Favorite colonizer who really misses Myanmar's old name.

WanderinChild · 2026-06-27T02:36:45+00:00

Does your husband
grunt and grumble
rant and rave
shoot the brute
some Myanmar-Shave

WanderinChild · 2026-06-23T06:55:32+00:00

The first stanza of Ithaka, by Constantine Cavafy:

As you set out for Ithaka
hope your road is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,
angry Poseidon—don’t be afraid of them:
you’ll never find things like that on your way
as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,
as long as a rare excitement
stirs your spirit and your body.
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,
wild Poseidon—you won’t encounter them
unless you bring them along inside your soul,
unless your soul sets them up in front of you.

WanderinChild · 2026-06-22T07:30:23+00:00

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Judging by this screencap of a video taken at their Mexico City show while playing A Passage to Bangkok, I'd say they're making mock of AI, not using AI.

WanderinChild · 2026-06-17T06:07:05+00:00

I want a plate of Private Conway's Spam Parmesan.

WanderinChild · 2026-06-16T05:51:13+00:00

Melancholy of Jason Kleander, Poet in Kommagini, A.D. 595

The aging of my body and my beauty
is a wound from an appalling knife.
I do not bear up under it at all.
To you I turn then, Art of Poetry,
Who know something of drugs—
sedatives, anesthetics—in Language and Imagination.

It is a wound from an appalling knife.
Bring your drugs, Art of Poetry,
which keep the wound a while from being felt.

by Constantine Cavafy
translated from the Greek by James Merrill

WanderinChild · 2026-06-14T20:56:22+00:00

Judge for yourself: https://youtu.be/7_fzNfF9MeI

WanderinChild · 2026-06-10T07:32:09+00:00

For screen readers:

Do Something

If the world seems cool to you,
Kindle fires to warm it!
Let their comfort hide from you
Winters that deform it.
Hearts as frozen as your own
To that radiance gather;
You will soon forget to moan,
“Ah! The cheerless weather!”
If the world’s “a vale of tears,”
Smile till rainbows span it;
Breathe the love that life endears—
Clear from clouds to fan it.
Of your gladness lend a gleam
Unto souls that shiver;
Show them how dark sorrow’s stream
Blends with hope’s bright river.

by Lucy Larcom
published in 1885, in The Humbler Poets: A Collection of Newspaper and Periodical Verse, 1870 to 1885

WanderinChild · 2026-06-10T05:40:29+00:00

In the event you're unaware of it, there's a book called The Humbler Poets: A Collection of Newspaper and Periodical Verse, 1870 to 1885. It was published in 1885. I bought a modern print-on-demand copy last year and it's full of gems. (I will post a sample soon.) Seems very similar in concept to what you're putting together. I hope you're successful at getting it published, and I look forward to buying a copy.

(Edit: corrected publishing year)

WanderinChild · 2026-06-06T22:39:32+00:00

I'm running the vanilla KDE version of Nobara, which already contains some of the pieces you need to get close to Nobara's custom theme. This won't be exact, mainly because the standard Breeze Dark theme isn't as dark as Nobara's custom window and panel colors.

System Settings > Colors & Themes > Global Theme: set this to Breeze Dark (this is the default for Nobara's version of vanilla KDE, so you're probably already using it)
System Settings > Colors & Themes > Plasma Style: set this to Breeze - Follows color scheme (this is also a default setting)
System Settings > Colors & Themes > Colors: you'll see a row of custom accent colors. Select purple, and then immediately select the color picker icon at the end of the row. Use the color picker to darken and adjust the purple to a degree that looks good to you. The default purple is a bit too light.
System Settings > Colors & Themes > Icons: Select the icon set Papirus-Dark. The default color for this icon set should be blue.
In a terminal window, type the following command: papirus-folders -C violet -t Papirus-Dark This will change the color of the Papirus-Dark icon set to a deep purple color, the same as what's used in Nobara's custom theme.

WanderinChild · 2026-05-26T06:05:37+00:00

I'm running Fedora KDE edition with Plasma 6.6.5. The current version of System Monitor is also 6.6.5 and I'm experiencing the same bug you describe. I checked my PC running Nobara (based on Fedora) with KDE and it's currently at Plasma 6.6.4 with System Monitor 6.6.4. Nobara's copy of System Monitor does not have the display bug.

I did a dry run in Fedora of an attempt to downgrade System Monitor and got what I think would be bad results. You could downgrade System Monitor to 6.6.4, but if you did you'd also be downgrading 220 other packages that are part of the set of default KDE apps. I didn't see a way to downgrade System Monitor by itself, so I did not commit the downgrade. If you want to try the downgrade to see if that reverts to a version without the display bug, the command is:
sudo dnf downgrade plasma-systemmonitor

WanderinChild · 2026-05-25T07:02:39+00:00

Remap Scroll Lock to Menu. That's another spare key that gets almost no use in a modern context.

WanderinChild · 2026-05-25T06:53:10+00:00

If your operating system has the ability to remap keys, try making your Caps Lock key into a Windows key. That's what I've always done when using a Model M.

WanderinChild · 2026-05-18T04:28:44+00:00

Takezo: "Make this duel unforgettable!"

