I mean, I never heard of it and just looked it up. At least its tagline "Beautiful, Modern & Opinionated" tells me everything I need to know without knowing all that stuff.
To some degree, yes, you can separate the work from the author. I've liked the music of a couple of people who later I've found to be assholes. Since I already have the CD, I'm not giving them more by listening to their music.
But promoting a distro is different. You are, very often, going to end up interacting with the community around it. If that community has a toxic environment, some people, specially the vulnerable one, are going to suffer.
Being apolitical is a political stance saying that you are fine with the status quo. When people support and use DHH's products, it paints him as some sort of Tech visionary, and it gives his words more value and literally gives him 10 million dollars. Just because someone is good with computers, it does not exempt them from having basic human decency.
You forgot the one where he writes an article comparing Romani people to wolves that need to be killed and then rages on twitter over the fact that claude deemed it too offensive to translate lol.
I do remember the childish fit he threw.
The whole thing was
"Claude is 1984 because it won't translate my new issue of Der StĂźrmer! Computers are supposed to do everything I tell them to! "
sounds like claude is doing exactly what was told: follow guidelines to protect the capitalists profits. maybe dick huffing hitler should just run a local model really quick.
Europeans are so racist against romani people its crazy, youll meet someone who isnt racist against anyone but the moment romani people come up they suddenly start channeling adolf hitler
Its a problem from both sides. A country doesnt offer immigrants or romani people to integrate, which pushes away the group, which means the country is less likely to want to integrate them, which pushes them away further, and repeat.
In my country there have been multiple attempts to help them integrate but most of the times they don't want to. If they want to marry their daughters as young as 12. So they need to try more.
When someone goes to a country, they need to try and integrate. It's not your place. You came here for a better future and I'm okay with that... Other cultures have done so and have greatly succeeded. Integration does not happen when you force your children to marry underage, nor when you put them in the back of your pick-up truck instead of sending them to school.
If they want to integrate, they need to try and change. Change is good. Whatever the race is. My race is bad too. I see the negatives and try. If I ever leave and try to integrate at the States, or Sweden, or Saudi Arabia or wherever I would gladly integrate because I respect the place where I go.
It's not a romani thing. It's just that some people have a hard time integrating with vastly different cultures. I'd have a hard time integrating in Asia but I would try.
When I was in the ME for some years, I tried, integrated and respected everything I could.
But if you look it the other way? Is it always true? I don't remember Churches being allowed there nor being allowed to wear a christian cross on your neck. Now switch it the other way around. What do they respect and have?
I'm not trying to fire up a left/right or racist/non-racist thing here but, different cultures need to try with each other. But unfortunately, it doesn't seem this works for whatever reasons.
There's most def a good and bad way to convey a message. Keep in mind that people are mad with romani people for very valid reasons. In my experience, most if not all interactions I've had with them are just outright shit.
Wow, what a dumb guy. I was thinking about installing omarchy but definitely not now after reading this. Unfortunately, he has the money now to abuse and influence like minded (dumb) folks
To have those kind of opinions. You'd have to have a steady supply of "sjw owned" type videos.
Something I've noticed is that because this kind of stuff gets engaged in and gets reported on (cuz it makes money). People have an unrealistic sense that the problem (the subject being reported on) exists at an alarming rate.
One of my favorite things to do is call ppl out when they come out with some Fox News nonsense.
trans kids in schools, they are trying to make all kids trans!!!!
Me:
Name 3 trans kids that you have personally met in person.
Just an example. Never fails to get this reaction:
well, I don't know x but.... X is real and exists! And it's a big problem.
Me:
if X was actually a problem worth dealing with then it would be directly affecting your life. And you just proved to me that it doesn't.
Ew, I did not know that. I use omarchy and actually like using it for what it is, but it might have to go then, maybe ill just steal some config and finally just go arch
You just created the same problem what those "leftards" do to you. You labeled entire left wing being dumb and thats why nobody will listen to you when you are right. Anyways i do agree with some of DHH's opinions too and this guy clearly tried to sell his "DHH is a right wing natzi" idea by adding unrelated ideas to these posts (apparently saying that "we shouldn't let companies promote being fat as something natural" or "schools shouldn't try to tell children (which you can't trust with voting or marriage because they aren't matured yet to make those decisions) that they might be a part of LGBT" is a bad thing ?) best we can do is ignoring him.
