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Cake day: July 23rd, 2023

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  • Most people in the US don’t vote because those parties don’t meet their needs.

    Even if that’s true that doesn’t mean they all agree and would vote for the same candidate. In fact that seems very unlikely given how distributions usually look. And in a first past the post system people usually vote for the party that has the biggest chance of beating the party they dislike the most, not for the party they like the most, and over time that usually leaves the system with only two viable parties that a lot of people don’t like. But it doesn’t mean they all agree.



  • While I agree that someone like Sanders would be a better candidate, it would require him (as an example) to have the full support of the Democratic party. And he certainly does not have that, as seen previously when he was running as a Democrat and the Democrats fought him harder than they’ve ever fought a Republican.

    Harris is the only realistic non-republican candidate on the table, and so far she’s doing way better than Biden did and would have done. Biden certainly would have lost this election, Harris has a decent chance of winning. A Democrat Sanders would have lost due to constant sabotage by the Democrats and the Democratic aligned media outlets. An independent Sanders would also have lost, and split the vote for a Republican win.

    At least that’s my 2 cents.




  • When I studied at the uni 5 years ago we only collaborated over Google Docs. I’d strongly recommend online collaboration over sending files back and forth. For most things I ran Linux, and booted into Windows when there was a particular need for it, which wasn’t often. But it all depends on what software you’re expected to run during your studies. If you have room on your drive maybe having a minimal Windows install along side Linux could be a good thing?

    Also, I’d recommend a distro that comes out of the box with working BTRFS snapshots. The last thing you want is have the machine you rely on for school shit the bed due to a bad update or something you do, and you have to learn how to repair Linux in the middle of an assignment that’s due tomorrow. With snapshots you can just roll back to before it shat the bed.








  • Alt+Tab to cycle through windows. Add Shift to cycle backwards. Meta+Tab to use an alternate switcher with a different layout (that I basically never use).

    Ctrl+Alt left/right arrow switches virtual desktop. Add Shift to drag the active window with it to the next desktop.

    Ctrl+Alt up arrow switches to the last Activity (KDE).

    Ctrl+(Shift+)Tab to switch tabs in all apps that can support it, and I have those key combos mapped to macro keys on my keyboard. Also mapped to macros are other tab-switching-related combos for Firefox such as go to first tab, go to last tab, go to left tab and go to right tab. Also Ctrl+W to close tabs, and whatever combo it is to undo closing of tab. Did anyone say tab? Tab!

    Edit: I prefer Ctrl+T for new tab (also macro mapped btw, plus one that also pastes the clipboard content into the adress bar and presses Enter) and Ctrl+N for new document. I don’t want to mix up tabs and documents in my head to cause confusion down the line.