesterday and it’s not on the NYT front page 24 hours later.
Thom, π’‚π’€€π’ˆΎπ’’π’…•4h ago
Tainted Grail's dialogue and quests have no business being this good.
Thom, π’‚π’€€π’ˆΎπ’’π’…•5h ago

You know how Steve Jobs rolled out a casket on stage and did a mock funeral for the classic Mac OS a few years after Mac OS X came out?

Okay now, hear me out. We do this too, but for Xorg.

Thom, π’‚π’€€π’ˆΎπ’’π’…•7h ago
OSNews7h ago

An excuse to mention Void Linux: XBPS 0.60 released

Since Void Linux uses a rolling release model, there's not much to report on in the form of new releases and major new features, so I'm taking the release of version 0.60 of XBPS, Void Linux' package manager, to cheat my way into talking about this excellent Linux distribution. I always think of Void as the "BSD of Linux distributions",

https://www.osnews.com/story/142573/an-excuse-to-mention-void-linux-xbps-0-60-released/

#Linux

An excuse to mention Void Linux: XBPS 0.60 released – OSnews

Thom, π’‚π’€€π’ˆΎπ’’π’…•7h ago

I use em dashes (but I'm a rebel so I use a regular dash between spaces - fucking sue me) all the time in my writing, and have been doing so for decades. I use it as a way to connect thoughts in a very specific way, a way that no other punctuation mark conveys.

Fuck the rules, man. Writing (and speaking) is always evolving, always changing, always morphing. YoU kan l1t3r4lly do ʷʰᡃᡗᡉᡛᡉʳ the Υ’α΅€κœ€β‚– ʏᴏᴜ α΄‘α΄€Ι΄α΄›.

Thom, π’‚π’€€π’ˆΎπ’’π’…•9h ago
wobble my windows
Thom, π’‚π’€€π’ˆΎπ’’π’…•9h ago

Is there an email client for Android that's Material You, doesn't use an intermediary server, and doesn't push "AI" bullshit?

Please read carefully. This excludes FairMail and Thunderbird. They use an outdated language.

Thom, π’‚π’€€π’ˆΎπ’’π’…•10h ago

People are more than capable of switching operating systems. About 95% of reasons given why e.g. a Mac user can't switch to Linux are pure bullshit, and the remaining 5% are small niggles you get used to in a few days.

Stop perpetuating this myth that people are too stupid to switch. You're only doing big tech's PR, for free. Fool.

Thom, π’‚π’€€π’ˆΎπ’’π’…•10h ago
Now that Trump failed to have a bigger... Parade than Kim, I'm pretty sure Kim is now emperor of the US? That's how that works right?
Thom, π’‚π’€€π’ˆΎπ’’π’…•12h ago

Can I just be on the side of the average, normal people of Iran and Israel, instead of having to choose a side? Both Khamenei and Netanyahu can die in a fire - I just wish they weren't taking so many normal folk with them.

Remember: the average Iranian or Israeli is no different from us. We're all just trying to get by in a world repeatedly fucked by rich assholes. They're just as much our brothers and sisters as people in the US or Europe.