To me, it came naturally at some point. I just tried it for the lulz - and ended up staying.

And it’s alright! Luckily, both Cinnamon (like here) and KDE (what I’m using) provide you with such option by default.

Yep, but at the same time free horizontal space > free vertical.

Depends on how many apps you use in your workflow at once.

I certainly got to enjoy the vertical bar. Feels more natural to me, like bookmarks.

Quite similar to my setup, except mine is based on KDE (yours seems to be Cinnamon), and I have a slightly wider vertical bar with a little more spacing between elements.

Good job!

I don’t think the solution is to make basic software Windows-like.

I think I’d rather see more work being done on newbie-focused distributions to introduce the user to all the key differences of Linux, to literally guide their hand in how things are done here. A welcome app with a simple FAQ, a set of wizards (explaining what’s being done behind the scenes) and even direct “click here” advices are all welcome.

Linux way is, for the most part, superior, and once you understand how things work here, you actively don’t want it to be too Windows-like.

Your employer doesn’t want you unemployed. They need to keep unemployment just bad enough so you would be afraid to lose your job, taking on more responsibilities for less money.

Yes as in fighting for liberty for all.

No as in liberalism, the political ideology. Liberalism the ideology normally embraces markets, private property, and liberal democracy.

Markets allow individuals to hoard wealth at the expense of everyone else, and are therefore anti-socialist. They also use money for their operation, which in turn does not agree with communism.

Private property (not to be confused with personal property) is specifically the property you use to extract profit, typically by exploiting the labor of others and paying them less than they earned you. This is, obviously, also anti-socialist and anti-communist.

Liberal democracy is problematic, because the wealthy have oversized control over the media, wide lobbying power, and other ways to convert money into influence. In this system, the voices of the common people are drowned in what billionaires want. Communists and socialists instead propose dictatorship of the proletariat - not a proletarian dictator, but proletariat as a class (all workers) together ruling the country and deciding only among themselves in how their place or country operates.

I know the terms can be confusing, but here’s the gist: “liberal democracy” is not democratic, because the wealthy have outsized control over the decisions made, the media coverage, etc. Dictatorship of the proletariat denies the wealthy business owners their political rights, thereby boosting the voices of the common people. This should lead to workers taking over and ruling everything themselves, democratizing workplace and society at large.

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Oh, come on, who cares about AI for a parody illistration? The object on the photo obviously doesn’t exist and AI allows someone not skilled at Photoshop to draw a great pun and make a point.

It’s one thing to make shrimp Jesus for the sake of it, and another to make a jokey statement.

I feel like the problem of GNOME is not minimalism - it’s lack of proper customization. It’s a minimal setup that works for GNOME devs, but not you.

Personally, I enjoy using Adwaita apps under KDE. Adwaita works great with the “one app - one purpose” philosophy, while KDE allows you to make global arrangements the way you like, so that everything you need is at your fingertips, and everything you don’t is out of the way. You can customize KDE to look in a way that compliments Adwaita, and it looks and works very well.

I think there’s one more big angle to modern design minimalism. It gets out of the way.

Every day, we are bombarded with millions of design elements. If they would all scream, show themselves, try to be special, many would get overwhelmed, overloaded, overburdened. The classic design screams individuality, impression, emotion. The minimalist one is there for the function without distraction, like a quiet servant - there when you need it, out of sight elsewhere. It’s a design philosophy of an age when everything is at your fingertips.

With that said, and with my strong preference to modern, minimalist designs, I appreciate the effort others put into making their computing experience truly reflect their workflow and intention.

Jesus, some folks so revved up they can’t stop brigading :D

Thank you!

Interesting how this thread started out about me being too right wing and now for other people it’s about me being too left wing. Heh.

It’s not about that, really. You’ll always be too left for some and too right for others. The problem is a single person, regardless of their views, policing what others get to see or not to see, on all instances, globally.

Decentralization of power is the name of the game for the Fediverse - that’s why most people are here in the first place. They escaped Reddit, with its sweeping bans over the “wrong” opinions. They escaped Xitter, with a megalomaniac policing what everyone can say. They are tired of this, they don’t need this, they despise this.

You are the developer of a leading Threadiverse software. You contribute heavily to this world, and your decisions affect not only your project - they ripple through the whole thing. With an open heart, I call you to be open with the community you serve, and to give them what they need - open choice. Stripping them of that undermines trust in Threadiverse, tramples the spirit of freedom and tinkering, and brings drama and division instead.

If you are genuinely concerned about right-wing folks stepping in to destroy the Threadiverse - look around. Lemmy, Mbin have no guardrails, they are open to everyone - and yet, the whole right wing is like two obscure instances, barely known or accessible. Instance admins take great care to curate their instances and purge such spaces, and users double this. The very nature of Threadiverse - a place for the people - makes the very people you align with gravitate towards it. And they know full well what worth there is in each choice.

The reason the decisions of yours got so much resonance is exactly because people care. They care about PieFed, and, at the same time, they care about Threadiverse. They enjoy your work, and it brings unique developments not seen elsewhere. But if it keeps on these rails, as an ideological and opinionated project, it risks falling out of favor and into obscurity. None of us want that, and so, we call again: please, open PieFed for choice. You may suggest blocklists, even offer them as default - just don’t bake them in and make a clear option for opt-out. Recognize some people need to make this choice. Hopefully, you trust your very own community to do what’s right.

Easy as in “there is a UI button/switch during initial setup”. Essentially, not banning all these domains should be equally as easy as banning them.

To clarify: you say that by default all PieFed instances don’t even allow to link resources considered “right-wing”, without an easy way to disable such anti-feature?

If so, it’s basically a centralized point for censorship in a decentralized system, which is very antithetical to the spirit of the Fediverse and is something even the very left Lemmy devs prefer to avoid. I see it being very detrimental in its own right.

Shouldn’t it be an offered setting instead? Like, “if you want your instance to avoid certain topics, here are filter lists to freely enable or disable”?

Much can be said about the definition of left and the way Marxists you are addressing don’t see “liberal” as “left” to begin with.

What matters, though, is that you end up projecting a certain personal, even if somewhat educated, bias onto both PieFed as a project (banning right-wing outlets from even being linked to, globally), and the flagship instance (making warnings about Marxist-inclined outlets). This is very unwelcome for many, myself included, and, as previously mentioned, antithetical to what Fediverse is and what it stands for.

Never too late

Yep, always have been :)

As someone with a USB-C phone and laptop: yes, it’s this good.

I can use laptop charger to charge my phone, and yes, phone charger to charge my laptop (although it takes a while).

I can grab a power bank (got a 65w 40000mAh one) and add juice to both phone and laptop through the same tiny USB-C cable.

I am never lost without power.

Indeed! This is why I always call to explore live images or a VM before making the jump. It won’t be indicative of the system’s performance (a regular install should run smooth as butter), but it will indicate what you might be lacking, what problems you may face, etc.