That means the dutch model can’t get software updates… so like does it matter? Call me when they start disabling buses.

They are incompatible with end stages of communism, but not socialism, and even then, I don’t think they’re saying they’ve already built socialism or communism, I think they’re saying that they are building it.

i don’t think they will ultimately decide to start transitioning to either, because that would require a lot of people in power relinquishing it, but I think it’s better to try and actually understand both sides rather than argue against strawmen.

also, the argument of socialism is that the workers should own the means of production not that there should be some arbitrary wealth cap. Marx never said anything about a wealth cap, though many socialists would want one it isn’t fundamental to socialism, there’s even types of socialist called market socialists, ultimately the only characteristic that unifies socialists is worker control over the means of production.

https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-gemma-ai-cancer-therapy-discovery/

is this not a novel thing that a human didn’t create?

Boba is the only reason i use straws.

I guess? I don’t know what you mean I just help people on matrix in dm’s for free, my matrix is on my profile

I do free infinite troubleshooting on matrix, I have over 15 years of experience

Why not lojban?

Herpetology is my thing

Really if you use the centralized repos for installs there is as close to no risk as there could be, I wouldn’t even expend energy on this problem.

Wow and this is how I find out my mom is dead??

you should read up on how heliocentrists were treated!

Slavery was justified in large part for religious reasons.

try element x, it has been fine for me

It is, but it works fine even if you aren’t a gamer

Or do this and never deal with this again

 exec-once = while ! hyprlock -c ~/.config/hypr/hyprlock/hyprlock-startup.conf > /dev/null; do sleep 0.01 > /dev/null; done > /dev/null 

 exec-once = swayidle timeout 600 'pidof hyprlock || ( hyprlock -c ~/.config/hypr/hyprlock/hyprlock-screenshot.conf --grace 59 > /dev/null || while ! hyprlock -c ~/.config/hypr/hyprlock/hyprlock-startup.conf > /dev/null; do sleep 0.01 > /dev/null; done > /dev/null )'

What exactly is easier about the installation than my suggestion?

the fedora community is just as large as the mint community, and just as well supported.

i’m not telling you to switch, I’m saying there’s no reason to start with it if you haven’t tried linux before. Switching is a much bigger choice because you are already comfortable.

Why would a beginner who isn’t already comfortable choose mint?

A lot of people are going to recommend you mint, I honestly think mint is an outdated suggestion for beginners, I think immutability is extremely important for someone who is just starting out, as well as starting on KDE since it’s by far the most developed DE that isn’t gnome and their… design decisions are unfortunate for people coming from windows.

I don’t think we should be recommending mint to beginners anymore, if mint makes an immutable, up to date KDE distro, that’ll change, but until then, I think bazzite or aurora if you don’t like gaming is objectively a better starting place for beginners.

The mere fact that bazzite and other immutables generate a new system for you on update and let you switch between and rollback automatically is enough for me to say it’s better, but it also has more up to date software, and tons of guides (fedora is one of the most popular distros, and bazzite is essentially identical except with some QoL upgrades).

How common is the story of “I was new to linux and completely broke it”? that’s not a good user experience for someone who’s just starting, it’s intimidating, scary, and I just don’t think it’s the best in the modern era. There’s something to be said about learning from these mistakes, but bazzite essentially makes these mistakes impossible.

Furthermore because of the way bazzite works, package management is completely graphical and requires essentially no intervention on the users part, flathub and immutability pair excellently for this reason.

Cinnamon (the default mint environment) doesn’t and won’t support HDR, the security/performance improvements from wayland, mixed refresh rate displays, mixed DPI displays, fractional scaling, and many other things for a very very long time if at all. I don’t understand the usecase for cinnamon tbh, xfce is great if you need performance but don’t want to make major sacrifices, lxqt is great if you need A LOT of performance, cinnamon isn’t particularly performant and just a strictly worse version of kde in my eyes from the perspective of a beginner, anyway.

I have 15 years of linux experience and am willing to infinitely troubleshoot if you add me on matrix.

Zoos are necessary and should only contain animals that do not show signs of stress when in captivity, the fact is people don’t protect what they don’t love and they don’t love what they don’t know. This is one of the only ways to get people engaged with conservation.

this one sucks though.

compared to gnome, absolutely.

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# get hyprland event socket path
HIS=$HYPRLAND_INSTANCE_SIGNATURE
EVENT_SOCK="$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/hypr/$HIS/.socket2.sock"

# fallback / error check
if [ -z "$HIS" ] || [ ! -S "$EVENT_SOCK" ]; then
  echo "Error: cannot locate Hyprland event socket at $EVENT_SOCK" >&2
  exit 1
fi

logfile="${HOME}/hypr_focus.log"

# function to handle a line from the event stream
handle_event() {
  local line="$1"
  # check for activewindow event
  if [[ $line == activewindow* ]]; then
    # format: activewindow>>CLASS,TITLE
    # strip prefix
    local payload=${line#activewindow>>}
    # split on comma (first comma)
    local cls="${payload%%,*}"
    local title="${payload#*,}"
    local ts
    ts=$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
    echo "$ts — $title (class: $cls)" >> "$logfile"
  fi
  # optionally handle activewindowv2 if you want address instead
  # if [[ $line == activewindowv2* ]]; then
  #   ...
  # fi
}

# listen to the socket
socat -u "UNIX-CONNECT:$EVENT_SOCK" - | while IFS= read -r line; do
  handle_event "$line"
done

honestly if you’re willing to do some work you can make hyprland do almost anything

**disclaimer i did not test this much

edit: forgot about the screenshot part, should be easy to add though, just add screenshotting everytime focus changes with grim or whatever