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Is this an April Fool? I trust nothing posted on 1 April!
Man, why do people publish serious announcements on April 1st? Between the XZ backdoor that almost pwned all of Linux, a Silksong update, Bellular News taking some absolutely degenerate stance with games "journalism", and this, I don't know what the fuck to believe.
Why did Bellular news do/say? Haven't caught up with that debacle yet.
Defended Kotaku sucking up to SBI, downplayed and ignored SBI's harrassment campaigns and the apparent racism of some of its employees. There's also some conflict of interest because his company is in bed with SBI. I skimmed through most of the videos, it's really not worth my time.
According to some comments, he also said some ridiculous things in support of SBI's witch hunt against a particular Steam user on twitter, but I won't go wading into that cesspool, so can't verify.
Thanks for taking the time to summarise it! 🙌
No. https://joshuastrobl.social/@me/112197672362783955
Well then, it's an interesting proposal because it would be nice to see a major player default to KDE. I don't see it happening though.
timezones are always crazy on 1 April. My initial assumption was it's a joke. It would be awesome though! More people should use or at least try KDE.