its funny to see millennials and older gen z making fun of younger gen z and gen alpha for their brainrot

…as if the nyan cat, rage comics, and vine clips weren’t pretty much the same thing lol

i am aware of what creoles and pidgins are, yes. making fun of them is racism.

i agree, and maybe in a better world it wouldn’t be racist (it would still be glottophobic tho, but to what degree that is considered problematic depends tbf, “haha french sucks” jokes are glottophobia as well and that seems fine by most people)

but we do not live in this better world where racial & colonial power structures are irrelevant, so making fun of Jamaican creole and Pidgin (as another commenter in this thread did…) is still fucking racist

are you saying this to bait me or are you so obtuse as to think it’s the translating part i have an issue with, and not the “haha look this language is so silly! 🤣 this is better than therapy! 🤣” part

yeah that’s just racism

opinion: individualism is a plague and the generational war is a distraction

that would be impossible! Lord Emperor Gaben is the sole bringer of light to a world of darkness, he, and he himself, is single-handedly the reason why there is still good in the gaming industry! for example, he, alone, by himself, birthed Linux, so we could all enjoy a world free of the tyranny of Microsoft!!!

ok but for real. why do gamers talk about gabe newell the way tech people talked about elon musk circa 2018… im seeing a lot of uncomfortable parallels

obligatory shilling for LocalSend, it’s airdrop except open-source and completely cross-platform!

it works for you because you got accustomed to it. cool! genuinely! but not everyone is a power user, not everyone will want to sift through documentation to find out how to do the thing they want that’s easy to do with word

from the non-techy people i’ve spoken to who’ve used libreoffice, they all agree that it’s worse than ms office because it gets in the way more. it’s harder to do stuff, because it’s less intuitive to them.

people in 3d modeling use blender. people in audio production use audacity. people in office work and schools, usually, do not use libreoffice, because if you can afford ms office it’s just better for them. maybe that will change with office now being ai-infested webviews held together with gum, javascript and ever increasing subscription prices… then again, that hasn’t slowed down adobe

imo the upcoming audacity 4 is an incredible example of open-source ui redesign, and should be an inspiration to everyone. the ui is sleeker, faster, easier to use, and yet it’s still familiar to existing users! but you can do good stuff without recreating the whole ui from scratch like they did, of course

but can that content be removed without changing the game? they already changed her from a kid to a grown woman, because it fit the story and the message better, apparently. but would removing that entirely still work?

idk, i haven’t played or analysed the game. i’m guessing that it’s there for a reason. but i do know that demanding content be changed because it makes us uncomfortable is not a good thing!

it works, but it’s far from ideal. a lot of features are tucked away behind unintuitive context menus, and on some systems you need to do a bit of configuration for it to look right. for example, it uses bitmap icons by default, so if you use a hidpi screen the icons will look atrocious until you figure out how to switch them to vector icons.

and an ugly UI is a problem by itself. it’s uninviting, unwelcoming. it gives a feeling of jank, of amateurism, and not in a good way. if you open the app for the first time and immediately think “this looks like it was last updated in 2003”, it’s not a good thing.

iirc the game was refused by steam before the payment processor thing, and even then, you don’t scrap your whole project because of one moral panic. not only is it bowing down to pressure, it’s also just a terrible idea financially

apple was known for making excellent UX, that’s the main reason their products are successful. It Just Works™. (well, that and status symbol)

the problems started before version 26, but i don’t think there’s been an apple software release that botched in a while

i mean, car crashes very much also often lead to death

i don’t think speed cameras are a good way to prevent car crashes, but straight up acting like car crashes aren’t a problem worth mitigating is extremely silly

admittedly “charlie kirk stan” was maybe not the best way to describe it (i got this from other people), he hasn’t posted much about him (other than to mourn his death lol), but

apparently he thinks the software industry has a nazi-hating problem??? lmao

i’m still wary of him. he doesn’t have a big thing to point to like DHH, but the way he speaks and the people he associates with (including, you guessed it, DHH) raises a ton of red flags

as a trans woman i’d rather not promote and fund (indirectly, but still) the people who want people like me dead

i’d rather their white supremacy, misogyny and queerphobia not become the norm in open-source spaces, more than it already is…

devs are charlie kirk stans, and consider(ed, they seem to have changed course on this, good) gender neutral pronouns to be “too political”

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i’ve switched to HeliBoard on my tablet!

i wouldn’t call it a drop-in replacement (i don’t think it has swipe-to-type or voice recognition for example, tho i could be wrong) but for me it works even better