you and your tan-flagged Obama-syndicalism

that and the decades of red scare propaganda: https://tankie.tube/w/th9dhZ9aLgFS9UPsojjix7

“Make Polio Great Again!”

not everyone can be Beck

Poe’s Law

(until they get a new lead dev, Ladybird is definitely not any type of “Good”)

do motorbikes and mopeds count as motorcycles?

“Don’t anthropomorphize computers. They hate that.”

• as a human: no
• as a computer: yes

“And I’ve had very little need for any kind of customization as the people behind my distro have pretty much seen to everything”

I think that’s one of the key points (and Nick kinda quickly passed over it) – the Linux desktop environments have constantly iterated over options and changes that customization at this point is more a matter of showing off rather than being a necessity to make things workable or usable

“We investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong.”

Qantas used to prescribe past the belligerent and right into comatose

if you’re on Divinikey, take a look at the HMX switches (wider selection at Kinetic Labs and also at Unikeys/Unikeyboards out of Canada) – really good factory lubing, range of weights, generally a nice clear “tak” sound when bottoming out – each type of switch is basically HMX iterating on plastic blends and variations (ex. Jammy has glitter, Butter has fiberglass for a louder sound, etc.)

he’s not rude – he leaves the hat outside before going through the window

Donald “Nero” Trump – cheating at golf while his country burns down around him

additionally Brodie Robertson did a video about Malibal banning countries back in October: Youtube, PeerTube

with one post, Malibal turned itself into a joke

• but corporate policy is to let IT handle updates
• but Windows doesn’t like being ignored so it bypasses group policy and auto-updates

original generation of COBOL programmers where expecting their programs to be replaced (or at least rewritten) within a decade or so – and then Y2K and we realized how much COBOL was still in the wild – and now a couple decades down the line, they’re still having problems trying to convince fintech to switch from COBOL to the new language of Java …

client was completely ignored

Hypernormalisation