@Moon@shitposter.club This is extremely important to remember and to keep recorded for Fediverse history, and it's a fact I often forget about or overlook: the Fediverse, prior to the arrival of Twitter "refugees", was different, and it was better. It was more open, more friendly, more weird, more collaborative and collective. Twitter users migrating here really introduced a lot of calamity to the overall civilization of the Fediverse. @coldacid@shitposter.club
@Zerglingman@freespeechextremist.com how easy it is to create alternative facts and historyWe've been doing this knowingly, intentionally, and unimpeded for decades, if not centuries as this point.
I really like it. The switches aren't that bad; Or, at least, not as bad as some reviews have made it out to be. The typing experience is very pleasant. The build quality is lovely. And, my primary motivation for the purchase, it's great having all the benefits of a USB 3.1 dock! With the Launch Heavy I suddenly now have 5 unoccupied USB ports to utilize (not including the 2 occupied on the back of my miniPC and the 2 occupied on the keyboard itself)!
Probably the only thing I would like to change would be the keycaps themselves. They feel good, made out of high quality PBT plastic...but, my fingers simply aren't used to this profile of keyboard. I believe the Launch Heavy uses XDA profile, which I'm not used to. My fingers are hunting for an OEM or TaiHao profile. In fact, in the past, I've even considered an SA profile.
All that said, it's still a great keyboard. Extremely solid. I'm very happy to have a 100% keyboard layout now, plus the USB hub. And, all in a very beautiful, tactile, functional package!
@tootbrute@fedi.arkadi.one All the Americans on the East coast, anyway. Luckily, there's not much USpol on our global feed, generally. That's more of a Twitter/Mastodon thing, anyway.
@splitshockvirus@mstdn.starnix.network If they worked most of the time it wouldn't bother me. But these establishments (hotels, airport terminals, etc.) provide WiFi connections that don't work because their captive portal setups are broken. They probably spend tons of money having some professionals install and configure their building-wide managed WiFi mesh network but thereafter never think to have anyone maintain it or periodically check up on it---somewhere down the line, things break, and they remain broken indefinitely.
If you're going to provide or implement something, do it right and make sure it works. If you're not willing to do that, don't even offer it in the first place. I'd rather there not even be a public WiFi network to begin vs. one that you spend time trying to connect to, only to be slapped with 403 errors, some timeout message, "we're unable to process your request", ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS, etc..
@thegreatape@thechimp.zone Debian is nice. I like Debian. I've had a lot of comfy experiences on Debian, and Debian is still on my X230. But, I just really love openSUSE.
@gray@ryona.agency Debian 12 installation is so much less painful than Debian used to be. It's not difficult at all to spin up. I'd personally shy away from Testing and just pull specific packages from back-ports as need be.
@thegreatape@thechimp.zone openSUSE was my first real foray into Linux, so I have the exact same feeling you do with Debian where "I always fall back to [it]". It's also just got so many QoL features like YaST and especially Snapper.
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