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Reminds me of an old joke about how everything in KDE has a k and it’s very annoyink and irrtitatink bekause they have less laks user interface kuidelines than GNOME. (I haven’t checked, they’ve probably vastly improved since then)

Nah. Tried to imply that everyone has sex. Even if you’re not thinking about it. (Especially if you’re not thinking about it.)

Ah, I thought Windows always used its own paging file thing located on the Windows NTFS drive, and couldn’t be made to use Linux swap.

If so, enabling that thing probably isn’t a good idea if you are dual booting, yes. Can see all sorts of problems coming from that.

It’s a Unix derivative. To get the fundamental software thing working, someone has likely had hot gay sex. To get the modern software going, someone has had hot transgender sex, hawt furry yiff, and autistic sexual intercourses. …What I’m getting at, sex won’t make Arch unbootable. Guess you just personally fucked up somewhere.

What

Linux swap partitions have no bearing on Windows boot times. Or Windows in general. Windows doesn’t care about partitions it doesn’t recognise. (It might, on occasion, fuck with the bootloader though, but I hear it’s a little bit less of a headache in UEFI days)

These days Windows boots really fast to the login screen (which has a reboot option).

If you log in, it’ll start loading all the usual shit, and that will take a few moments on SSD. (And a few geological megacycles on a HDD.)

Back in the day, I got the weird idea that it’d be handy to grab information from the XMMS music player as it was running. So I made an extension that basically dumped the information about the player state as text to a named pipe. A few people wrote scripts for their IRC clients and whatnot to tell others what they were listening.

(Back then, none of the GUI music players really had any kind of RPC capability. Nowadays, you can probably do this stuff easily with D-Bus or whatever.)

One time, late at night, I was just listening to music in bed with headphones, controlling XMMS via infrared remote controller (LIRC). A random cool track came up. I had no idea what it was actually called. I went “wouldn’t it be cool if I could hit a remote button and it’d say what song is currently playing?” …so I got up, got back to the computer, and wrote a script that reads the pipe, takes the artist and song title, and feeds it to Festival TTS, then added that to LIRC configuration.

Times New Roman is wayyyy too classy for Trump Administration. They should switch to Comic Sans MS.

…Oh no, I’m re-heating font jokes that people older than me found funny decades ago. What has this present political climate reduced us to?

I have uBlock origin on my browser. The ads are only a problem in YouTube for TV and Android, which is sadly where I watch most of YouTube. But I do my part of backing out whenever the damn counter says 50 seconds remaining, and whenever YouTube pops up a quiz about the quality of advertising, I say it’s shit. Someone has to be in the trenches to observe that the thing is shit.

I’m pretty sure Google figured out I’m a woman in my 40s living in Finland so my YouTube ads reflect that. Get feminine product ads and toy ads before Christmas.

And sometimes weird B2B adverts like business software and logistics services and industrial equipment.

One time it was straight up “hey, gurl, wanna buy a tractor???” …probably because I have watched Farming Simulator let’s plays. Years ago.

Yeah I wouldn’t date an RStudio user. Real men do their R coding in Jupyter.

One of my recent software projects has an “ignore” list feature, but I guess I have to update the terminology to “include/exclude” if that means chuds will stay away.