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Many, many moons ago (must have been around 2006?) I managed to procure a FingerWorks. It was magic, like holding a piece of computing history!

It allowed a lot of the gestures we take for granted, to switch applications or workspaces, to go back a page, etc. But it also had really cool stuff. You could bind gestures like twisting your fingers clockwise to open a file (just like opening a jar!) or counterclockwise to close it. Pinch and zoom for copy and paste.

I was only able to get a hold on a Dvorak copy. And because the key labels were printed on the board, you couldn’t really change the layout. Getting used to a split layout, no keys and Dvorak at the same time was too much and I had to sell it again. But I’ve been using split keyboards ever since!

My issue wasn’t SMB, but automounting the share. As in, turn on wireless, the share is available. I’m coming from Linux and am pretty clueless with MacOS.

Meanwhile in Europe: “Honey: contains honey from EU and non-EU countries.”

Translating text. I recently had to translate a bunch of architectural requirements into english. I honestly don’t know if deepl.com uses GenAI or what. But the job was pretty much copy and paste. Occasionally I had to change a word because the connotation was a bit off, and a few times it got confused with tangled, run-in input and I had to rephrase whole sentences. I’m a native speaker in both languages and I estimate it would have taken me at least three times as long.

My SO has a MacBook, and I thought no sweat, I’m sure I can just autofs or something onto the NAS so that the photo storage is always there. I was wrong. Why dies it have to be such a pain? So clunky, so unreliable.

My girlfriend and I visited family in Florida and did a road trip down to Key West. I got the first album from Gorillaz and it was pretty much the only thing we listened to the whole time down US1.

And now, over 20 years later, I still get this relaxed cruising feeling and can smell the humid, salty air. Just wonderful.

So if Mozilla wants to monetize location data, what does this mean for all the custom ROMs that use Mozilla’s location provider instead of Google’s?

This might mean that we would have no true free location provider left.

Edit: just was thinking, what does this mean for Firefox forks that also use Mozilla’s location service?

I think I understand even less than after the trailers for Death Stranding 1.

Not really. I was quite surprised when they recently celebrated 40k users.

Yeah, no problem, nobody wants to go there now anyway.

So what is the advantage to this over something like Bazzite?

Godamnit! At that time, we were visiting family stateside. It was like the window let in a chill, like a rug pulled out from under you, it was tangible that something in the very fabric of the USA had changed.

I remember telling my grandpa, who fled soviet Bulgaria in WWII, that if this goes on, they can make anyone their enemy. 9/11 turned the hate siphon on full blast, and I was certain they would turn on their own.

So happy he didn’t live to see what the Republicans became.

Yeah, absolutely. Despite all the grief she gets the truth is she’s been thrown straight in the deep end with all the shit that’s been going on the last few years. We’ve had much worse and she has been handling it exceptionally well.

But one thing gets me every time: “ebend”

I didn’t ask for anything and all I got was a 12" i3 with 8gb of RAM.

As a enterprise architect I understand that I spend most of my time in Teams, outlook, PowerPoint and excel (damn, it hurts reading that) but I also often have to work on, you know, enterprise sized diagrams.

Just this morning I had to convince my SO for the Nth time that our shoe carton of expired Corona tests aren’t “just fine”.

I’m sure Europe would survive a few months of Musk, but I’m not so sure about America.

And the text rendering (at least for me with flatpaks) is completely fuzzy garbage.

Just want to get my morning PPC fix and damn… What’s up with YouTube today? Even Grayjay cantload the video!

The rule of law has eroded. You have a convicted felon in office who has brushed away an impeachment and is in control of all branches of government. So what is next now?

This is not about natural resources or national security, but Russian influence in the US government, and trying to normalize imperialism.