Are they?

I mean yes, they wrote decisions on pieces of paper saying things the Trump admin did was illegal, but did that actually stop anything?

Never seems to miss the Stupidity Briefings, though.

I would like to see us broker a lasting peace without lobbying for national self interest.

The times when the US was in a position to act as neutral-ish arbitrator are long gone.

You’re such a heartless bastard, depriving those poor foxes in the forest of their food, by sheltering it.

Some feedback on your website.
It’s bad. Sorry to be blunt.
I don’t even know where to begin.
Links are only identifyable by being underlined. But then you have underlined text on the front page which isn’t a link.
All links point to the author. subdomain, from where there is no way back!
Except for one link that opens my e-mail program without any hint that it’ll do that.
Oh, and another one that leads to https://quickpoint.me/quickpoint/animations/PAGE/1 . Fail.
Most of the links leave you guessing what happens when you click them – which in this day and age means, they’ll remain unclicked.
The color choice is … interesting.

The entire site is actually illegal in very many countries outside of the US, cause it advertises a service but includes absolutely no info about what company or organisation I actually send my data to when I sign up. For the same reason, you are currently violating the GDPR cause you don’t blacklist visits from within the EU. Yes, that law applies even if you’re in the US.

And after clicking every link, I still have no idea what your software even is.

Mine is basically the same, but since it pipes your filesystem layout into aplay instead of random bits, it’s not just brown noise.
It plays you the song of your system.
(also, it can damage your speakers, headphones and/or ears)

I miss the old days when you could do
ls -R / | aplay

There’s no sudo, so it’s perfectly safe!!

Monty Python is timeless ;)

This is actually a Monty Python sketch that originally plays in the first world war.

No, the customer wants a button that does a very specific thing.
He can’t tell you what that is, though. You’re the expert!
Also, can you put in more ads? And make it so the users can’t close the tab until they bought something.

They don’t.
Programs only show themselves when you take an action (hit a key) or when it’s urgent (in a notification).
Otherwise they’re supposed to stay invisible.

So in Gnome philosophy, your sensor would notify you when the temp goes critical and otherwise you’d have to open it manually.

It’s Slackware’s approach to dependency resolution. You don’t need to resolve dependencies on your system if you just install every package in the repo.

The installed size is under 15 GB, and you get a system that works equally well for a desktop as for a server with lots of app choices out of the box.

(Throwing the kitchen sink at you was the common way to install Linux in the old days, before quick Internet)

Slackware’s package manager is extremely easy to use:

slackpkg upgrade-all upgrades all installed packages
slackpkg install-new installs all packages that were added to the repo
slackpkg clean-system uninstalls all packages that were removed from the repo

And that’s all.

everyone is used to it

Counterpoint: The main criticism of Gnome seems to be that it doesn’t match the design philosophy of Windows 95, which users are used to.
But at this point, an entire human generation later, and 14 years after the release of Gnome 3, I don’t think that’s a valid criticism anymore.

Microsoft is thriving and will continue to do so, just probably on machines running Linux.
They get paid $$ per month per employee by most businesses in the developed world.
There is a mature alternative to desktop Windows now. But there isn’t for AD, Azure, Exchange, Kerberos and M365.

Gnome’s official stance on that matter:
https://blogs.gnome.org/aday/2017/08/31/status-icons-and-gnome/

tl/dr:
They’re an old spec from 2002
They’re too small to click for people with increased accessibility needs
They serve the needs of app publishers (making their app visible at all times), not those of the user
-> There are too many of them
-> They look bad

Gimp
Is
Mangy
Photoshop

It’s a non-profit, open source project.
If you don’t like it, just ignore it.
It’s not a commercial project where market share is important.

Tried that last week.
God it feels so outdated.
Yes, it’s what I started on, but there are good reasons we don’t use it much anymore.

Use Xfce if you want something traditional.

Gnome devs have a clear vision of what Gnome is supposed to be:
simplistic, designed for touchpad and keyboard, not mousy-clicky, and staying out of your way.

People install it, miss stuff they are used to from traditional desktops like Windows or Plasma, and bolt that back on using extensions from third parties.
They install those extensions from a different source than Gnome itself (Gnome from their distro repos, extensions from the website).

And then they complain when those third party add-ons from a different source aren’t perfectly integrated or in sync after an update.

And blame the Gnome devs.