Hey alternative OS folks, is there any modern NetBSD live images that people recommend? I've got a couple different hardwares I want to try it out on and the website just has install images.

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I've gone mad with power.

Just spent the last several hours kludging old-style figures into a font that didn't have them (New Heterodox Mono), because the main objection i have compared to my current programming font of choice is how tiny the loop on an e is in Garamond variants

Then a little demon whispers into my ear ("Morning Song... you have fontforge. You have already used it for evil. You can Just Make The Loop Bigger")

This is actually not nearly as difficult as i thought it was going to be. It is a *bit* arcane, but turns out there's a lot of documentation out there.

I'm not even doing math with it.

I don't have any compelling need to make math I'm just like "should I write in TeX instead of LibreOffice"

A sensible person, in the process of learning TeX, would do things like "Let's figure out basic typesetting features and document structuring tags"

Me, on the other hand, in the process of learning TeX, immediately goes "How do I pick fonts, fuck with OpenType features, and implement named alternate text styles."

Okay, I really like what the show is doing.

ONe of the things I didn't like about the book Vampire Lestat, was that it was all from his perspective and it seems like even the author forgot he was kind of an unreliable narrator.

The show brings Daniel back into things and thus we get a little outside of his head and thus we get to see him being the complete and utter shit that he is.

(and also this version of Daniel is perfect to meet Lestat where he is and match his energy)

Hey Linux nerds, is there such a thing as a tiling X11 window manager that's got like.. a nice configuration gui available and can be mouse-and-menu driven? (preferrably one that gets along well with a Mate desktop)?

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At some point the corporations realized that Clarke's logic works in reverse, and any sufficiently advanced sleight of hand is indistinguishable from technology

Fucking did it. Mortgage done.

first time i have ever used this button.

Some A+ 💯 artwork in my discrete math text's Combinatorics chapter:

So I've basically been repeatedly trying to say "die Straße" for like half an hour now and it no longer sounds like a word.

So the German R is different from the English R, and different from the Japanese and Swedish Rs

And all this means that I'm having a real hard time saying Straße and sounding anything like the people narrating the lessons.

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Hey, does anyone know any good online language learning platforms? I used to do Duolingo but after their "AI" nonsense I am deeply wary about engaging with them again.

Specifically interested in Swedish, but German or Japanese would be good too.

I want to start a Swedish language podcast focusing on interviews about classic arcade games. I'll call it "Frågar om Frogger"

If somebody secretly made a consumer grade smart TV but the Smarts of the TV were in an OPS-C removable module I would love them forever.

4K dumb TVs? yup.
Serial remote control interface? Yup.
JAMMA STYLE PLUGGABLE MODULES THAT CAN CONTAIN A TUNER ANd/OR AN ACTUAL COMPUTER THAT CAN ENSMARTED THE DUMB TV IN ANY WAY YOU WANT? yup.

Man it seems like everything I've ever wanted in a modern TV *does* exist.

In commercial digital signage displays.

for an order of magnitude more money.