TL:DR; No, I hate the USA.

The world isn’t black and white. I agree with some of the reasons I like the USA in the comments over here - like subculture, universities, research institutes, etc, but I want to discuss about what I don’t like.

As a South Asian, I feel grateful that we have governance over our own land by our own people. I can’t help but pity and empathize with the aboriginal folks and native Americans, whose right over their own sacred lands were snatched, their lakes polluted, and mountains defiled, their tradition destroyed, and them being treated like third-class citizens in their own land. Long ago, they were nomads, but today, based on what side of the border they ended up in, they’re either natives or illegal immigrants.

I hate the tone-deaf white defaultism, I hate it’s genocidal campaign and foreign interference, and worst of all, I hate how it still enables exploitation and wage-theft.

And what I hate even more is shoving down everyone’s throat like a clockwork about how groups opposing them were bad. Obviously, for example, the Nazis were bad, no doubt about it, but addressing so in a way so as to ignore your own terrible past absolves the crimes of the collective West, which is quite convenient for the imperialist empire.

Now, let me break it down - the amount of crimes under the Old Glory or the Union Jack exceeds far more than that under the Nazi flag. But someone decided that the Old Glory or the Union Jack aren’t hate symbols, but singled out on the Nazi flag. Being a PoC in America must suck so much, imagine having to see that disgusting hate symbol that enslaved your ancestors, bombed houses and dropped chemical agents on farms.

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Use interactive merge or rebase - whatever seems fit to you.

A cute picture of your SSN, card number, pin as well as the vault lock, and the address that your beautiful house resides on, uWu.

The link is incorrect. It should point to https://codeberg.org/t0mri/mk-blog, not https://codeberg.org/t0mri/mk-blom.

You must be an American, sigh. Tips are stupid, period.

Although I’m not sure if y’all count Gujarat as western or southern.

They’re counted as western. Any group in India who speak Dravidian languages are considered as South Indian.

Are you Marathi by any chance? Jhinga or the alternative word Kolambi or Sungott is what I hear from Marathi or Konkani people, and not people from the North. I’ve never heard of river prawns growing in India, to be frank.

BTW, we also make Mangalorean yetti biriyani over here in the South. It is nothing like the Hyderabadi biriyani with it’s Mughlai influence. You could consider it as more of a casual biriyani.

People are down-voting this poor guy. Ffs, just read what OP thinks of this:

Personally I believe this is a very poor take.

Everything she makes is really good, be it native Tuluva food like Yetti gassi (prawn gravy), Bondas sukka (dried calamari masala with coconut flakes) or Padengi-Bajeel (Pressure-cooked moong beans porridge with jaggery and coconut flakes, alongside flat rice, coconut flakes and chilli), or casual Indo-fusion like Bombay grilled sandwich (Indo-American), Veg Manchurian (Indo-Chinese dish) or Hakka noodles (Indo-Chinese dish). She even tried making creamy garlic pasta with penne, although with inadequate cooking appliances, and it was quite nice.

I’m 24 and I’ve not done anything. Kids, if you’re reading this, it wasn’t worth anything. Stop listening to alpha/sigma bros, just go and have fun. Grift is all a lie.

Oh sorry, I should’ve mentioned why I hate RedHat. Well, I used to like it. Like is an understatement, I used to love them. Because I was one of those college grads who wanted to take part in RedHat’s Tev-Aviv program for the open-source AI and software stuff. I was so thankful and enthusiastic about contributing to Linux. And even though I was not selected, I would embrace their products, and related OSS projects - I ditched Ubuntu, and stayed with Fedora for almost four years, before I had a change of heart last September.

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I didn’t want to go on a political rant, but here we are. The world ain’t single-dimensional, chief. It is the culmination of every factor that makes me hate Fedora, Flatpak, systemd - am I forgetting something else? I hope not. Not every opposition to corporate support of open-source is some unhinged boomer rant about the good ol’ days of X11 and POSIX-compliant shell - well, I’m a Gen-Z kid, to begin with. I couldn’t give a rat’s ass about the advancement of open-source, if the cost is supporting another corporation responsible for the Holocaust, Nakba and Apartheid. Those injustices and deaths were avoidable. As someone from a former colony, I can not, and will not tolerate enabler of these atrocities.

The humans from the mid 1900s and early to mid 2000s are so fucking stupid, and had a drop in their IQ for the one for the sole reason that people before them knew they were fucked up and desperate, but these ones are totally delusional, unhinged and believe in propaganda like fact, and that they romanticize working as a cog in this manipulative, filth-ridden machinery. Also, fuck them for not doing anything to stop the evil corporates from polluting this planet.

Not relevant to the topic in discussion, but I like the simple site design. Someone really needs to work on the long-ass page - at least limit to five blogs on main page and add the pagination in a separate blog page. Scrolling was a weird experience.

Librera can read PDF - there’s also a dark mode. The app isn’t the best looking, and the controls are unconventional, but you’ll get used to it.

You should help other help you. What I mean is, provide anything of substantial value to your difficulties - in your case, configs.

And your point being?

Please check this comment.

I’ve written about this here already.

Snaps are a default no, obviously. Most of the points by Flatkill still hold true to this day. Apart from that, I have my own set of disagreements which I’ll not be talking about - basically, stuff like reproducibility, storage space, inconsistent permissions, inconvenient configurations, outdated runtime - well, you get the point, so I’ll not be expanding on that.

My primary disillusionment towards Flatpak has to do with how people with shared backgrounds and vested corporate interests have taken over open-source - in this particular case, I am talking about Big Tech. It’s almost as if the space for a community-developed organization is hijacked by them - by them occupying core positions of the organization.

These organizations do not follow a horizontal approach to decision-making, they often come up with decisions without consulting folks that aren’t within their direct circle, and worst, when they’re held in a tight-spot, they can evade any criticism by appealing to authority - that they’re the maintainers/contributors, and they know what’s best for the project’s future.

The same is true about funding - it is always through members of the company that they’re indirectly funding these projects, that I can’t help but feel that the “community”, aka the outsiders never had the chance to be a part of the decision-making.

Flatpak may have it’s share of poor features that can be fixed - sand-boxing can be improved by using permissive containers that allow particular shell variables, installation will throw dialogue, informing the users beforehand about the permissions these apps will need, developers may be forced to use proper run-times, and perhaps, some of the runtime be eliminated to use system dependencies, thereby complying with storage compliance - I don’t know, but it could be fixed. But this invisible, unspoken flaw in the governance? No way.