I’ve quit Reddit because I kept being shadow banned for no good reason, had original content made by me removed for “repost” while they completely ignored my complaints of bots blatantly reposting content I had made myself. I think it’s my complaints that triggered the shadow bans.

Most subs I frequented were also constantly spammed with obvious bots posting ads, plus other bots shilling the product they were selling in the comments and nothing was ever done about those.

That was years ago. I can only imagine it got worse since with AI.

Ah, I see you are logging in using Bash

Log in with an actual wooden log

I am no programmer and understand almost nothing of the documentation and yet somehow I can tell it’s all bullshit.

It reads like a kid making up words in an attempt to sound smart mixed up with the description for a shady Amazon product.

I mean they did switch to their own flavor of their competitor with Edge already so it wouldn’t be a first.

I just hope that is they do this they won’t gain leverage to control the development of Linux for their own purposes in some way.

That really was a missing feature because in an OLED black theme the window boundaries aren’t visible. I have fixed that problem with the Klassy theme, which I really hope KDE officially integrates or at least imitates in the future.

Also with Klassy in a dark theme if you make the window shadow white, it looks like a back glow which looks very nice.

It has an emergency vehicle light bar on top and those police-style hub caps so I’m safely assuming it is their security guards trying to pretend they’re real cops.

Technically you could use that push bar to move a disabled vehicle… if you don’t mind causing expensive damage to the bodywork of the other car. This kind of bar is for when you want to use your vehicle as a weapon to pit or ram other vehicles and keep your own vehicle in functioning order. As security guards they’ll never do that.

Why does a Microsoft owned security guard vehicle need a law enforcement push bar?

I had an old NVidia gtx 970 on my previous machine when I switched to Linux and it was the source of 95% of my problems.

It died earlier this year so I finally upgraded to a new machine and put an Intel Arc B580 in it as a stop gap in hopes that video cards prices would regain some sanity eventually in a year or two. No problems whatsoever with it since then.

Now that AI is about to ruin the GPU market again I decided to bite the bullet and get myself an AMD RX 9070 XT before the prices go through the roof. I ain’t touching NVidia’s cards with a 10 foot pole. I might be able to sell my B580 for the same price I originally bought it for in a few months.

Sounds like a job for KDE Plasma.

And a lot of time customizing

I prefer KDE because I spend an hour getting evening just right for my tastes after a fresh install. Klassy is the cherry on top where I make the window shadows white so it looks like underglow behind the windows against the dark desktop theme.

Also, most of those GNOME apps can be installed in a KDE desktop if you prefer them. I agree that Disks is better, so I just installed it.

So how is it different to a virtual machine on VirtualBox?

That sounds pretty good.

The main reason why I ditched Mint was because I wanted to run the latest KDE Plasma 6. This will make Mint a legit option again for me.

May I ask how you got that patched version and how you can trust it?

Macrodroid sold out and became spyware crammed with trackers that send data to dozens of third party analytics companies. Stay away from Macrodroid. Exodus report on the app

“It fits the requirements stated in the contract”

That’s fine. Those are the plugins you chose to install for your particular tastes and these are very important options to have available to the user should he choose to use them. That’s not what I meant by “smart” features.

What I don’t want is my browser with built-in modern equivalents of Bonzi Buddy that you can’t remove.

I see a web browser like a TV screen. An I need it to do is display the internet with nothing in the way. Any attempt to add built-in “smart” features to it will make it worse. If I want something else added to it, I’ll plug it in myself.

There are absolutely bots doing this sort of thing. Years ago when I still had an account there I got flagged for “promoting suicide” because I explained that a stalemate in a chess game can happen because “the king is not allowed to commit suicide”