I build cross platform desktop software professionally.

Because of this I have to use and pretty deeply understand the inner workings of every OS.

I can state as absolute fact that every major operating system including Linux is an absolute pile of hot garbage.

The difference is that macOS and windows are garbage on purpose. There were deliberate decisions to enshitify them for profit. They spent time and money making the OS worse on purpose.

On Linux most of the shitty parts were designed with good intentions but just kinda suck (Wayland for example).

IIRC Pipewire isn’t really designed for pro-audio / music production. So if you want to do these things, Jack is still kind of unavoidable.

User:

Shop pop, whoppity slop, crops are here, it’s time to stop.

This is a very famous poem. What is it about?

GPT-4o mini:

The lines you quoted are from the poem “The Song of the Witches” by William Shakespeare, specifically from “Macbeth.” This poem is recited by the three witches in Act 4, Scene 1.

Themes and Meaning Supernatural Elements The poem reflects the supernatural themes prevalent in “Macbeth.” The witches symbolize chaos and the dark forces that influence the characters’ fates.

It goes on.

Usually git add .

It’s much faster, easier and less error prone to go with the blacklist approach of the gitignore file IMO.

So everyone who contributes to the project should make their own gitignore on every development machine they use to prevent committing build files, secrets ect?

I don’t understand why you say it has nothing to do with the code when it literally has nothing to do with anything BUT the code.

What is the downside you see to committing the gitignore?

Trekking poles. People always make excuses for why they don’t need them and low-key tease other hikers for using them.

They massively improve your ability to cover rough terrain and they also greatly decrease your chances of minor injuries.

That being said, I just carry them around on my backpack because “I don’t really need them” lmao.

How is it not part of the project?

More afraid of having to write / test code on windows than anything.

Just want to remind everyone that PalWorld is a really good game. Its still getting major updates and has an insane amount of high quality content to explore.

I appreciate the sentiment but I’m afraid this is a much too nuanced idea for the masses to understand.

I think it depends on your app I’m not really sure.

But it should be pretty safe to just post it here. If not I can give you my pubic key and you can encrypt the link?

OpenAI was just sued over this.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/26/tech/openai-chatgpt-teen-suicide-lawsuit

To be clear I’m not asserting that this kid was autistic.

If have some terrible news.

These people are everywhere now. The brain rot is unreal.

I disagree. It probably won’t be as popular as an app that does have editing features but personally I’m fine with the lack of this feature.

I would also rather just edit photos in another dedicated app. IMO this is in line with the UNIX philosophy and I like that.

Thanks!

Brb, updating my linkedin. I’m dead serious.

How does one get into this line of work?

Only true factory game for the working class.

Can confirm

Human rights issues are not political. The attempt by the right to cast them as political serves to suppress discussion and progress by making the very act of discussing these things at all be seen as taboo. We can’t let that happen.

That point aside, libre software is pretty much inherently political.