So how does one interpret this little glyph at the lower-right of a Microsoft web page?
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Professor_Stevens (professor_stevens@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jun-2024 21:51:39 JST Professor_Stevens
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Professor_Stevens (professor_stevens@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 28-Jun-2024 23:45:16 JST Professor_Stevens
If President Biden wants to keep running, he will remain the Democratic nominee. Anyone who thinks otherwise does not know how the party operates, nor the nature of the office involved.
Yes, he had an off night. But if that were one of his best moments, he would still be the right choice. HIs opponent is a bigot, a narcissist, a fool, and a non-stop liar. He appointed the Dobbs majority. He thinks Pledge is a vaccine. He banned trans people from the military.
Biden has to win.
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Professor_Stevens (professor_stevens@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 00:36:44 JST Professor_Stevens
Oh, that's crummy news. I hope she recovers fully and soon.
Meanwhile... you never do the cooking? I'm going to assume you balance the books with some odious chore she never has to do, am I right?
Now, on the cooking thing: sick people need soup. Soup is easy to make, particularly with an Instant Pot. Without one, it takes a bit longer and a little more work. Split-pea, lentil, and Navy bean are all easy, with mostly the same other ingredients. Let me know if you need links.
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Professor_Stevens (professor_stevens@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Jun-2024 00:36:42 JST Professor_Stevens
No, no, no! No canned soup for sick wives. No canned soup for anyone, really. Just... no canned soup.
Try these:
https://www.acouplecooks.com/instant-pot-split-pea-soup/
https://www.eatingonadime.com/instant-pot-lentil-soup/#wprm-recipe-container-20367
https://wholesomemadeeasy.com/instant-pot-navy-bean-soup/#wprm-recipe-container-1849
Just remember to curl your fingers when you chop the vegetables and everything will turn out fine.
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Professor_Stevens (professor_stevens@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 20:48:49 JST Professor_Stevens
Think of them as your most reliable advisors.
When I served in local government, we had public input sessions twice each month. Whenever a contentious issue was pending, the Republicans would always turn out in fairly large numbers to express their opinion. Quite honestly, I admired them for it. The Democrats never came, but Republicans are more motivated.
Anyway, the Republicans were always wrong. So, whatever they asked for, I just voted the other way.
Worked every time.
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Professor_Stevens (professor_stevens@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jun-2024 04:35:26 JST Professor_Stevens
Cool.
Now, I realize FOSS is all someone's passion project, so I don't want to be a pest. But I was kind of stunned to see that GNOME only supports two zoom sizes, 100% and 200% (which might as well be labeled "much too small" and "way too big").
A workaround is to use the "large type" setting in Accessibility. But people are telling me I can get more zoom levels if I turn on some "experimental" flag.
Seriously? Zooming is experimental for GNOME in 2024?
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Professor_Stevens (professor_stevens@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jun-2024 04:15:09 JST Professor_Stevens
@aral This worth anything? This is on my Asus with a touchscreen.
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Professor_Stevens (professor_stevens@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jun-2024 00:46:52 JST Professor_Stevens
I'm using GNOME on a Manjaro install I did over the weekend. Can you tell me how to reproduce the bug? I'll let you know what happens on my setup.
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Professor_Stevens (professor_stevens@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jun-2024 00:03:27 JST Professor_Stevens
Sweet.
Which distro did you choose?
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Professor_Stevens (professor_stevens@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2024 06:40:47 JST Professor_Stevens
Huh. You're right. It sure does. But what's the point of using the digit "6" here? Is it a play on words? Does "six geek" mean anything? Is "six" supposed to be homonymic with "sex?" Or "sicks," maybe?
I think there's more to this.
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Professor_Stevens (professor_stevens@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2024 06:14:42 JST Professor_Stevens
I feel dumb. Usually, these geek-shirt jokes are pretty obvious. I'm sure this one will be too.
As soon as someone here explains it to me.
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Professor_Stevens (professor_stevens@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2024 14:08:29 JST Professor_Stevens
Awesome! I like it partly because it does seem pretty solid, with all the basics working most reliably. But another reason is that it doesn't try to do everything. It does stick to the basics, which keeps the (re)learning curve reasonably flat.
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Professor_Stevens (professor_stevens@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2024 06:49:34 JST Professor_Stevens
Please let us know how that works out for you.
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Professor_Stevens (professor_stevens@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 14-Jun-2024 05:54:09 JST Professor_Stevens
I haven't used it on Linux, but I love OBS and it is available for Linux.
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Professor_Stevens (professor_stevens@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Jun-2024 23:18:36 JST Professor_Stevens
Every time I am made aware of the differences between options for rail travel in Europe and in the US, I want to start sobbing. Even that tiny video clip looks so... _civilized_. (Amtrak cars do have trash slots, but only at the ends.)
BTW, I am not judging. But I would seek stimulation and sustenance by sucking on my own sweat before I'd give those jerks my money. But not judging. Just saying. Nope. Not judging at all.
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Professor_Stevens (professor_stevens@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 07-Jun-2024 12:09:54 JST Professor_Stevens
"The fact is that the greatest crimes are caused by excess and not by necessity. Men do not become tyrants in order that they may not suffer cold." Aristotle.
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Professor_Stevens (professor_stevens@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 21:46:07 JST Professor_Stevens
Except a computer technician can't be held liable for malpractice later.
However, I know what you mean as a social phenomenon. My stepfather-in-law's brother (who is a lawyer, btw) used to see me once a year at my mother-in-law's annual Thanksgiving gathering. One year, he shows up, spots me, and his first words to me are, "Steve! I'm glad your here! I need you to fix my email."
I won't quote what I said back, but we haven't spoken to each other since. (And I'm okay with that.)
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Professor_Stevens (professor_stevens@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 20:39:14 JST Professor_Stevens
It happened again. Someone I haven't heard from in years has a legal problem and "just wants to ask a few basic questions."
No responsible licensed professional answers such things, including lawyers. What the client thinks is simple may not be simple at all. But if a professional advisor treats it as simple, that's validation. Later, when it turns out things were complex and should have been handled as such, who do you think takes the blame?
So now they think I'm being a dick.
So it goes.
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Professor_Stevens (professor_stevens@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 00:40:54 JST Professor_Stevens
I would love to go to space. I do not think I would take the opportunity to do so on Boeing vehicle because, as much as I would love to go to space, I expect I would love returning from space even more.
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Professor_Stevens (professor_stevens@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2024 10:06:24 JST Professor_Stevens
Graduation dinner party. His mom’s parents were there in person. My parents were there in spirit. I saw them. They stood behind him, arm in arm. My dad had a gray suit on, and my mom had a fuscia outfit. They were both grinning down at him, happy like the rest of us. He didn’t see them. They looked up at me for a moment, then they were gone.
So glad they could make it. I knew they would.