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Far right leader with distinctive facial features tries to take power by force and fails

Judges are lenient to far right leader and do not give a severe sentence

The incumbent party is attacked by far right leader for "mismanaging the country"

Far right leader takes power democratically due to economic troubles and dissatisfaction with incumbent party

Far right leader eliminates political opposition by removing judges who are not loyal to his agenda

Far right leader appointing loyalists into government positions

Far right leader openly plans to invade neighbours

Far right leader jails "aliens" in concentration camps

Far right leader turns against one of his loyalists in fear that they will overtake him in power/authority

History really does repeat itself...

(p.s. if this is not the right place for this kind of post, please lmk!)

edit: I'm using Fedora Workstation 42!

I really like the ability to just search "sleep", "shutdown", "restart", etc. Switching between windows and opening search using either the super key or a three finger swipe up is super handy, on Windows the button opens the start menu (where the search is horrible) and a three finger swipe up can open app switcher, where you have to hold your three fingers to go to another app.

Using GNOME extensions to see power usage, CPU usage, memory usage, etc. is very useful. Weird that the "extension list" addon isn't a thing that's on by default. Feel like being able to see all your extensions is a really important part of having extensions. Being able to see the clock at the top took a bit getting used to but makes so much more sense than having it tucked in a corner. I also like the integrated calendar, much better than Window's version where you are unable to see any of your events, not even as a dot!

Using dnf and flatpak to install programs is very smooth and I like being able to update all my programs at once with just "sudo dnf update && flatpak update"! Being able to see the dependencies and progress bars and download speeds is really helpful too. I don't need to search for programs anymore because of a thing called "fuzzy search". It's like magic!

GNOME's UI looks much cleaner than Windows, everything is actually cohesive. It's not a mix of flat and glass and clear and ancient. It's all adwaita. (that's what you call it, right?)

Something weird was not having the minimise and maximise buttons. I had to enable those myself, which is a bit odd. Now that it is enabled it works fine.

I also really like being able to easily customise themes (everforest) and icons (Papirus!). And if GNOME is considered "not very customisable" in the linux world, KDE, Cinnamon, etc. must be even more customisable! I'm happy with GNOME though, so I probably won't switch DE anytime soon. Maybe when I get a new computer I could try out KDE.

App compatibility was no problem. All the apps I used before (thunderbird, obsidian, joplin, vscodium, godot, etc.) all have linux versions, and the ones that don't (like SumatraPDF and AIMP) have linux alternatives. Okular and Gapless has been working great!

There were very few issues, but there were some nonetheless. OBS Studio footage was very choppy as hardware decoding wasn't working, and I had to dig deep into forums to install drivers for my intel igpu. Now it works fine, so that's good! I also had an issue with a VPN app, but they support an app called "Clash Verge". They only note the Windows and Mac versions on their site, but clash verge has a linux app too, and it works quite well!

I don't play many games, mostly Minecraft and some retro titles. mGBA works fine on linux, and Minecraft java edition supports linux. I've also tried a bunch of linux games like SuperTuxKart and Xonotic and, considering they were made around a decade ago or so (I think) they were really fun! My other games ran fine with Steam installed, Proton and Wine makes them run fine!

I'll be sticking with the penguin as it's fun, playful, and is much cuter than both the window and the apple. :D

My phone runs a bit hotter than it used to, but it's a beta so they'll probably reduce the effects to make it less of drain on performance and battery life. There is a reduce transparency toggle which does help a bit, esp. for readability. Hopefully when iOS 26 is released there's an obvious option to reduce transparency.

My opinion on the "liquid glass" is mixed. Some parts look pretty cool. The apps (Mail, Photos, etc.) use it quite well, with only some parts are transparent making readability a bit better. I really like the change to the search bars being at the bottom, makes the phone more one-handable. Safari doesn't look too good in my opinion, the glass effects are a bit much. The camera app just hid all the buttons, which is a bit annoying. You can have it show flash and live photos toggles in settings, which is good.

The lock screen effect with the "3d" photos is very cool, but the phone runs extra hot when it's enabled so I turned that off. The glassy clock is pretty cool and there's the option to make it normal again if you select "solid". Swiping up from the lock screen makes a weird glass effect with the edges distorted and lots of rainbow fringing, which looks a bit odd. When you swipe down you can see the home screen app icons until it's all the way down, then they all pop out of existence and the background is replaced. Bit jarring. Similar effect with swiping up, background changes with no transition, but the apps appear in an animation this time. Weird. I'm assuming this is probably a bug with the beta, at least I hope it is...

Onto the home screen. I think the "liquid glass" themes make the tinted icons look a bit better than just colour on black, I like that bit of customisability. I still do not get the "clear" icons, it quite literally is transparent and you can barely differentiate the icons. You can always swap it to the default, but there is still some annoying glass effects on app icons where it clearly isn't natively built (I'm guessing the glass effects is applied to all icons automatically incl. third party apps, but it doesn't look too great with some of them). The app folders look terrible though and the reflection/refraction is really distracting. The pop ups when you select text is especially annoying, popping up a huge bubble. I'll need some time to get used to that vs just clicking right to share, translate, etc. The control center is not very nice to look at but it works fine.

