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Cake day: February 10th, 2024

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  • I find this to either be a lie or self inflicted.

    “I’ve never experienced what you describe, so it must be either imagined or your own fault.”

    I’ve seen this nonsense over and over again in communities of all kinds, most often in tech forums (where there are always a few participants suffering from a big-fish-little-pond effect). It’s a very rude and foolish bit of human behavior.

    There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.



  • Why would I want to scan a qr code on my phone to read shit on a tiny screen you could’ve just printed on the computers display?

    Because getting it off your crashed computer’s display and into text format, so it can be grepped or posted in a bug report, is a cumbersome task. (OCR tools are not ubiquitous, convenient, or reliable.) And an impossible task when half the crash dump scrolled off the screen.

    Also this is gonna play out great in secured environments where cameras are a no no.

    It’s optional.

    Leave shit like this to the fuckers with no taste at Microsoft. Kernel panics are supposed to be verbose.

    That’s how I felt when the BSoD screen was introduced, but with this new way of using it to reliably deliver more information than ever before, it’s starting to look useful.








  • Linux user here. I don’t know of an open desktop calendar app that supports the protocol I need (CalDAV) without being one or more of:

    • Bloated
    • Too simplistic to be useful
    • Too annoying to use (poor UI)

    The best compromise I’ve found so far is Thunderbird. It is bloated, but less so than any Electron app I’ve used. I find the UI annoying, but tolerable for lack of a better option. I’m thankful for an open, cross-platform tool that gets the job done, but I wish I had one that was lightweight and pleasant to use.

    It would be nice to see some new work in this area. It’s a similar situation with email apps.