after MKUltra and COINTELPRO and Salvador Allende and who knows how much other crap our intelligence agencies have pulled …

Drone takes out Super Scooper fighting Los Angeles wildfires

Starblazers

• VERY much personal preference
• and there are way too many options available for MX switches
  • linear, tactile, clicky, silent, pre-lubed, long pole, strong tactile, weak tactile, click jacket, clickbar, clickleaf, light springs, medium springs, heavy springs, short springs, long springs, 3 stage springs
• Akko Silver has a light spring (45g) – so really easy to bottom out, simplest might be test with a heavier spring
  • medium-light – Akko Piano (55g)
  • medium – Akko Matcha Green (63g)
• if it’s just a matter of bottoming out
  • O-ring mod – add a small O-ring around the stem of the keycap, softens bottom out on existing switches
  • silent switches (ex. Akko Fairy) – internal dampers not only silence the clack but soften the blow
• ergo mech users !ergomechkeyboards@lemmy.world generally go for light springs but they also tend to hover their fingers rather than resting their fingers as well as optimizing layouts and keymaps to reduce finger travel which is a whole new discipline

’80s (new wave, synthpop, post punk) – unadulterated nostalgia

“We don’t search for old songs,
we search for old memories.”

• the cool kids use Sourcehut
• I use Codeberg

the group buy for a 173% keyboard is still open …

Input if you want something a little wider

take a look at Monaspace Argon as an alternate

mostly focusing on gruvbox (but noticed that the cooler colors of everforest for the wallpaper pairs up nicely with the warmer colors of gruvbox for the UI)

as much as I likfe xfce4-panel for my current system, I’m probably going to start with waybar first and see how it goes

lap siding designed to look like shingle siding

GitHub has managed to conflate “git” and “GitHub” in a lot of people’s minds (including people who should know better) – git may be decentralized, but to people who think git is GitHub, it’s meaningless

mind share – GitHub is the Coca-Cola of git, Codeberg and SourceHut are the RC Colas – people are already on GitHub, their projects are already on GitHub, their workflows are already on GitHub, their friends are already on GitHub, their co-workers are already on GitHub, and on and on …

it’s the same issue with Facebook – everyone knows Facebook is shit, but leaving Facebook means convincing your friends and family to leave Facebook, and convincing their friends and family to leave Facebook … outside of a global event like a pandemic, a nigh impossible task …

cornbread

Irish soda bread

whole category of cakes are called “quick bread” (ex. banana bread) because they’re baked in a loaf pan (they get the name from the shape rather than the ingredients)

“Have you stopped beating your wife?”

typing in Beagle Bros one-liners on an Apple ][ plus

lock-in and Apple tax