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  1. A Moment of Transcendence

    some cranky (sidenote: I partially say “old” because literally nobody under the age of 50 has ever said “PC”, the last time someone unironically used the term “politically correct” was 1998.) person on reddit complained “is trans women not the PC term nowadays?”

    and I responded with the basically nonsensical “actually most trans women are on linux” and ASCENDED TO VALHALLA, MY EARTHLY JOURNEY COMPLETE


  2. year of linux on the desktop

    I had fun setting up a linux computer this weekend, but as much as windows sucks in myriad little frustrating ways, ubuntu’s desktop experience still involves no small amount of unavoidable terminal ops

    also a bunch of linux still feels held together by a handful of mickey mouse apps some guy wrote in 2006

    i think the DPI scaling is still a little broken, even in 2025, a year in which 4k screens are ubiquitous

    “I would like to create a shortcut to a frequently accessed network location and place that shortcut gently upon my desktop”

    linux: “no we don’t do that here”


  3. systemD

    a lot of people in the linux ecosystem are mad about systemd but I don’t see what’s not to like about an anime where people race cool toyotas