don’t mix up the Israeli people and the Israeli state

heads up, neither USSR nor China were ever communist

not a USian, but sounds perfectly reasonable to me. im positive she’d be happy with just the note, chocolate and flowers too

for Firefox there’s now Vimium-c and Tridactyl. personally using Vimium and its been great

on the opposite end of the scale, ive always found buckteeth super adorable. Like, cmon little beaver creature, let’s find you a piece of wood to chew on and cuddle

yea this is probably the most annoying issue i’ve had on Arch. every time there’s a new version of Python, you’ll need to reinstall some python packages, usually the AUR stuff.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Python#Module_not_found_after_Python_version_update

even all of that hype about memory safety and borrow checker you keep hearing aside, the actual coolest thing about Rust is how it does Traits instead of classes and that you can bind arbitrary data to enums

no, you read that correctly, theres currently 2 billion people in the US prisons :p

preeetty sure fish the shell would go against the whole spirit of the comic, as overly complex, non-unix compliant and bloated

no hate to fish btw

holy hell

the Niagara launcher is still the only app I’ve bought on Play Store, and I’ve been very happy with it for maybe 5-6 years now

Its this one: https://github.com/k-blo/rainfall c:

sending a notification to you just in case, explanation in the neighbor comment :v

thank you! seems someone else already tagged you, but here’s the link to source just in case: https://codeberg.org/aketawi-study/rust-constellation-bgr/

The basic idea is that I spawn a bunch of nodes with rando m velocitins and check the distance between each other at every frame. If the distance is within a certain radius, draw a line.

To display it in the background I just have a script that launches it on startup, and a couple of rules in AwesomeWM and picom to make it transparent, unfocusable and borderless

mhm

thats not kerning, that’s justification ☝️🤓️

kerning refers to the spacing between individual letters in the words, and justification is a method of typograghic alignment where space between words is stretched to make text flush with both left and right margins

far as I’ve heard, Mint can be iffy fhen it comes to games, mostly because they use an outdated kernel. I can also recommend something like Endeavor if the gamer in question has any knack for tech, or Nobara, which is made specifically for gaming by GloriousEgg, maintainer of ProtonGE

there is something very satisfying about running pacman -Syu at the end of the day and watching it update the repos, give you a neat list of packages to be upgraded, then see them downloading over all your threads with that little chomp chomp pacman animation, disappearing one by one, or a bunch at once, and then at the end it runs the hooks and you see that [1/23] fill up all the way to [23/23] in the span of a minute…

It’s like popping bubble wrap, but you have 8 hands and 8 bubble sheets and never try to pop the tame bubble twice

dont bother correcting apostrophes as its not a grammatical mistake, simply lazy typing. well never stop doing that no matter how much yall tell us not to, cuz it simply aint all that much of a problem

Pretty sure its not a PEP, but the python glossary mentions it. Searching ‘python EAFP’ brings up a lot of discussion on the topic too, so if nothing else its definitely a widespread phenomenon