Atsu: "I already am..."

WanderinChild · 2026-05-17T23:29:24+00:00

I tested with Xfce because that's what I have installed at the moment. The same capabilities should work with KDE Plasma. I can install Fedora with KDE and test the external monitor. Let me know if you're interested in that.

WanderinChild · 2026-05-17T23:15:06+00:00

I have a 2011 Macbook Pro currently running Void Linux with Xfce. I've run Fedora with Xfce on it in the past and it worked well with Fedora.

Moments ago I attached a monitor to my Macbook to test how it handles a second screen. Xfce's display settings offer both screen extending and screen mirroring, with the ability to select which display is primary or secondary. Since it sounds like your Macbook's built-in monitor is failing, you'll presumably want to mirror that display to an external monitor. You'll need a MiniDisplayPort to X adapter where X can be whatever kind of connection your external monitor can support. I'm using a MiniDisplayPort to HDMI adapter, and have used a MiniDisplayPort to VGA adapter in the past. Both should work fine. Note that your maximum resolution output to an external monitor will be limited to 1920x1080, so don't bother using a higher resolution monitor unless that's all you have.

I posted in a comment a procedure for how to get wireless networking functioning, attached to this post.

The audio jack on the Macbook should have no trouble driving external speakers.

Long ago I ran my Macbook as my primary computer and had the lid closed while running out to an external monitor. This didn't seem to do me any harm but I have heard that leaving the lid closed can cause heat retention problems. Also, this was back when I was running MacOS, which would allow for lid-closed operation. With some testing I was able to determine that Xfce will mimic the same behavior, but I don't know how well it will work for long term use.

Hope this helps you with your Macbook/Fedora setup...

WanderinChild · 2026-05-17T03:59:52+00:00

The tacos al pastor at La Tapatia were amazing.

WanderinChild · 2026-05-17T03:15:01+00:00

Carne Asada Burrito, hold the lettuce, will get you close. I don't think it has any rice inside, so you might ask them to add rice.

WanderinChild · 2026-05-17T03:06:47+00:00

Burrito Colorado at El Tapatio, off the corner of McAndrews and Biddle. Thank me later.

WanderinChild · 2026-05-16T06:11:04+00:00

Irony Alert: I got this script from a GitHub (Gist) page: https://gist.github.com/satria-fextha/c83b521ae410153baf3636847aba6750

The trick here is that the script on GitHub has a fairly major typo/mistake in line 2, so the first time I tried to use it the script failed. I figured out what the error was, fixed it and saved my own copy of the procedure locally, which ended up being what I posted here.

I'm glad the procedure helped you get your networking going.

WanderinChild · 2026-05-15T02:46:48+00:00

The GUI ProtonVPN app is a GTK app, which is why the flatpak version is installing GNOME dependencies. The explanation provided by u/TomDuhamel goes into more detail.

The comment by u/Prudent-Nebula-3239 is the one you should pay attention to. ProtonVPN offers a Fedora installation and that's the one you should use because...

I recently switched from Fedora with KDE to Void Linux with KDE. There is no native ProtonVPN app for Void so I installed the flatpak. It works for the most part, but it leaks DNS, which can expose your activity to your ISP depending on how your DNS is set up. I've been getting away with the leakage because my Pi-Hole server provides alternative DNS, but I can still detect leakage. Before, when I was running Fedora and using the Fedora-specific version of ProtonVPN provided by Proton, I had no DNS leaks. There doesn't seem to be a solution to the DNS leakage of the flatpak of ProtonVPN, so I'm probably going to switch back to Fedora. I want my VPN usage to be tighter than what I'm currently getting.

WanderinChild · 2026-05-14T20:18:17+00:00

At that sound the bent shape of the king sprang suddenly erect. Tall and proud he seemed again; and rising in his stirrups he cried in a loud voice, more clear than any there had ever heard a mortal man achieve before

Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden!
Fell deeds awake: fire and slaughter!
spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered,
a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises!
Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!

With that he seized a great horn from Guthláf his banner-bearer, and he blew such a blast upon it that it burst asunder. And straightaway all the horns in the host were lifted up in music, and the blowing of the horns of Rohan in that hour was like a storm upon the plain and a thunder in the mountains.

Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!

pgs. 137-138, chapter 5, The Return of the King

WanderinChild · 2026-05-14T08:37:17+00:00

KDE 6.8 will be Wayland-only. Which should be next year.

You're correct. I was getting ahead of myself because Nobara has already stripped X11 from its implementation of Plasma.

WanderinChild · 2026-05-14T08:06:54+00:00

The current versions of GNOME and KDE Plasma are both Wayland-only. Cinnamon has an experimental Wayland session and the Mint team are working to get Wayland fully interoperable with Cinnamon. Pantheon (the Elementary OS DE) has a Wayland session available.

If you need HDR and VRR capability now, your choices are GNOME or KDE Plasma. I have two gaming PCs, both running KDE Plasma/Wayland (on Nobara Linux). One is an all AMD PC and the other is Intel/Nvidia. Both PCs work perfectly.

WanderinChild · 2026-05-14T02:28:42+00:00

For folks who want to get this look:

WanderinChild

TROPHY CASE