Why Drawing Tablet Brands Won't Collaborate on Linux FLOSS Drivers
After investigation; Gaomon, XpPen, and Huion won't collaborate on open-source drivers because of outdated naming conventions. Here's what I learned from direct contact with their technical teams, and what I plan to do to move forward.
Link to article: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1154/why-drawing-tablet-brands-wont-collaborate-on-linux-floss-drivers
No no, I want to get back at Amazon, for all the awful stuff they do. Stop trying to sell me shit and stop doing business with evil companies, supposedly-non-evil credit union. š¢ š„
Read the room, #CoastalCreditUnionNC.
@MamaLake @CptSuperlative My favorite modern myth is probably Star Trek. I could name at least a few more that are very popular.
Okay, #Introduction time apparently.
My name is Lyss, I'm a design student that found this place by talking to a random American that turned out to be a bad influence. They know who they are.
Popular demand says I needed to share cat pictures so here's me with Naira who never cuddles with me, it was so adorable I almost cried.
oh um... #CatsofMastodon #cats . I was told to do that.
@rnd I have strong feels both negative and positive about it -- depending on which aspects are under discussion... :blobcatupsidedown:
This from @sarahtaber not only answered some questions I had and explained a lot, it also suggests (to me, anyway) some paths forward towards doing that whole "restoring, maintaining and improving democracy" thing:
Here in the US, we used to have an "Office of Technology Assesment" which could produce explainers like that for Congress. It apparently had a tiny budget and yet was very useful.
It was dismantled in 1995 by the newly-dominant GOP who, according to Science magazine, saw it as "duplicative, wasteful, and biased against their party."
The final part of that, to my mind, has always been the tell.
@artemis I can't really remember either one of them being much of a Thing that we did anything about -- though I kind of feel like I remember hearing about Mother's Day first and then later finding out that Father's Day was also a thing?
In this, as in all things, I may be a huge ol' outlier.
It all began with the forging of the Great Cups. Four World Cups were given to the Germans; wisest, efficient and most autistic of all beings. Five, to the Brazilian Lords, great kickers and athletes of the jungled hills. And two, two World Cups were gifted to the French, who above all else pretend not to care at all about football.
But they were all of them deceived, for another cup was made. In the land of tartans, within the goals of Barclays Hampden, the Tartan Army of Scotland forged in secret, a master cup, to rule all others. And into this cup they poured all their lagers, ales, whiskeys, and various other alcoholic beverages.
One cup to rule them all. One cup to link them. One cup to bring them all, and in the pub, to drink them.
Hello #fediverse, I'm Rolandas!
I'm a programmer by trade, currently on a long break from a regular job. I haven't used social media in any serious capacity for 17 years, but with all excitement about fediverse I'm willing to give Mastodon a try :-)
I'll write about whatever comes to mind, but mostly it'll be about personal projects (I'm building an RSS reader), music production (very new to this, been learning a ton), free software, internet, privacy, and some other things.
āAnd now, inevitably, half of my #Bluesky timeline is like: oh, we need a service thatās resistant to this sort of shit, something thatās not beholden to capitalist pressure, something thatās queer-friendlyā¦, quickly followed by but donāt say #Mastodon!
Sorry, Iām saying it. We want fucking Mastodon. Itās run by an actual non-profit foundation, none of this āpublic benefit corporationā bullshit. Itās not subject to creeping network-wide puritanism. Mastodon. Goddammit.ā
I think there are two different goals under discussion here:
I'm focused on the second.
@rnd I suspect it has more to do with the general rise of disinformation, which spreads through all media even if it is most rapidly dispensed via social feed, as well as the general decline in education (which is a result of policies instituted by the disinformationists as they achieve more power due to their spread of disinformation).
RE: https://mastodon.social/@JuliusGoat/116759587896674564
I think we agree that they are not to be trusted or, really, respected.
I've been focusing more on trying to understand the mental model, mainly because I find it baffling -- and I think what I've come to understand has allowed me to be less angry at them as individuals (because it's not really an individual problem, but more of a bug in human society) and better able to deal with their existence as a systemic problem to be solved*, rather than an individual person being bafflingly horrible.
(*...as in: anyone who thinks that way needs to be kept the hell away from the levers of power, to start with.)
They're not individuals arguing honestly for something they believe in; they're a mindless herd obeying their programming -- except for the ones at the top who are doing the programming because they're selfish assholes.
I kinda like @JuliusGoat 's modest proposal here, at least as a guiding principle.
Yes but if we allow capitalism, how will we explain it to our children? #ThinkOfTheChildren