KDE Conf just wants to *talk* about going full A slop desktop

[wilson6923@veganism.social]

@davidgerard never offer faith, where money is involved. Make them say that shit.

[bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@davidgerard @zzt The appropriate cutscene now would seem to be Lt. Gorman in "Aliens" (1986) spouting "Ahhhhh shit." and ordering his marines to fall back and use the incinerators.

[jackielovescompchem32@scicomm.xyz]

@jackemled @davidgerard I use Gentoo, to have the experience of a custom compiled desktop without as much AI slop

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@bms @zzt

me: I wonder how TDE's going
me: oh no

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@bms @zzt i think CDE might be clear

[zzt@mas.to]

@davidgerard @bms embrace emacs

the weirder the better

[gavin57@toot.wales]

@davidgerard I mean, who wrote this?

Did they blow their tokens before they got to the Description section?

[nicovel0@mastodon.social]

@davidgerard *infinite scream *

[ludonaut@timetheft.rip]

@davidgerard please not @kde too, i'm so fucking tired

[mensrea@freeradical.zone]

@zzt @davidgerard @bms stop giving me reasons to learn emacs, i have work to do

[bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@zzt @davidgerard Yeah I'm not quite down with the @jwz Lucid era emacs-as-operating-system thing having always been a vim (now vim-classic) person. But KDE was the last kosher FLOSS desktop environment to me, GNOME has never appealed to me and I always sought to get rid of it. Even 2014 era MacOS X seems unbearable now. I'm reduced to using an unpatched (apart from ExplorerPatcher and other niknaks) Win11 kickabout laptop with a dead battery which never leaves the house, from which I evicted WSL2 months ago, and hosts ssh sessions to my FreeBSD and Rocky boxes with my IRIX 5.3-era style Windows Console config.

[lrhodes@merveilles.town]

@davidgerard A "sovereign" desktop. Barf.

[bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@zzt @davidgerard @jwz Come to think of it, when KScope was my go-to IDE for FreeBSD kernel hacking, I picked that habit up from Robert Watson, and that was KDE 3.x era. Is fork-and-de-slop-as-a-service the future of AI-free FLOSS?

[zzt@mas.to]

@bms @davidgerard @jwz great news! emacs is a vim too

[jmax@mastodon.social]

@mensrea @zzt @davidgerard @bms Yes. Yes you do. And that work is getting your configuration *just exactly right*. Jooooin ussss.

[anderslund@expressional.social]

@davidgerard WTF!? #kde

[gueuledatmosphere@mastodon.green]

@davidgerard
Maybe I go (went, I'm retired) to the wrong conferences but I've never come across an abstract that gave me the creeps. Until now.

[hypha@cafe.mycelium.locahlo.st]

@lumi @davidgerard all the references and social links are linkedin links lol

[jer@chirp.enworld.org]

@davidgerard I'm so tired. Every single day a new bit of bad news.

[bafdyce@chaos.social]

@davidgerard No no no. Please not KDE too