I suppose the word “boomer” has changed meaning very quickly. It rarely gets used anymore to refer to actual boomers (people born just after WW2) and instead now can refer either vaguely to anyone older than 30, or anyone with an antiquated/problematic notion of social norms.

To be fair, that original meaning is illogical (as in, the meaning doesn’t follow from the literal words used), so it’s not surprising that people misused it to have a more logical meaning.

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon fits here.

While it does technically have a sequel (which is a prequel, if I remember correctly) set in the same universe, the first book is a complete story unto itself.

The world feels vast and detailed, and the characters are satisfying. Samantha Shannon’s prose is great as well. Highly enjoyable book!

Yeah the bottom housing of my Framework 12 laptop developed spiderweb cracks in it after only 3 months. I’m the most careful person I know with my electronics, so it’s not because I’m abusing it or anything.

Framework is dragging their feet on a warranty claim too, which is frustrating since a new bottom housing replacement is only like $60. I really love the concept of Framework, but so far I’m not impressed with their durability or support.

The old Dell XPS laptop that I had before this is 13 years old and still in great condition despite being too slow for my work needs now.

There’s no need to be an ass about it. I didn’t say this is definitely slop, but it is unsurprising that people think it is. I don’t think it’s without merit to wonder if someone committing 12 million lines of code within a few weeks is using AI.

I think it’s more-or-less accurate to say that it’s “just a single developer”.

While it’s technically true that more than one developer has committed code, the comically overwhelming vast majority of commits were made by a single developer and a battery of automated tools. If we exclude those bots (at least, the obvious ones), then the remaining maybe-human contributors have been responsible for less than 0.2% of the total codebase.

Source: did some math on numbers from their github repository stats.

12m lines of code committed in the last 3 months (the bulk of that within the last month) by one committer doesn’t exactly scream human input.

I think most people agree. These fascists aren’t being criticized for their software contributions. They are being criticized for being fascists.

Ignoring fascists and hoping they go away is one reason why fascism is having a resurgence right now. Immoral behavior should be challenged as widely and publicly as necessary to make everyone aware that it’s inappropriate. People don’t stop doing immoral things unless there are social consequences for it.

Ignoring fascists and hoping they go away is one reason why fascism is having a resurgence right now. Immoral behavior should be challenged as widely and publicly as necessary to make everyone aware that it’s inappropriate. People don’t stop doing immoral things unless there are social consequences for it.

Most (maybe all?) of these items listed in the settings page for private spaces are differences from a work profile.

I definitely require my work profile apps to be able to run in the background at times, so a private space is not going to cut it, unfortunately.

It probably greatly depends on what you plan to do with your instance.

My instance is just used by me and occasionally my partner and some friends. Running it costs me nothing aside from whatever portion my energy bill is increased by having the container active in my home server. I already had registered my domain for other things, but a domain is $10-$12USD/year, which is basically nothing.

The person posted the same thing in multiple communities and got very little feedback aside from a bunch of downvotes. I was trying to help them by explaining why their approach is getting a bad response. I apologize for coming off like an asshole, that wasn’t my goal at all.

It sounds like you just need to go do some simple searches in the app stores for icon packs that you like. What exactly do you need help with?

I’m guessing all the downvotes are because nobody wants to be your search agent, and the way you’ve phrased this makes it sound like you’ve put very little effort into finding things for yourself.

Not to mention getting away from someone who engages in slut-shaming, biphobia, and speciesism. Especially considering that Spock is also an “alien” from her perspective. Doesn’t bode well for a happy relationship for him or her, they’re both better off with his choice here.

Since many other comments have focused heavily on technological inventions, I think it makes sense to add some notable cultural impacts on society as well. As with most of the technological inventions mentioned, cultural forces also don’t come out of nowhere and arguably have been around for a lot longer than 100 years, but I think it’s pretty obvious that society within the past 100 years has been and still is being massively affected by the following concepts that did not originate in the USA:

• feminism
• civil rights movement (usually seen through a US-focused lens, but is happening everywhere)
• gay rights movement (esp. in the 1990’s and beyond)
• gender-spectrum concepts
• widespread influence of evolutionary theory (even the word “meme” came from a British biologist’s book about evolution)

Especially considering that Yuri Gagarin’s flight inspired generations of people all over the world after him to a probably immeasurable extent. If the OP wanted “global society-altering”, then that certainly qualifies.

It does begin to feel a bit like you’re moving the goal posts for what you consider “world-changing” as you comment more on this post. If the first man in space and high speed rail are “just incremental progress”, then why do rock music and AI count for you? Everything humans have ever done is accomplished incrementally using the accomplishments of prior human ingenuity.

My partner and I live separately, and we use Colota (F-Droid link) to send location data to our individual self-hosted Home Assistant instances.

Our Home Assistant instances are linked together which lets us share our locations with each other.

This might be a bit much to set up just for location sharing, but if you’re using home automation anyway, it’s nice to have it all tied together.

I don’t know for sure what that person is referring to, but I believe the default in GNOME is for alt-tab to switch applications, which is a bit unintuitive. There is a simple built-in option to change it to switch by window instead, which is probably usually what one would expect. To me, that’s not something that needs “fixing”, it’s just a default to change, which is perfectly fine.