I feel like I am missing something, like a shuttle named Noah’s Ark.

stole Hong-Kong

Now that’s an interesting claim. (Notwithstanding that “1 country, 2 systems” ultimately didn’t consolidate into the 1 system we would have liked.)

So there’s a bespectacled overweight devil named Edgar, presumably in an administrative function? Completely bonkers somehow.

Kubuntu is no longer primarily developed by Canonical. That might be a reason why it’sit’s different from regular Gnome Ubuntu.

Ubuntu uses the Ubuntu font. It’s their banding don’t and they’ll probably stick to it.

💔😖

In theory, it’s not impossible to have IMAP in a browser add-on. So why is there not some kind add-on to suss out the codes from these mails and make them pasteable…? This could include integration with throwaway mail accounts too, so I wouldn’t get this PIN code spam in my main mail account.

Hahaha dear l*rd. Switching back from Linux to Windows made my Yubikey such a pita. Instead of just tapping it to log in, I now need three clicks and type a four-character PIN that Windows forced upon me.

While we’re on the subject, those neck pains are killing me. Anyone care to hook me up with a massage therapist?

Coffee and cocoa have been getting more expensive. And we also have replacement products for them being invented already.

whodafunk

Cute.

This is Project 2025 material. Geriatric orange just signed the papers.

Funsies. Thanks.

As a non-American: Does there need to be any kind of factual backing before an “emergency” can be declared? Is the word “emergency” just a way to circumvent existing laws beyond what the usual presidential EO can do? Or is “emergency” just a dramatic word being inserted into the document with no actual meaning?

Rhythmbox was never a core application

Rhythmbox was originally a GNOME 2 app that never fully made it into the GNOME 3 era. Otoh, “core apps” is a concept introduced some time after GNOME 3.0. That timeline can’t match up.

The original GNOME 3/4 core music player was/is GNOME Music. Except GNOME Music was so reduced as to be barely useful, especially at the beginning. Creating an opening for e.g. Lollypop.

Also the first impression is the distro’s concern not GNOME’s.

Before core apps were introduced thereight be distros that would randomly ship GNOME with VLC, FileZilla, and xterm. I.e. apps that don’t integrate well with GNOME and are not regularly used by average users.

The idea behind core apps was trying to influence app selection on such distros. To make sure that all distros would ship with a default selection of useful, well-integrated apps. Iow, first impression is a major reason why core apps are even a thing.

For example, I should be able to use whatever file manager without worrying about the whole DE bloat

I don’t think I worried about “DE bloat” any time in the past ten years. Might be different if I was using Raspi desktop. :)

The issue is not that it’s bloat but that it makes a bad first impression, especially on new users. This is very much “batteries-not-included” software.

In the old days, before it bitrotted, Rhythmbox could do a lot. You could play an entire album or playlist, search, sort, sync your iPod, you could play and rip CDs – and it was much quicker than iTunes nonetheless. Alternatively, you could use Totem for music and video and even that could do playlists. Modern Totem has some playlist functionality, but that functionality is so basic, it only works by opening multiple files at once from the file manager. Now Decibels basically does the same thing as modern Totem, except with a waveform background but not better in any other way.

play audio files directly in the file manager

Isn’t that what gnome-sushi is for?