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Cake day: August 21st, 2024

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  • i can chime in with some actual experience!

    my current problems with KDE are

    • the greeter only accepts my password on the secondary monitor
    • the compositor shuts down whenever something uses the GPU even though the setting is off
    • my primary desktop randomly shunts itself to the right, plopping on top of the desktop on the secondary display and leaving a big black void on half my primary until plasmashell is restarted
    • my panels keep collapsing their content down to the width of a single pixel until i resize them
    • Wayland just crashloops and is completely unusable (no, i don’t have an nvidia card)
    • i still can’t get the acrylic transparency to work :(

    and what’s fun about this is, the issues are so intermittent and random that i never know what i’m going to get on a given day!










  • i harp on it a lot, but Outer Wilds helps me a lot. It teaches the value of exploration, curiosity, friendship, compassion, and patience. it’s a deeply melancholic piece, which can be frustrating and obtuse at times, but just remembering it makes me happy. the soundtrack brings all the memories back every time.









  • this is more focused for sure, but it lacks the enthusiasm of the original. if i was trying to do this for work, i would appreciate how quickly it gets to the point. however, it no longer reads like this is something you’re interested in. it reads a bit wooden. i get that would happen after you’ve been told to correct your style though.

    to be clear, the original article doesn’t need to be rewritten. for the future though, when you want to tell the story of how you got something working, include your reasons for doing something a certain way. if you need a self-inflicted complication, that’s not really a part of it (unless it’s funny)


  • your writing overall is good! it’s just a matter of information priority.

    here’s a tip, dunno how applicable it is but i use it when writing technical documentation:

    for each step, explain to yourself why you’re doing it the way you are. if it turns out you caused the step to be needed, rather than it being required, you probably need to rethink, or at least add the explanation to the text.