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  • Avatar_of_Self@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonemicrulesoft
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    I regularly meet Linux elitists not understanding that I want a UI for my debuggers, not an automated script.

    I don’t know. It doesn’t make any sense that someone would be against a UI for something. It is just mostly a bunch of volunteers working on their own projects. I could see a volunteer saying something like “nah, I’m OK with it the way it is” because they are working on something for free, usually for themselves and sharing it for others to use and/or contribute to.

    It seems odd that you’d complaining to some project maintainers and calling them elitists for not working on your suggestion and even odder still because I’d imagine many would be thrilled for someone to contribute to building a UI, even if it’s just mock-ups. Unless you’re talking about some random people in the Linux community but I don’t really see any point in doing that since they probably have nothing to do with whatever projects you’re talking about.

    What would adding a GUI to a command line app even change about it as far as the command line? It isn’t as if you either get one or the other; you can have both. It just doesn’t make sense.


  • On the one hand LA county has a massive crime issue and the masks aren’t helping. On the other hand, even without masks they still had a crime problem anyway because LASD (almost $4bn budget) sucks at their jobs and there isn’t a lot of support of the current Sherrif from deputies that has been trying to fix them. LAPD ($2bn budget) basically only takes care of the main part of LA city proper itself.

    Where I live break-in response times are around 4 hours and anything under that is measured in days, if they show up at all.


  • Maybe…Congress has impeached one Supreme Court Justice in history, Constitution Article 2, Section 4..

    The Article itself stays within the scope of the Executive Branch but the Section itself just says:

    The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.

    Likely, if Congress tried, it would be argued that the scope is only the Executive Branch.

    Article 3’s scope is the Judicial branch but says in Section 1:

    The judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good Behaviour, and shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services, a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office.

    However, Samuel Chase who was appointed as a Supreme Court Justice by George Washington and confirmed by the Senate was impeached by Congress in 1804, and other federal judges (some having life-time appointments apparently) were dissolved.

    Samuel Chase ultimately was acquitted by the Senate in 1805 however.



  • It’s also difficult for developers to publish to Linux because of the wide variety of different Linux systems.

    I disagree there. The issue is that in Windows people bring over their own version of libraries they compiled on (the millions of .dll files) and you can even look in your Uninstall Apps settings where there’s a bunch of MS specific runtime bundles to see that’s even an issue in the MS ecosystem.

    In Linux, developers have relied on the library versions just being there. It is, I’d argue, the most compelling reason package managers basically had to come into existence. On the flip-side this can cause issues where there is some version on the system by the package manager that replaces another version. And something not a part of that package management system isn’t a part of those dependency checks and if they don’t put the libraries with the binaries…well it is just luck if you have them all or if other versions can support those library calls in the same way still.

    In Linux that is all those .so’s in /var/lib and stuff.

    You don’t really see many proprietary things using package managers and those that do are packaged by someone else and are in some sort of repo that isn’t part of the vanilla install because of legal caution.

    Companies that made their money on porting games to Linux prior to Proton basically causing them to shutter Linux porting would put their .so’s in with the game bundle themselves, just like you see happening in Windows when .dll’s are inside the actual program’s folders.

    However, the more that this sort of dependency management has become abstracted by development suites that take care of this for the developers, the less they understand about it.

    Flatpaks actually take care of this and it is one reason they are so popular. They figure out (well that’s a simplification) those library dependencies, sandbox the apps with those dependencies so the library paths don’t interfere with other flatpaks or the base system itself. People complain about this as a con because “the download is BIGGER” even though flatpak doesn’t install the same runtimes over and over again, so once they are there, the download may still be bigger but the installed storage isn’t.

    Anyway, yes Linus Torvalds complained about the “Linux fragmentation” issue but it was about DE’s not the state of the development ecosystem itself as I recall, though the rant is very old, so maybe I don’t remember all of it.

    Wider application support would be a start.

    Sure, but that’s not a Linux problem, that’s a developer problem. Linux supports application development just fine. It is a kernel and the surrounding ecosystem is the operating system after all. It is developers that don’t support it. That isn’t really something Linux in and of itself can effectively solve. Users have to increase and developers supporting applications for Linux will also increase. The classic Linux Chicken and the Egg problem but it is capitalism and that’s just going to be how it has to work.



  • If it was around the time of 9/11, in the US military, we had a bunch of people wanting to sign up and be all patriotic. We didn’t really have a people problem in OIF/OEF but unfortunately for the Army they had a budget problem. There were equipment shortages for stuff like the armor inserts for the PASGTs and the like. Marines always have a shortage of everything but now they really needed it.

    Support the Troops was really Support the Defense Contractor contracts.

    Also, I’d like to let everyone know the US is all Support the Troops but Fuck the Vets. I don’t give a shit about one free bland meal at Golden Corral a year and $3 off of a $30 pizza. We need better VA services, we need the VA to be able to ‘recognize’ a lot more of service connected problems with an infrastructure to take care of it.



  • For those that don’t know, they are going to release something called FreeLlama which might be FOSS (no public info as to what the license actually will be).

    Winamp says that they still want to control ‘what features’ go into winamp and it’ll remain proprietary. I assume they really just want people to contribute interesting things to FreeLlama and then put the contribution into Winamp.

    The license probably won’t be FOSS because they probably aren’t going to want anyone contributing to own copyright to the code that they are committing.

    It is odd because FOSS contributors aren’t really known for being OK with this sort of thing in the past, so I doubt they’re going to get much out of it. Maybe it’s a Hail Mary and they’ll end up blaming people for not freely giving up their devtime and creativity to a company that wants to make money on it.




  • Avatar_of_Self@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldtoxic help forum
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    To be fair it looks like it was posted in r/gimp and we don’t know what the OP actually said in the text. In my experience, usually, when something like this happens, they usually heavily criticize something and call it ‘garbage’ or something similar.

    It’d be like going into any passionate community about something and calling it trash, then being ‘shocked’ that there’s a bunch of responses belittling them. This isn’t a FOSS specific problem. Go into r/windows or even r/techsupport and trash it while comparing it to anything else like MacOS, Linux, *BSD, whatever and you’ll get a bunch of toxic responses. This would also be mostly true of any other non-computer hobbyist communities surrounding a specific brand or product.

    When I would see someone ranting “I’d switch to Linux but the community is toxic” in somewhere like PCMasterRace, I’d ask “Can you link to the post?” and if they did it was so common that they straight up trashed Linux in whatever distro community that they posted to that I don’t recall a single instance of it simply being “Hey I have this problem. What do I do?” and there being nothing from the OP trashing it in responses or the original post.

    I’m not sure if it will become the same as the federated community gains popularity and you have more regular user-type people posting in those niche/passionate/whatever communities more regularly.