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  • To me it was the reverse. At first it was like haha the kid didn’t pay attention and is now trying to weasel out hoping the teacher won’t notice. Totally relatable. But then I looked up the name and the speech it’s referring to and… oh god… they’ve put an imbecile in charge of the most powerful country in the world, holy shit, that’s TERRIFYING.



  • Exactly! I rant about this a lot, but I know at least couple of people who run with laptops that have broken audio. As it turns out, installing sound card drivers is not really an option as the janky-ass drivers that the manufacturers put out nowadays can irreparably brick your entire system. It is beyond my understanding why recovery, restore, and even safe mode would even try to load them in the first place, but, apparently they do, and then crash before you could even do anything, leaving re-install as the only option.

    Meanwhile, I rm -rf-ed my /boot directory the other day, and then df-ed a couple gigs of /dev/zero straight into /dev/sda. Got it back up running in just a few hours… of kicking myself for why would I do such a stupid thing.





  • If you got compose key (linux, mac, windows with third party software), then those are trivial:

    ë ñ ũ ü, and even åâăāãȧaąàáæª₂2²

    Goes like Compose e ", Compose n ~, etc

    But a thing to note that resulting letters are generic and not region-specific,

    like that ë (U+00EB LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS)

    is not the same as ё (U+0451 CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER IO)

    Which might trigger spellcheckers or not even be displayed in certain fonts

    There’s also apparently some weird combos like Compose+:) for and Compose+CCCP for , but no easily available keys for greek letters unless you tweak configs…