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SpaciousKarter78 | @SpaciousCoder78@pleroma.debian.social

Debian Maintainer | A Computer Nerd who also happens to be a Debian Packager.

I'm a hobbyist programmer. Outside of the computer world, I'm a STEM Major who likes inventing things.

I’m also a hobbyist graphic designer who mostly designs posters and media content for Debian India

Outside of geeky and nerdy stuff, I play a lot of video games, mostly single player ones.

Profile Picture is Flora Fountain from South Bombay, India.

@tragivictoria @transcendentempress It's a real shame that we never got to see the KOTOR Remake that was cancelled a few years ago. I was really excited for it.

As long as Caste exists, reservation must exist. Even after reservations, big institutes have institutionalized caste-based discrimination; we have seen many cases of that. The rot is deep. So if you think caste-based reservation has to go, then you need to work on the root cause. Annihilation of Caste is the only way.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/probe-finds-discrimination-against-sc/st-students-in-delhi-medical-college/articleshow/16521598.cms

@TheEvilSkeleton Welp it's free to play but has paid cosmetics and is an old game from 2013.

I only played it for 12-13 hours and I felt like Destiny 2 is a better looter shooter game than warframe is because of its semi-open world design. Destiny 2 does have a problem with bloat and missing content though, something that warframe doesn't suffer from.

@sounddrill Tbh Mumbai is the only place in India that I actually felt like I belonged somewhere. I've only stayed there for 3 days but people were super accommodating and very friendly.

I never experienced that kinda welcoming nature and inclusiveness anywhere else in the country.

Took a while but Debian has a new GR to ban LLM contributions: https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002

Delhi Police using facial recognition against protesters.

They can find your addresses, phone numbers, probably even social media. PROTECT YOUR IDENTITIES!

Even The Guardian is covering this story, while the Indian mainstream is busy calling them "anti-nationalists", "terrorists", and saying things like they're getting funded by China, Bangladesh, Pakistan etc.

"Can all the people be fooled all the time? Can a country with a population of a billion-and-a-half be dragged around like a corpse forever? It cannot. The Cockroaches are out and about." Generation Z is leading, with lots of other environmental struggles too. The right to protest must be protected & there should not be blood. Arundhati Roy on why India is protesting & why everybody must support these movements.

https://thewire.in/rights/cockroach-democracy-unarmed-and-dangerous

I went ahead and edited the article to include a section of Mint downgrading GTK4+libadwaita versions of GNOME Calendar back to GTK3: https://tesk.page/2026/07/18/how-far-would-hostile-distributions-go-to-hurt-upstream/#addendum-past-visual-and-behavioral-changes-to-calendar-while-retaining-the-brand

And edited again to demonstrate potential license violation: https://tesk.page/2026/07/18/how-far-would-hostile-distributions-go-to-hurt-upstream/#addendum-2-potential-license-violation

Hopefully the first addendum should provide more context to why we're so annoyed by the situation.

Protesting students got leaked lmao

A lot of people were detained in Mumbai too, today. Someone opened the door to let them all go free.

The problem with the Indian Education System is deep rooted in its obsession with marks.

No matter how many new exams you create or remove, the problem will still persist and the cheating or paper leaks will do their course.

The only solution is to take away the obsession with marks and numbers, and you will notice the change across the society on a massive scale.

@paninodesu I mean that's how the design language of GNOME works. That's the intended purpose of that tool bar.

It's on mint for not modifying the links to mint's bug reporting site when they can easily do it.

Mind you, changing the links inside a GNOME app is a very very simple task but they chose not to.

https://community.linuxmint.com/software/view/gnome-calendar

this link's reviews shows how many people experience problems with Mint's calendar.

@TheEvilSkeleton @paninodesu Yeah that's what I'm saying. When the downstream makes too many changes that upstream cannot identify what the issue is, the responsibility falls on the downstream.

Been a mint user for a few years and they sure have a lot of forked apps in there. They also forked libadwaita to modernise cinnamon a bit. The forks however need a lot of maintenance and a proper way to handle issues, the latter seems to be lacking with Mint.

@paninodesu I'm not sure if they're caused by libadapta, @TheEvilSkeleton might explain better but the upstream cannot support the downstream version if they make too many changes that diverge the source code or intentionally keep it out of date, which something Mint does a lot to preserve the design language.

I mean oversimplified bug report system is a good thing right? I found it hard to fix my issues when I was on Mint and eventually left it.

@paninodesu I mean from what nick said in the video, Mint modified gnome-calendar a lot to the extent that the codebase diverged a lot from the upstream. It's the distro's responsibility to handle these issues.

I use Debian and our bug reporting is incredibly complex (you need to write an email with commands) but our support channels always handle user-level issues quickly and point them to the right areas.

I struggled a lot with issues on Mint but Debian has good user support

@TheEvilSkeleton @thelinuxEXP I don't like how you're the one getting the heat in this situation even though you're just doing what upstreams usually do -- hold distro maintainers responsible.

I just finished watching Nick's video and he explained the controversy very well which kinda makes clear as to who's responsible for the package's current condition.

Mint should just create its own apps at this point. They modify way too much stuff.

@TheEvilSkeleton damn looks like your post ended up being the hot point of discussion on Nick from TheLinuxExperiment’s video too: https://youtu.be/1ebkQq5TcMw

@TheEvilSkeleton @fun Rebranding stuff or heavily modifying a project's source code is nothing new to Mint.

Again, from what I noticed, most people are poorly informed about what upstreams can do. An upstream has no control over the repositories of a distro so the upstream author cannot do much about the bugs because its the responsibility of the distro.

I don't even understand the backlash against you because its a downstream maintained package now.

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