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• assuming you are allowed to change things on the computer (ie. not work or library computer):
  • change keyboard firmware back to QWERTY
  • change OS English keyboard input to Colemak-DH (or Colemak-DH-Ortho)
• for Unicode characters, it is possible but fiddly through keyboard firmware, usually easier to use whichever method the OS uses – and generally through QMK directly rather than through VIAL
  • Linux, one of:
    • ComposeKey plus compose sequence – Compose, --. will give you en-dash –
    • DeadKey, accent, char (similar to Option key on Mac or setting keyboard to “US International”)
    • Ctrl-Shift-U then Unicode codepoint – Ctrl-Shift-U, 1F517, space gives you 🔗
  • in VIAL, you can set up macros to send the right sequence, but you’ll have to have one macro for Linux and a different macro for Windows
  • Typing non-English letters

“circle crop”, not “crop circle” … much disappoint …

• brain of a cop inside a robot dog
• robot dog tries to shoot itself first

just a quick bit of background (terminology below is “close enough”):

• Windows treats the drives as primary and the filesystem as secondary
  • so all the drives get their letters A:\, C:\, D:\, etc.
  • then you move your folders the drive, ex. C:\Windows\Fonts
• Linux treats the filesystem as primary and the drives as secondary
  • / as the base point, binaries in /bin, users in /home, fonts in /usr/share/fonts, etc.
  • then the drives get mapped to mount points in the filesystem (you can see the mounts in /etc/fstab)
    • on my system, / is on the drive /dev/nvme0n1p1, /home on the drive /dev/sda2, and so on (everyone’s setup will be a little different)
  • this way the filesystem can be spread across multiple drives but appear to the user as a cohesive whole

• balsamic vinegar
• honey
• mustard
• walnut oil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XziQEfNI8as

still haven’t gotten around to trying out dandelion capers

so … um … RSS feed?

(nice seeing a revival of the old Planet idea)

EDIT:
looks like things are “in active development”: https://powrss.com/feed.xml just showed up!

when you need something other than a purple dragon in a suit for your legal briefs

Why don't Americans use electric kettles?

https://myjetpack.tumblr.com/post/782064712399585280/my-latest-cartoon-for-new-scientist

Kurzgesagt: South Korea is Over

• s/Armed/Police claim were armed/
• s/Unarmed/Police admit were unarmed/

the disinformation and misinformation are freely accessible while the news and journalism and reporting are hidden behind a paywall

Internet Archive

LISP!

(exactly that – read and ignored)

a puppet Putin regularly leaves on read

• main thing to keep in mind is that a window manager is normally just one component of a desktop environment – full desktop environments like Gnome go to great lengths to assemble a whole fleet of apps to work together to make a cohesive experience
• if you’re going to forego the full desktop environment, then expect to have to fill in on the various missing pieces to suit your needs (file manager, terminal, text editor, clipboard manager, bar/panel/dock)
• if you just want lighter weight but maintain a cohesive experience, then Xfce or LXQt
• otherwise, there are a LOT of choices (both for X11 and for Wayland)
• tiling window managers
  • i3 on X or Sway on Wayland are probably the most popular
    • special mention: Regolith – pairs Sway on the front end with Gnome components underneath
  • dwm for the full do-it-yourself experience
  • awesome if you like Lua, xmonad if you like Haskell, exwm if you live in Emacs, Qtile if you like Python
• stacking window managers
  • Openbox for the old school feel, LabWC as the Wayland successor
  • IceWM and JWM for a minimal experience (both show up regularly on Raspberry Pi)
  • Motif for the retro enthusiast