I wonder if he made that connection when it was Trump doing it…

His friends. Like John Barron.

I was just listening to several of his songs on my commute home today. What an icon. Dang.

I’ll keep these thoughts in mind for the future. I’ve yet to try Linux on a laptop in any capacity and some of those concerns are not anything I’ve had to give thought to. I do use a pair of UHD monitors but not noticed lack of scaling supposty but that could be because they are the same DPI or maybe I’m just so used to scaling issues in every other OS I’ve internalized them.

Ubuntu isn’t bad by any means, Mint just feels more comfortable to me. I really should experiment with some other distros but as I said I don’t turn on my computer to fuck with things that are working for me. Most of my experience with anything but Ubuntu and Mint is two decades ago.

I don’t really get the whole Wayland vs X11 but I think I did try installing Wayland on Ubuntu once and it was… unfamiliar. I was troubleshooting an issue that turned out to be a bad ram stick and it left me with a negative impression of just about everything I tried because everything would crash so damn often (go figure), so I probably need to try that stuff again.

I did install /home to a separate partition to make distro hopping easier and then just… never did.

Mint is Ubuntu-based and I find it very natural to transition to from Windows. More natural than Ubuntu, despite me being slightly more familiar with Ubuntu from work.

I’ve never found it to suck, but I don’t get on my computer to fucking around with the OS and make things just exactly the way I like them. I automate some scripts to save myself typing for things I commonly do, and I do gaming, browsing, and development. I’ve yet to find Mint wanting. It makes more sense to me than macOS.

Mate, I’ve been asking myself that for a bit. I can 100% see how people fall into conspiratorial thinking because my mind demands an answer to how everything could’ve gotten so fucked up at once.

For sure. I didn’t downvote. Was just trying to stake a nuanced position.

It’s not a choice I’d make, but I’m not going to feel bad for the guy who got shot, or worry about the shooter overmuch. Like the dude will probably get caught and prosecuted but if they investigated, found no history of violence, and decided not to prosecute (unlikely), I’d shrug and not give it a second thought.

Well, that’s fair. I haven’t seen analysis on that score.

Sure, but they didn’t do it alone. If every last one of them voted for Kamala she’d still have lost. His popular vote would’ve been even worse but the electoral votes still wouldn’t have been close.

The guideline that I follow is that if a tool doesn’t enforce a rule before the code can be merged, then it’s not a rule.

Good guideline. One is the first things I did when starting a side project with a friend was to figure out how to run a code formatter triggered by git (I think?) that reformats code into a common style. If we didn’t like it we could apply our own styling when we pulled.

I don’t always love every line of automatic styling even if I have free reign over the rules, but it saved so much time and effort in code reviews.