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I’m genuinely putting money aside for when the AI bubble pops so I can hopefully hoover up some cheap computer parts lol

I’ve never used the feature but my toothbrush has Bluetooth for some reason lol

• Types in username and password

“Perfect! You are now logged into your computer. Enjoy your desktop!”

• Nothing happens. Try to log in again

“You’re absolutely right, I failed to log you in while claiming you had actually logged in. Good catch! I’ll log you into your system now. Have fun!”

• Nothing happens

When thou must press F12 to enter thine boot menu, thou must not presseth F12 only once. Only by pressing F12 a multitude of times and with great speed mayest thou enter the holy menu.

I used to work as an animator and now I have that lol. It’s hard to watch anything animated just for fun because my brain wants to take it apart and analyze it.

I’ve used Cura in Linux, can confirm it worked fine for me.

I’m lucky that I work from home (have done since before the pandemic) and pretty much all my work is done in a browser, and my bosses don’t care what I use as long as the work gets done. So I just work on Fedora on my regular desktop.

No worries! If you do decide to go that way, these are the guides that got it working for me:

Wine: https://forum.literatureandlatte.com/t/scrivener-scapple-for-windows-activation-under-wine/47254/5

Bottles: https://joe8bit.com/blog/running-scrivener-on-linux

That reminds me a bit of the Undercover mode in Kali Linux. It doesn’t wipe anything, but it changes the desktop to look like Windows lol.

I understand why it doesn’t exist because it’s pretty niche and a shitload of work, but I wish there was a a really good dedicated 2D animation software similar to Moho Pro or Toon Boom Harmony on Linux. That’s one of the only reasons I’m still keeping Windows around.

Also as a side note, don’t trust Toon Boom. I bought a perpetual license from them that was super expensive, and then they switched to a subscription model and turned off my perpetual license.

My somewhat convoluted solution is using Scrivener 3 in Wine. Takes a bit of setting up but works really well for me now. Also it’s not a dedicated screenwriting software (it’s designed for novels I think) but it has a screenwriting mode which does everything I need it to.

Mine used to be like that, but now my home folder is rehabilitated by turning ~/Documents into a hellhole of accumulated junk instead.

You can also just make a file called .hidden and paste the names in there and it’ll hide them, that way it doesn’t mess up any paths/symlinks etc. Or at least in KDE/Dolphin you can do that, I dunno about other setups.

It’s like that old meme about how Luke is a desert farmer who is given weapons and radicalized by a bearded man in a cave, then goes off to a militia training camp and eventually blows up a government installation.

My favourite one (it happens a lot in the UK and I assume in other places too) is when people say things like “I support the cause but the protest is really disruptive.”

Like no shit, that’s the entire point of a protest. They also sometimes complain about strikes being inconvenient for them. Oh, is this strike illustrating to you why this service is essential and it would be bad if it went away?

One time when I used to be on reddit I had an argument with someone who was against a climate protest because it could have blocked an ambulance and gotten someone killed. But this was after the protest had already happened and that had not occurred. So you don’t support it because of a hypothetical disaster that you just made up, that already didn’t happen? People, man

As an FYI in case you didn’t know you can also stack them when they go on sale. I have like 3 of them on the same account lol

Saturn’s butt is made of Bitcoin, got it.

I wish there was a better way than the “be a horrible piece of shit for the first half of your life until you get your bag, then do nice stuff to rehab your image” path a lot of of them seem to take, but at least we get something out of some of them that way I suppose.

It reminds me of when Obamacare passed in the US, and the Republicans tried to repeal it over 70 times in the first seven years.

I genuinely think there needs to be a rule that when something fails to pass (or be repealed), there needs to be a decent ‘cooling off’ period before it can be attempted again. Passing wildly unpopular legislation by just spamming it over and over again until everyone gets tired of fighting it is no basis for a system of laws IMO.

• Meta by itself just opens the launcher thingy in KDE so I can search for an app.
• Meta + T = Open terminal
• Meta + E = Open Dolphin (this is a Windows holdover, Meta + E opened Explorer but it’s kind of hard-coded into my brain now)
• Meta + F = Open Firefox

I think that’s all of them.