is there a way to make thunderbird not notify me three times for the same one email? (one in "inbox", one in "all mail", one in "important" where everything seems to end up regardless)

turns out one of the hardest problems isn't p=np it's setting which fonts gtk apps use when you're not on a gnome desktop

@funguy2playwith so, "do you know where i can find the library?" "i enjoy that you are asking a question!" is a normal conversation to you. got it

i remember being pleasantly surprised about a decade or so ago that a laptop (integrated graphics!) had a decent time running burnout paradise on ubuntu

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i wonder if debian 11 wine would run windows 9x games as well as true windows 9x on the same 21 year old machine or if the overhead is too much

hey is fixedsys excelsior still the preferred modern fixedsys

file-roller?? nautilus??? i just want one single damn font viewer why doesn't linux just have this built in why do i need to install a midi converter to view fonts what the fuck

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quick question why is package font-manager trying to install package fluid-soundfont-gm

i might seem cranky and dying on a very specific hill every other month about this stuff but like for how much we collectively agree that microblogging is a cancer on the internet and that by copying twitter the fediverse is far from exempt from it it sure feels like the same people are hellbent on perpetuating the worst brainrot about it

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favourites are not sympathy, and especially on the fediverse favourites are not an algorithm booster

reply or boost if you have anything besides enjoyment for a question

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if you use a brainless favourite click to mean anything besides "i enjoy the content of this post", you are putting way too much onus on the receiver to pretend to know you had any other meaning for it

can someone explain to me what's the meaning of favouriting a question instead of boosting or answering it, i'm really confused

what's some good bitmap fonts anyway

is there an archive of the win9x system ones i can download without having to spin up a vm to extract them from

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