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@kyle Not saying our new technology can't look cool either, I just like the classiness of the old stuff.

@kyle I wish our technology looked more steampunk like this and less "futuristic" like a flat rectangle with glass.

@rl_dane

One of mine is avoiding unnecessary consumer goods purchases.

This 10+ yo Miele vacuum broke at the handle. The man said too old for replacement parts, maybe buy new?

I didn't think so.

Some shaping, multi-purpose strong glue & a few winds of duct tape later—gobs of energy and plastic waste held off a few more years at least.

@ahltorp @david_chisnall I recognize the existence of intersex. But humans are considered bipeds, even though someone can be born with a missing leg.
Point is, there are, objectively, two distinct sets of reproductive organs. You can tell the two sexes by that (check the dictionary). It is true, though, you can be malformed such that you have a cross of the two. Still, the two categories the mix-up is made of is pretty clear.

@Natasha_Jay Maybe there is a generic certificate request form that this one inherits from? IDK.

I JUST FOUND OUT THAT MS WINDOWS HAS THE SEND-TO-BACK WINDOW MANAGEMENT FEATURE
All this time, I could just press Alt+Esc and my window would be sent to the back! If only I knew this back when I was a Windows user.
What if Windows also has always-on-top?

GNOME powers much more than just a desktop!

Projects like libxml2, libsoup, and vte are widely used across the open-source ecosystem.

Support GNOME and the many projects it enables :🚀
👉 gnome.org/donate

TIL: you can skip through YouTube videos at double the playback speed by clicking on them and holding the mouse press.

@fribbledom Provided focus is in the right place, you can actually do this by holding the spacebar, too.

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