Avatar

TheGrandNagus

TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
Joined
2 posts • 523 comments
Direct message

If they actually move all the settings over to the “new” settings app (it’s actually 12 years old now): good. It’s an absolute joke that there are multiple settings apps in windows, with design inconsistency across them, and it being a crapshoot whether the screen you look at will support dark mode or not.

If they don’t move all the settings over: bad. Yeah they’re usually niche, but some of those options are needed.

Since this is Microsoft we’re talking about, it’s probably going to be the latter, unfortunately.

permalink
report
reply

Yeah, for me too. Because I love practically everything he says when it comes to software.

“The nominee is quoted as saying that if the choice of a sexual partner were protected by the Constitution, ‘prostitution, adultery, necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography, and even incest and pedophilia’ also would be. He is probably mistaken, legally–but that is unfortunate. All of these acts should be legal as long as no one is coerced. They are illegal only because of prejudice and narrowmindedness.”

RMS on June 28th, 2003

“I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren’t voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing.”

RMS on June 5th, 2006

"There is little evidence to justify the widespread assumption that willing participation in pedophilia hurts children.

RMS on Jan 4th, 2013

In the interest of fairness, he did claim to have changed his mind on some of this, although that only happened 2 days after his job became on the line after making strange comments about Epstein.

For me, suddenly having a change of heart on a decades-held (and publicly-championed) opinion, only to suddenly change your mind the second it threatens your job seems a bit too convenient, so I’m unwilling to believe it.

permalink
report
parent
reply

I really have not noticed that. Often it seems Lemmy has a lot of the most extreme Redditors.

permalink
report
parent
reply

You’ve made a grave error: not hating Gnome on Lemmy/Reddit.

permalink
report
parent
reply

You actually want extensions to be useless. What’s the point of them if they can hardly do anything?

You’re fundamentally not understanding how extensions work. They cannot be even nearly as useful as they are now if they have to go through a standardised API. No docks, no window management, etc.

permalink
report
parent
reply

He was a big defender of paedophilia, necrophilia, incest, and bestiality. He thinks people should have the right to fuck their pets or their children. Not to mention the reports on his creepy behaviour with women.

Stallman is an incredible steward of FOSS, but he is not a decent guy overall.

It hurt me to find that out, because I looked up to him. But I guess it’s another sobering reminder of why celebrity worship is bad.

permalink
report
parent
reply

I don’t know how someone could possibly say that evil doesn’t exist.

There are people out there that torture animals to death purely for fun, with no other purpose. There are people that wish genocide and debilitating diseases on a demographic they don’t like. There are people who abduct children, tie them down, rape them, then murder them.

The whole “there’s no good and bad, just what the media conditions you to believe” philosophy is bullshit, and screams of a 14 year old thinking they’re enlightened and philosophical, when in reality they’re just being a fuckwit.

permalink
report
parent
reply

Bill Gates pressured the group at Oxford University not to open source their Covid vaccine, as it would undermine his investments in pharma companies.

(The team had originally secured funding from the UK gov with the intention of making it open source so that it would be more accessible to poorer countries.)

Imagine lobbying against that. Imagine knowingly making life saving medicine more expensive and less accessible, particularly to the poor.

The guy is a dick. He just spends money on good PR so people can remember him as a good guy.

permalink
report
parent
reply

Honestly, it surprises me that you’d be fine giving money to Nazis. Kinda weird.

permalink
report
parent
reply

No it isn’t.

And practically, they don’t break every 6 months. Almost all extensions are patched weeks before the new version is even released.

E: so people actively want extensions to be practically useless and barely be able to change anything? You are lying. If they implemented that all we’d here is “hur dur Gnome wants to lock the system down”

permalink
report
parent
reply