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Indeed, though as lacking as Ark is, I still think it's better than PeaZip, which has just about the messiest GUI I've seen in a long while, with far too much redundancy, and annoying quirks.
I really liked the GUI of WinRar, but I no longer consider proprietary software to be an option. 7-Zip's GUI was pretty okay, but the "Linux port" of that is so incomplete that it feels more like a prop than a programme. The only part that works well is it's archive creation menu, which I can access through the context menu. But the equivalent in Ark is about on par.
I am still pining for a Qt GUI compression/extraction killer app, that feels fully featured and able to handle it all. As it is, I keep three different ones installed, to meet my needs and mostly satisfy my workflow.
Tell me about it. Did you see the one wearing an entirely transparent shell? You can see everything!
Call me a freak, but there's just something about literally being able to see how far inside it goes, when you insert your cartridge.
Something, something, Kohlera.
professional actor.
Hmm... Does anyone else suspect Willem Dafoe?
I didn't know what to think when I read this. There are clearly some hurt feelings here, as well as some strong accusations, but without hearing the different sides to the story, and more KDE insiders weighing in with their take, I feel like it's impossible to say what's up or down.
There are RPMs as well, but yeah, Proton has terrible Linux support overall.
Democratic influence on the rules you're bound by, is that really an insignificant benefit?
From my perspective as a radical social liberal, it seems to me that totalitarian and authoritarian outcomes are inherent to any form of socialism which embrace revolution, or the complete replacement of societal institutions, and communism is of course the poster child. This seems to happen whether or not totalitarian traits existed in the ideology, before coming to power.
When you go back in history, and read letters written by the losers of party power struggles, before they lost, or read accounts of things they said, you will often find their sheer naivety to be striking, I find.
My personal theory is that several of the methods used to come to power, many of the power structures that emerge, and the eventual new institutions that are created, are strong tools for exercising power, while they often only have weak guards to prevent abuses of power. The most cynical members of a party will use and abuse them, they will come to dominate, and they will not get rid of these weaknesses in the system, thereby removing their own advantage in wielding, maintaining and grabbing for more power.
It's interesting how socialism is an ideology that is very focused on power relations and dynamics (employer vs. employee for instance), presents itself as an equaliser or a liberator of people being subject to others, and has a lot of political theory at its foundation, and yet, it seemingly has such a glaring blind spot of falling victim to itself.
I think everyone on the far left would benefit immensely, from going back and reading a whole lot of early liberal thought about power and the state. From back when it was more just a strand of political theory, than an ideology as such. And when I say they would benefit, I mean it genuinely, in that it would help them ensure that whatever political change they might become a part in bringing about, will be able to serve it's original goals, rather than quickly become corrupted.
I am struggling to think of much there that would be inherently incompatible with even far-left socialism. Except, perhaps, if your view is that the state is, and should be total and absolute, then that is of course incompatible with putting restrictions on its power, or dividing it into separate parts that must check each other.
Your story sounds uncannily like mine, except I'm now 5 years on. Stick with it now, and you're home free! I haven't smoked or vaped in 5 years, and I have absolutely zero desire to. Makes me shudder just to think about.
Yeah, I only ever use: