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Cake day: July 12th, 2023

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  • You know, I like to go fishing. I bring my long fishing pole, and some black plastic bags to contain any trash I happen to see along the way. I like to carry the trash bag fed through the eyelet at the top of my fishing pole. Now, if that bag happens to fall over the top of a flock camera while I’m walking past, enveloping it and drawing the drawstring tight around it, there’s a fair chance I won’t notice.

    If course, I dress for chilly weather with a flappy hat to cover my ears, sunglasses to protect from sun glare, and a covid mask, just to be safe. Of course I never bring my mobile phone when I go fishing. I never seem to catch anything anyway.




  • Intrinsically funny? Not really. But I like seeing communities, especially organised and elitist ones get cleverly disrupted by trolls and shit posts that get a ton of engagement, both good and bad.

    Like that guy who posted in Microsoft flight Sim subreddit showing a selfie of his first day on the job at a real ATC tower. Only its not really him, just some random ATC and the tracking screen behind him was edited to show two planes on a collision course. Half the sub was balling him out for not paying proper attention, another half was deeply sus and demanding proof, and the third half was just quietly recognising a masterful troll post and enjoying the show.




  • Mint and Zorin have been flawless for me.

    Installing Mint on my laptop actually fixed a longstanding issue with the speakers. They were working fine for ages on Wibdows, then some reason they just stopped working. Windows could not detect any speakers. It was to a point that I assumed hardware failure, and opened the laptop and traced the audio output to identify a blown sm cap or something, then gave up. It wasn’t until I installed Mint and it made a startup noise that I was like “wtf” because I thought it would never speak again. Turns out windows was just borked.

    Installing Zorin on an old thinkcentre desktop just worked perfectly, despite my deep suspicion. I got it set up to meet my workflow perfectly in less time than I would have spent reinstalling windows and getting it dialed in just the way I like.

    Is Arch “better”? Maybe, to some people. Could I make it work? It’s possible? Instead of tweaking arch to meet my requirements, could I rather spend my free time gardening or patting the cat? Absolutely.