It is amazing how on the great, vast internet the amount of material has grown while the amount of useful material has shrunk both as a percentage and as an absolute amount.
This unhappy fact is exacerbated by rise of conversation bureaucrats, not just the usual web cops but an actual bureaucracy of petit tyrants who, by God, are going to rule with an iron fist. (I actually think one of the great selling points of TDE is this list, which is free of such things. Anyone who remembers the KDE forums way back when would probably still shudder.) This makes tasks like searching for answers all the worse because half the time the search results for your exact question end up being moderators and their rumpswabs angry that the question was asked, rather than just answering the damn thing.
I discovered the first day with PiOS that Wayland ain't soup yet. It is theoretically more elegant. So is the ramjet, but if you stick 'em on airplanes now they's gwan to be a whole lot of crashes.
I'm beginning to think the same thing is true of Pipewire. Many applications do not play nicely with it. The translation layer seems a little flaky. It has been years since work was done on Kaffeine, and there wasn't any Pipewire then. VLC seems to grumble about it.
And unlike X11, which was easy to start instead of Wayland, getting rid of Pipewire is a real pain. But it is looking more and more like the culprit. I'm going in -- look after my family if I don't return.
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It is amazing how on the great, vast internet the amount of material has grown while the amount of useful material has shrunk both as a percentage and as an absolute amount.
True! The internet was hijacked by the 3-letter organizations (NGO incl), so that indeed it got not only dirty but factually incorrect. And it develops fast. My last favorite is Quora. The level of stupidity is unbelievable. I bet they will use it in the future to train the AI, that will tell them what is right or wrong
This unhappy fact is exacerbated by rise of conversation bureaucrats, not just the usual web cops but an actual bureaucracy of petit tyrants who, by God, are going to rule with an iron fist. (I actually think one of the great selling points of TDE is this list, which is free of such things. Anyone who remembers the KDE forums way back when would probably still shudder.) This makes tasks like searching for answers all the worse because half the time the search results for your exact question end up being moderators and their rumpswabs angry that the question was asked, rather than just answering the damn thing.
I heard many from the social sciences moved to DI (diversity and inclusion) and to politics. We already can see the fruits not only in the internet but in real life. It is scary.
I discovered the first day with PiOS that Wayland ain't soup yet. It is theoretically more elegant. So is the ramjet, but if you stick 'em on airplanes now they's gwan to be a whole lot of crashes.
Ah, yeah, we moved from spaghetti code to layered or even microservices, but we had to sacrifice the functionality. So now code looks amazing, but barely works.
I'm beginning to think the same thing is true of Pipewire. Many applications do not play nicely with it. The translation layer seems a little flaky. It has been years since work was done on Kaffeine, and there wasn't any Pipewire then. VLC seems to grumble about it.
And unlike X11, which was easy to start instead of Wayland, getting rid of Pipewire is a real pain. But it is looking more and more like the culprit. I'm going in -- look after my family if I don't return.
The problem are the psychopaths and they are too many. They always know better and seek to overrule the rest. I am afraid, there is no easy solution - there are simply not enough psychiatrists on the planet.
After following some of the most recents threads, it occurs to me that some -- those that tend to go a bit off-topic -- have a few common elements. But we (myself included) usually miss the real culprits: which are a bundle of related phenomena that are almost, yet not entirely, beyond our control.
Now, while pondering these matters in private, by coincidence I happened across a newer reprint of an old book, only within the past week. I had known about it for ages, had found digital copies online, here:
Jacques Ellul, *The Technological Society* https://archive.org/details/JacquesEllulTheTechnologicalSociety various formats ~or~ https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/jacques-ellul-the-technological-soci... html version
Due to my own engrained lifelong habits, however, actually *reading* it did not happen until I found the actual book.
For those who can read French, I found this page: https://www.jacques-ellul.org/ https://web.archive.org/web/20240517224853/https://www.jacques-ellul.org/ but cannot find the original text.
It occurs to me that many here on this list, if they don't already know it, may find this book worthwhile.
Apologies for going off-topic, and I beg forgiveness if I sound preachy, but if anybody anywhere is likely to feel in tune with what its author has to say, then it is probably among ourselves: persons who are technically inclined, run Linux, are not quite Luddites, yet for good reason choose to do some things the old-fashioned way, using stone tools, and opting for TDE over other available desktops.
Enjoy!
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