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Cake day: August 21st, 2025

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  • Your signature is your mark. Uniquely identifying. It doesn’t need to be your name.

    I originally signed with name and last name plus a squiggle. I got tired of that and many years ago I changed it to my 4 letter first name barely legible. Way better more consistent than the variance writing my full name.

    Butnintinknwe aware saying the same. Cursive is illegible, so. A bunch of squiggles is good enough. Some people call it cursive.

    Note: other than nostalgia, I don’t understand why cursive. Barely legible even by the original writer.


  • Well, I know a senior person, retired epidemiologist who is antincovid vaccine because “no vaccine developed so fast can be safe”.

    It hard containing my self from telling her that from her time as an epidemiologist to now, technology has changed and that they’ve studied mRNA vaccines for a long time so fighting a particular strain of virus is easier as the whole process has already been successfully tested.

    It’s like an old engineer saying that current structural calculations in buildings can’t be trusted because it used to take months/years of hard work and now they can be done in a fraction of the time with computers.

    🤦‍♂️


  • I think for me the wave has more peaks and valleys.

    I get to the last stage of good knowledge and decent confidence but then something new comes and I feel I’m ready for punishment again.

    My first Valley of despair was Gentoo. 6 months of constantly compiling stuff and rarely using the computer for anything else. But a bit before that it was Fedora. In those early days, updates would continuously break my system.

    In that first round I finally settled for Mint for years. After years of stable Linux Mint, I found my self with time and curious for Arch. And yes, that became the new l valley of despair. But eventually my stable instance.

    But new things come and Wayland and new sound systems replaced what I had in my installation. Arch was again the valley of despair. And moved to Fedora, which is as stable as stable can be. I was traveling for the last two years so, no time to mess around.

    Now back to arch trying to figure out the Wayland/Niri ecosystem. Let’s see where I land.

    However, in my dual boots I always have a working installation I’m happy with and another which I mess up with.