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@Hyolobrika
Fractal claims to be one, I was just eyeing it: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/fractal
But as their recommended installation method is Flatpak, which is no go for me, I can neither confirm, nor deny it.
Among TUI ones, AFAIR, iamb allowed it — but there was on matrix.org server that made all the attachments encrypted and iamb didn't support that yet last time I checked. Maybe it was fixed already, but I'm not sure — you could still chat, but you could not see the images people send you.

@Hyolobrika
I'd choose that over any Qt software — to avoid building Qt, but damn… Flatpak? WTF that is?! How am I supposed to use that, why can't I just build it?
It's one of those moments: "Installation: just use our prebuilt container",— a container, how do I run that on my weird system, why can't I just build it and run in my system natively? 🤪

@m0xee @Hyolobrika Hmm, i do eat animal carcasses, but i still try not to ingest gnomes.

Afaik flatpak is akin to letting EA determine how games work? Maybe better not.

@Hyolobrika @m0xee Well, i can understand, but just one would enable evil to poke us in the back.

I prefer my back unpoked.

@admitsWrongIfProven
Most of my computers use Void and the system is very minimal and I do my best to avoid getting Qt installed — my distaste for which comes back from the days when Qt software in general was more bloated and slow, I know that in comparison it might no longer be true, but it's a matter of habit.
@Hyolobrika

@admitsWrongIfProven
Unlike Qt, which is a monolithic behemoth, software being GNOME usually doesn't mean a thing — it's not even that tightly integrated, it just means that UI is GTK-based, maybe with a few additional minor dependencies, which is fine by me. Again, that might turn out to not be true — there is software built in Vala.
@Hyolobrika

@admitsWrongIfProven
I have once made a template for gnome-feeds — an RSS reader, but it was in Vala and in the next version the *syntax* of Vala changed and it required Vala itself to be updated — my god, more patching! Eventually someone added it to upstream void-packages and it's no longer a problem, but that gave me a taste of what GNOME software can be. The RSS reader isn't even that good ­— uses tons of RAM, so I no longer use it 😂
@Hyolobrika

@admitsWrongIfProven @Hyolobrika
Sometimes I grow tired of splitting my posts into multiple parts and think of finding an instance that won't make me do that or of adding a visible character count for the input field in Bloat, which would at least make the task easier… But then I wake up 🤪

@Hyolobrika @m0xee Exterminating EA and Amazon, probably?

@m0xee @Hyolobrika Hey, qoto might be the only instance that hacked the char limit, and suffer from heavy penalties on updates, but at least i can ramble on... 64k char style.

@Hyolobrika
There are known exceptions… such as the Web (which is complicated… but interesting because it's an exemplar case of regulatory capture), but unification (uniformication? is that even a word) is inferior to standardisation — as it enables evil in order to poke us in the back to take over only one team.
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@m0xee @Hyolobrika I think that is the weave. Can't assert myself there, larian games has this.

@admitsWrongIfProven
Single-user instance is low-maintenance, I'm fine with self-hosting, but I'm currently at the crossroads: either I keep paying Proton to host my e-mail or find a VPS and switch to hosting it myself, if I go for the later — I might host Plemora there as well and stop worrying about my hardware not being powerful enough or burning through the power bill too fast. If I go for the former… I'm keeping qoto in mind, thanks!
@Hyolobrika

@Hyolobrika
I haven't tried GNOME (or any full DE) in a while — they might be all awful to me at this point 😂 I want just the basic window management: be it dwm or sway, and I want to map shortcuts to launch the software I want. I already rely on some GTK-based software so I have the libraries installed, GNOME software isn't something deeply integrated — in most cases it's just something GTK-based — already having those libraries makes me fine with it.
@admitsWrongIfProven

@m0xee @Hyolobrika Did i already mention fluxbox?
I find it wonderfully minimal.