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  • And you missed the entire point. Centrism isn’t about trying to find a perfect middle ground to every individual subject.

    Of course there will be centrists that support Israel carpet bombing everything. There are other centrists that don’t support them. There are some that will support them with conditions. I know someone who is broadly centrist who thinks Israel should be dissolved entirely.

    It’s not a fucking hivemind.


  • EarlGrey@discuss.tchncs.detoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldboth pretty extreme
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    Centrists don’t sit in the middle of every issue or make an exact 50/50 compromise on everything.

    I seriously don’t understand how fucking difficult this is to understand. It’s why I largely ignore political discussions on Reddit/Lemmy/all social media.

    I don’t look at one person saying “Murdering 5 year olds is bad”, look at another person saying “Murdering 5 year olds is good!” and try to find a way where both are right.


  • I will spend an entire weekend ricing my desktop in just the right way.

    Then I’ll notice that one of my main apps doesn’t adhere to the theming i’ve designed, or that <insert random condition here> will completely break my theming because <insert weird OS quirk here>, or If I change my wallpaper it will make my entire theme look like shit, or that my cool theme makes font unreadable on one app because it renders shit weird, or that I completely overlooked this one aspect of my workflow that my cool design fucks with.

    Then I’ll just say fuck it and go back to using standard Gnome.

    There’s an extension that lets me close and open windows with the Matrix Code Rain so I can pretend I’m cool n shit.



  • I tried openSUSE a few months back because I wanted to be more closely associated with SUSE than Red Hat (I had to update to a new RHEL release at work about a year ago and really hated some of the shit they were pulling).

    Here’s a list of issues I had:

    • Was forced to not encrypt my system because for some reason the unlock screen rarely recognized my keyboard was connected and I couldn’t input the password. I would have to turn on the computer, then reboot at least once to get it to work.
    • The absolute confusion surrounding YaST when I tried it out. The community made it sound like the best thing about openSUSE, but also don’t use it because it’s terrible. Apparently it’s being depreciated now. Don’t want to learn an entire system just for it to be removed.
    • I didn’t experience any issues with this but it makes me nervous: Rolling Release + Required (for me) Community Repos. Meanwhile the standard release is slower than Fedora
    • This one is a big “first world problem” but it really annoyed me. zypper, it’s one of the longest package manager names, and i can’t tab to autocomplete because there are other packages with similar names.

    Now, all of these I problems I could probably fix. But it just wasn’t really worth the effort when my main issue was: “The downstream company associated with my Distro did some dumb shit that doesn’t really impact my system.”