Quoting: heidi.wengerIf, say, women, like me, would get less pay for the same job: why would anyone ever hire a man for it? C'mon.

You tell me, because apparently they do. As of last year, women are paid on average 14% less for exactly the same job as men in the EU. That's just a fact. Exact numbers between member countries differ, but in none of them is it the other way around or completely equal.

Quoting: heidi.wengerNo need to judge me on "living in a bubble" either... No need to get offensive like at all. These things can be discussed without slurs. Right? Right.

I just seriously don't understand how you can avoid hearing about these problems or deny the results of a wealth of credible published studies on them unless your information comes from a narrow set of news media. The other option is that you choose to ignore or disregard it all because it contradicts your world view, but I'd rather give you the benefit of the doubt.

But you're right, my frustration got the best of me. There was no need for the snark. Sorry.

EDIT: This is very off topic and doesn't belong here. Sorry.

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Quoting: heidi.wengerright, and yet there is no evidence on this kind of systemic oppression based on physical trait or gender.

There's no gender pay gap? Queer folk are not mistreated anywhere for being queer? Racism has no real effect on anyone's life?

Comfortable bubble you've got there. Must be nice.

Quoting: heidi.wengerwe simply do not know enough. it is cetainly not for people's own good as a whole to amass these kind of radical movements that would only divide us more and are not based on undeniable proof!

And how do you undeniably prove an ethical or political issue? How did people prove that women should have the vote, or that slavery is a bad thing? There are obviously things you can measure here but there's no way to do it in a way that will not leave room for denial.

That said, even hard scientific data hasn't stopped climate change deniers or other equally harmful groups from standing in the way of progress.

The sad thing is that these sort of "radical" movements are historically often the driving force behind important steps in human rights issues. They don't divide us as much as they expose divisions that are already there. Gotta acknowledge a problem before you can fix it.

And I put those quotes around radical intentionally because that word is overused. Asking for equal treatment isn't radical. Protesting for civil rights isn't radical. Hell, in the US even people asking for things such as universal access to basic health care are painted as radical.

In a just society we'd all want to live in harmony, but that's obviously just a fantasy. Those in power (or with wealth) are generally not willing to give up on even an insignificant bit of it, and those without power have to struggle for equal opportunity. Denying that fact is being blind to much of human history.

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Quoting: heidi.wengerand let me tell you mr. samsai: i as a woman would never accept any different or special treatment because of my gender. nevermind some colour of my body.

Surely you'd accept and even expect equal treatment though? Or will you meekly accept lower wages or worse treatment by the police (for example) than someone else because of your gender or skin colour or some other physical trait? Or do you perhaps find it more useful to insult the intelligence of people who think we should acknowledge the fact that some people have it worse than us, and understand that no true problem just disappears if you ignore it long enough?

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: DraconicroseMaybe there could be an app that pops up a window once there is a new version of the OS?

Mintreport and its system tray applet do pretty much what you want. But I guess the tray icon is easy to ignore.

The latest version might be a bit of an own goal on that front. Used to be, the little shield-shaped thingie would turn colour when it wanted more updates. Fairly noticeable shift, the whole icon would turn red. And I think it was green or blue when it was all up to date. Just now looked down at the icon; the current version is always white and when it wants you to update it just puts a little extra bob, a little orange something-or-other, at the bottom left of the shield icon, covering less than a quarter of it. Doesn't exactly pull the eye, I'm pretty sure I've tended to update less often since I installed the new version.

I see your point about the update manager's tray icon design, but I was actually talking about the icon of a clipboard with an exclamation mark you only see when there's something that needs your attention besides normal updates. Those are handled by Mintreport, which is a separate tool. But now that I think about it, maybe it is actually the update manager that tells you about new Mint releases...

In any case, the point was that you are notified of new releases, but it might be a bit subtle. Nothing like a popup telling you that you should upgrade soon.

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Quoting: DraconicroseMaybe there could be an app that pops up a window once there is a new version of the OS?

Mintreport and its system tray applet do pretty much what you want. But I guess the tray icon is easy to ignore.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: PublicNuisanceHopefully they fix the fullscreen issue on Linux by launch though.

Didn't meet such an issue...

From the Itch.io page:

"Dear Linux users,

Before being able to run the game, please open the config.ini file and set FULLSCREEN = no

In case you use a screen resolution which is lower than Full HD (1920x1080), please also add:

RESIZEABLE = yes

RESOLUTION = 1366x768 (please type in YOUR resolution here)"

I noticed the Steam version launched in windowed mode by default bypassing this.

Yes, it's a Visionaire Studio engine bug. Mutropolis suffers from this on Linux and so does another game I helped test recently.

You can force the game into a borderless full screen window if your window manager has that option, but exclusive full screen mode does not work.

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Lovely. Just nudged it a bit higher on my wishlist(s).

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Backed at the Early Bird tier. Should be well worth the price of a pizza.

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Quoting: denyasisAlso for those that thought the K and G brandings weren't so bad, I have one word for you.....

Galculator

Enough said.

To be fair, the Gnome calculator is just Calculator, and Galculator is an unrelated project. But yeah, the name is silly.

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Quoting: GuestI really want to switch to Wayland myself, but xfce4 doesn't (or at least didn't) support it, and I've yet to get it working with Enlightenment.

Xfce on Wayland is coming, but it'll take a while [External Link]. As usual, Xfce isn't for the impatient among us. :wink:

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