Props to Lemmy for doing... something... with the katakana URL. Was still able to follow the link on Safari.

Even as someone herding along a few perpetually-in-progress Gentoo setups, piping curl into sh to install random stuff staggers me. I don't see how this can be taken seriously; the software and the surrounding hype complex come off as a gimmick to catfish impressionable high-schoolers who don't know any better. After reading this, I can only imagine that Omarchy is most frequently distributed out of a shoddy panel van parked at a judicially-mandated distance outside of school zones. "Hey kid, want to try some Linux?"

the fashtech tells are smells.

like. lots of incompetent kids half-ass shit

lots of people write inner-platforms

lots of people claim a reskin is original code do not steal

but when they do all that and they get fashy funding. well.

It's been a long time since I opened a website and sincerely whispered "cool."

Omarchy is a pre-configured installation of the Arch distribution that comes with a TUI installer on a 6.2GB ISO.

According to https://archlinux.org/download/, the base arch iso is 1.4 GB. Why the heck does a wrapper for arch's installer take literally 5 times the disk space?

EDIT: ah, I see the article brings this up in the details, along with pointing out that the install process ends up needing to download an addition 1.8 gigs. 🤦

I love a good thorough takedown of fash tech; not sure it’s effort well spent, and I’m not agreeing with the author’s suggestions on some specific security matters (gnupg, argh, please avoid it), but damn, they actually installed it and used it. That’s some commitment to the bit.

DHH is funny because he's a racist racer

In the recent months, there has been a noticeable shift away from the Windows desktop, as well as from macOS,

from macOS? what happened there?