sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

at least the US presidential race whiners are starting to wake up to the widespread gmail censorship:

https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2020/02/26/wheres-my-email

ha you can't say "fuck" in freenode #gentoo:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Ops

when and how did all of my friends get into boring ambient music?

do not ever waste money buying anything from Teepublic. Their printing is garbage, and their reviews on trustpilot are nearly 10% 1/5 stars. $40 of mine out the window.

i wanna know how many zoom passover seders got a corona related troll answer for “ma nishtana”

i don't generally run corporate spyware, but if i did, i'd use this as my zoom background:

https://zoomerbackgrounds.com/post/the-office-25c08924

heh

https://zoomerbackgrounds.com/post/Casting-Couch-8338d781

i'm all for self-hosting but why are people self-hosting ugly gitlab instead of gitea

52 mins on the phone, got a case number but apparently the "tools are being upgraded" and they can't issue me a new product code right now, but they'll email me a link to a box to enter a special security code to get my new product code once they're working.

that special security code can't be emailed, so once i get the email, i have to call back and wait another hour on hold. cool.

in 2017 i bought win10pro from the ms store online for my vidya pc. shipping it damaged the board, replaced the board in 2018, it never reactivated properly so i just used it unactivated. reinstalling today, digital copies don't have product keys. support won't issue me a new one without a proof of purchase of the new motherboard.

all this to just get me to drop another $199 to coerce me into not wasting 2+ hours of my life to get this spyware running without nagware.

on windows install, with no interaction after the first boot, it auto-logs into skype using the installation microsoft account, and automatically downloads and execs the razer spyware driver installer just because i have an (already working) razer keyboard attached.

what a goddamned tire fire. people actually use this as their daily driver.

swapping left-alt and left-control was one of the best things i ever did.

wait, the purism 15 doesn't charge with usb-c PD? wtaf

getting a @purism librem 15 just means i will be going from 64gb to 32gb of memory in my main laptop. i wish i could try the keyboard on one before buying it. the lack of back-of-display branding is also a huge selling point for me, almost as much as the safe firmware :D

the keyboard shortcuts in kde plasma are particularly brilliant; everything is configurable and it warns you if you're about to step on another binding. there are also little preference tick-boxes for swapping modifier keys, remapping caps to control, et c - all sorts of things that used to take tons of googling and config file editing to do. the kde product designers are amazing and wonderful.

only thing i haven't figured out yet is how to make fonts not butt-ugly. it could be that i'm not on hidpi and i've been spoiled by retina, but i don't recall fonts being this ugly even on low-dpi systems before.

never thought i'd say this but now that i know KDE is awesome i think i want a purism librem 15 to replace my macbook pro.