Ethan Black @golemwire@librem.one

Mass surveillance promotes the Single Point of Failure that is totalitarianism.

Don't be satisfied with your vision for the future. Be satisfied with completing it.
So, don't be happy with saying "I'm going to do this project"; that's just a plan and an intention. If you're satisfied just with "someday I will" then you won't do it. #advice #workEthic #gamedev #creativity

Just a heads-up, my college has some restrictions on what I can say here :) it probably wouldn't've been an issue anyway, I don't really want to dig at an organization while I'm a member of it, but it is worth noting, as a believer in free speech....

"Too often we attack cultural challenges with a spirit of misplaced certainty. We feel like we know what’s wrong, and we know how to fix it, and when we know we’re right, opposition is frustrating at best and infuriating at worst. The more certain we are, the more likely we are to view opponents not just as wrong, but evil. Do they not want to solve our crises?" - David French

Remember that by far, most people aren't out with the intent to destroy good.
Something to think about
#culture

My modified #PopOS is having a risky window system flaw where when a new window opens, sometimes the one underneath it retains focus... I've almost copy-pasted some stuff into a chat when it was supposed to go somewhere else.
My setup is really glitchy. I want to switch to something that works better, but I have so much config that might get lost... I think I'll hold out until #COSMICDE . At least until it works on #Nvidia + #Wayland !

#Linux #Pop_OS #COSMIC_DE #CosmicDesktop

😔 This needs to end
https://babylonbee.com/news/democrats-enraged-they-may-have-to-drive-a-few-hours-to-commit-murder

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?

#Windows #MSWindows #Windows10 #windowManagement

Thanks Microsoft for just rebooting my computer (#VM in this case), closing my windows and ending my session, without my consent *_*
Not Windows 11, actually. I was feeling pretty good about Windows 10, looking back, but now I'm remembering some things less than fondly.

#Microsoft #Windows #Windows10 #MSCopilot #platformDecay #crapification

Wow. (For the website name and the fact about the ROM size of #SuperMarioBros) https://www.suppermariobroth.com/post/189519267315/the-size-of-the-super-mario-bros-rom-is-around-31

#SMB1 #retrogaming

It also means I get the grab hand instead of the four arrows when I drag a window. Takes me back.

After watching and getting into the #AnimatorVsAnimation YouTube series, I've had to change my mouse cursor theme from the typical (canonical for Linux at this point) #Adwaita theme to the white #DMZ #DMZTheme . Time to slap some stick-figure enemies around with this extension of my hand.

https://www.youtube.com/@alanbecker

#AvA #YouTube #anime #themes

An #airport just required me to give them an email in order to use their wifi, and I entered "user@0.0.0.0". We'll see how that goes for them....

The TOS had said they could use the email for marketing :/

(Yes, I thought about doing something along the lines of "root@localhost", but I was nice to them instead :) )

#advertising #airports

Special non-paywalled link (or whatever, looks like you need to sign in to NYT otherwise?) from the X post at https://x.com/seanmdav/status/1911770390545772727
(I don't know if I would jump to the conclusion about it being a "scam"; though, pharma makes lots of money and where lots of money is made, have some health skepticism)