Overall, in places where it's used tastefully (in a lot of Apple's apps, for instance) it works quite well if a bit distracting. I like the lock screen and home screen customisation and the ability to change it to "solid". The glass effects are still quite distracting though. The reduce transparency toggle does help a bit with readability, but it's annoying that it's buried deep in accessibility settings. Not very accessible at all. The lock screen 3d effect is cool but is a bit subtle, and it makes the phone uncomfortably hot. There are still plenty of bugs, but that'll hopefully be fixed in the public release. I like the option for the tinted icons but do not get the clear icons. Camera app isn't too functional, just hiding everything isn't better than before! The iOS 26 beta is quite fun, if very buggy, and the liquid glass works in some places but doesn't work in all places.

This is my first high-effort project using godot, and besides the player animated sprite and movement system (based on a tutorial by HeartBeast!) all the pixel art, sfx, music, programming, etc. was done by me. This was made as part of a physics project about black holes and Einstein's theory of relativity and is partly based on the movie "Interstellar"

I am really proud of this and I think my pixel art has really improved! I really like how the dialogue boxes turned out and the music sounds pretty decent too. The decorations (grass, flowers, rocks) turned out really great as well!

here's the itch.io link: https://spenguin.itch.io/space-holes

and several screenshots of the game:

When you add, the end result is a sum. The process of addition can also be called summation. If this is the case, why doesn’t anyone call the process of multiplication production? It would also open up to some good jokes…FACTORies do PRODUCTION

edit: The game has been released on itch.io, see here: https://spenguin.itch.io/space-holes (exported for both Linux and Windows)

This is probably my first-ever high-effort game I made with Godot (or any engine, really...)! I've made all the sprites, tilesets, music, sfx, etc. by myself. (The music and sfx were generated using Jummbox and bfxr) And ofc I did all the programming myself too, with only the movement system borrowed from a different game that I never finished (can't waste that nice movement system! I don't want to re-program it again...) as well as the grass tileset (but the decorations on top are new)

I'm very proud of this and I think my pixel art skills have really improved :D

here are some more screenshots:

Aside from the vowels a e i o u (which are special) and also the pseudo-vowel y, the rest of the consonants roughly split into a few kind of groups. The -ee endings (b, c, d, etc.) is the most common, but there is also e- (like s, l), -ay (like k), a- (like r). There's also some weird ones like q (kyu) and the worst offender is "double u" (w).

If the pronunciations of the consonants were standardised, what should be the new "standard" for pronouncing them? Should it be -ee, or something like -ay? How would the alphabet song sound?

Hi all, this will be a pretty quick summary of the different things I have learned throughout my journey to cut out big tech and switch to the more open of the sourced apps.

Chrome -> (brief period with MS Edge) -> Firefox & forks

• There aren't any extensions missing from Firefox addons and I particularly love the simplicity of the "Dark Background & Light Text" addon.
• On Firefox forks, I have tried Librewolf and Floorp. Librewolf is definitely more privacy focused and I would say is quite good if you're looking for that. Floorp is super customisable and more fun, and also disables the telemetry stuff Firefox enables by default.

Gmail -> Proton, Tuta, and others

• no ads in my email (why were they there in the first place?)
• Proton Mail is quite good, but you have to use their apps since they do not support IMAP. I don't like that since their apps are quite slow. Same goes for Tuta, with their apps being EVEN SLOWER.
• Now I frequently swap between different providers. I can say that both Mailfence and Disroot are quite good and pretty reliable and both use IMAP! Emails load quick and setup is easy.
• I'm sure there are plenty of other email providers that are great too, but these are ones I have tried myself. I would like to switch to a different email provider later down the line. Not sure why, but I actually like switching emails and such.

Spotify -> local music players!

• no ads when I'm listening to music
• works offline
• On Windows I used AIMP and now I use Gapless with Fedora Workstation. Both are awesome!
• what more do I have to say

Bambu Studio -> Orca Slicer

• I like the teal more than the Bambu green and orcas are cool
• Orca Slicer is basically just better Bambu Studio

Google Passwords/Apple Keychain -> Bitwarden and KeePassXC

• Bitwarden is cloud based and pretty good, and KeePassXC is local (but can be synced using things like Syncthing) and is also quite good

Google Auth -> Ente Auth

• Nicer looking UI, and also has a desktop app so I don't need my phone to use 2FA

It's the big one...Windows -> Linux (I chose Fedora Workstation)

• GNOME looks fantastic! Way better than the clunky Win11 interface with some glass elements, some flat ones, and some ancient looking ones they clearly haven't updated in a long time. I've also tried KDE and it also looks very nice.
• Using the terminal to install + update stuff is really good, I no longer need to search for downloads on the web anymore! Also, looking at all the dependencies install is really cool
• NO MORE MS BLOATWARE!!!
• all my apps have linux versions and/or linux alternatives so the switch was seamless. Only thing was setting up games to work with Proton and Wine. Don't play many multiplayer fps games so that was not an issue.
• Also, the file system is a bit easier to work with (no more confusing / and \...)
• Also, the level of customisation is insane! I can switch out the icons (I use Papirus), the shell theme, application theme, etc.
• Apparently GNOME is considered not very customisable by LInux standards, meaning KDE and Cinnamon are EVEN MORE CUSTOMISABLE!!!!!!!!
• penguin is cool

