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being anti-abortion used to also be pretty unpopular. but when conservative leadership needs something new to demonize, the conservative public are quick to turn…

video interview

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5-10 hours a week

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this is a joke, right?

unlimited genocide on this person specifically

just like the ol’ days

It’s not out of a question that there was a translator as an intermediary.

if you set aside the lib segments of the video, it’s an alright video

I do have NixOS on my laptop. But that’s besides the point. My point is that Fedora ships a “stock” experience, whereas these gaming-focused distros ship their own stuff on top, some of which is bothersome and bloatware.

Why does Nobara ship its own updater? GNOME Software has one built in. Why does it ship a 3rd party icon pack, that just feels completely out of place? If it stuck to just kernel patches and whatnot, it would be a fantastic distribution. But no - it has to come with a patched Nautilus that breaks search, 9 different apps that do not at all integrate with the desktop, a custom icon pack, and a shitload of problems.

And don’t even get me started on bazzite. It took me half an hour just to undo all the dconf “tweaks” they do to GNOME - and that’s just the surface.

A lot of these gaming distros feel less like distros targeted towards general users, and more towards the creators’ personal taste.

I also would not recommend “trying atomic desktop first”. The fact is, as a newbie, you’re going to run into issues and problems and need to look things up, which means running commands. And a majority of guides are either for Debian/Ubuntu or Fedora/CentOS/Red Hat, and the normal Fedora commands just don’t work on Atomic Desktops. If you want to install anything other than a sandboxed GUI app, you’re going to have to deal with rpm-ostree, which is a major hit-or-miss. Setting up Tailscale was a major chore, and I ended up having to set up a Docker (Podman) container for it.

My problem with these sorts of atomic desktops is that they remove the traditional packaging solutions, which, let’s be honest, is justified. But the solutions they are replaced with are either incomplete (Flatpak) or nonexistent (how do I set up system daemons? CLI apps?).

TL;DR Atomic Desktops are more " hassle" than “stable”, just use Fedora Workstation.

Bazzite does far too much. Out of the box, it “tweaks” GNOME in like 5000 different ways that are each their own unique pain in the ass to disable, and includes far too much bloatware for my taste, and includes like 30 different daemons that are nearly useless.

For my gaming rig, I ended up trying Nobara instead, which has its own set of problems (custom icon pack, some bloatware) but they’re relatively easy to fix (change icon pack back, put all the custom Nobara apps in one folder).

In the end I just went with regular, stock Fedora. No issues so far. I don’t really see the need for these gaming-focused distributions.

critical support to the other local hardware store

Pigs are loving, compassionate, affectionate and smart animals. Class traitors don’t have any of these traits. I’ve just been calling them blue thugs.

The media’s even worse. I don’t watch much cable news, but the other day I overheard my grandma watching a segment about “Putin’s plans to create a new Soviet Union”.

Is there a version of that “Xi, Please” image with Putin instead?

it’s pretty easy to come here, getting a Georgian visa is honestly no biggie.

it’s actually pretty easy: if you have an old computer or so lying around, you can throw Yunohost on it. They have excellent documentation, which guides you through some of the concepts you need to know for self-hosting, through nitty-gritty of setting up your own Yunohost box, including set up and port-forwarding on your router and they also provide a users guide for you and anyone else who might use your personal cloud. They even give you free subdomains!

there was one in front of the museum, they took it down unfortunately, its still lying out back somewhere

i visited the museum some years ago, i’d recommend it to everyone. although recently the neolib government made them add a whole section on “stalinist terror”.

if you’re a of stalin, and you’re not socially inept, go give it a visit. you’re also bound to get along with some of the locals. rural Georgians tend to be extremely friendly, and Gori is pretty much all stalinists. knowledge of Russian will help.

As a Georgian, NONE of the protesters I asked could actually tell me what the law was. all that knew was that it was “Russian” and that they needed to burn the city for it.

I recommend reading this interview with Temur Pipia (First Secretary of the Unified Communist Party of Georgia) for better details (there’s also a video of him punching a NAFO member floating around somewhere). It’s an old interview by now but its just as relevant:

https://socialistvoice.ie/2023/06/extract-from-interview-with-temur-pipia-1st-secretary-of-the-unified-communist-party-of-georgia/

he’s still alive in Gori

trillions will be proletarianized

as a Georgian, it won’t even matter, their little color revolution has already begun