I don’t find inclusion repulsive… I find it repulsive that many projects are now more about identity politics and virtue signaling than about, well, the project.

I don’t think that the maintainers are less inclusive… they just don’t want virtue signaling and flagwaving.

Remember this times?

Let’s wait and see

I simply don’t like Wayland and the “old” X11 had not gotten the attention it needed. So, the fork was the right way for me

I recently switched over and i am quiet happy with it… so, i hope not

Well, I personally have a soft spot for the gopher protocol and the community that formed around it… it’s in a way the better internet

Honestly? It is.

Getting a understanding of what you do is something that is moving towards “lost arts” territory regarding everything computer related. Yeah, you will not get the solution to your problem THAT FAST, but if you find out why the thing you want to do did not work and understand how to make it work you will benefit in the long run.

Well, if you want some really interesting experience i would recommend trying out Edbrowse, but for a really good day to day experience i personally really like Lynx: Most (for me) relevant pages work very well with it, it has a seamless gopher Integration and the UI hasn’t changed (much) since i first used it in the mid 90s.

Why use Lynx? Well, it keeps away all the crap that makes the web unbearable since people started plastering their pages with blinking ad-banners, and today it is an absolutely great way to get around paywalls and read pages and articles undisturbed.

If you only use software that is created by people you like… well… i guess your only choice will be an abacus…

In reality, what Chromebooks provide is a reinvention of the good old mainframe and terminal principle. In theory (like my recent - half joking - 9front comment) this is something that would be really easy to set up with nearly all Linux systems and especially immutable ones.

My take would be:

Put an sign up / sign in form as a “first boot” message in a distribution of your choice where you can specify (or have pre-filled by an organisation) a central server (could be something fancy like Nextcloud or something simple rsync based) where your whole profile folder gets synced to. After that: If anything goes kaputt just roll back the sync. Or “powerwasch” (to keep the ChromeOS terminology) the system to a clean state and re-sync your home folder.

In theory something that could all be implemented with a little scripting in an afternoon.

9front (with enough volunteers and a modern browser) could be exactly that.

I use Devuan and TDE because the setup is so incredible boring and dusty that i do not have to get acquainted with anything new (SystemD, Wayland… whatever hipster WM is currently cool) and keep working with the tools i like.

Well, look at it the other way around:

Those niche places act like a filter, pretty much alike as the whole internet was about ~20 years ago. Yeah, there may be fewer people around, but those people tend to be quiet a bit more interesting.

Nah, “the rest of us” is ruining the internet by following the people in the top of the trash pit.

You know… nobody is stopping you from self hosting, building a website or digging a gopherhole?

Why should we, as the collective west, spend soldiers lifes and money on “liberating” a population that hates us? Oh, and please mind: “Liberating” a country normally also includes killing a shitton of civilians in this process.

Devuan + Trinity Desktop

Moved over there since Debian switched to Sytemd. It is boring, dusty… but it works and stays out of my way.

I still doesn’t like it…

Flatpaks together with “immutable” distributions, Wayland and systemd are a heresy, a crime against the UNIX principles, a disgrace in the eyes of of SED and AWK. REPENT! Save your immortal core dumps and return to the one true /home !

Absolutely! I observe this behaviour on myself: I am nowadays even sometimes coding on my phone (though, the experience is still… “suboptimal”), but for everything else? Its mostly fine.

Just to mention it:

gopher://sdf.org

There is no better place for plain and real content