I’m not using text-to-speech engines, I am bad at writing all by myself

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Cake day: February 26th, 2025

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  • For a millenial Windows user, Arch and now Cachy of all distros are now on par with how win98, WinXP and Seven worked on personal PCs in the 00s. I baselessly assume that a lot of people of my generation, who fought with the blocky interface of these, would feel more at home there than on Win10/11.





  • Whatever he said or would say, it’s a tempting concept that powerholders should be a tad bit afraid of being massive assholes when nothing else works. The right would theoretically get some martyr points if Don avoids the death to bloody diarea, but at the same time we all saw how scary it was to Shapiro and the likes when Charlie Kirk’s neck found it’s new turning point. Trump suddenly becoming an explosion of orange confetti is, obviously, a part of some accelerationist thought, but at the same time I believe it would decelerate things a lot because selfish grifters and gray cardinals of his presidency would be stopped in their tracks by pure shock and realization they are too made of flesh.


  • I love that wikipeople put it directly:

    Bejerot never met, spoke to, or corresponded with the hostages, during or after the incident, yet diagnosed them with a condition he invented. Bejerot, speaking on “a news cast after the captives’ release”, described the hostages’ reactions as a result of being brainwashed by their captors. He called it Norrmalmstorgssyndromet (after Norrmalmstorg Square where the attempted robbery took place), meaning “The Norrmalm Square syndrome”; it later became known outside Sweden as Stockholm syndrome.

    I want it in fucking bold, right in the summary block on the top. Sources?: Bejerot just made it up! I find the last sentence hilarious in a way too.

    As for examples of coppers handling the situation on their own terms, I’m still disturbed by that shit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_theater_hostage_crisis That does sound different today.








  • Screen protectors I saw and used were portrait-only, meaning landscape orientation had viewing angles unchanged. If by video you mean shorts/tiktoks/reels, they are short form and it won’t hurt to give it to them for 20 seconds, or, you know, put it a bit further from your face so both your faces are in the right angle.

    I don’t see downsides in most phones coming with the kit in a box or pre-installed by default. There are apparently ways to make them cheap and shitty, like any phone accessory, but that’s a question of quality, not the question of functionality. And I don’t see why wider angles in portrait orientation are of any use.



  • After an article on Songo#5 that one sounded a bit dry. Maybe that’s a side effect of prefering reliability over flashiness :) If there would be a second article about GammaOS, it wouldn’t hurt to flesh out the process down to specific challenges the dev overcame, just anecdotes evolving while testing and fixing stuff, or talk about how community members participated in the development of said project, what opportunities Gamma sees there. And, for a really unique kind of gear I haven’t heard of, I feel a bit puzzled as of what a second screen can bring onto the table when emulating single screen games, what other people came up with.

    Btw, there’s a small typo in the Why the LineageOS? part, in image attributions concerning Fix/Fox person’s photoes.