there's also the fact that google will just keep being used by nearly everyone. at the same time, for the now fired employees, having "was a google employee" in their resumes will help them land a new job

This is accurate. HR doesn't want protesters on staff, and HR often googles candidates, checks social media, etc.

They may find sympathy at some businesses, but the larger the company, likely the less of that.

I think it really depends on the company. There are a lot of companies out there with a wide range of values. Some might even consider this a quality that they want in a candidate (it will certainly eliminate them from consideration for some companies though).

I doubt the majority of companies will consider it desirable even if they happen to be in political agreement with you --- because people's beliefs change over time.

That’s true! Some might even be more inclined to hire you based on your stance on the matter and that you protested. Good point. Just saying it’s not the best light to show why you were let go. I stick to the canned “We were over-resourced and so there were layoffs” is an easy blanket statement.

actually... https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-XWayland-Frac-Scaling

Well, I'm glad to be proven wrong. That still looks to be a downsampling method rather than just not applying the scale and using Xft.dpi though, but that can have advantages in multi-dpi setups I guess.

yeah the kerning is bad when using that thing. It's bad on my laptop too.

It's up to people to judge how much their money is worth. You just have a different POV compared to others.

Offtopic, but I noticed that this website uses the SF Mono font on their code blocks, is that fine? And no, I don't work for Apple (or anytone, for that matter), I just checked because I'm searching for a (preferably FOSS) free font that looks like SF Mono.

I think SF Mono is the best as well. The closest fonts to it that I know of are Commit Mono, Source Code Pro and Consolas.

I use pitivi for very basic stuff.

it could be a myriad of things. Getting some features working requires searching around the internet, like getting spell checking working was... interesting.

I know. I've looked into it and am pretty sure it was a missing optional build dependency during the build of the package. The feature is obscure enough that it was easily overlooked by the maintainer who in all likelihood doesn't even use kde.

> Flatpak and Electron don't sabotage any of these things.

Flatpak does, you need to give access to xdg-config/fontconfig to each flatpak or globally for it to respect your fontconfig settings. I've hit this, and it's one of the reasons why I don't use nor want to use flatpak.

They are great, but they don't review many laptops.

I've heard you can do it on Pixel phones, but they don't sell those phones here in Peru, sadly.