Cocaine Bear

Hmm, oh well. As long as you found your happy place…

“It’s time to send our big beautiful military after these MAGA TERRORISTS who are deranged LOSERS. Thank you for your attention to this matter. DJT”

Expecting to see this on Trump’s Truth Social account any minute now, right???

Hmm, well, “works on my computer” is never a helpful comment but I have a heavily modified panel that I moved to the top with no issues.

I’m using the built-in task manager widget rather than a dock. Maybe that’s why?

Mind me asking what distro? And Wayland or X11? Also, which dock?

I’m using Wayland and Fedora (Plasma 6.4) and also had a good experience with NixOS (6.3, also Wayland).

Have you considered using a mesh VPN instead of opening a port to the public? Nebula and TailScale are both great options that have a free tier which is more than enough for most home use cases. With Nebula you can even selfhost your discovery node so nothing is cloud-based, but then you’re back to opening firewall ports again.

Anyway, its going to be more secure than even a properly configured reverse proxy setup and way less hassle.

So condescending for no good reason…

Anyway, I didn’t forget. I just pointed out that we have an illusion of choice, and that a lot of people who use Firefox do so, at least in part, to fight the Google monoculture.

As for your claim that there are dozens of alternative browser engines on the market, you’re going to have to provide some evidence for me to take that seriously. And remember I was limiting the scope to browsers that could feasibly be used as a daily driver for the modern web, not some pet project that crashes when you try to load DoorDash.

Palestinian babies

Plenty of people in The West^R don’t consider them worthy of empathy, but a white woman of small stature who first became famous as a child might be a different story. We need a mass worldwide cultural shift to identifying all humans as part of the in group or we aren’t going to make it through this century.

It was 2 million across the country, not a single city. Still impressive though.

Italians shutting down their country to defend Palestinians and in America we can’t even strike to defend ourselves.

Oregon was originally founded as an all-white state. The PNW has lots of racists and they all live in the stix since they think Portland and Seattle are portals to Hell.

And as far as the Northeast is concerned, I think only Vermont has rural areas that aren’t MAGA.

Those might be nice towns but at this point I’m staying away from any MAGA states, regardless of whether they have islands of sanity in them.

He may be a member of the Republican party but if you just look at his record as governor, you’d probably guess he’s a Democrat. Pro choice, trans rights, thoroughly anti Trump, and even a lot of his tax cuts seem to prioritize relief for the working poor rather than the leech investor class.

Also, this is anecdotal but I’ve spent some time in Vermont and the conservatives there who I met were by and large reasonable, open-minded, and anti-Trump (there were a couple of exceptions but nowhere is perfect).

When’s the last time you tried Plasma? I felt the same way about it as you did until version 6. I’ve been driving it now since 6.2 and its at least as polished as Gnome but with WAY more features and almost infinite customization out of the box.

There are not dozens of alternative browsers. There is Chromium, Safari, and Firefox, with a few niche options that aren’t really production ready yet and may never be. The “variety” you speak of is just Chromium in lots of disguises.

You have no idea what I’m doing. Get off your high horse.

If you make martyrs you aren’t advancing the cause.

Yes, this exactly.

And what do you expect us to achieve other than getting ourselves killed?

General strike is the only answer.

Bring the economy to a halt via general strike and street marches that disrupt traffic. Nothing short of that will get anyone’s attention.

Thank you for the additional context.