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Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

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  • For me, it’s the American belief that their laws apply in other sovereign countries. Calling Julian Assange a traitor when he’s Australian and never held American citizenship for example. Demanding his extradition and strong-arming other countries when he’s not beholden to American laws nor constitution as a non-citizen, and believing that it’s their right to do so.

    And that’s from speaking with countless American who believe that this is totally justified and above-board.




  • Oof. I didn’t realise that and assumed it was some new fancy hardware.

    My original comment still stands though. The HWE (hardware enablement) kernels on Debian and its derivatives like Ubuntu/Mint are your best bet when it comes to new or obscure hardware. They link extra drivers into the kernel and have patches to fix issues you normally wouldn’t encounter, basically stuff they won’t include in the mainstream kernel for the sake of stability or whatever. I always used these kernels before I migrated to Fedora because the extra keyboard buttons on my laptop wouldn’t work otherwise.

















  • I think what drove me to that decision was the cpufreq extension. It kept breaking with every update. I usually shrugged it off but it really irked me every time.

    My last straw was when they changed the theming system to force the use of libadwaita and broke my customised theme and dark mode. I don’t do a lot of customisation in general but I have rigid preferences when it comes to how I want my system to look and behave. They broke it and that drove me to explore other solutions.

    I tested KDE Plasma for a couple days and I managed to replicate my setup in like 4 hours—most of which I spent exploring new things that would be impossible to do in GNOME without modifying its code base—and the end result was an improved setup which was less clunky since I didn’t have to use as many extensions as I did with GNOME to begin with. It was bliss for me.

    I ultimately decided to move on.