Julian

Yeah that’s it, thanks

Where’s that iPhone comic about society

There’s also general gatekeeping of their developer tools which restricticts ports of software, and not following standards properly (USBc, sms).

Sounds like people with voting. They love to tell you how it doesn’t matter, and yet republicans put tons of effort into making it more difficult.

Ungoogled chromium with some privacy extensions would probably be a similar experience.

Any reason for picking it over all the other chromium browsers?

Waydroid

Monitors at different refresh rates is a downside of x11, which Mint uses for all its desktop environments. Fortunately, they’re working on moving to Wayland for the Cinnamon edition, which has better support for that. There’s an experimental version you can use now, and they plan to be done in 2026.

I’d test things first ofc, maybe with your laptop plugged into one of the monitors.

I mean, for most distros you should be about to install and use the OS without touching the terminal. Yeah, you may want to use it for some things (idk what you were trying to do) but it’s kind of the same thing in Windows with registry edits and such. It’s a tool and if you don’t know how to use it, you’re probably gonna get lost.

Also how is it easier to go to a webpage to download an installer instead of using a store? Even microsoft is trying to move in that direction.

I don’t want to say your experience is invalid because I definitely think Linux can improve in terms of user experience. But it’s not very helpful to just complain about stuff vaguely.

I mean as long as it’s apple and not some small company or individual, they can extort away.

It’s a school. If the students have no concept of the history of racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia then maybe the school should, you know, educate them?

Also I went to public school while the gay pride movement was getting mainstream traction, and I was straight and cis. The bullying they had to go through did not make me wish I was gay.

And not to mention, this article is about an adult arguing for this. There’s no excuse for them not understanding the “turmoil of the past.”

Straight people already have representation. Plenty of it. Almost every love story in modern western society is straight. The law itself in many places only recognizes straight couples. This has only started to change in the last 10-20 years. The point of pride is to give a heavily marginalized, underrepresented group of people a shared voice and a way to find joy in a society that make it difficult to be that way. Trying to celebrate “straight pride” makes no sense since society doesn’t make it difficult to be straight. We don’t need pride because everything is built for us. And if you still want to join in, you can be an ally - it even has a flag if you want one.