Some American made a video on Balkan history which flipped between saying that the Balkans has many cultures, then mentioned some war or similar catastrophe, then went on repeat. The video asserted bluntly (if not explicitly) that multiple cultures coexisting created all the strife in the Balkans.

I commented:

It …

Neomutt exemplifies everything wrong with documentation.

Neomutt advertises itself as an email client for the terminal.

I like email, and I like terminal stuff, because it's easy to automate, and works with all my automation stuff.

That was me, and probably a great many other unsuspecting victims of neomutt.

However, …

People just can't see reason, and perhaps that's a good thing.

Nobody feels happy about it when explaining a stark, obvious fact, and hearing lazy, irrelevant nonsense as a reply. Telling people that X is a genocides, and all genocides are bad should make sense. Hearing 'yea-but', and 'whatabout' can make the blood …

I can't stand coding helpers which suggest auto-completions, and this is why.

When the spelling checker came along, it helped writing a great deal. Nobody wants the job of looking up how to spell words. Then one dark day, I wrote a twisted sentence, subverting some standard English phrase in order to emphasise a point …

Arch Linux often does what Ubuntu tries and fails at.

I started with Arch due to a simple problem; every so often I'd read on some cool new program I wanted to check out, then feel disparaged as I read over the instructions.

1sudo apt update
2sudo apt install lib-xyz kitchen-sink python3-kitchen-sink

In the early days …

I cannot fathom why anyone debates this topic, because the answer sits plainly in front of you.

1. Shops
2. Schools
3. Advertising
4. Games
5. Precedent

Before you use a computer, you must buy it. You buy it from a shop. The shops have no Linux laptops. Linux laptops only come from very recent, and still entirely obscure, computer …

I've seen this question come up a few times, so here's my collection of reasons which makes sense to me:

It's new

Film has been around for a century, so those people have had plenty of time to unionise. Linux has only existed for 20 years, so 'Linux sysadmins' have only had 20 years of experience, and that's an example …

I feel that the i3-gaps window manager perfectly encapsulates the spirit of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. If you haven't read it, I won't repeat it, but perhaps this will make sense anyway.

For a perfectly Romantic desktop environment, we have the classic Mac (and please picture every stereotype you think …

I feel an unstated agreement among disparate civil society that one shouldn't preach. Breaching the preaching rule quickly looks like hypocrisy, because everyone has more work to do on themselves.

Easier Said than Done

Someone - usually young - preaching about veganism, trans-rights, the effects of aeroplanes on …

My favourite wikipedia article is called List of Missions to Venus.

Nowadays we're all amazed that astronomers can send a rocket out, and expect it to fly around the planet three times, nip round the moon, change trajectory while passing Jupiter, and land on some asteroid like a cautious butterfly, so it can send …