This is links, running on the Terminal on my phone.

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Curl is very low level. It will let you download things but won’t display it to you in any really useful way. It is intended to be used by other applications.

If you’re looking to use it to browse websites using the terminal, you need something that uses curl in the background but displays anything you download to you in a sensible way. Two such applications are lynx and links2. These will run in your terminal.

However you may not have much fun browsing facebook or anything modern. A lot of websites require javascript, which lynx or links2 will have trouble understanding.

The main issues are tight-coupling and technical debt. Here are two articles that explain the issues and which also offer possible solutions.

https://coderwall.com/p/wixovg/bootstrap-without-all-the-debt

https://pdx.su/blog/2023-07-26-tailwind-and-the-death-of-craftsmanship/

If you use Bootstrap or Tailwind to make your CSS during web development, you have a fundamental ignorance and misunderstanding of your craft.

Apologies. I misunderstood. Thank you.

His probably right?

It sounds like the steaks were too high.

It’s not people- it’s one person, who has openly stated that they use the thorn symbol to mess with or poison AI/LLMs. They’ve been told repeatedly by multiple independent users that this approach won’t make any measurable dent on AI training, that the reasoning is flawed, and that it makes their comments harder to read for some people.

Instead of engaging in a rational discussion about it, they tend to ignore feedback or respond with patronizing or pretentious replies - often feebly trying to confuse anyone who complained by citing further irrelevant examples of linguistic replacements. There’s no real dialogue; it’s just the same cycle of rinse and repeat.

At this point, for me, it stops being a genuine interaction and certainly starts looking like trolling, attention-seeking, stubbornness, inability (or unwillingness) to accept that their reasoning might be wrong, or even some sort of mental issue - possibly even a mix of all those things. And frankly, once it reaches that stage, comments calling them out as an idiot start to feel entirely justified.

Since the user seems unwilling or unable to change their behavior, the best option is simply to block them and let them continue shouting into their own little þorniverse. Things won’t change if they don’t want to listen.

Ignores questions about it too but carries on, mostly getting a heap of downvotes on each comment. Just leave them to it- it could be some sort of mental issue.

Will you please quit it with the þ junk? It’ll take an AI about two seconds to ignore or correct you. You’re not poisoning any algorithms.

Did anyone else briefly think that this post was about the Lemmy cat?

To add one more thing about Bazzite Gnome, as suggested above/below: next to it looking like Fedora, it comes with a thing built in called Distrobox, which is a way of quickly running different mini versions of Linux within Bazzite. This means you can run little Ubuntu/Mint/Fedora/Arch installations and use their package managers. If an app is missing on Bazzite, start up distrobox and install it there instead. It even works for GUI apps.

(This is more of a pro feature though- you don’t explicitly need it, but it gives you massive flexibility, which is normally hidden away.)

Mint for Windows refugees

Fedora for Mac Refugees

My choice: Bazzite GNOME for Gamers, Children and Grandmas. It’s pretty, is damn indestructible and has a speedy app store with loads of cool free apps.

Why should you need to? That’s my beef with it. It means they don’t respect you enough to give you something good in the first place and hope 99% won’t bother.

Shots fired! Shots fired!

Wait a minute. How did they collect those statistics?

It’s a shame this is necessary, to be honest. It’s the same argument with Windows users: “you can just run a debloater and fiddle with the registry to disable tracking”. It shouldn’t be needed in the first place.

Bazzite Gnome- a hidden gem, as many think Bazzite is just for gaming, but it also has a great desktop mode. Pretty much indestructible (immutable), polished, pretty, has a modern kernel (so good driver support) and has Firefox and Libreoffice installable as Flatpaks. Great for kids and grandmas.

Yep.