I’m undecided with modern GUI because most modern software is just a web page now. And it will offer you a choice between boring light mode and boring dark mode.

I miss the days of GTK2 with hundreds of themes. It was one of the main reason I switched to Linux; the customization. I don’t know how many hours I must have spent on gnome-look.org. Now I don’t even bother to try new themes and just use Fluent-Dark. My desktop is boring and looks like everyone else that has a dark mode. I really really miss GTK2 and all my favourite themes I can’t use anymore. I tried making my own and played around with Oomox but it’s not the same.

But one thing that I do prefer to be GUI now is IRC. Now that there are web clients (sigh) that can display images and videos directly in the channels, chatting in text mode only is kind of annoying with all the links we are sharing.

“It will help regulate overpopulation”

-Billionaires

I was wondering about the instances when she borrowed a runabout and when the terrorism happened but someone’s gonna have to remind me.

Once she brought back a few Bajorans that were still prisoners since the war, including Li Nalas.

Another time she kidnapped a single Barojan scientist to force him find a cure against a terrorist bioweapon.

What am I missing?

Just like the middle ages but televised. It would show just how evolved and civilized we are now.

EDIT: I hope you’re gonna be the executioner. After all, killing bad people is a reason why good people are killing bad people. Good people don’t kill other good people. They’re not killers; they only kill bad people.

I tell myself a similar thing about soldiers that blow up civilian fishing boats.

No, but since you’re mentioning it I might try. I’ve been so disappointed by the franchise that I didn’t bother looking into SNW, but just having someone that seems to be on the same page suggest it makes me want to at least give it a try.

Thanks for the suggestion, and the detailed rant!

Hehe, that reminds me how it feels when you don’t like something the rest of society really really likes. I’m Canadian, don’t like hockey, but when I stop to pay attention to things around me, there’s hockey promotions on bags of chips, on soda bottles and cans, on cereal boxes… there’s even hockey promotion on toilet paper packaging. So I’m sitting on the toilet, looking at the pack of toilet paper, and can read about some contest I could win in relation to hockey.

I live alone and sometimes stuff like this isn’t worth it. Go out and get a salad that’s already made. It will be less wasteful this way.

I only bother with stuff I can freeze. Like, I buy carrots and celery, blanch them, freeze them, and use them when needed in soups or rice.

It’s mostly a construction thing where I live. Lots of construction workers here seem to have taken the habit of parking their pickup truck anywhere they want, like in pedestrian crossings and bike lanes, and jam a high visibility vest in their window to show they work in construction.

I don’t know if it’s working and they avoid getting a ticket this way, but if they keep doing it I’m guessing it’s because there’s not much consequences.

“Yes Kyle. Now get to your pickup truck parked in a pedestrian crossing with a high-vis vest jammed in the window, and come pick me up.”

They look so happy to destroy the future. Fuck the environment later, money is now.

I’m on the same boat. Apart from Lower Decks, I can’t watch the new shows. I keep hoping a new show might fix it, and be for me, but the longer it goes, the less I’m interested in Star Trek.

Lately I’ve been thinking about unsubscribing from all the Star Trek communities, as all the discussions and hype about the new shows is making me think I’m no longer a trekkie. I loved TNG, DS9, VOY and tolerated ENT, but the new shows are clearly not made for me.

Hehe. Car keys in general, yes. But just to break motonormativity, not mine because I never had a car and I hope it can stay this way as long as possible.

🎵 You’re older than you’ve ever been and now you’re even older, and now you’re even older…🎵

I’m dumb. I wanted to try with French and was like nouuuus?! But then I realized that we have oui. And it can even be used cromulently in this exact situation. Ouiiii!

Best is suggestive. It’s a weird movie but I wish there was more of David Cronenberg’s eXistenZ. Maybe a sequel since the movie ended on that possibility. But it’s probably going to end up repetitive, if not recursive.

And its an idea that has been explored in different other movies and series anyway. So as much as I liked the style of that movie, upon reflection, maybe it should just stay where it was left.

And all this because we refuse to slow capitalism down. The most important question on everyone’s mind when there’s elections is the economy and money. We need economic growth. Can’t tax billionaires. Can’t stop the consumption machine. Economic growth!

The sad thing is that most people are willing to relocate to avoid the effects it will have on them financially. It’s not because it could help to mitigate the change; they won’t move into a 15 minutes city. We’ll just perpetuate the sprawl elsewhere and continue what we have always done before.

It’s even more sad when I look at images of natural disasters, and beyond the immediate lost of lives, seeing people lose their things and run (drive) to buy even more things produced by the very system that is causing more frequent and intense natural disasters.

Beyond legislation and enforcement, it’s been disappointing to try to explain those things to people around me for decades, hoping they will make the connection, only for them to end up being mad at high gas prices. Also, that survey asks about inside the US only. What if people from one state don’t want immigrants from another state? It’s gonna be interesting to see when the next inevitable question in a decade or so will be if people are willing to become climate refugees in other countries, and if citizens of other countries are willing to accept them.

I still use IRC. There are now modern web clients like The Lounge or Convos that can display/share images in the channels, keep history and push notifications. Apparently Convos can do video chat but I never tried it. Unfortunately I’m not aware of screen sharing features for any of these.

So on a very simple setup, you need an IRC server, then install and connect one of those clients to your server, and use them through a web browser, either on a computer or on a phone.

It’s obviously not entirely Discord-like, but it is a simple way to chat and share images.

Of course they did that, they are Microsoft. You will do what they want, for easiness and convenience.

They started doing that in 2019 for all the the Office products. Here is the official annoucement. Now every Office installation that is up to date will force users to use OneDrive as the default save location. Even Office 2016. They are retroenshittifying.