chamomile

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[–] chamomile@furry.engineer 8 points 2 weeks ago

@knokelmaat @Beachbum If you're referring to the fact that she @ mentioned OP, that's not her specifically trying to call him out. She's responding from Mastodon (as am I) which just handles all post replies like that.

[–] chamomile@furry.engineer 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

@brickfrog @far_university1990 The dev saying it's about "information on how to fund the project" is being... misleading. Windows binaries from the project are paywalled, so alternate builds being distributed via Winget presents a pretty clear threat to that funding by being free and more convenient.* They're well within their right to not distribute their own builds for free, but the misleading way it's framed here is not endearing... especially given this is a fork of another piece of FOSS software that will happily provide you Windows builds.

* As an aside, it really is so much better to have stuff distributed by a package manager. Who the hell wants to download an installer from Patreon for every new release, honestly. Some devs drive me crazy with their insistence on asinine distribution channels.

[–] chamomile@furry.engineer 9 points 1 month ago

@theangriestbird
In addition to ego (which I'm sure plays a role) I think I would find myself reticent to lower the difficultly to "Easy" for a couple reasons

  1. The default difficultly, which is typically "normal" is often the intended experience, and if I can play like that, I see value in it.
  2. Related to (1), difficulty settings are often poorly thought-out; it's quite common for hard mode to simply make enemies bullet sponges or for easy to turn them into cardboard cutouts, which is a disappointing experience.
[–] chamomile@furry.engineer 1 points 4 months ago

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Good stuff, love the drag and drop improvements!

[–] chamomile@furry.engineer 9 points 5 months ago

@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Omg THANK YOU for the per-workspace layouts.

[–] chamomile@furry.engineer 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

@prole Fedora, which Bazzite is based on, disables this at boot time by default. There are instructions on how to enable it in Fedora here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Sysrq#How_do_I_enable_the_magic_SysRq_key%3F

[–] chamomile@furry.engineer 30 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

@catloaf @open_mind To follow up on this, after the war there was a long and very successful propaganda campaign to whitewash the legacy of American slavery and its importance in the US civil war.[1] To this day, the Confederacy is heavily mythologized and their generals and leaders are lionized as brave and noble rather than what they were: defenders of brutal industrial slavery. You wouldn't think a country would have statues of 150-year-old failed traitors outside state buildings, but we do. (They're starting to come down but it has taken a literal century.)[2] There are many, many people from the south who will insist that the civil war was about the vague notion of "states' rights" without being specific about what specific rights they wanted,[3] and that's because this propaganda was embedded in the education system of half the country.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cause_of_the_Confederacy
[2] https://www.npr.org/2021/09/08/1035004639/virginia-ready-to-remove-massive-robert-e-lee-statue-following-a-year-of-lawsuit
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZB2ftCl2Vk

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[–] chamomile@furry.engineer 20 points 9 months ago

@FlyingSquid "Ok, then. That was always allowed!"

[–] chamomile@furry.engineer 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

@sharkfucker420 It's a good thing "A Modest Proposal"[1] wasn't titled "The Benefits of Cannibalism" because I guess people would have taken that at face value as well.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal

[–] chamomile@furry.engineer 6 points 11 months ago

@fossilesque Don't forget those of us in the back row because we slept in and got there late!

[–] chamomile@furry.engineer 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@P4ulin_Kbana @potentiallynotfelix fw = fuck with. It means they like it.

[–] chamomile@furry.engineer 9 points 1 year ago

@HawlSera I do recognize that tomboys, buff women, etc are worth representing, (and we should push for their inclusion) but that's not what I'm talking about - I mean people who look like "men" but use pronouns other than he/him.

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