This is why I gtfo when Elon took over. I knew something like this would happen.

I can ssh in with Krusader and edit from Krusader’s GUI editor. I would probably still do it from the terminal because it’s faster, but it’s good to have more than one way to do things.

Here I thought that the Taoist canon was only the Tao Te Ching (which is pretty short).

canon = approved literature

cannon = large gun that fires grapeshot, etc.

Pop feels like a phone OS.

You are correct in principle, but Lemmy isn’t on a blockchain. It’s much less permanent.

I love fish, but I can see why POSIX purists would hate it. I haven’t run into any problems, but if I need to use bash, I have it installed, too. The biggest problem is that it doesn’t have wide adoption, so everybody assumes you’re using bash, and a lot of the bash commands don’t work in fish. So you have to be a bit of a power user if you want to do anything fancy.

Fortunately, Linux terminals are gorgeous and easy to use. I never wanted to use Windows’ com because it was so ugly and user-hostile. I know Powershell is a thing now, but it still looks ugly to me.

Was gonna say, never had anyone tell me to use a GUI over CLI

Do you ever use the CLI, though?

It isn’t condescending. It’s the easiest and simplest way to do a thing. Additionally, there’s a wide variety in GUI options on Linux, so if I’m helping somebody out, I’m going to give the terminal commands. Not because I’m a terminal elitist or some nonsense, but because I know it will work regardless of whatever their GUI setup is. I might know where to go in KDE, but I don’t know where it would be in GNOME or any other desktop environment I’m unfamiliar with. The terminal command is going to be the same for everybody, though.

How were you installing from the command line? Like, what commands were you using?

You just need to know the name of the package you need to install.

On Garuda, you can enter the command in a terminal, and if isn’t installed, it will search and give you a list of packages to install from.

Linux has had a UI for decades now, and it looks a lot better than Windows. Take a look at Garuda.

Nickel (some people are already named this, but spelled Nicole)

I swear, if one of y’all says some silly-ass name…

Exactly. If I want to subscribe to a group (sublemmy?) that isn’t on my home instance, then I have to search for it from my home instance and then click the “Subscribe” button. This is a somewhat painstaking process, but there’s no reason that I can see why that couldn’t be streamlined.

Lawyers and biologists?

In theory, Bluesky is supposed to be immune to that due to it being open source. In practice, I don’t know what that would look like. The architecture seems to be much less decentralized than ActivityPub (which is what Mastodon uses).

They just go where the money is, and if that means going to a dictator, that’s what they’ll do.

But Plushtodon is fren for Blahaj

I think fascists idolizing the Roman Empire goes back as far as Mussolini. The fasces, after which fascism is named, was a Roman symbol.

If you mean somebody, somewhere is footing the bill, then sure, if you torture the definition of “free” enough, then nothing on Earth is free. It is worth pointing out that if you enjoy (for example) Wikipedia, then you should donate if you can, because Wikipedia runs on donations. If you’re just trying to be a pedantic jackass, though, that’s another thing.