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the code smells of fashtech: omarchy (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
submitted 4 months ago by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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"Omarchy feels like a project created by a Linux newcomer"

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archive (if yr browser chokes on the katakana URL): https://archive.is/Ks8o5

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[-] istewart@awful.systems 25 points 4 months ago

Props to Lemmy for doing... something... with the katakana URL. Was still able to follow the link on Safari.

Even as someone herding along a few perpetually-in-progress Gentoo setups, piping curl into sh to install random stuff staggers me. I don't see how this can be taken seriously; the software and the surrounding hype complex come off as a gimmick to catfish impressionable high-schoolers who don't know any better. After reading this, I can only imagine that Omarchy is most frequently distributed out of a shoddy panel van parked at a judicially-mandated distance outside of school zones. "Hey kid, want to try some Linux?"

[-] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 23 points 4 months ago

I don’t see how this can be taken seriously;

That's because you're thinking of Omarchy as a Linux distro, not as an open endorsement of fascism. Its goal isn't to make a usable Linux distro, its to entrench fascists into Linux and the wider FOSS ecosystem.

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 17 points 4 months ago

Like a restaurant that is a money laundering front for the mafia. You're not supposed to actually eat there, ya know?

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 13 points 4 months ago

The best pizza we had in college came from the place where the window by the front door had a spiderweb fracture and when you stood at the cash register you could see back into the kitchen where one old Italian guy was making pizza and six beefy Italian guys were standing around doing nothing.

General rules can have exceptions, is all I'm sayin'.

[-] self@awful.systems 11 points 4 months ago

sometimes crime pizza is fucking fantastic! they just let somebody’s grandpa cook and consider more expensive ingredients an investment in their cover. same idea as Capone’s soup kitchens but much easier to hide money with

[-] JFranek@awful.systems 8 points 4 months ago

If you use your business to "do business" it's nice to have good catering.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 17 points 4 months ago

I don't actually believe DHH uses Omarchy as his daily driver and not his Mac.

[-] istewart@awful.systems 12 points 4 months ago

The failure to include Ruby/Rails would seem to indicate that. Or maybe the guy's given up on framework development and he's just a culture-war grievance blogger these days

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 8 points 4 months ago

The xn-- URLs are punycode encoding, which is how non-ASCII domain names work under the hood.

[-] dgerard@awful.systems 18 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

the fashtech tells are smells.

like. lots of incompetent kids half-ass shit

lots of people write inner-platforms

lots of people claim a reskin is original code do not steal

but when they do all that and they get fashy funding. well.

[-] Jayjader@jlai.lu 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Omarchy is a pre-configured installation of the Arch distribution that comes with a TUI installer on a 6.2GB ISO.

According to https://archlinux.org/download/, the base arch iso is 1.4 GB. Why the heck does a wrapper for arch's installer take literally 5 times the disk space?

EDIT: ah, I see the article brings this up in the details, along with pointing out that the install process ends up needing to download an addition 1.8 gigs. 🤦

[-] Jayjader@jlai.lu 12 points 4 months ago

this screenshot hurts me.

So "update omarchy" just means "do a git pull on the dotfiles repo" and it doesn't even seem to be passing --depth 1 because we see info on several branches being updated and the entire "update" weighs in at 1.01 MiB just for 1 line change in the conf file to (I assume) make steam work nicely with hyprland....

This really reeks of not caring in the slightest about your users, almost to the point of "if they don't know better and can't figure out how to do it properly on their own, then they deserve to suffer".

[-] o7___o7@awful.systems 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It's been a long time since I opened a website and sincerely whispered "cool."

[-] antifuchs@awful.systems 13 points 4 months ago

I love a good thorough takedown of fash tech; not sure it’s effort well spent, and I’m not agreeing with the author’s suggestions on some specific security matters (gnupg, argh, please avoid it), but damn, they actually installed it and used it. That’s some commitment to the bit.

[-] enbiousenvy 12 points 4 months ago

DHH is funny because he's a racist racer

[-] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 6 points 4 months ago

In the recent months, there has been a noticeable shift away from the Windows desktop, as well as from macOS,

from macOS? what happened there?

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 15 points 4 months ago

off the top of my head: apple dropping rosetta2 (the x86/amd64 compat layer), extreme focus on apple intellidunce, a variety of desktop-related things constantly just getting a bit worse (music.app is currently completely broken for shortcut/automation control), and things like trying to push the macos desktop to be far more like the ios ui (see e.g. the shit they've done with settings dialog)

apple's focuses are all in places and things that no-one wants, but they're too stubborn to listen to any feedback

[-] SCmSTR 4 points 4 months ago

That's fine for the users, they've always responded with copium and deepthroating any feature, flaw, or lack thereof either.

I don't think mac users are capable of being actually critical of mac.

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 13 points 4 months ago

…the random fucking driveby posts in reply to a mac user

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 16 points 4 months ago

It is 1998, and I am reading Internet posts complaining about Mac users

It is 2005, and I am reading Internet posts complaining about Mac users

It is 2025, and I am reading Internet posts complaining about Mac users

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 4 months ago

Eternal September has many seasons

(and I don’t even really like the goddamned reference, mind you. but it’s succinct for something like this)

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 7 points 4 months ago

Do you remember / Unending and boundless September / Flames were catchin' the threads of the first-years

[-] jonhendry@awful.systems 2 points 4 months ago

It is 1992 and I am reading Internet posts complaining about Mac users

[-] Reach_the_man@awful.systems 1 points 4 months ago

imean, we are in SmeerClub afterall...

[-] froztbyte@awful.systems 6 points 4 months ago

🤨

[-] Reach_the_man@awful.systems 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

oh fuck i did not mean that typo
I still stand by supporting the use of Apple produkts being sneerworthy

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