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@mayintoronto I think objectively I've drifted into playing on relatively hard mode even by Linux standards, but I'm not sure I could call intentional. Every step of the journey to my eccentric desktop environment was the easy step at the time, and here I am with something no one would recognize¹ and that gives me weird problems.
(But when I started from scratch on phones I took the easy way.)
¹ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/MyDesktopTour is from more than a decade ago but the visible stuff hasn't changed much.
One of the charms of the Fediverse for someone like me (and I mean this seriously) is that the mechanics of federation sometimes deliver posts out of order on my timeline. This is most obvious when someone is doing a post chain and I see the post chain out of order.
(Sometimes this fixes itself up over time, sometimes not.)
I find this charming because it keeps me aware of the bones underneath the flesh, to put it one way. It's a reminder that this place is genuinely distributed.
@whack File this in the "pictures and descriptions that raise more questions than they answer" category. It sounds like something got really jammed and stuck if you needed a ratchet tool for the wheel.
(Or maybe I'm too used to old-school QR skewers and things are much different on modern bikes.)
@jf_718 @mayintoronto I've been at my current university position long enough that I've had the fun experience of dealing with the consequences of my own technology decisions made (closing in on) two decades ago. And more from shorter periods in the past, and a few from deeper¹.
(Also, past me did not write down as much as maybe he should have.)
¹ "Why is this filesystem specifically limited to 35GB?" "Well, you see, long ago our SAN fileservers split up space into 35 GB partitions ..."
@gnomon Python can in theory attach docstrings to functions from outside the function (because of course), but doing that is ... very much not Python normal style, and people would look at you funny.
(And I'm not quite sure how well it works if you try to do it to methods in a class, as opposed to true functions.)
I filled this survey in even though I don't drive, because I'm a cyclist and as a cyclist I sure have opinions on the modern headlight plague. If you're a Canadian cyclist, maybe give Transport Canada your views too.
https://tc.canada.ca/en/corporate-services/consultations/canadian-experience-vehicle-headlights-glare-night
https://hachyderm.io/@danderson/116256931573285794
@TheBreadmonkey @mayintoronto On the one hand I don't want to be in charge, it sounds exhausting. On the other hand I should learn how to sew elbow patches and other things, it would be useful (and I have things I would patch if I knew how¹).
¹ I suppose I could find someone else to repair them but that feels wrong. (I think I have to blame that on my childhood, my family did not outsource that sort of thing any more than we threw away perfectly good plastic containers.)
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