I occasionally do this like sifting through an old photo album. Sometimes it’s amusing to track how I changed some ideas and moved from different hobbies.

This sounds like what I’m doing… I’m an SRE. I couldn’t remember if I had breakfast this morning or not and I’m in my 20s.

I mean ideally yes. But if you grew up in the sort of env where you were mocked for being a ‘sucker’ if something like this happened, you tend to live a sort of paranoid mental state where you can’t fully connect with anyone. No matter how much you say to yourself that it’s not

I compare myself to my older self and still hate it. I feel like I’m regressing, mentally and socially.

Meh, I’m no fan of using the term in a serious context cause it’s a bit juvenile but there’s a reality to ‘voting for new hitler if hes offering me PS5’s and chocolate’

It’s not really confined to the first world either, I see it all the time in my corner of the third world. The truth of the matter is most people are gonna be ‘treatlerites’ which is why those who are not ‘treatlerites’ (professional revolutionaries) have to come up with a plan to provide ‘treats’ (personal consumption) under a socialist order. The difference in strategy between the USSR and China comes to mind with this. Obviously subject to the prevailing conditions of whatever country we’re looking at.

Do you mean the entry in the app grid on GNOME? GNOME doesn’t really have a ‘desktop’ the way other DEs do.

Anyway if you just mean the app grid/menu entry there are multiple apps on Flathub that can generate a desktop file.

Here’s one I’ve used in the past: https://flathub.org/apps/io.github.fabrialberio.pinapp