Delilah (She/Her)

text to speech. preferably a foss one like https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.danefinlay.ttsutil/

Autistic people either sleep like clockwork, or like they’re being constantly prodded with heroin and chloroform at random and there’s no in between

“Not really” doesn’t cut it, I actively seek to make others uncomfortable on purpose. A child rejected by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth. The part they don’t tell you is you can take the child out of the burning village, but you can’t take burning villages out of the child.

My boy! Look how they massecured my boy!

Sionara, lean windows 7 start menu

Also the reason I even mentioned Mesa is because there is a working Mesa port to Windows already that does software rendering and an experimental RADV port.

There’s a fucking wot? WAT? That’s fascinating.

Mesa would fall under “things like pulseaudio and kwin that are entrenched at lower levels of the OS and realistically can’t be ported to microsofts walled garden”. SC controller is a userspace driver, which realistically should be portable between operating systems but maybe they’re doing something silly like making kernel calls directly? The KDE apps only prove my point and the wine thing… Okay I’ve experienced the wine thing. For an operating system that to this day will not let you name a file or user “CON” in case it breaks a powershell script that’s older than I am its impressive how bad their backwards compatibility chokes so hard on games.

The thing about open source is it can usually be rebuilt for anything, and most linux apps are open source. The singular exception I’ve ever come across was a PS4 emulator of all things. Name a linux app and I can practically promise there’s a windows version, baring things like pulseaudio and kwin that are entrenched at lower levels of the OS and realistically can’t be ported to microsofts walled garden.

Did you know you can build pacman (the archlinux package manager) for windows? Its used for distributing certain switch homebrew and cross compiler toolchains across all platforms.

I notice you didn’t claim to be cis

bolderdash

“They may be unstable but at least they notice when I’m in the room” -> As an arch user, fair. I can feel the change in air pressure as the door opens so I notice despite the noise canceling headphones

TOP averages out readings from the last few seconds. If there aren’t enough samples the displayed values can be… off

Broke: touch woman
Woke: become woman

I’ll say it once, I’ll say it forever: Windows has better backward compatibility, period. Even compared to linux. Rebuilding an old open source linux app to work on a modern distro can be done, but it’s a process that could take hours or days. And if you don’t have the source code you’re shit out of luck. Have fun getting that binary built against a 1 year old version of glibc to work. This, incidentally is what things like flatpak, docker and ubuntu’s nonsense competitor to both (of which our hatred is entirely rational no really stop laughing) are trying to solve.

Meanwhile microsoft office still handles leap years wrong because it might break backwards compatibility with old documents. Binaries built for windows xp will usually just work on windows 11. Packages built for ubuntu 22.0 often won’t run on ubuntu 23.0. You never notice this because linux are a culture of recompilers. Rebuilding every last package once a month is just how some distros roll. But that’s not backwards compatibility, that’s ongoing maintenance.