Is your computer sometimes laggy, especially during things like video calling? Check out my article on my tech site that guides you in restricting the offending process to only use a few CPU cores

https://tchspprt.gitbook.io/tech-support/common-issues/laggy-computer/solutions/set-processor-affinity

The latest Windows 11 update has broken the energy saver button in the quick access panel.

If your laptop is set to automatically switch to energy saver, then after it does so, you have to open the power settings, disable and re-enable energy saver. Then the quick access toggle will work again. https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/9a859fbc13b98e89b499e0040c809a4945a9489621601f479f34e5a28a9270f3/d76969d32a2b0f0f0743e3dc1f1f244d1cf0dd2b67e751f57b371f3b8af5d823.webp

Is it possible to modernize X.org?

Something has always felt a bit off about Wayland.

I can't express what I mean but maybe someone else can

A five day work week is time theft.

There are more things to do in this life than work.

Leisure time?

Sure.

Is two days enough time for resting and then doing something for leisure?

That's debatable.

But,

There are more things to do in this life than work and play.

Organise.

Uprise.

Protect, heal, grow.

Build.

With the five day work week, we have time to do none of these things — unless they are profitable.

We have been shoehorned into slaving away for the company, the corporation, the governments, the military.

And people will call you lazy if you don't work 5 or even 6 days.

People will laugh at you for wanting extra time for your own life.

Companies will refuse your requests for an extra day off — "obviously!!", you laugh — and if you take the day regardless, you'll be fired, and nobody would be surprised.

Who's taking care of the health of the community?

Who's keeping the governments and corporations in check?

Who's looking after any of the things that don't make money?

NGOs maybe, non-profits maybe. But they need funding, they need support, they need a structure and a system to keep them afloat through difficult times. So they become inherently beholden to their financers. And they will fail if the economic and/or political climate is unfavourable.

Five days is theft of freedom.

Not simply personal freedom, but freedom of self governance, of community, of community health.

They are keeping Us busy & exhausted on purpose.

Mannnn I used to live on Linux! For like 10+ years. These days I need photoshop and also the general stability of Windows, as much as I hate so many things about Windows, it is still more dependable and predictable than Linux :( And my workplace uses Microsoft office software and their documents just don't work in open source office software. The overreaching arm of proprietary software persists >:[ I can't even dual-boot cos hibernate in Linux doesn't work on my laptop.

Multiple account management in meta is still an absolute fucking train wreck wtf

IT'S ALWAYS WINDOWS MODULE INSTALLER WORKER THAT FUQS UP MY FLOW

I HAVE A GORRAM 16-CORE CPU

STOP LAGGING ME OUT WHAT THE FUQ

MICROSOFT YOU ARE GONNA GET YOSELF ASS ASS IN 8 ED

First, put your mind on the vertex of Collective.

The world, societies, communities, used to have all, most or many people focussed on the collective: community health, social structure, guidance & steering, resources, land management, etc.

Now...

All or most of our attention is focussed elsewhere.

Not focussed — diverted, distracted.

Think of the elders, who perhaps were training and guiding the youth. Now, most elders are whiling away their days distracted by tiktok.

We are in a dearth of attention and, although we're starting to feel the effects, the heaviest consequences won't be seen until it's much too late.

A mix I made of chill(ish) entrancing music, for me it's good for meditating, studying, working on a project, etc

https://soundcloud.com/farran/devotional-downtempo-vol-i-feb-2024-mix

So is any laptop manufacturer ever gonna take the initiative to put all ports on the left edge so that wires don't get in the way of the right handed mouse user? And also produce left handed versions? This can't be that complicated an idea can it

NewEng Alphabet letter names:

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A final draft of a new font "dots n lines" (title WIP) that supports English and NewEng (mine, also title WIP) and will support most Latin derivative alphabets.

NewEng Alphabet consists of 41 letters:

a æ b c ç d e f φ þ ð g ȝ h ƕ i j k ʞ l m n и ŋ o œ p q r s ʃ t ч u ȣ v w ꝏ x y z https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/9a859fbc13b98e89b499e0040c809a4945a9489621601f479f34e5a28a9270f3/95e1d249dd405888695ec35b86757a6ec13ff5f21c91733527f3fb4e46ee5bd9.webp

Always amazing how many people think they can wrangle me into working hours that I explicitly state I don't work for just $10/hr

okkkk nice to know, thanks! I've had a little trouble with the VPN the last few days but it's mostly been fine. They just returned the profiles feature, which is a bit concerning that they even removed it in the first place; that makes me wonder how they'll behave with app & service & feature development in the future. I might just stick with the mail & vpn (and calendar) too, then.

What do you use for cloud/remote storage?

Does anyone have a 2FA app that syncs and uses zero trust encryption?

I've heard that Authy is essentially compromised, and I don't like it anyway cos it's hard af to get my keys out. (Also apparently they automatically invalidate keys when you remove them from the app??)

can nostr clients include a notifications-read item in the npub/nsec object? every time I open nostr on a different device, it shows me ALL the notifications since I last used *that device*

proton trials day .. 8? idk

proton drive sync is shite fam

after adding a file to the proton drive folder, it takes a good minute or so before it *starts* uploading...

then opening proton drive on my other computer, it says "last synced X days ago", i.e. the last time that a file was synced.

and...

it STILL saied that after a bunch more minutes

there's NO "sync now" button

there's no way to make it sync sooner

it was maybe 5 minutes before the new files were even listed

this is weird.

Scaffolding.

We, as a species, really gotta stop thinking that learners are stupid.

They — we — can handle anything we have thrown at us. All we need is exposure to a concept, to information, to ideas. The data will enter, we start to process it, and next time we meet it, it'll make more sense.

listen up, if you don't allow politics to influence your choices of products, services, platforms and software, then you are directly supporting your political enemies.

I was in the middle of moving from Chrome to Firefox last week and then Mozilla did the thing. So now... Jumping around, testing! LibreWolf seems to be ok for now. And for solid ad blocking, Ublock Origin still works in Gecko browsers.

Anyone using Chromium browsers with manifest v3, you can use the new Ublock Origin Lite, it's by the same developer. It is more limited in functionality but so far it's worked for everything for me.

You can also block ads at the network level by using a custom DNS handler with ad blocking lists. You set the custom DNS URL in your phone, laptop, or even router. No more ads! I recommend NextDNS.