@werdahias @mirabilos yep I think I was the only one who supported slop ban in that thread. Sad to see slop making its way into debian. Maybe you could start a new thread about it. Hoping we can come up with a resolution to ban slop. Like I said in that email; debian has no business with slop because we aren't a corporate company to please shareholders or ship broken stuff.
@niyabits don't you need something like C1 in German to work in Germany though?
Day 8 of consistent bad and light sleep. Feeling exhausted at. I haven't slept properly in a week.
@khubsuratinsaan I wish they didn't do that free bus shit here. Buses are very congested as the infrastructure wasn't meant for it. I had to stop using bus services because of it. Irony is that they lost the confidence of people who actually pay for the service, I know a lot of people who prefer Indian Railways now. I myself prefer Indian Railways over our state bus services.
Just uploaded my first Debian Package directly to Debian archive as a Debian Maintainer \o/
Hello internet friends, it's rough out there so I found y'all some tech jobs that have positive (or at least, less evil) impacts on the world. Here's a thread of what I've found for you this week ⬇️
"Corporations who make billions from FOSS should give back their fair share"
vs.
"Don't ever take money from the evil corporation, it will corrupt FOSS"
round 103828483, FIGHT!
Why I moved to MacOS after using Windows for 19 years
https://arklixs.in/pages/posts/jan2026/moving-to-mac.html
https://arklixs.in/pages/posts/jan2026/moving-to-mac.html
@billchenchina US has been rejecting visas a lot recently. My family applied for a visa for a trip back in 2018 but it got rejected twice iirc. I’m afraid it’s a lot worse now.
@till curious, can I sign in with my GitHub on this and sync all of my themes and extensions?
My first day with MacBook summed up in one sentence: Amazing piece of advanced technology but has a deep learning curve than any piece of tech I’ve ever used in my life.
Me to a random imaginary windows user: if Linux feels hard for you to use, try using macOS you’ll immediately love Linux.
@fbinin yes it’s hard to escape tracking when I’m on a proprietary system but I can limit it to some extent by using free software stuff. Windows however has a really aggressive tracking policy and with the OS becoming crappy and unusable I had to make the switch
@fbinin I’ve been using apple stuff for like 8 years now. All of my android and windows devices had severe hardware issues within just one year. My iPhone 5s from 2017 outlasted every device I had in the past. I mostly look at longetivity of a device when I buy something. Apple usually has the longest from my experience with also decent software support. That said I still windows + linux on my thinkpad
I also installed a crap ton of free software on my Mac ranging from homebrew to Inkscape. Contrary to the popular belief you can actually do a lot of stuff on Mac. You cannot tinker with the internals but you can still install free software on it. The lack of tinkering is a plus point for me because Linux gives you too many options to rice your DE and that honestly wasted a lot of my time. I still use Linux on my old thinkpad btw. It’s never leaving my life
Just got my MacBook Air M4 and it’s honestly a decent purchase. With this I’m entirely out away from Microslop’s ecosystem. Fuck them.
@fbinin trademark is a better fit for such thing but i heard that any IP stuff in India takes months or even years. I myself need to apply for a copyright for my book and seems like its such a huge and lengthy process
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