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Cake day: June 24th, 2023

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  • Fira Code is seriously awesome. I love how it is delightfully quirky. Not too much, just enough to give it plenty of character without becoming weird, annoying, or hard to read.

    I also really like how it is more wide than most. If I’m supposed to finish all my lines at 80 characters there’s no point in using something that condensed.

    Actually, I would really like to find a similarly non-bland proportional character to use beside it.





  • I don’t know… Friday I installed Linux on my dad’s “new” Thinkpad T495.

    I tried to go with Gnome. It’s supposed to be the user friendly one, right?

    First thing I want to do is change the charging limit of the battery to 80%. It’s not impossible to replace the battery, but it would be nice to not blow it too fast.

    After 20m of trying and failing I switched to KDE, where the whole thing was 3 clicks.

    And even if I didn’t know how to do it, the systemsettings window has a search function that will get you the right option in a split second.


  • Put in a SSD and you’ll be surprised how far it can get you.

    My father is still using a 13 year old 14" Dell I gave up 6 years ago. He’s even using it with windows 10, and having a SSD it works almost bearably well. They keyboard broke, and with the laptop not being Win11 compatible, he asked for an upgrade.

    I got him a 6 year old Thinkpad, but I’ll install Mint and give him a VM for the few SWs he needs Windows for.