I assumed primary is ctrl-c/ctrl-v and secondary is select/middle-click. I’ve never come across this ctrl-middle-click, it does the same with and without the ctrl key.

I seen to recall reading something this week about a distro dropping middle click, so I probably conflated both issues and failed.

But you’re right, I did not read the fine article.

I’ve been using the “select copy + middle click paste” since the late 90s.

I find it useful for simple intra-document editing because you’re just using the mouse, no need to reach for the keyboard.

It can be combined with the traditional copy/paste, say you have your password in the clipboard but you need to also copy some part of a long ssh command. You can have both and paste them on the command line one after the other.

I know I’m a minority and this will eventually be dropped because it’s too confusing for the end users, man.

Yes, I get it. But I’ll miss it.

I have the theory that MP3 played a part in the death of rock music and the rise of hip hop.

Guitars and cymbals sound awful when compressed to 128kbps, as it was common in the early days of Gnutella and Napster.

Music with vocals and beats sounds much better at those compression rates.

Should not have allowed them in the first place.

I tried Tidal and could not go back to Spotify.

I guess it also depends on what type of music you are listening to. Simple FM pop or hip-hop works fine compressed. Rock, classical, melodic or more complex music gets the high range completely smashed by artifacts.

True, idiocy is universal. You can see the roaches crawling out of the rocks already.

Started playing Amnesia: rebirth.

Kept me hooked for way longer than I planned for the day.

I don’t think it would be much use other than emulated computers/consoles/arcades.

I heard about Fex for x86 emulation, but never tried it myself.

Small computers are more powerful than you think, if used properly. I stick with a bunch of containers instead of VMs and it all just hums along nicely on a Raspberry Pi 5.

Pi-Hole running all the time barely registers as a workload.

If you liked em dashes, you’ll love ligatures.

On top of all the damage AI unleashed into the world, there’s that: it ruined em dash for people who appreciate typography.

Are you sure about that? They sure exhibit a distinct lack of humanity.

That was a long watch, but worth it.

I missed some of the aspects discussed in the video when playing through Soma the first time, because I was expecting Amnesia like scary monsters.

Guess I’ll have to play it again.

Richard Dean Anderson? I think he’s more of a C4 kind of guy.

IIRC, Caldera also had a Tetris clone in the installer, so you could play while it installed itself.

The Trump administration will hopefully be replaced in January 2029, and up to then, it’s not unlikely Dems take back the congress in 2026.

“The emperor does not share your optimistical appraisal of the situation.”

At this point it seems simple for Trump to hold on to power like all the other cleptocratic dictators have done. You already have military on your streets and paramilitary forces cleaning the unwanted elements.

I hope you are right and I’m wrong.

Today I asked AI to remove all the lines in a file that had some string in them.

It worked. I felt awful thinking how much power I wasted doing that when I could have just read the man page of sed or awk.

I did, and it was ridiculously easy to do what I needed with a fraction of the power. And I got some nice knowledge to go with it, that I proceeded to add to my aliases file.

I’m not afraid of AI. I have a local instance to play with. The technology is just too wasteful and fallible as it stands today.

Copperplate Gothic.

Just kidding, I don’t have one but would love some suggestions.

I was expecting Comic Sans.

I’m old enough to remember UML (User Mode Linux). I don’t know if it’s still around, but it was a port of the Linux kernel that you would run as a standard user binary.