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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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I remember when everyone was customizing their mouse cursors like they were ringtones.
Yeah, there was like, a 15 year period. Where nobody ran standard cursor on their desktops. People would have these crazy animated things that would just drive you crazy.
Good riddance. The mouse cursor should be almost invisible, not draw attention to itself.
Linux solved a problem I didn't really know I was having. getting old, lose the cursor because old. Wiggle the mouse around and the cursor grows like the grinches heart long enough for me to see it, then it goes back to normal.
ms.. they put a white circle which you can't see if you press some weird ass keyboard combo that may or may not also open edge and attempt to create a ms account (I dunno if this is true, they just suck)
macOS does the mouse-wiggle thing, too. super-useful!
Keep wigling the mouse and eventually there's nowhere the pointer can possibly hide from you.
Which distro/desktop environment? I have only seen that on macOS.
Does it on KDE for me, not sure about OP
As others told you, it's a KDE thing, and it's imitating MacOS's feature.
this was specificLly on bazzite. I am changing from it since it's kinda restrictive but works good overall
KDE has it, I believe it was added in either Plasma 6 or 6.1.
You can set a tap of ctrl to make a circle around the cursor
ya that's what I was saying.
microslops idea of finding it is bad...I lose the circle too.
Linux is easily findable.
I need the mouse cursor to be better at drawing attention to itself at times though. When you have a couple big monitors often finding where that cursor is hiding becomes a problem.
fortunately, on macOS, all you have to do is wiggle the mouse a bit, and it'll get really big for a moment so you can find it, lol... it's super-helpful!
KDE does that too.
I do increase the size of the cursor permanently, and colour them brightly. It works wonders, a bright pink or cyan or orange cursor always makes me smile a bit when I stop to appreciate it.
Honestly mouse cursor customization is the one thing I miss from KDE, I love having goofy animations as my cursor
Wdym? I run Ubuntu with KDE and there certainly is cursor customization. You can choose one of defaults or download any cursor you want externally.
I switched off of KDE, and now I miss being able to do it
Oh, sorry, I read it wrong
Says the person who was jealous of their cool custom cursors 😎
Look at that man, operating a nuclear powerplant terminal with a Starcraft cursor
Just like ringtones
On Linux I still use a pretty non standard cursor it is an animated cat
I have an enormous purple pointer so people can see it when I’m screen sharing. Prove me wrong.
I still use a customized mouse on my work computer.