Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
Is it time yet to begin accepting that Arch is kind of ass anyway? I had a bad experience with updates crapping out on Manjaro, the original Arch-plus distro, and then somebody told me that Arch developers build all the packages on their local machines, not a secured build server??? Maybe that was just the AUR stuff, but still. And you need to update all packages in lock-step. I’ll take the flexibility of Gentoo every time, where I can easily keep a stable base system and experiment with less-stable upstream packages around the edge, and still have it all make sense.
Having a bunch of out-and-proud fascists and bigots maintaining one of your most popular frontends is the kind of shit that kills projects. It’s not just Framework, Arch needs to get out ahead of this if they don’t want to get passed up. Not too long before having Valve downstream is the only thing they’ve got going for them, and that’s not guaranteed to be a happy relationship forever.
Foxboron (arch maintainer dude) seems pretty good about rejecting fascism, he’s in the framework thread linked from the post above expressing discontent.
I am being a bit unfair, it’s good to see project principals getting out ahead of this. A lot of people glom onto Arch because of some perceived elitism, and it’s a hop skip and a jump from that to convincing yourself you’re part of the “master race”
Genuinely, arch linux is just like any other distro once you have it installed, aside from having the AUR.