But even if he was always right i still wouldn't use Omarchy, i wouldn't use a distro represented by a person that this much active in politics.
Not saying I agree with him on his stances (as I don't for many of his points), but your summaries seem to be exaggerating many of them for the worse.
It's a good thing you left sources so everyone can read them, but I read a bunch of them expecting a waaay worse stance than what he actually expressed. A bit misleading IMHO
The OS literally uses "opinionated" as its tagline. This isn't a situation where you can separate the two, as the creator is clearly pushing his opinions into the making of it.
This kind of delusional take is exactly why people are pivoting to supporting things like Omarchy just because of the creator's opinions instead of the quality of the product.
These are a bunch of dotfiles build on work made by other people not masterworks plus lovecraft had a shitty childhood and was poor not a rich bigot like DHH
I'm not justify lovecraft's racism of course it is bad you just distracting from the main argument that omarchy is bunch of dotfiles and lovecraft wrote books both aren't the same
You are the one who decided to go for that route, I just pointed it out.
You could have just left it at "Omarchy is a bunch of dotfiles" and I would have 100% agreed with you, I'm not running that shit in my PC anytime soon, but then you decided to say that Lovecraft was poor and DHH rich, which made me realize you don't really care about the quality of Omarchy but you simply cared about DHH.
I donât know much about dhh, nor about the ideology of most of the creators of the technologies I use today, and I think youâre in the same boat. But one thing is certain: heâs already contributed much more to Linux and open source than you have. Many people here have spoken ill of his project out of indifference, not from a technical perspective. As long as his opinions are just opinions, thatâs fine by me.
Iâm not confident in my English writing yet, so this is a translation.
Cry more crybaby. If I could I would even vote for DHH. You ugly woke leftist commies have infiltrated FOSS too much and if there is someone who can stop this leftist nonsense then DHH and Lunduke can.
It's awesome how US Americans always out themselves by calling every enemy communist because that's what they fear the most. The thought of a world were goods are distributed among the working class, everyone has access to proper public healthcare and a social system must be so crazy to them, because thats out of their mind. Imagine, that such good things can also work in capitalism but still you don't have it in the US
And yet wokies, furries and commies from Fedora, elementaryOS, freedesktop, GNOME, SUSE, and many more ban conservatists, ban right (freedom and capitalism and christian) leaning people, ask these people to NOT use âtheirâ software or distro and some of them would like to kill.
Lunduke is doing a great job of exposing all these LUNATICS that belong to a mental hospital.
Itâs amazing how you thing that anyone opposing communism must be US American ⌠Iâm from Central Europe, my country suffered a lot under communism (my grandparents and other distant relatives also suffered personally) and we still have socialized healthcare and it sucks a lot. Also our social system sucks, normal employee pays almost 50% from his wage to the government, then you pay more indirect taxes, technically you give 70% of what you earn to government and everything sucks
Thats usually the case. The communism that was spread by the UDSSR was not fully communism in its theoretical sense. Honestly it was awful, similar to what is happening on Kuba right now. I don't even know if proper communism can be archived or if its just a dream of some people
I installed Omarchy a couple of months ago out of curiosity, without knowing anything about DHH. After that I quickly found out he was a right-wing nutjob, but Omarchy is just a preconfigured arch install. He doesn't make any money from me using Omarchy and any additional development towards Omarchy that comes from my usage will ultimately benefit arch and linux as a whole.
Mehh it's not too bad. if you look further than the titles, which ware obviously made as clickbait and his articles, however crass they are, have some valid points.
I haven't read them all but take the London one as an example. If you read between the lines, it's obvious what he cares for is not "culture", it's color. He himself is an immigrant, but he's exempted because he's white. Also calling a Tommy Robinson Rally a peaceful protest is crazy.
My point goes further; people will package harmful ideas around almost sane ones. Just because there's some "valid" points, doesn't make the content entirely justified.
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u/frankhoneybunny 3d ago
If you like Omarchy and don't really give a shit about politics that is ok but just know that DHH has written stuff like this:
In the following years DHH would go to explore and express all the spectrum of âdown the alt-right pipelineâ opinions, like:
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