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Can I just say how good #OpenSource makes me feel? No, I can't; I need some backup. But really, XTDB vs Datomic, Zulip vs Teams, WordPress vs. other stuff... I get a ping of joy every time I see an update about some discussion or some PR/MR/Patch for the OS ones, like I actually know what, where, and when things are happening.

Finally retrieved my little #keyboard. Feels so good! Look at those ridiculous bottom rows. 13 keys space wasted with irregular size. #Planck #Isolinear #Matrix #QWERTY

It is with sorrow that I prepare to say goodbye to #Zulip. Our office and greater organization has decided upon #MicrosoftTeams, and comms require everyone to play along. Nonetheless I am compiling a list of pros and cons. I had nothing but positive to say about my personal dealings with Zulip and expect us to be able to come back when my colleagues realize that Teams is inferior.

I have recently switched to xlock as my screensaver. It's fine. But when I login with my password and the screenlock goes away, my active cursor seems to somewhere outside my window manager. When I click on one of my windows it comes back, so it's no big deal. But curiosity bids me ask, where is the focus at, if not where I left it?

In the beginning I was a big fan of the open source ethos. Google stood by "do no evil," Microsoft was the bad guy, open source was this exciting untamed frontier, and I went to school and learned about Tim Berners Lee and Stallman's manifesto. Today, though, everything seems backward, there is this aura of gloom about whether open source has or is facing death, and my life-long distaste for ads has come to a crisis. Surely there is some other way of invigorating Open Source and the Web than advertising or selling user personal data?

Nothing like a #printer to make you feel you don't know how to use tech. First it was not portrait orientation; then it was not double-sided; then it was 8-pt text because it was "scaling." Sorry, Grandma; I hope you have a magnifying glass, because I'm not printing it again.

A glory of #PlainText work, this via #emacs #orgmode: I mis-clocked some time spent. I was able to visit the wrong-time thing and yank the bad time span and paste it in the correct thing, fixing my agenda accounting. What graphic #TimeTracking apps make it so easy?

✓ Solved. How to make one #emacs #Transient command out of a bunch have different exit (color) behavior? https://orys.us/uS

Lately (err... at least the last year) I've been encountering a number of issues because my #git repos have `filemode=true`, causing loads of errors that take a moment to realize that merging them cannot solve the problem. Why is this ever a default? I can imagine cases where it is needed, but certainly they should not be default.

I just used #jitsi for the first time, both thanks to #zulip and also because of the ongoing issues with #Zoom and privacy (which should be a surprise to no one, except my employers...). Jitsi worked like a dream: no lag, sharp video, and totally functional screen sharing #SatisfiedUser #OpenSourceWin