LXTerminal.

I don’t know if increasing the font size counts as customization. I’ve got old, tired eyes.

Transparency is also turned on, which I think I did with compton. It was a long time ago and seems to persist through Debian’s dist upgrades.

It’s worth adding that the entire LXDE suite is great software. It just works. I hope I don’t have to give it up any time soon.

There’s always BSD!

Fair. :)

You seriously haven’t had to provide tech support to relatives with MacOS. Windows is brilliant in comparison.

I would love to see this on my ATM!

A lot of people deride security by obscurity, but I like using Linux simply because the Linux desktop is secure and isn’t as big a target as Windows or MacOS. These “year of the Linux desktop” articles have been coming out for years and I’ve always thought, “I sure hope not!”

This is why we still need Richard Stallman. That guy never gives up on explaining why manipulative, proprietary software is against our interests.

Use free software – and when you can’t, use ad-blockers, privacy badger, noscript, etc.

Fair. Regular hours, not French revolution decidays.

That being said, today is the 10th day of Thermidor.

I’m a Canadian who started school when the change happened. Grade two, 1977: new rulers!

I think it’s fair to say that we all ended up hybridized. Some things I measure intuitively in metric, others in imperial.

People’s height? feet and inches.

Grocery weights? pounds. If it’s in Kilograms, I quickly convert it.

Grocery volumes (Milk, dairy products, shampoo, basically anything purchased in a container)? litres.

Gasoline? Gallons or litres. Either is fine. But fuel economy is mpg.

Temperature? Celsius outdoors, Fahrenheit indoors. We had an old thermostat when I was growing up.

Carpentry measurements? Inches.

Wrenches? whatever fits!

Distances? It took a long time, probably fifteen years, but at some point, I stopped converting kilometres to miles. Now I just think in kilometres.

Early in the pandemic, I got funny looks when I started referring to it as Captain Trips.

It’s been a while, but I recall enjoying A Madman’s Diary and The True Story of Ah Q.

Brezhnev by Susanne Schattenberg

I surf gopher and gemini, so I still get my fix. I like the quirky, idiosyncratic nature of the kind of stuff people just throw on a server. That was what was best about the early web. It was an adventure.

come back to both!

I still hang out on usenet. It gets a little quieter every year.

DMOZ was great. Curlie is an attempt to replicate it: https://www.curlie.org/en. There’s also a DMOZ archive here: https://www.dmoz-odp.org/

I surf gopher and gemini, so I still get my fix. I like the quirky, idiosyncratic nature of the kind of stuff people just throw on a server. That was what was best about the early web. It was an adventure.

I use a Libreddit instance and it’s still functioning. It’s a nice way to access a reasonable interface and it allows you to subscribe to subreddits without signing up.

Lenny? I’m on team Squiggy.

Hmm. That might actually make enough heat for a Canadian winter…