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

[art_codesmith@toot.cafe]

@davidgerard
@kde Please no.
I don't need a desktop to "love me". I need it to work reliably.
I don't need a desktop to "know me better". I need it to respect my settings, my privacy and my compute.

[art_codesmith@toot.cafe]

@jackemled @davidgerard I don't think they mean literally compiled (given that they talk about Activities, Plasmoids, etc), I think they mean "custom configuration".
But siccing an LLM onto a visual language is the last thing I'd wanna do. Remember Claude Design?

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

but david why won't you assume good faith in this proposal to add AI slop to KDE?

because it's made in polite and civil-toned bad faith

and KDE just accepted a conference submission written with a chatbot, the bad faith comes right there in the package

[zzt@mas.to]

@davidgerard why won’t you assume good faith from the type of person who’s been operating in maximally bad faith for at least 5 years continuously, if not longer?

[bms@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@davidgerard @zzt Oh crap. Not KDE now as well? *hovers over Trinity link*

[jackemled@furry.engineer]

@art_codesmith @davidgerard Plasma can already do that. Each one of my desktops looks absolutely nothing like anyone else's. See my "I sawed this panel in half!" post if you can find it.

I don't remember Claude Design & I don't want to. It sounds horrible & I never want to be exposed to it. I already feel molested enough each time my bank makes its app's UI worse.

[proinsias@beige.party]

@davidgerard Seems rather normal for this kinda project.

It's a huge beast of project trying to compete with Windows and MacOS UI's that are long knee deep in this stuff.

Thankfully there's not a shortage of desktop toys to choose from.

[davidgerard@circumstances.run]

@bms @zzt i am sorry to say that TDE went full slop a while ago

https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/TDE/tde/issues/288

[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.