Religion is a great scam.

1. Convince people there is a god.
2. Convince them that you know what god wants.
3. Tell them what god wants (here is where you tell them whatever you want in order to take advantage of them)
4. Convince them that if they do not obey god (what you tell them) that they will suffer for eternity.

Now you’ve got them in the palm of your hand.

If the top bar is set up as a menu bar, it could save space on the screen when multiple horizontally placed windows (without individual menu bars) are on the screen. Other than that, I think the general top bar stuff can just be in the bottom bar.

The thing stopping me from using Arch is that most programs come out as debs and you have to wait for them to show up in the AUR. Example: when Mullvad VPN first came out it was only available as a deb. How long did it take to show up in the AUR? Who made that available? Was it the Mullvad folks or someone else? That’s the kind of thing that concerns me.

I wanted to give tiling a chance. I decided to use Krohnkite for a week to give it a chance. At first I didn’t care for tiling but quickly got into it and now I love it. Sometimes to really know if something is going to work for you or not, you have to give it some time. I’ve used this approach for other things (not all work out) but for Krohnkite it did for me. Also, don’t forget to check out all the Krohnkite options.

I believe some amount of people support the assholes because some how they think (or hope) they will benefit by giving that support (especially so many of the assholes have so much power and money.) The “trickle down” effect from the assholes. Oops, might not have been the best phrase … on second thought …

A follow on article: “Additional Intel Linux Drivers Left Orphaned & Maintainers Let Go” https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-More-Orphans-Maintainers

I haven’t tried it, but the live kernel updates feature is what intrigues me the most.

If you install the latest Kubuntu with backports enabled, you can get a newer version of KDE than the one that comes “stock” with Kubuntu. The KDE version isn’t as new as KDE Neons’, but still newish.

Any religion that ever was, is or will be. Dumb for the people that fall for it, smart for the people that run it.

I like Lemmy enough that it has replaced Reddit for my general browsing.

I don’t like there is no way to get notification (subscribe to) a post to see new replies that come in after I’ve read the post for the first time…

For example, I see a post with a few replies and want to see when more replies come in. All I can do is mark it as a favorite and try to remember to check back and see if there are new replies. What I’d like to have happen is be notified when new replies come in. Without this, I almost never follow up to posts because I don’t know what/when new replies come in. This really cuts down on the usefulness of lemmy for me wrt followup information.

Something I think is related is that after some time, I can’t click the x on a tab to close it, but I can do middle click (L & R at the same time) to close a tab. When this happens, I also can’t get into the address bar. Just started seeing this with the last update (currently on 139.0.1) snap version.

This looks very interesting. I looked at the “add-ons” page for Firefox and noticed under permissions it said “Access your data for all websites”. Why would it need to access all websites? Why not just when you access YouTube?

Mullvad does have split tunneling on Linux and Android. I don’t know about Windows.

The Mullvad browser is supposed to help to avoid fingerprinting. Mullvad Browser link

I use Kubuntu. I like the KDE desktop and I like a Debian based OS. If someone is going to make their software for Linux, it will almost certainly be available at least for Debian. If, say you want it for Arch, you need to wait for someone to put it in the AUR or build it yourself.

People won’t care until negative things start effecting them. Even at that point, many will still deny negative things are happening or they will put the blame somewhere else. This is why I believe things are going to have to get bad, really bad, before they can turn around. The biggest thing to go bad would be the economy. An economy so bad would be hard to deny and live with. Unfortunately, the more money you have, the longer you can “deal with” a bad economy, and still think everything is okay.

So often, the thing that is easy to measure is seen as important. In this case, the amount said is easy to measure. The quality of what is said is not easy to measure, but more important.

Religions… All of them.

I hope some day AI will be incorporated into a podcast player to be able to know the difference between an add and the podcast and automatically skip all adds. Finally, there would be a good use for AI :)

Project yourself 20 years into the future. Imagine yourself saying this to present day you. Then act on that advice. Much of these suggestions can apply to anyone at almost any age.