<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc" class="u-url mention">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> i run KDE because it is an acceptable Windows 10 (and vice versa)</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> if I may say so &quot;i might need to learn a field or two&quot; is totally whitequark energy and I&#39;m here for it</p>

<p>So Musk says the Cybertruck fire in Vegas had nothing to do with the car. How about this one then? </p><p><a href="https://electrek.co/2025/01/02/a-tesla-cybertruck-burned-down-at-tesla-lot-in-atlanta-battery-fire-suspected/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">electrek.co/2025/01/02/a-tesla</span><span class="invisible">-cybertruck-burned-down-at-tesla-lot-in-atlanta-battery-fire-suspected/</span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> I’ve long regarded Vienna as a kind of cautionary tale about the costs of war. Cultural powerhouse and fifth largest city in the world in 1905, now 265th with almost no industry aside from housing NGOs.</p>

Syncgirlthing is a **continuous girl synchronization** program. It synchronizes girls between two or more locations in real time, safely protected from prying eyes. Your girls are your girls alone and you deserve to choose where they are stored, whether they shared with some third party, and how they're transmitted over the internet.

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> anything to do with the William Combe character?</p>

<p>I just wanted Windows 10. Okay? There, I said it. I don&#39;t know what that says about me, but Windows 10 was Good Enough. All the Linux desktop environments I try, I&#39;m like &quot;I just wish it worked like Windows 10&quot;. I&#39;d probably just keep using Windows 10, but it turns out I&#39;m not allowed to do that. It&#39;s going away or something</p>

<p>I also, honestly, do not understand why either GNOME 2 or Ubuntu GNOME 3 have two taskbars. When I say I like GNOME 3, what I mean is I like GNOME 3 with the &quot;dash-to-panel&quot; extension. But dash-to-panel doesn&#39;t support laptop touchpads (??!?) and GNOME keeps breaking it every few months, because GNOME breaks all the extensions every few months.</p><p>Cinnamon looks and acts like Dash-To-Panel out of the box (albeit a little grodier), so maybe it&#39;s just what I wind up using.</p>

<p>A number of people, seeing me express frustrations with GNOME 3, are suggesting using a GNOME 2 derivative such as MATE or Debian &quot;Legacy Gnome&quot;. The problem is, I don&#39;t actually like GNOME 2. I like GNOME 3. I just want GNOME 3 to stop doing actively boneheaded things I can&#39;t disable, such as periodically popping up an on-screen keyboard and screwing up all my window positions, or disabling all my extensions every couple months, or making folder searches recursive.</p>