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cerement, 5 months ago

Jólabókaflóð – forget gifts, exchange books and sit around a fire drinking hot chocolate

cerement, 5 months ago

oh hey, look, we’re sitting at 28 vacant homes per unhoused person …

cerement, 5 months ago

• a big feature of tiling window managers is the auto-placement / auto-adjustment / auto-sizing of windows to fit available space
  • their main focus is always having everything visible (nothing hidden behind overlaps)
  • and most of them take advantage of having a good set of keybinds so everything can be keyboard driven rather than half-and-half with a mouse
• before jumping feet first into tiling window managers, get an easy introduction with
  • Pop Shell – an extension that adds tiling features to Gnome
  • PaperWM adds linear tiling to Gnome
  • Material Shell – focusing on a more grid based workspace model
• DistroTube argued that the killer feature of tiling window managers is the workspaces, not the tiling
• check through the hotkeys of your current window manager – you won’t get the full dynamic features of a tiling window manager, but most of them have keys for snapping windows to top-half, bottom-half, left-half, right-half (as well as sometimes offering by quarter as well)

cerement, 5 months ago

the explanation I got a long time ago is that when something gets so bad that nothing you can do will change it is the time you sit back, crack a beer, and admit “no worries”

cerement, 5 months ago

✅ Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed

cerement, 5 months ago

capitalism removed the “I want to make a living” option and forced everyone into “I need every ounce of money I can get just to survive”

cerement, 5 months ago

https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/9e2ac44b-8834-4b87-8aef-7e233a4fbd7e.webp

cerement, 6 months ago

• two weeks later

cerement, 6 months ago

lemmygrad.ml is really quite nice

cerement, 6 months ago

… and yet gun control laws in the US were written by fascists to keep guns out of the hands of people who weren’t “white enough” …

EDIT:

“Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.”

—Karl Marx, Address to the Communist League (1850-03)

cerement, 6 months ago

(throw in blond-haired melanesians)

cerement, 6 months ago

they determine your racial makeup, not your race

cerement, 6 months ago

joke going around about silicon valley during height of dot com, something like 1:10 female to male ratio – “The odds are good but the goods are odd.”

cerement, 6 months ago

PaperWM extension for Gnome

cerement, 6 months ago

I think there might be some aspects of this in Material Shell extension for Gnome – but it still maintains the discrete workspaces rather than joining everything into one seamless space

cerement, 6 months ago

usually “homing keys” (ie. allows your fingers to find the home row)

usually custom keycap sets will have a “typist” set of some sort with extra keys in the right row profile and homing keys for at least Dvorak (but that also means buying extra keys on top of the main set)

and useless trivia – old Apple keyboards had D and K as the homing keys instead of F and J …

cerement, 6 months ago

https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/9bb93544-e4b3-4fab-a4d2-54c8b9e2279f.webp

cerement, 6 months ago

(other than posting too early for Americans to get the joke)

cerement, 6 months ago

Greenwich Mean Time (because everything revolved around the British Empire)

cerement, 6 months ago

is that fast SI seconds or slow SI seconds? (alt text)

cerement, 6 months ago

when your entire system is already controlled by daemons …

cerement, 6 months ago

least they recorded it in landscape mode …

cerement, 6 months ago

the kernel that lives across the street

cerement, 6 months ago

calligraphy has a patron demon, not a patron saint

cerement, 6 months ago

from the Pirate Party platform: “Copyright should protect the creator, not the publisher.”

cerement, 6 months ago

founding / current

cerement, 6 months ago

Startpage was bought out by advertising company System1

• EDIT
• Qwant seems decent
• a lot of claims Duckduckgo has morphed into being a frontend for Bing
• SearXNG (updated replacement for SearX) gets good reviews, but have to be prepared to hop instances as Google blocks them
  • Random SearX Redirector
• Kagi is a subscription service that people seem to love

cerement, 6 months ago

UwUntu needs some competition

cerement, 6 months ago

UwUntu

cerement, 6 months ago

bring back the Feast of Fools, callithumpian parades, and the Lord of Misrule!

cerement, 6 months ago

more similarity between Western Canada and Western US than between Western US and Eastern US …

cerement, 6 months ago

(Alberta and Texas are central plains / central prairies / “midwest” – calling Texas western is a bit of a misnomer, the US decided that anything west of the Mississippi is the “Great West”)

cerement, 6 months ago

we can have civilization that isn’t self-destructive – instead of breaking apart into tribal groups, one factor that would have a bigger impact is to re-separate the direct connection we have between wealth and power

cerement, 6 months ago

“not the greatest at gaming” is still perfectly fine – the main argument against Debian stable (at least for gamers) is that, since Debian’s focus is on stability, they’re not riding the bleeding edge of updates and features

cerement, 6 months ago

prefer Salmorejo myself

cerement, 6 months ago

go messy – share a big bowl of Cioppino with your date

cerement, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

return a and a or b → return a or b

correction from @murtaza64

cerement, 6 months ago

it’s just return a and b or c is the closest Lua has to a ternary operator, but yes, for the above you could shorten it to return a or b (“or returns the first argument if true, otherwise second argument is returned”)

cerement, 6 months ago

• Linux Mint is pretty much the stock recommendation for newcomers to Linux – straight forward, no big surprises
• and Steam for your games – with Proton, there’s very little that won’t run under Linux in one way or another nowadays

cerement, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

• don’t know enough about LXLE itself as a distro
• but LXDE should effectively be considered “end of life”, the developer is in the process of porting everything over to Qt and working on releases of LXQt
• with that, for a full DE – Xfce if you like GTK, LXQt if you like Qt
• or a minimal setup with a WM plus utilities (like Openbox or one of the large selection of tiling window managers)
• along those lines though, there are still a LOT of lightweight Linux distros to choose from
  • Crunchbangplusplus or BunsenLabs – successors to Crunchbang Linux – usually just Openbox WM and a few utils rather than a full DE
  • plain old Debian stable – proprietary drivers are now part of the installer, no more hunting for a special ISO – can choose your DE or WM during install
  • Alpine Linux – popular for server and container installs, but has its fans for desktop
  • DistroWatch’s selection for Old Computers – LXLE is still on the list

cerement, 6 months ago

the “any landing you walk away from is a good landing” defense?

cerement, 6 months ago

It’s like when you’re a kid. The first time they tell you that the world’s turning and you just can’t quite believe it because everything looks like it’s standing still. I can feel it. That’s who I am.

—The Doctor, “Rose”, Doctor Who (S01E01) (2005-03-26)

cerement, 6 months ago

I preferred the “I can feel it” quote because it lined up with simplex/complex/multiplex from Samuel R. Delany’s Empire Star

cerement, 6 months ago

1.99382 … oh wait, that was Intel …

cerement, 6 months ago

considering Israel has no problem killing Palestinian Jews, where does that put them on the anti-semitic spectrum?

cerement, 6 months ago

one of the better ideas I’ve heard recently is that commute time should be included in clocked hours

cerement, 6 months ago

well, other than no one can afford to live near the workplace