FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

hahahaha vad fan. skatteverket betalar ut ränta på skattekontot igen. om du får mindre än 2,25% ränta på sparkontot hos din bank borde du flytta pengarna till skattekontot. eller skaffa ett bättre sparkonto :p

i'm not like other girls. *my* penis is small

last I checked this was an early morning shift at a craft store, not a fuckin' hospital

Today’s random photos are all from 2010

I would like to note that the sign in the second image is right by the Gibraltar border so it points to two McDonald’s in different countries, making it extremely powerful

I think to finish this windows 10 install without signing in using an online account, I'm going to need to either use another computer to make an install disk and restart it from scratch, or open up the laptop and yank out the wifi card

the tabbed browser is old enough to vote and yet people are still making websites where you can't mid-click navigational elements to open them in new tabs

oh FUCK OFF DISCORD

stop making the conversation about work-at-home about productivity

eliminating non-essential worker commutes means less fossil fuels wasted

remote policies increase access for disabled people, especially with chronic illness that flares

LGBT folks and PoC experience less bigotry and it's easier to report bigotry when they do

do some people want hybrid? do some people want on-site? sure

but stop pretending the discussion was about productivity or what employees want

it's about real estate portfolios

Imagine what could happen if you taxed them 90%

the learning curve is a little steep and the preview rendering performance is horrifyingly bad, but oh my god, why have i never used blender for video editing before. it's frame-precise, i can composite all the stuff i want, and it has keyframe-based animation. in an open-source package i'm already somewhat familiar with!!

So I'm sitting here trying to figure out how to tell if a particular app is running in Wayland or XWayland.

This is the answer I get off Stack Overflow. I'm thinking… No. No, that's too silly. It can't be the best way.

I keep researching. It's the best way.

You run xeyes.

Wayland has security that keeps windows from knowing about mouse events in other windows. XWayland doesn't.

Xeyes will track your cursor whenever you're over an XWayland window, then stop if you pass over anything else.

Well it had to happen eventually. #Scripps is retiring FLIP (FLoating Instrument Platform). This is an amazing piece of engineering (and soooo weird on the inside - everything pivots, so walls become floors). The #ship to be towed out to a location, and it would literally flip, sinking most of the ship directly down to give a *very stable platform for #oceanography research. Launched in 1962.
https://maritime-executive.com/article/world-s-strangest-research-vessel-heads-for-scrapyard-after-51-years

ahh, the 90s, when our "portable" computers were full of METAL

The English language is a wonderful thing, and we know some rules without knowing we know them.

‘Have you ever heard that patter-pitter of tiny feet? Or the dong-ding of a bell? Or hop-hip music? That’s because, when you repeat a word with a different vowel, the order is always I A O. Bish bash bosh. So politicians may flip-flop, but they can never flop-flip. It’s tit-for-tat, never tat-for-tit. This is called ablaut reduplication, and if you do things any other way, they sound very, very odd indeed.’ From ‘The Elements of Eloquence’ by Mark Forsyth.

#English #language