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[–] pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org 36 points 11 months ago (3 children)
[–] drhoopoe@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Wow, that reviewer is an idiot. Who tf complains about default keybindings that can easily be changed?

[–] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 22 points 11 months ago

Lunduke is a top tier moron

[–] superkret@feddit.org 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Can you change the fact that you first have to hit a key combo to activate all other key combos?
Cause that is a hard no for me in any software.
Even on a laptop keyboard, you have 9 function keys and 77 others available. That's 702 possible combos without even getting into any weird 3-key-stuff. More than anyone could ever remember or use.

[–] drhoopoe@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 11 months ago

I don't think so, no. And I agree on that point actually, but people who are used to tmux or screen, which seems to be the target audience, would presumably be fine with it.

[–] pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 11 months ago

Yes, you can bind any ratpoison action, function or external program to anything you want without needing to use the prefix key.

[–] mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Rats don't like rat poison. Can't blame them. And it's not a Desktop Environment. This guy is out if the loop.

[–] kakafarm@lemmy.sdf.org -5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I like Lunduke. He's calling out many of the hypocrisies of Free Software activists and the IT corpos.

[–] paperd@lemmy.zip 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] kakafarm@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] paperd@lemmy.zip 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I hope this is a swing and miss at satire, but honestly I can't tell.

[–] kakafarm@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

No. I am sorry you feel that way.

[–] didnt1able@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] kakafarm@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
[–] paperd@lemmy.zip 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Personally I think we should just ignore him, every mention gives him the possibility to spread his hateful message. He's spineless, let him wriggle in obscurity.

[–] lessthanluigi@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I thought you guys made up a person to satirize Linux reviewers. I did not know this person was real until I looked him up. Didn't go much futhur than checking out his name existing tho.

[–] paperd@lemmy.zip 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Nope, certainly a real and hateful person. He used to be cohost of the Linux Action Show, marketing manager at SuSe for a bit, and was popular for a series of talks called "Linux Sucks." Somewhere in or around the beginning of the pandemic he went down the right wing rabbit hole. He is totally useless now, he's a transphobic as fuck, and generally just has a hateful message about most things.

He religiously monitors his name, wouldn't be surprised if he see this. If he is reading this: man, you just make me sad now. Please get help.

[–] pmjv@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Are you saying he might actually be here? Shit, I wish I was wearing my good tie. You know, the one with fish?

Rat killers are people too.. with real feelings, Bryan :(

[–] paperd@lemmy.zip 5 points 11 months ago

he's def. found other fedi things that had his name in it.

[–] emr@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I lost all respect for his technical taste when he confessed that his daily driver is FreeDOS. I know linux folks skew at least a little contrarian but at that point I don't think we're speaking the same language of computing and there's not much I can learn from ya. Not super surprised to hear he went way overboard contrarian in other ways I guess.

[–] paperd@lemmy.zip 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"Technical taste" is the wrong angle here, and I see this a lot in FOSS. No amount of "good" or "great" technicality makes up for the fact that his personal views are abhorrent.

The first question we should ask is "are they a decent person" and the answer here is a hard no, so technical taste doesn't even matter.

[–] emr@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I guess what I'm trying to say is that his contrarian personal views and his contrarian technical views are both expressions of some underlying contrarian-ness. Not that we shouldn't be asking if he's a decent person, just that I'm not super surprised to find out he's gone mask off weirdo.

[–] paperd@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 months ago

"Contrarian" is too nice a label.

[–] lessthanluigi@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Wait, daily driving FREEDOS!? I could see that happening in like 2007, but even after 2011???

Don't get me wrong, I have used FreeDOS on occasion to play old sierra games on a modern computer bare metal edition, but holy shit, I can't imagine DAILY DRIVING IT!!