displaced_city_mouse @ displaced_city_mouse @midwest.social

Writer, teacher, data driven humanist.

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You forgot "defines a code of conduct and social responsibility so I don't have to resign from the FSF again."

Meh, if that happens I'll just replace the cheap commodity printer... I'm not fixing anything, except the cats.

Yes, it's an accident - the power button is just a touch sensitive spot on the printer - but they do like to play witn paper, so this would invariably lead to more shenanigans.

I just spit out my coffee reading that, and I wasn't drinking coffee at the time...

Which is why I don't mind if they break it - it would let me justify getting a decent laser jet printer.

W. T. F.

I will repeat my earlier statement: I hate printers.

I appreciate the info, but I wasn't looking for a solution - I just wanted to vent a little...

the idea that these webs of laws or these models of “how things should work” mean anything tho the people with power are complete nonsense.

Kinda ironic that you are discussing the nonsense of "how things should work" on a federated service where you control the intermediaries you work with and through, which is, IMO, the way things should work.

I've seen music books for recorders on ZLib - maybe there is stuff for ocarina as well.

I tried KMail and Organizer for a few weeks, but they kept losing connection with Gmail. My calendar would get out of sync, and they only way to fix it was to reset the connection and redo all the appointments.

I'm sure it was user error, since I couldn't figure it out after spending a couple hours on it, so I just dropped back to webmail and not leaving the mail tab open all day.

I like Antenna Pod for this - my BT connections let me use the Forward 30 Seconds feature when m driving or running. Since most ads are 30 seconds long, I can cruise through them easily.

Me too - I'll use Konsole if I need to have the results up all the time, but Yakuake is my main terminal.

My first reaction would be to acknowledge them as a fellow geek, but that's because most of the people who live near me would hurt themselves trying to open Notepad. Anyone who knows enough to start hacking my config files would be a welcome guest in my house.

Then I'd kill them with a hammer. :-)

It is by will alone I set my mind in motion.

It is by the juice of sapho that thoughts acquire speed, the lips acquire stains.

The stains become a warning.

It is by will alone I set my mind in motion

My EndeavourOS (and the prior Manjaro distro) had all of them installed.

All. Of. Them.

I am so tired of having to scroll through hundreds of Noto fonts to get to the later ones, but I'm afraid, if I uninstall one, something will break on reboot.

I use these too, and Fira Code and Hack for coding.

Kum & Go isn’t a charity, yet they found a way to go from zero charitable activity to nonzero. That’s a plus.

So you're saying the ends are what is important, not the reason the action was taken?

To me, there's an important philosophical question here -- if the right action (or a demonstrably good action) is taken, does it matter why? I think it does.

Let's say my neighbor doesn't maintain their property -- they don't mow or clean the landscaping. I decide to do this for them on my own, with their permission of course. There is a difference if I'm doing this to be a good neighbor, as opposed to making sure the neighborhood looks good because I'm selling my house. My actions are the same in both cases, as are the effects and side effects -- only the motivation differs. Therefore that motivation deserves to be interrogated and explored.

If you honestly see that as a negative, you should take it as a wake-up call that you’re using an irrationally pessimistic lens to view the world.

I don't see myself as a pessimist, but I'll admit this observation is probably correct.

Just writing a cheque to the charity for $43k would have done as much or more, but since their real goal is goosing sales numbers not donating to charity that would run counter to their goal.

This -- it's virtue-signalling to raise sales numbers. If I make a big public statement about my charitable giving, it's seen very differently than when a big corporation does it.

Another question I have: is anyone changing their purchasing choices because of this? Would you choose a Pepsi fountain drink or a Gatorade instead of a bottle of Coke just because of this? Or add a share size Snickers bar to your gas purchase which you wouldn't otherwise?

Define "buggy". I've still got a problem where occasionally when I mouse over the dock, it redraws the icons, but I'm living with that until it hurts enough for me to figure out why.

I moved from a major metro area to middle of forking nowhere several years ago. I kept my library cards from the metro area, which still work for Libby ebook and magazine downloads, while the local rural library is tied into a regional system for the occasional dead tree book.