if doomscrolling through Flathub is somehow distracting or occupying your attention too much, you can extend your /etc/hosts like this:

0.0.0.0 flathub.org
0.0.0.0 www.flathub.org
0.0.0.0 dl.flathub.org 

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oh sweet summer child, i lived a couple of years in ukraine.

gnome and kde are established projects with substantial recurring budgets. they are not tiny unfunded initiatives. i’m not convinced that a large windfall would translate into proportionally better desktop software. both feel slow and short on compelling new ideas. i’d rather see that money go to a smaller project where it can actually change the trajectory.

everything is nazi nowadays?

first of all, hyprland plays a big role here, so this would be a good thing for that project. out of everything that has been going on lately, this is one of the more interesting ones. arch is also involved, which is a great project too, and it would benefit from this as well. the other stuff you mentioned doesn’t trigger me, don’t worry.

“everything that came after 3.5 was a mistake”

budgie, cinnamon, and xfce are pretty much stagnant or finished. money would not make a difference there, honestly. cosmic is a different story. they are probably fine without external funding, but a little extra would not hurt.

I’m happy for them. I have a feeling that if the money had gone to gnome or kde, it would have been wasted.

psp?

I have that conf: /etc/sysctl.d/01-ipv6.conf

net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6 = 1
net.ipv6.conf.lo.disable_ipv6 = 1

But that falls under your exception. It seems to me that IPv6 causes more problems than it solves.