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Nope, this blog just got shadowbanned too. If you followed me, you'll see this post, at least, but my posts won't show up in tags, my reactions won't show up in notes, and I can't reply or message.

Sorry, but I'm going to give up. I sent three tickets to Tumblr about it and unless they bother to do something (which they didn't for all my pleas with @xorg-official), there's no point.

Bye for now. Hope to see you all again some time.

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serial experiments lain

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the X series takes one whole fucking year seriously (i usually with full, i never actually read what the other ones said)

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Reasons why computer problems seem to mysteriously vanish as soon as a technician shows up:

You were spacing out and skipping a step somewhere without realising it, and you can’t reproduce it when you try to demonstrate it because now you’re paying attention to what you’re doing

It’s an intermittent electrical connection fault that’s being aggravated by movement/vibrations in your desk; you need to check your cables

The act of explaining the problem to someone caused you to figure out what you were doing wrong

The real cause of the problem was somewhere upstream of your terminal device – for example, at the network service provider – and it got fixed at the source while you were waiting

Your computer is in a location with poor airflow and is overheating; waiting for the technician to arrive gave it a chance to cool off

Despite all appearances to the contrary, modern computers actually have very good fault recovery, and most minor problems will sort themselves out on their own if you give it a minute

Magic

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ヽ(´▽｀)/

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Serial Experiments Lain (1998)

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X vs XOrg (X11)

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endeavourOS, x11/i3, wezterm, i3bar with bumblebee-status and dmenu, picom, feh, btop; palette is mine, wallpaper is het ship propaganda i reblogged yesterday

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I did, as a challenge, completely disable my touchpad (and mouse) for three days.

I use tridactyl with Firefox, have a bunch of custom window management shortcuts, and as a last resort I can use my numpad to control the mouse cursor, so I could manage.

But honestly I like the mouse. I think mice are underused, actually—I think five (or more!)-button mice should be the standard, and mouse chording is really neat.

Not to mention that if you game there's no substitute. Controllers are absolute torture to aim and move with compared to a simple mouse that feels like an extension of your own arm.

People who use tiling window managers are phonies because I know they’re not using w3m, qutebrowser or caret navigation in Firefox. Once the web browsing starts the principled stance against using the mouse goes right out of the (tiled) window.

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ELinks is a Fully-Featured Text WWW Browser

ELinks is an advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web (HTTP/FTP/..) browser. ELinks can render both frames and tables, is highly customizable and can be extended via Lua or Guile scripts. It is quite portable and runs on a variety of platforms. Check the about page for a more complete description.

ELinks is an Open Source project covered by the GNU General Public License. It originates from the Links project written by Mikulas Patocka.

If you want to see ELinks in action check out the screenshots.

Found a bug? Please see the feedback page for information about filing bug reports.

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so many websites only test their shit in chrome and leave firefox out to dry. so I do the opposite: my sites are only tested in firefox. something doesn't work in chrome? not my problem! use a real web browser!

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now for the true test of what I am willing to put up with in terms of Linux compatibility: a printer

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You know you're living the linux experience the moment you start meddling with customisations and messing everything up 🙃

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I am so tired of using i3

I am so tired of window managers and desktop environments. Everything is either lightweight to a fault and requires a ton of weird custom jank to match a DE, or is a DE with way too many features, none of which I have any control over. When I was a kid I started with using LXDE. Their website went down in May of this year. Maybe I'm nostalgic, but I want to use LXDE. There's something nihilistic about it that I admire. Something dead. I like dead things. Dead software, bitrot, the open source abandonware slowly dying as even c compilers move on, as everyone but Debian drops binaries from their repos. I like Debian. It feels like a hive city built atop a necropolis of lost libraries.

I'm switching to LXDE

May my PC be a kenotaphion of abandonware

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One piece of bread, you say?

Stop writing regexps and eat one piece of bread

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I want a functional dark theme, light theme, and the ability to customize.

Try using fontforge and discovering that, yes, you can change every color... and you have to do them all manually... and every time you change something it makes a different element look wrong.

Nowadays, many users expect applications to have both a dark theme and a light theme, and an option to toggle from one to another.

What users don't know is that they fell for big corp propaganda!

We used to have themes of all colors, full customizability, and instead of demanding that we spend our time asking for mere light / dark theme support.

You don't want dark theme. They want you to want it so they can cut development costs. You want freedom. Freedom to make your apps look in a way that looks nice to you.