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Heh. "Guy" has some interesting history. It originally referred to Guy Fawkes, because that was his name. Then it came to mean any person, gender neutral, then it became any man, now gendered, but the neutral definition never went away, so we have both meanings floating around still, but the original meaning, an effigy of Guy Fawkes, died.

(I skipped a few steps in there because they're not relevant between guy Fawkes and any person)

This is correct. You can also omit the parentheses on the function call in Lua if the only argument is a table or string literal.

I love the Lua one because it's so true, LuaJIT is magic and Mike Pall is the only one who understands it as its creator.

Red Hat email, not a volunteer.

Does the Linux Foundation even have HR? Even if they did, does an employee of a separate company even have the ability to make a complaint about Linus with them?

Yeah, after reading through, those articles equally contain cognitive dissonance. From how I read it, it's ableist to insult intelligence because intelligence is primarily a proxy to insult mentally handicapped people, and because its criteria are largely arbitrary.

What about doing something unwise? Touching a hot stove, poking a bear, trying to jump across a wide gap you're not sure you can make it over, these are not good ideas. The thing is: the criteria for what is "wise" is equally arbitrary! The arbitrariness of a socially-constructed idea are less important than how important the cultural zeitgeist deems the idea to be. Most socially constructed ideas have arbitrary criteria because their definitions are not strict, that alone is not enough to dismiss them outright. Their harm to the mentally handicapped could be, but I see this as a red herring to solving that problem.

Policing the language used won't prevent them from being insulted for being mentally handicapped. People will just make up new terms, as has happened time and time again. If it becomes blasphemous to insult intelligence, another proxy for it will appear, and that will be insulted instead. They'll insult the unwise, the foolish, the unprepared, etc. In my opinion, the attempt to stamp out ableism as you've described it is a thinly-veiled attempt to try to prevent people from insulting each other at all, which, while morally virtuous, is rather naïve.

Then ableism will never die. What you are requesting be done is absurd. People say things they do themself are stupid, "I just touched a hot stove without thinking, how stupid of me", they of course would do the same to others. If that's the correction you want, you're going to be in the vast minority and will be fighting a losing war against core fundamentals of human behavior.

What alternative word would you use in this case, as a pejorative insult to someone's intelligence?

Looking at the list you've provided, they're all generic insults not specifically aimed at someone for doing something dumb. If the problem is that the pejorative is aimed at intelligence...ableism will never go away. People will always insult the intelligence of others when they do something dumb.

That's unfortunate, but not surprising. I can't exactly expect Epic to port the wine compatible version to the old release, so it makes sense.

Actually, EAC has a Proton-compatible build, the devs just have to use it. It's not a hard switch, they just have to choose to allow Linux compatibility, which most devs (well, really it's probably an exec level decision) do not.

I really wanted Wayland to work for me. I just bought a new ASUS laptop (and ASUS has a great Linux compatibility track record, mind you!), 7th Gen Ryzen+Radeon, all AMD. I figured, let's use Wayland on this one.

I installed KDE Neon, updated the kernel (some stuff is broken on the LTS kernel, no big deal, easy fix), switched to the Wayland session, everything was fine...until I opened any chromium-based app. Crashed kwin, killed the session completely, it recovered, but in a new session. Switched to X11, everything works. Maybe if I grabbed a newer mesa from a PPA it would work, but:

1. Crashing the window manager killing the session is awful and doesn't happen in X11
2. Chromium shouldn't crash the compositor at all
3. Even if it's AMD's new graphics drivers being buggy, that still shouldn't kill the session!

And I know, technically KDE could (and afaik, is) implement session management so that doesn't happen. But to my knowledge, literally 0 WMs/DEs can recover the session after a compositor crash currently, and that's a big deal.

Update: I've switched to Wayland with the plasma 6 release, and most of my problems are gone! Happy days! :)

Try the other UI layouts, like the notebook bar. LO can look pretty close to MS office if you change the settings some.