I’ve experienced that with a variety of words at different times, I’ve heard it called semantic satiation, but also that that actually doesn’t mean this, but when no words make sense to you, not just a specific one.

Windows 10 wasn’t even on my list as it is not a modern OS any more (it has been replaced by Windows 11), but even so it had a better UI, without those weird UI features that just serve to look bad

• floating taskbar at the bottom, not actually at the bottom, above it
• those blue highlights around widgets that do not look good
• that horrible off white colour for widgets
• general bad design

And of course windows 11 and GNOME improve with even more UI features

• blur
• transparency that actually looks good
• rounded corners that look good

Basically, it’s not one specific thing that makes KDE look bad, but rather their general approach to design, which seems to be ‘we don’t care what we’re doing, we’ll just set the default to something random as we expect users to customise it anyway’ which is fine for advanced users, but not so friendly to new users

It might be GNOME or it might be Windows 11 (although of the Linux ones it’s still GNOME), but KDE is clearly (subjectively) the most ‘programmer art’ of the 3

Maybe unintuitive is the wrong word, but for new users the amount of options can be overwhelming, and the UI looks… not very modern by default, lol

It’s original to me!

It’s a big abstract to understand, are you trying to say that there are Linux enthusiasts that protest GUIs being made simple and intuitive, and that if they succeed, would-be Linux users will go back to Windows, which is more intuitive?

Maybe for KDE, but just introduce new users to GNOME, that’s perfectly intuitive and even looks great!

You actually breath less when you sleep, so you yawn when you wake up to transition to a higher breathing state

Yawning is for getting more air when you don’t have enough.

I hope they had consent from the children to post that personal information online!

Is that from Portal?

Time travel could exist, but whatever a time traveler does, they were always going to do. If they didn’t prevent a catastrophe, they couldn’t have prevented the catastrophe. Something would always have prevented them.

In the Torah, the Satan, or Adversary, was indeed understood to be an angel under God’s command and on his side.

I don’t breath in exhaust either, fully concentrated. I have as much of a problem with diffused cigarette smoke as diffused exhaust, but I fucking hate smokers that make me breath in their second hand fully potent, carcinogenic, horrible smelling smoke.

I do have access to healthcare, as long as I can wait a few years, thanks to the wonders of the NHS. Google is but one company, the privacy respecting OSS I use still works great for me, better than ever in fact, Linux phones and GNOME have come a long way. There is a disturbing right wing trend across the world, but these things come in cycles, eventually it will go back in the other direction, and I wouldn’t exchange it for the other benefits of today’s world.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s awful. It’s just I don’t see earlier times being much better.

People look at the past with nostalgia tinted glasses. Sure, things are bad now, but in the past they were even worse. Out of all the times I could have been alive, this day, with all the medical and social advances we have, is the best/least bad.

Maybe if it’s something like an ender pearl stasis chamber either on a timer or on a server that needs a daily ping to not activate. Not a big bulky device.

Sometimes we’re told that, and sometimes it’s true, but often it’s an excuse to get people to work harder, eg at a job, but the result is actually lower quality work.

Mastodon is corporate social media?

Is this an April Fools joke?