Yea. Me with Linux. At least some brave soul is keeping Buuf alive, though buuf is a bit too playful for my tastes. It is the frutiger-aero-est thing I've found on pling :P
Correct on all accounts. Catpuccin is nice.
To each their own. Dark (and light) modes are what triggers my migraines omegalul.
White-on-black/black-on-white
The monitor is able to display millions of colours including hundreds of shades of grey.
Yet we still go with either vanta-black-text-on-pure-white-background or pure-white-text-on-vanta-black-background. That shit's TERRIBLE on your eyes, for fuck's sake. Bonus points if you're one of those ultra-turbo-power-masochists that uses their computer with all the lights out and nothing but the glow of the monitor lighting up the room. Do you WANT to be blind before you turn forty?
The lower-contrast a theme is, the better. Solarized or death.
I also highkey miss the age of transparencies and animations and skeuomorphic 3D-prerendered icons on everything. The modern trend of symbolic icons and mostly-flat UI elements lacks prettiness. There was never a moment when computer UIs looked better than early aughts MacOSX. Fight me.
Apologies, I will literally never be able to relate to this entire line of thinking. If I'm at an airport and it's close to boarding time, my laptop has already been shut down ten minutes ago because when I first hear the announcement I see that as 'computer time is over' and consider this just generally the smart thing to do (... And you can just hibernate or disable wifi/bluetooth and leave the thing on anyway)
Generally if I'm turning off my computer I understand that as something that could take a minute or three because a small wait is not this huge dramatic thing y'all make it out to be.
pulseaudio, an powerful but complex audio management daemon in Linux whose name you only recognize because it’s caused you no end of trouble. Pulseaudio was also replaced relatively quickly by pipewire.
PulseAudio never gave me trouble but I guess I'm just lucky or some shit. Also PipeWire took forever to come out.
Prescriptive grammar is wack.
Also a pretty interesting idea, a sort of per-election test to see if they are both fully sane and up to date on current events.
... Although the senility test might end up as a tool of disenfranchisement anyway. Just remember Literacy Tests in the American Slave States during Jim Crow.
"Quotas are a slippery slope to bans" to me smells the same as "affirmative action is racist".
Pretending that there is a slippery slope where there isn't even a slope to begin with, and if there is, it's sloping the other way.
Enfranchising the disenfranchised is not the same as disenfranchising the enfranchised and never will be.
And no, I don't think the "current generation of tyrants" is in any way special or different. It just so happens that we are living right now, and the current sword of damocles of climate change is so transparent and all encompassing that their sacrificing of the young to maintain their spoiled lives is so damn obvious.
But "old people in power make decision, and it is the young who pay for it" is in fact older than feudalism. Who declares the wars? The white-haired old heads in government. Who actually goes and dies in the wars? The young who are under their thrall. Who makes reckless economic decisions that lead to recessions? The old who already have property to lean back on. Who lives through those recessions and suffers without being able to afford a living? The young who had no choice. Etc. etc. etc.
It is older than feudalism. The tyranny of the ancients is the most -- Er -- Ancient. Form of tyranny in humanity. Simply because having time already gives one an unfair advantage in consolidating power.
I didn't say a ban. I said a quota of young people in bodies of government to ensure the ancients can't piss all over the future just to get their own.
And I maintain that the main reason people are at their "most influential and productice" at 50-70 is because of a culture of gerontocracy, and that should not be the case.
Broadly because of gerontocracy and the idea that oldness = competency.
It is also why the world is slowly dying and the people in charge don't give two shits: They'll be dead by the time it gets TRULY shitty so they don't have any incentive to care.
And as far as like, work is concerned, gerontocracy is fine.
Not so for politics. Hence, youth quota.
I would be a sassy cunt and say something about how you shoulda known better, but also oof. I relate.