As someone who loved it, this was it. We waited forever for the next release which promised a full desktop environment, it never happened, we moved on to stuff that actually existed. I understand there IS ongoing development and even forks, but i frankly have no idea how is it these days. If i found out you can just apt-get a full E-based DE tomorrow i would definitely consider dedicating time to test it, specially if it’s still considered to be among the lightest, because man, when it was at it’s best it was very much the promise of a Hollywood Hacker style desktop, it was awesome and you could do nearly everything on the keyboard, plus it had a gazillion themes.

Oh boy you’re in for a treat! 3 seasons of it!

Holy shit someone else remembers this movie! Yes! Dunno if i’d defend it as it’s clearly a niche taste but hell, it deserved no hate!

The problem as usual is that you’re tied by the other people in the place, i cannot leave whatsapp as not only my family but pretty much everybody i know uses it as their main communications platform, no one actually gives a shit about the software or platform but all remain because they cannot leave behind other people.

Same issue with FB/IG, people stay because their whole social contacts stay. If something happened that made everybody leave at the same time there would be no issues, OR if the walls of the walled gardens were torn down so that people could freely leave without losing contact.

About the only realistic way to abandon these platforms is to leave and just accept losing contact with people, which is a gamble that doesn’t always pay, most of the time you just end up isolating yourself from others.

Can you do ad and tracking blocking using their VPN thing? And can you turn off the VPN part leaving just the blocking going?

And once again this XKCD applies

The so-called “tragedy of the commons” is an invention out of nowhere by a white supremacist