I really appreciate your response. It’s incredibly helpful and deeply thoughtful. Thank you.

What comes next is not directed at you but rather provides some other color based on a few things you touched on.

I worked for the guy. He gets no slack from me. He changed my life in many ways both wonderful and not. And while it’s unlikely I’d work with or for him again he was a net positive in my life.

I don’t see product the way he sees product which is exactly as you note: it’s for him. Some of that “for him” approach has resonated deeply with the OSS community and still does. He changed Cloud Computing in the best of ways. He’s a giant. And we’re lucky he’s around.

This small ghostty issue (and some others I can’t recall now) was emblematic of our core disagreement about how we build systems for a broader user base. That’s why I said I get their PoV but disagree with it. I think it would be fair to say using the product reminded me a lot about this particular tension. Reading the GitHub issues even more so. That’s wholly on me.

I am thankful to ghostty for helping me explore many more options. I had been using iterm2 on my laptop and struggling to find something I liked on my Linux workstation. Checking out the new hotness after all the hype still resulted in a net positive.

Nevertheless I am genuinely happy it’s working for you and, again, thanks for your kind and calm response.

Yep - but seeing the thread about it in their github repo was also a turn off. I don’t have to do it with other clients.

I also believe that has to happen on each server - and we’ve got a lot of servers. I’m not particularly keen on needing to change anything to get my terminal emulator to, well, work.

While I get the ghostty team’s PoV - I don’t agree with it.

Ghostty has lots of issues ssh-ing into remote systems that aren’t on the bleeding edge.

I couldn’t get it to work reasonably well enough for me and tried a bunch of others. Currently using Alacritty on both my Linux desktop workstation and Mac Laptop.

I use Zellij anyway and it has all the tab/pane/floating window support I was looking for.

I have a desktop which has / had a similar problem.

Originally I built it with a g-series Ryzen which has integrated Radeon Vega graphics. Upgraded to a 3060 and wanted to run Linux for gaming instead of windows.

I couldn’t get a distro to reliably use my graphics card without the issues you describe. Stuttering, crashing, generally unusable.

Garuda was the answer (to be fair I’d try Bazzite too but I just didn’t get there as Garuda worked). In fact, it worked out of the box for me and I enjoyed it so much I made it my work OS.

I like the GUI utilities they’ve made for front-ending a bunch of Arch CLI utilities and I’ve been saved by BTRFS snapshots more than once.

It’s a fair question.

Carney is a Center-right corporate kleptocracy bureaucrat. I have no love for the gentlemen. He’s the 1%.

His primary opponent however is owned by the far right and will likely govern even more dictatorially at a time when that’s particularly dangerous. He will sell out healthcare, social safety nets, and the environment in a way that puts Harper to shame.

As I see it, the choice is picking stability, crappy as it is, or selling out the most vulnerable among us for a chance at change.

It’s not a great choice - but it’s what we have. Wishing for something else won’t make it so. The NDP won’t rise from the ashes in the next ten days.

So my vow is to swallow a bitter pill and get involved - be the change I want to see.

In the meantime I believe we need (and have) a unified front against fascism and rampant fear/hatred.

I feel very similarly.

I was incredibly put-off when they accepted to not raise the issue of electoral reform as a requirement to sign the agreement with the Liberals - who themselves ran on electoral reform (at least in part).

I’ve received a single email from the NDP this election season - announcing their new t-shirt designs.

The liberal rep - part of the crew responsible for ousting Trudeau, came to my door.

:(

That’s a really interesting PoV. I feel as if I’ve been grappling with the same quandary but landed differently.

The NDP is broken. I say this as a lifelong supporter who strongly believes their stated values and goals represent mine.

That said, the current version of the NDP is not viable or working in my opinion. Their actions do not match their words.

I’m resolved to vote Liberal (in a riding where it matters) and then immediately begin to support the federal NDP party to be ready for the next election. Time to get my hands dirty.

You’re right. My bad. Will edit.

You’re right though and I should not have used “totem pole”. Old habits…

I’m with you on all those points. Loblaws is theft of a different kind and to your most important point: these stores have made it impossible for smaller stores to exist - so I also get that you might not have a choice.

And thanks for responding so kindly. Appreciate you.

My perspective here, to share, is that I don’t understand the hard time others are having. Not that I can’t understand - but rather that I am not in their shoes. I’ve been trying to cut all workers slack because they’re also trapped in a system and we’re powerful if we stick together - so forgive me if I also forgot to empathize with you.

I have to ask - how did you think a cashier can help with your request?

I’m not trying to be a jerk here, but cashiers are pretty low on the corporate ladder at Loblaws. If you knew it wasn’t their job, what were you looking for and what did you want in response?

I don’t shop at Loblaws. We’ve been shopping locally since the boycott last May.

But one of the things worth considering is what we expect of each other. Was one person’s rudeness reflective of everyone else who works somewhere?

There are so many way we can work together to make our communities and country stronger. Not shopping at Loblaws can be one of them. But for this reason? I’m sorry, it just seems strained and unusual.

Edited to remove racist euphemism.

The mastodon version of a post or, sadly, tweet.

It’s, uh, not the best name.

But maybe, just maybe, it more appropriately attributes correct value to a social media thing. ;)