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To be fair, Sarah Bond was in a similar position and is a woman of color, too.

Alles ist irgendwie nur Zucker, Öl und Proteine, na und?

Wenn man Ballaststoffe, Vitamine, Mineralien und die physikalische Realität wie so ein Körper Nahrungsmittel aufnimmt mal ausklammert, dann schon, ja.

Yeah, always found that interesting, how a talent can play out in two ways:

1. You get feedback from the outside that your talent is exceptional and you show it to everyone.
2. Or you don't get that feedback, you kind of just assume that everyone is as good as you are, and that your talent is not worth showing. By not showing it, you continue to not get feedback on it and may not realize for quite some time.

• Aisleron: Einkaufsliste, wo man die Produkte in die verschiedenen Gänge im Supermarkt eingruppieren kann, damit man im Laden nur noch von oben nach unten durchgehen muss.

• Simon Tatham's Puzzles: Wenn man Puzzle-Spiele mag, hat man damit eine super Spiele-Sammlung, womit man immer Zeit totschlagen kann.

Man, I really hate how much they waffle. The only valid response is "You have to drive, because you need your car at the car wash in order to wash it".

I don't need an explanation what kind of problem it is, nor a breakdown of the options. I don't need a bulletpoint list of arguments. I don't need pros and cons. And I definitely don't need a verdict.

Yeah, I would've rather put this into the ADHD corner...

Vor allem spannend, weil seine Diktatoren-Rolle angeknuspert wird. Er kann sich nicht mehr darauf verlassen, dass jegliche seiner Untaten durch die Mehrheit im Supreme Court als rechtens deklariert wird.

Did you try on KDE since Plasma 6 came out? It introduced a native, manual tiling mechanism, which just needs to be configured by a KWinscript to make it automatic, so it still feels native when you resize the tiles. I'm pretty happy with Krohnkite these days either way...

Yeah, it likely won't support that any time soon, because it's incompatible with Extended Window Manager Hints standard.

Having said that, Plasma 6.6 (which just came out) allows for having only a single virtual desktop on non-primary monitors, which is all I wanted, personally...

KDE Plasma can do that, too, via a KWinscript: https://codeberg.org/anametologin/Krohnkite 🙃

On a more serious note, this is a genuine recommendation. I've been using Krohnkite and similar scripts for a few years now, and they're absolutely fine, especially since Plasma 6 introduced a native, manual tiling mechanism, which they just have to configure.
Especially for newbies wanting to try out tiling window management, without having to figure out a minimalist environment like a bare window manager, this is a great entrypoint IMHO.

It's just really oversimplifying memory usage. OS designers had that same thought decades ago already, so they introduced disk caching. If data gets loaded from disk, then it won't be erased from memory as soon as it isn't needed anymore. It's only erased, if something else requests memory and this happens to be the piece of "free" memory that the kernel thinks is the most expendable.

For example, this is what the situation on my system looks like:

free -h
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:            25Gi       9,8Gi       6,0Gi       586Mi       9,3Gi        15Gi

Out of my 32 GiB physical RAM, 25 GiB happens to be usable by my applications, of which:

• 9.8 GiB is actually reserved (used),
• 9.2 GiB is currently in use for disk caching and buffers (buff/cache), and
• only 6.1 GiB is actually unused (free).

If you run cat /proc/meminfo, you can get an even more fine-grained listing.

I'm sure, I could get the number for actually unused memory even lower, if I had started more applications since booting my laptop. Or as the Wikipedia article I linked above puts it:

Usually, all physical memory not directly allocated to applications is used by the operating system for the page[/disk] cache.

So, if you launch a memory-heavy application, it will generally cause memory used for disk caching to be cleared, which will slow the rest of your system down somewhat.

Having said all that, I am on KDE myself. I do not believe, it's worth optimizing for the speed of the system, if you're sacrificing features that would speed up your usage of it. Hell, it ultimately comes down to how happy you are with your computer, so if it makes you happy, then even gaudy eye-candy can be the right investment.
I just do not like these "unused RAM is wasted RAM" calls, because it is absolutely possible to implement few features while using lots of memory, and that does slow your system down unnecessarily.

Hmm, there might be a more proper solution, but picking a lower resolution would probably make things bigger...