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Cake day: February 13th, 2025

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  • I’m saying that even just incincerely signaling they’re on the right side of history will determine my future shopping habits.

    No corporation is good, but pretending to be decent is part of the bare minimum to get my money.

    And few enough are even pretending to be decent, today, that I have money I could send to those that do. It’s hard to find places to shop that are easy to feel good about.

    As for anyone deciding whether I’m doing too little: They don’t know my gender, what else I am dealing with in my life, or where and how much I donate, or protest.

    My point is that Target’s CEO lost massive money (more than I will ever see) for siding with the bigots, and we can make others hurt for it too.

    Edit: Policing my own tone, to stay helpful and uplifting.




  • I’ve been there. I’m 100% sure my PC is now a brick, but I run across a post by some random person online:

    "Press these keys, then type this exactly and hit “Enter”

    And roughly five minutes later my PC is stable, purring happily, and two minor annoyances have gone away thanks to package updates.

    Thank you all, kind Internet Linux guru strangers.

    Edit: More like 25 minutes, really. 20 minutes of my reading docs to verify why this solution can work, and then 5 minutes for it to work.




  • I kinda wish they would come in one package together too.

    You may be able to find themed meta packages (single packages that install a suite of related features) for this, depending what you’re looking for.

    Lately, I have been confused because I was looking for Gnome add-ons for features that vwere already included but just toggled off.

    I now find that most of what I want, as a power user, is a quick settings search and then a toggle button.

    The general dividng line, lately, in Gnome, is that plugins may still have bugs, while built-in features tend to be very reliable. Most of what PowerToys contains (that I care about) is just a settings toggle in Gnome. A notable exception is Window tiling, which I use a plugin for.


  • I’m thankful for both.

    The plugin install on Gnome is quicker and less invasive (doesn’t require escalated permissions) than installing PowerToys.

    I also like that Gnome plugins let me choose only the plugins I want. PowerToys leaves me with many installed features I’m not using. I think they at least all default to turned off. Gnome does save me a few moments of configuration, too, as the plugin can default to “on” since each plugin is separate.

    And Gnome’s tiling has good defaults. PowerToys still uses “these are power users” as an excuse to ignore usability feedback.