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  • They’d have to prove a lot in the first instance to warrant arresting you then and there

    No? It’s been pretty clear they can arrest literally anyone and you’re lucky if you even get to see a judge before you’re shipped off to the concentration camps. Even in the cases where judges have gone out of their ways to file injunctions against the ICE on someone’s behalf they won’t give a shit and have no problems blatantly violating court order and disappearing them anyway.




  • Is it possible to use LUKS with a password with a Windows NTFS partition and just have GRUB decrypt it to let Windows boot? Don’t intend to dual boot Windows ever but just curious.

    Frankly I trust a password stored in my brain way more than whatever keys the TPM is storing. No way something being pushed this hard by Westoid tech corporations doesn’t have a backdoor that just unlocks everything for “approved” parties.












  • are tucked away behind unintuitive context menus

    That are well documented and don’t change once you figure out where they are. “UX” is code for “we’ll rearrange everything you need twice a year and force you to constantly re-learn our app because fuck you.”

    if you open the app for the first time and immediately think “this looks like it was last updated in 2003”, it’s not a good thing

    Why not? To me it’s reassuring because it means the procedures I memorized years ago probably haven’t changed. It’s the same reason people like the command line so much. Office software UI is a solved problem and arguably peaked in 2003 before MS Office started adding all the bullshit, it doesn’t need to be updated every single year.


  • Boo. It’s one of the last GUI software without user infantilization syndrome. Go use Google Docs if you want your software to coddle you.

    I swear if LibreOffice starts talking to me like I’m a child like MS Office does or starts having animations that actively slow me down and spike my CPU usage just to open a menu or something.

    Also, I’ve noticed a pretty strong correlation between “modern UX” and instability in office software. I don’t think I’ve ever had LibreOffice crash on me, the last major UX revision of MS Office definitely crashed more often than LibreOffice, and the latest version of MS Office crashes at least once every time I have to use it taking my unsaved work with it even with autosave on. I don’t know what “experience” they’re aiming for but not crashing and causing data loss should probably be prioritized over making it look pretty.