"Omarchy feels like a project created by a Linux newcomer"
(long post, the author says feel free to skip to the summary)
archive (if yr browser chokes on the katakana URL): https://archive.is/Ks8o5
the code smells of fashtech: omarchy
https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/a-word-on-omarchy/#summary
27 Comments
istewart@awful.systems · 27 pts · 311d
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?"
BlueMonday1984@awful.systems · 24 pts · 311d
That's because you're thinking of Omarchy as a Linux distro, not as an open endorsement of fascism. Its goal isn't to make a usable Linux distro, its to entrench fascists into Linux and the wider FOSS ecosystem.
o7___o7@awful.systems · 18 pts · 310d
Like a restaurant that is a money laundering front for the mafia. You're not supposed to actually eat there, ya know?
blakestacey@awful.systems · 13 pts · 310d
The best pizza we had in college came from the place where the window by the front door had a spiderweb fracture and when you stood at the cash register you could see back into the kitchen where one old Italian guy was making pizza and six beefy Italian guys were standing around doing nothing.
General rules can have exceptions, is all I'm sayin'.
self@awful.systems · 11 pts · 310d
sometimes crime pizza is fucking fantastic! they just let somebody’s grandpa cook and consider more expensive ingredients an investment in their cover. same idea as Capone’s soup kitchens but much easier to hide money with
JFranek@awful.systems · 8 pts · 310d
If you use your business to "do business" it's nice to have good catering.
pikesley@mastodon.me.uk · 7 pts · 310d
@o7___o7 @BlueMonday1984
dgerard@awful.systems · 18 pts · 310d
I don't actually believe DHH uses Omarchy as his daily driver and not his Mac.
istewart@awful.systems · 11 pts · 310d
The failure to include Ruby/Rails would seem to indicate that. Or maybe the guy's given up on framework development and he's just a culture-war grievance blogger these days
bitofhope@awful.systems · 8 pts · 309d
The xn-- URLs are punycode encoding, which is how non-ASCII domain names work under the hood.
dgerard@awful.systems · 18 pts · 310d
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.
o7___o7@awful.systems · 16 pts · 311d
It's been a long time since I opened a website and sincerely whispered "cool."
Jayjader@jlai.lu · 14 pts · 310d
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. 🤦
Jayjader@jlai.lu · 11 pts · 310d
this screenshot hurts me.
So "update omarchy" just means "do a git pull on the dotfiles repo" and it doesn't even seem to be passing
--depth 1because we see info on several branches being updated and the entire "update" weighs in at1.01 MiBjust for 1 line change in the conf file to (I assume) make steam work nicely with hyprland....This really reeks of not caring in the slightest about your users, almost to the point of "if they don't know better and can't figure out how to do it properly on their own, then they deserve to suffer".
antifuchs@awful.systems · 13 pts · 309d
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.
enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 309d
DHH is funny because he's a racist racer
ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org · 4 pts · 309d
from macOS? what happened there?
froztbyte@awful.systems · 10 pts · 309d
off the top of my head: apple dropping rosetta2 (the x86/amd64 compat layer), extreme focus on apple intellidunce, a variety of desktop-related things constantly just getting a bit worse (music.app is currently completely broken for shortcut/automation control), and things like trying to push the macos desktop to be far more like the ios ui (see e.g. the shit they've done with settings dialog)
apple's focuses are all in places and things that no-one wants, but they're too stubborn to listen to any feedback
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -8 pts · 309d
That's fine for the users, they've always responded with copium and deepthroating any feature, flaw, or lack thereof either.
I don't think mac users are capable of being actually critical of mac.
froztbyte@awful.systems · 12 pts · 309d
…the random fucking driveby posts in reply to a mac user
blakestacey@awful.systems · 15 pts · 309d
It is 1998, and I am reading Internet posts complaining about Mac users
It is 2005, and I am reading Internet posts complaining about Mac users
It is 2025, and I am reading Internet posts complaining about Mac users
froztbyte@awful.systems · 5 pts · 309d
Eternal September has many seasons
(and I don’t even really like the goddamned reference, mind you. but it’s succinct for something like this)
blakestacey@awful.systems · 7 pts · 309d
Do you remember / Unending and boundless September / Flames were catchin' the threads of the first-years
jonhendry@awful.systems · 2 pts · 307d
It is 1992 and I am reading Internet posts complaining about Mac users
Reach_the_man@awful.systems · -1 pts · 309d
imean, we are in SmeerClub afterall...
froztbyte@awful.systems · 5 pts · 309d
🤨
Reach_the_man@awful.systems · 0 pts · 303d
oh fuck i did not mean that typo
I still stand by supporting the use of Apple produkts being sneerworthy