I usually recommend a desktop based on what people are used to honestly. If they're coming from Mac I'll suggest GNOME or Zorin, and from Windows I'll suggest KDE or Cinnamon depending on how technical they are. Even if I do suggest GNOME, I'll suggest some extensions x3

If you're bored today and have been getting annoyed with Windows, just pop Linux onto a LiveUSB and play with it. You don't need to install it or anything, just play around, try different distros and desktops. :blobfoxfloofhappy:

I'm stressed the fuck out this week :blobfoxdizzy: I remember this same exact feeling from 2016 where any sense of optimism was overshadowed by a massive, creeping sense of dread.

It seriously feels like resurfacing trauma from 8 years ago.

#USPolitics #USPol #Election #Politics

There's a [Yooka-Laylee remaster](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrXXbkP5HAc ) coming? :blobfoxlaughsweat:​ ...why?

It says a lot about how people felt about the game that absolutely no one is talking about the remaster. It's wild that, at one point, is was the biggest video game Kickstarter ever. Now they've barely cracked 70k views on their announcement trailer released days ago.

Also, as a side note, Impossible Lair was an alright game. If you like 2D platformers, it's worth checking out. If you like 3D platformers and haven't played Yooka-Laylee though, it's *not* worth checking out. :blobfoxsweating:​

#YookaLaylee #YookaReplaylee #Playtonic #BanjoKazooie #Rare #Rareware

I have a question about BlueSky :blobfoxthinkgoogly:​

So the point of BlueSky is to try to simulate a centralized social media platform with decentralized hardware, right? So, like, what's the incentive to hosting your own BlueSky servers? I can see having a single-user repository for your own data, but there's no reason to host anyone else's personal data, right? :confused_dog:​

With Mastodon, the incentive to host a server comes from the fact that servers are smaller, tighter-knit communities, so hosting your server comes with building a community. What's the incentive on BlueSky?

#BlueSky #BSky #Federation #Mastodon #Fediverse #Fedi #Masto

I've seen people talking about Signal a lot lately and the one reason I'm a little hesitant to put all my eggs into the Signal basket is that I'm worried Signal is going to enshittify like all the other centralized platforms have. I trust Signal's security and their apps seem decent, but moving from Telegram to Signal only to have Signal eventually go bad as well concerns me.

It's why I'm using Matrix as my main messenger right now. I like federation. I'm also kinda waiting to see how everything shakes out. :meowshrug: Matrix has some issues and notable security drawbacks, but the most appealing thing to me is that it's decentralized and not at the whims of potential vulture capitalists down the road. The Signal Foundation seems awesome and is well-run, but, being centralized, that *can* change. Plus, on Matrix, I can bridge everything to it and treat it as a modern day Pidgin/Trillian. :blobfox3cevil:

That said, if you're on Telegram and Matrix seems a little complicated, *try out Signal*. It's much better that Telegram and much more secure (and isn't run by fuckin Nazis).

#Signal #Matrix #Telegram #FOSS #InstantMessenger #Federation