Adobe Illustrator -> Inkscape

• Very similar UI, and also runs a bit faster
• Switched when my subscription ran out, stayed because it's AWESOME
• still can't figure out how to make a straight line, but that's more of a me problem

VSCode -> VSCodium

• Exactly the same, except with some MS extensions unavailable and no MS telemetry
• No Intellicode or C/C++ extension
• I instead used clangd and it works fineish

edit:

• I was able to set up clangd with vscode on Fedora!
• For some reason, on Windows, a bunch of errors popped up saying clangd cannot find headers. On Fedora, another issue was that I was using the Flatpak version of VSCodium, and since flatpaks are sandboxed it had no access to /usr/bin
• After installing the rpm from the copr repo, it worked! No weird missing header errors! That's another point for the community penguin, sorry sheet of glass owned by mini pillow-like...

Google Drive + OneDrive -> pCloud, Jottacloud, and Backblaze

• Google Drive's app is kind of okay but OneDrive's app is HORRIBLE. I'm not going to rant about it in this post since this is about the (much, much) better alternatives
• pCloud's desktop app just. makes. sense. You select folders to sync and it does it in the background, No put-all-the-folders-into-a-ondrive-folder-and-also-there's-two-of-them-for-some-reason like OneDrive does. OneDrive should be called OneFolder...
• Jottacloud is also nice and easy to work with. They don't have a Linux app, but they do have an intuitive CLI that just needs to be started and then you give it the path of the folders to sync and that's it! Again, no put-all-the-folders-into-a-ondrive-folder-and-also-there's-two-of-them-for-some-reason like OneDrive
• I only use Backblaze for syncing my notes as it's compatible with Amazon S3, and it syncs well. That's all I can say.
• I use pCloud for backing up my phone, Jottacloud for my laptop, and Backblaze for syncing a few notes and such.

Google Photos -> ente photos

• Syncing is great, and there's also decently helpful (local) AI that is, importantly, opt-in rather than opt-out, meaning you don't have to use it if you don't want to. whereas google scrapes all your photos to train their AI (probably)
• Their apps are also really nice!
• I am going to attempt to selfhost Immich, hopefully that goes well! :D

GitHub -> Codeberg

• Git still works perfectly fine as expected.
• Codeberg has a very similar interface to GitHub, which is nice
• Two issues though:
  • No mobile app (at least on iOS, not sure about Android. That's fine for the most part, only issue is not having a contributions widget with the little squares...)
  • Codeberg Pages doesn't automatically deploy Jekyll pages, so I have to run jekyll build manually. Not a huge deal. I wasn't bothered to set up woodpecker cli.

YouTube -> Invidious + FreeTube

• Invidious lets me have subscriptions while not needing to log in to a google account!
• I can use Invidious as a web app, since there aren't many iOS youtube clients.
• FreeTube is pretty awesome! You have subscriptions, playlists, as well as the ability to use things like external players. An amazing program that's also cross-platform!
• Invidious and FreeTube occasionally don't work, but that's YouTube trying to block them. Huge props to the people who maintain the thing! It's one thing to develop a really cool project, it's another thing to protect it from multibillion dollar companies like Google from bamming it

[nothing] -> KDE Connect

• File sending and clipboard sharing is AWESOME, like a better more cross-platform version of AirDrop

i think that's it. I might be missing a few though.___

Something like codingfont.com, but for non-monospace sans-serif fonts (for finding a good font for the UI and/or a good font for websites)

codingfont.com has been mighty helpful for finding a decent monospace font! Wondering if there's a similar thing for regular fonts...

edit: codingfont, not codingfonts!

Where would be a good place to share my experience to switching to a combination of non-big tech, open-source, and private apps and services? The open source community doesn’t really work as some of the things aren’t FOSS at all, and the privacy community doesn’t really work either as some aren’t necessarily privacy-minded. (same kind of reasoning goes with the communities for linux, linuxgaming, selfhosted, etc. Some of the things are related to that particular topic but many or most are not)

If I want to install something, I can either do "dnf install [program name]" or "flatpak install [program name]". Same goes for when I want to remove a program. And for flatpak at least, I typed ONE WORD from a game I was uninstalling because I didn't remember to exact tag and flatpak asked me "do you want to install [full tag of game]? y/n" like HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE THAT IS SO CONVENIENT

Archbishop means “head/leader of the bishops”. “Archduke” means “head/leader of the Archduchy of Austria”. Archnemisis means your main/head nemesis (similar case with archenemy being your worst enemy). Anarchy means there is no state control, or no “head/leader”. No “archy”.

Also, does this mean that Arch Linux is the king of the distros?