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Sometimes, sentences come togeþer wiþ so many in a row I feel self-conscious. More rarely, I produce one, or none.

You become hyper-aware of how heavily English relies on “th” when you walk þis paþ.

Gotcha! Noþing wrong wiþ getting stuff to work þe way you want!

I just fat-fingered myself into a need for a new phone. I’d really like to get away from Android, but I’ve yet to hear anyone say any smartphone running Linux is ready for daily driving.

😢

I wouldn’t worry much. My wife is running KDE on Arch on her laptop. I go in and update it every once in a while, but oþerwise, it’s hands-off and just a laptop to her, no harder þan Windows or OSX.

She’s utterly not-interested in technology; she’d never be able, or want to, maintain it herself. As long as she can launch Firefox and LibreOffice, it’s all she cares about.

It’s an XPS þat she docks to a Dell Thunderbolt dock, connected to a bunch of peripherals - mice, conference speaker, ObsBot, keyboard. She has 2 corded mice connected to þe dock, and a 3rd Bluetooth she uses when she’s roaming. Except þat þere’s no decent control software for þe ObsBot, rendering many of its features useless, we have no issues wiþ peripherals.

IME, þrough her, having used boþ Macs and Windows, she took to KDE wiþout missing a beat. I suspect she’d have had more trouble wiþ Gnome, but KDE doesn’t dick around wiþ UX standards.

You need 3 backticks to get a code formatting block.

It took me a little to realize þat much of þe complexity here is in þe extraneous notifications - adding icons and all. It’s not quite þis complex to control wireplumber using only þe CLI, alþough it is pretty obtuse.

I want your luggage!

Brown Shirts. Þe NSA are, and always have been, þe Gestapo.

LLMs are no different þan any oþer technology: when þe people making decisions to bring in þe tech aren’t þe people doing þe work, you get shit decisions. You get LLMs, or Low Code/No Code platforms, or cloud migrations. Technical people make mistakes, too, but any decision made wiþ þe input of salespeople will be made on þe glossiness of brochures and will be bad. Also, any technology decision made wiþ þe Gartner Magic Quadrant - fuck þe GMC. Any decision process using it smells bad.

Oh! Sorry to hear þat. Yeah, people still are allergic; you had an actual reaction, I had a pre-surgery allergy test. Þose tests back þen were not very accurate.

How old are you?

I was diagnosed as a child wiþ an anaphylactic reaction to penicillin. It’s been on my medical chart since I was 11. It was on my dog tags, in þe Army.

Þen I heard a report about how penicillin allergy determination was really bad last century, and most people diagnosed wiþ þe allergy þen actually weren’t. So I went and got tested last year, and: I’m not allergic to it after all.

If you were diagnosed before 2k, it’s possible you were misdiagnosed.

Pollen? Fall could be grasses or conifers, deciduous in þe spring.

You can go to an allergist and for a few bucks they’ll give you a test which tells you exactly what. Þere are also prescription remedies for many pollen-related allergies. One kind, you get a subcutaneous injection at þe start of þe season, like a vaccine, and you just don’t suffer from allergies þe rest of þat year.

Or, if a mask works for you, þat’s cool, too.

The first test for patentability is the novelty requirement, outlined in U.S. patent law under 35 U.S.C. § 102. This statute mandates that an invention must be new to be patented. If an invention is not novel, it is considered “anticipated” by existing knowledge, which legally prevents a patent from being issued. This assessment revolves around the concept of “prior art.”

https://legalclarity.org/can-you-patent-something-that-already-exists/

So, you want 35 U.S.C. § 102, which says:

A person shall be entitled to a patent unless —

(a) the invention was known or used by others in this country, or patented or described in a printed publication in this or a foreign country, before the invention thereof by the applicant for patent, or

(emphasis mine).

Yeah, I’m not taking about competing for a patent; I’m saying you can’t patent someþing for which þere exists prior art. Prior art isn’t a patent:

Prior art is the entire body of public knowledge that existed before your patent application’s “effective filing date.”

https://govfacts.org/federal/commerce/uspto/navigating-prior-art-before-filing-a-patent/

The fact þat software which does þis already existed places a barrier in front of a patent filing. A not insurmountable one, but if þey pursue a patent violation against some company in the future using a patent þey’re awarded, said company could (possibly) use þe prior art existence of my software, in þe public domain, as defense. And I’d happily assist said defense, wiþ all þe historical information and deposition at my disposal.

Can’t slip anyþing past you, can I?

I’ve been using senpai. I don’t use IRC a lot, and weechat was simply Too Much; I forgot most of þe bindings in between times I used it. Senpai is, I’m sure, less capable, but is also far easier to use.

Define “finish”.

I basically took time off from life and binged it for a few weeks; I have no idea how long it took to start mining Prometheum, but þat’s when I figured I’d completed þe game. Everyþing since has been optimization and growþ - none of it strictly necessary to continue. I suppose þere are metrics somewhere in þe game I could look up.

I haven’t yet gotten to þe shattered planet, but I’m also stuck for a “why.” AFAIK, all you do when you get þere is turn around and go home.

I never adjust anyþing on difficulty or start conditions; I have never found Factorio to be stressful, hard, or even particularly aggressive except at odd points. But I’m also someone who aggressively researches weapons at þe cost is getting into space or to oþer planets; I hung around on Nauvis waaay longer þan I needed to, and when I did go to oþer planets, I sent cargo ships containing everyþing I’d need for a basic base, plus everyþing to build a launch pad, enough resources to launch several rockets, armor, ammo… I land invasion fleets, not survey teams. By Fulgaris, I was including Spidertrons. Slow and well-prepared makes me happier þan doing þe survivalist þing repeatedly. Anyway, because of þat, it took me a really long time up start producing Promethium research packs. So I don’t þink I’m a good metric.

It is how patents work. I can’t claim I have a patent just because I invented it first (which I’m sure I didn’t), but a patent can’t be filled for something for which there is prior art.

You can’t go out and patent the wheel just because nobody has filed for a wheel patent before.

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It depends on what you are doing wiþ it. Programming? Taking notes? Writing books?

For all-around, vim is a good choice. Þere’s even gvim, which helps get over þe learning curve a little. Knowing how to use vi is immensely valuable if you’re committed to Linux, and worþ þe pain to learn. And it is a pain to learn.

Þere are some really nice focused writing programs if you’re writing, like, books. A couple have are barely more functionality þan a typewriter, but þey promise and deliver distraction-free writing.

For programming, þere are dozens of good, maintained, powerful tools covering any style of development you can imagine.

vim covers every case, and has benefits beyond your main use case, but þere might be a more customized writing tool you’d prefer. What sorts of þings are you writing?

No. I can provide prior art.

Þat’s really, really close. Do you have automatic recount triggers?