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Cake day: January 19th, 2025

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  • I mean, people always think teaching not to bully people is boringly obvious and it is, if you stop to think about the concept in theory, but it can be different, when you’re in the heat of the moment; teaching the fundamentals do help people, even if painfully clear to those at a higher level. I think those’re actually pretty good.

    The issue (as you’ve kinda noted) is they never go beyond that. The Honey scan might be hard to impart as, if I didn’t know some of how the system worked because I program for a living, it would’ve seemed like magic gibberish. The other two are good ones, though.

    Honestly, teaching the fundamentals of how the intervals work in some way I think would go far. The number of people who don’t know what file extensions are always worry me.



  • This always surprises me as I’m younger millennial and my Gen X dad always feels more technologically behind than me.

    But it’s funny because I’m only so into computers because of him as he had things like Windows 3.1 and 95 and 98 in our home from a young age and he even went to school for C++ but he doesn’t really remember it (it got him an accounting gig) and his pursual of technology these days is pretty limited to pre-built stuff from Samsung and Sony than any real grasp of how it works. I struggle to get him to show even passing interest in something like Linux (like, I get liking Windows; you grew up with it: you’re more comfortable with it. But not even curiosity, even if you’ll never use it?).

    Expert on Excel and OneNote (because it’s his daily bread-and-butter) but probably would ask for my help on rotating a PDF.

    What OP describes sounds much more aligned to my millennial peers than the bulk of Gen. X I know.




  • Thank you; people keep getting excited whenever France makes moves towards forms of leadership these days but I can’t help but suspect that Macron doesn’t want to eradicate the global hegemony America had held through recent history but put France in its place.

    Demanding back a gift given in celebration of America’s abolition of slavery solely on the basis that France was the one to gift it (i.e. ownership) is too on-the-nose, even if you tried.







  • Yeah…; heh, discovered some things this afternoon. Neither browser was able to load Google without crashing the tab (which, I dunno, could – maybe – motivate me to kick the habit?).

    Luakit, on my distro, is v2.3.3 and I tried building to v2.4.0 but the built executable kept saying 2.3.3 for its version. I suspect this is probably more my fault, though.

    Why haven’t I tried Qute?

    I dunno! Heh, I feel like it’s relatively popular but I’ve also been snooping around the minimal browser space since Uzbl so maybe my perception’s off.

    The biggest reason you may not have is it is based on Chromium. At the time I discovered it, the dev.'s reason was due to security issues in WebKit, at the time, but that was also 5–9 years ago so that may not be a concern, anymore.

    It’s also built with QT; I generally use GTK so it’s my one gripe but I know it doesn’t bother everyone.

    And it’s built on Python (I know that bothers some); but those are the only things I can think of.

    It uses the same default layout that Uzbl inspired in vimprobable, dwb, jumanji, vimb, and Luakit so that’ll probably be familiar. Vim bindings out of the box (which I feel like Uzbl also inspired in all the aforementioned browsers; well, I’d guess it was inspired by the Pentadactyl/Vimperator extensions, first).

    I feel like it’s the most stable of the bunch, for the most part (which is probably why I keep going back to it). It can be resource heavy but the customizability and fairly stable performance is generally pretty good.

    And it got support for uBlock Origin (I’m sure there’s a generic name but I’m afraid I don’t know it) style adblock lists recently with the help of Python’s adblock library (I hadn’t realized Luakit and Nyxt had support for that until now and it was always by major con, with Qutebrowser).

    Right now, there’s a Wayland display issue in suffering with but that’s QT’s fault and isn’t present on v6.8 (but my distro’s still at 6.7.2…); so that might not even be an issue, for you.