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[wierd]

Looks like an Ubuntu derivative.

Pointer probably came from using a dark icon theme.  Cut the guy some slack. Not everyone can go full curmudgeon and go XFCE.

[bloop_bleep]

They're probably Windows fanboys and have never seen a kde or gnome desktop in their life lol. Tbf I am also Windows fanboy, and I have not yet installed dual-boot linux on my new laptop...

[Max™]

*buntu? Hah!

It's Arch and KDE because I can't quit it. I've tried xfce, cinnamon, uh, whatever the hell ubuntu used before they switched to their weird new style... GNOME! That's what it was. I've done *buntu derivatives, gentoo, puppy, mint, suse, and I swear I'm missing a couple in there but I love arch and KDE letting me pick and choose what the hell I want so everything looks exactly how I want it to look. Though I was annoyed when the old simple style icons with just the stylized shape in white and transparent backgrounds stopped getting updated and broke shit so I just said fuck it and went to like breeze or whatever that is, with one of the big see-through pointers I grabbed from one of the sets because it makes it easier to gauge the speed with my mousekeys.xkb setup.

I haven't let windows on my system since I used windows 7 in a vbox for some online schooling stuff which amusingly completely bypassed a lot of the security measures intended from the online testing software they use because it only saw the windows 7 image and desktop, not the stuff outside the vbox window or other monitor.

Also worth noting that worldometer favoring higher counts is more likely to be reducing the error than not, excess mortality shows covid-19 deaths are vastly undercounted to say the least. Last update I saw on excess mortality figures was over 300k and we've since added something like 25k confirmed deaths.

[feelotraveller]

Last I heard Max was running Arch.  Being arch it's totally up to the user what desktop they install, or even if they use one at all.  though xfce is very nice

Fake edit: bloody ninja's

[Max™]

Oh I also tried uhhhh... shit one of those little tiling ones, awesome and blurgh I can't remember it was something with like a three letter name like ikm or some shit?

[feelotraveller]

dwm or i3?  not that it matters, what's important is that it works for you.  we're spoilt for choice.  shit I wish politics was like that.

[Max™]

Ah, I mixed the names of dwm and i3 and think it was the latter because I had been using qjoypad with a ps2 type controller for my mouse but it wasn't working as well as I liked due to qjoypad ceasing development, looked into some options to minimize any need for a mouse before ended up finding out I can customize a mousekeys.xkb as long as I find the right codes for my keyboard model. Had to set it up so it disables the numlock light when I switch from numpad to mousekeys though, light drove me nuts.

Thankfully mousekeys fixed the carpal tunnel twinges I was starting to get from my mouse originally which trackballs only helped with and the controlled was great for except when qjoypad would bug out loading the init file and misinterpret the x/y 0/0 as -30000/-30000 for some reason so the cursor starts running off to the left side of the screen at full speed with the sticks dead centered.

[Zangi]

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/11/mink-variant-of-coronavirus-spreads-to-humans-in-denmark-full-cull-planned/

Apparently minks can catch and spread Covid19.

[wierd]

Old news. This is exactly what I mean by "virus has animal vector reservoir populations", and why I mean it when I say "it is here to stay forever."

[Starver]

I remember mink-farm culls in the Netherlands, a few months back. And it came from animals, so has proven ability to leap around mammals. Even before we found out that it had spread to pet cats, pet dogs and a zoo tiger caught it from humans - and the tiger example was not to be sneezed at... unless that's how it happened!

Whether it can leap back again is probably only circumstance-limited. So maybe you should always disinfect your hands after giving a tiger a belly-rub. If not before...

[hector13]

I lost my sense of taste today, and now I get coughing fits too.

Unhappy, this is day... 6 or 7, maybe 9, of my direct covid experience, it has mostly been WHY DID SOMEONE TAKE ME APART AND PUT ME BACK TOGETHER SLIGHTLY WRONG since the start.

This needs to end :’(

[martinuzz]

Get well soon

[hector13]

I don’t know if 6 and a half years of residence necessarily qualifies me as a ‘sconny, but I’ve picked up a few things, doncha know.

I appreciate the well wishes, though. Enso.

[Frumple]

I mean, yeah, here's hoping the plague doesn't actually kill you or cause any permanent damage.

By the numbers it's probably going to kill someone regular to the forum, if it hasn't already, and probably more or less cripple some, too, but... still. Y'don't want to see it happen

[delphonso]

I don’t know if 6 and a half years of residence necessarily qualifies me as a ‘sconny, but I’ve picked up a few things, doncha know.

I appreciate the well wishes, though. Enso.

Best of luck Hector. I guess by now you know that the only cure is a few games of sheepshead, a lienenkugels and about 700 calories of fried cheese.