Probably we don’t need new Thinkpads. And the old either. The main motivation behind the desire of people to by old Thinkpads is a desire to be a part of the club and culture, to look like a hacker, a geek. The same motivation had early apple fanboys. I hope smarter people will become less dependent from such crowdthinking phenomena not more.

Honor is a sense of a child doing things for which parents will praise them. An adult substitutes parents with other people and institutions, but honor is still a desire to be accepted and praised by others and anticipation of it.

WhatsApp is the most popular messenger in Russia, not Telegram.

I’ve tried it and share my few thoughts:

First of all, the first time I’ve tried Smithay-based compositor and it is usable and even supports nvidia. It is a good thing just by itself.

The whole DE is better than I assumed. It in not much polished, but it is good as an experimental thing. I’ve noticed few developer’s creative attempts as “compacted” menubars and dialog pop-ups. I doubt they are good but reveal author’s intent to try create something new.

What I like: The application menu is nice, it also is quite modern: uses Wayland, CSD, Rust and implements modern UX.

What I not so like: UX has some weak parts: unnecessarily duplicated elements between the dock and the top panel. Icon style and preferences is not that good also. I really would like to see icon consistency across the DE which would not harm third-party apps. I also think the project need a designer in the team.

For now there are only few “native” apps. And I would prefer COSMIC will embrace existing GNU/Linux ecosystem and apps without trying to rewrite everything and creating yet another segregated platform as GNOME and KDE do.

I think ChomeOS is good by itself. At least it could be as a properly modified fork. The graphic shell is decent and resource-efficient. It has all things needed for using apps conveniently in VMs, e.g. crosvm, transparent proxying of wayland apps into the host system and file access with 9P. So it keeps the base system clean and secure, because all the user apps are isolated either with a browser sandbox or with a VM. I only want it would be less online-oriented, so I would like to see an offline-first fork of it, degoogled (like some Android customs), and allowing to use more then one linux app VMs.

So, I think ChromeOS is undervaluated by the FLOSS/hacker community and it has very few forks, but the majority of Linux users are focused on more traditional GNU/Linux distros and environments anyway. But with the rise of popularity of immutables, maybe it can get more attention.

Also, it is a perfect environment for PWAs.

I doubt Firefox will deprecate third-party cookies is Chrome won’t. And now Firefox has included literally ad tracking component into the browser and enabled it for all users by default.

Me also.

A person can decide if they can execute it somehow. Or a person can hide yourself from the decision and say “the state does not allow me”. And personal decisions are overrated. In the light of death usual rules stop working.

I’m not so sure what is worse. I wish we wouldn’t reimplement statist practices in computers, as it often not goes well in our physical world, and invent more resources into OS/network security, compartmentalization and privilege separation. But yeah, the reality is it’s easier to put a god-like “trusted” agent in a system. Well, the police need have guns, read all private chats, place security cameras with face recognition everywhere… to do their jobs. Otherwise terrorist attacks or whatever could result in way more damages after all. The same story every time.

BTW, if Windows had been an immutable OS the case would not have been so dire.

Probably it runs with privileges of the OS level, what applications should not do. The second problem is monoculture. To run the same software of a single company an all machines is easy, but…

1. Apple
2. Meta (but actually it effectively avoids me, I not much avoid it)
3. Nazi states (the new axis powers) affiliated brands when I can, especially for the tech companies.

If you avoid Pepsi, for example, what do you turn to instead?

Tea, probably.

They said he searched online for both Trump and Biden. Maybe it wasn’t matter for him whom from them to kill. Just to kill a person of power as big as the president or a candidate of such country as US, with all modern security measures. Like Unabomber, or like in the film The limits of Control. And he was quite near.

Be younger.

NixOS not the major inspiration for immutables, consumer OSes like Android and ChromeOS are. But yes, NixOS has some influence even it don’t get the idea of immutable distros well.

Seems that you cannot access flathub.org for some reasons, a networking issue probably.

Fedora is Fedora and uBlue is uBlue, a separate project. Blaming Fedora for uBlue issues is like blaming Ubuntu for Mint issues.

And on Silverblue issues on updated happen from time to time. On immutable distros such issues won’t break the system unrecoverable, this is the whole reason for immutables, but there are no promises for lacking of issues.

And you are disappointed because you have encountered two different issues at once. But it is a purely random event, and I have not noticed any changes in frequency.

But saying about Silverblue, I think probably it doesn’t get much attention from the Fedora project lately, because few recent releases didn’t have any improvements either.

Fedora Silverblue, but OK, well, maybe openSUSE Aeon also.

GNOME

If a person is smart an has personal opinions about everything or if they are a person of power I won’t trust them. Because how can I prove they are a true believer and not a liar or sociopath?

If a person is average human who thinks what the crowd thinks then I won’t care.