familarize yourself with everything first
dry humor i hope
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was it a qoo wop song?
why was Google able to find the answer to questions exactly like this 6+ years ago?
curious if there is any way to know for sure if this is the case? is there documentation of vague google searches over time to track their results? sort of seems like a "don't know what you got til it's gone" sort of thing for the average user. but maybe there is some academic work or industry publications to this effect?
We do have a good 10-20 years of every news story intro containing a line like "a google search for 'spatula' returns 2.5million results". remember when journalists and other writers thought that just putting a single search term into a search engine was the way to conduct online research?
otherwise it is really just your recollection how it felt then vs now. i can't comment on @merc@sh.itjust.works's programing skills but the point about changing expectations is a good one. not to mention that the amount of available data has exploded.
According to US statistics, "overall college enrollment rate of 18- to 24-year-olds (ages in which students traditionally enroll in college) was 38 percent in 2021".
So if by "most people" you mean, "less than half" then yes you are correct.
I admit I find icons under xfce4 to be very mysterious. There are all kinds of weird behaviours I can't explain.
However I am not the only one. There are lots of threads about the "generic icon" problem, for example: Window buttons not showing the proper icon which might have something useful for you.
Kitty has specific instructions for its icon. I don't mind the kitty icon so I never changed it.
Is the overall problems you are facing different in tint2 than in the xfce panel? if you open them both up is one able to access the correct icons and the other isn't? I'm out of ideas in either case but it would at least clarify if the problem has anything to do with tint2 or is a general icon thing. If its a general icon thing you're in luck because there a lot broader resources. If it's a tint2 problem then you are stuck trying to figure out why.
Here is some troubleshooting ideas I have. Do any of them make any difference whatsoever
- Using a very generic, well supported icon theme with no customization. Is the problem that tint2 isn't picking up any icon theme or it just isn't picking up these icons? If not picking up any icons, then what icons is it using?
- create a fresh user on system with all default settings and see if anything is different? And if you have done system level customizations you could even try a fresh system liveboot/VM but that is a lot of work to be fair.
- change your xfce4-appearance and xfwm-settings themes
- Do you install icon themes for the user or the system? Try the other way does it make a difference?
I am using latest stable xfce4 (1.18 I think) with tint2 for task list and xfce4-panel for workspace switcher miniature view. From what I've noticed, the icons in both are always the same between the two of them. Tbh in general I have found changing icon themes very annoying and inconsistent across the system with some applications and tray items being resistant. Like firefox developer I find is impervious to icon themes. Do you have the issue with all applications including very well-supported ones like thunar or mousepad?
There is a command called gtk-update-icon-cache/gtk4-update-icon-cache but I don't know if it would help.
that kid looks cool as fuck
Well you can't make a hiring decision on that basis in most places unless you have a reason. What constitutes "a reason" being variable. Generally if you are prohibited from making a decision on a certain factor, you may not ask about it during an interview.
Sex discrimination can be constituted by various things. For example asking about maritial status, children, plans for pregnancy, soliciting sexual favors, etc. Also in some places, if you thought someone might be trans, you could not ask them about that.
Some of us don't clutter up our resumes with every job we've ever had. My resume lists nothing irrelevant to my current career. I was well into adulthood at that time. Who cares where I went to highschool? It demonstrates respect for the time of the person tasked with reading a stack of resumes to not waste their time.
I did the emoji thing and even though I went through it correctly it did not proceed reliably. A problem with the client? Network issue? Who knows. Sometimes it works after a few attempts and other times not.
Encryption keys didn't work because my password manager ended up with several keys all associated with the same account but I didn't know what each one was for. (And did the keys each also have another password too? I might be thinking of something else.) They were for the account or the device or the conversation or the client or the session? And my friends were having similar issues; even when I get it set up someone else is having a problem.
I guess with all these things, it gets easier once you get going and stable. You can't do the emoji thing without having a logged in client available. If everyone is bouncing around clients it's a mess. There is nothing stable for any of us to join onto. I have used the occasional established matrix community and I don't have these issues in that case. A lot of the complications come from the fact that we are trying to move together.
I’ve been with the FLOSS people and advocating for freedom and empowerment of the user for quite some time. It’s always a struggle. You always have to actively fight for your freedom. And if you want to stay in control of your data, you have to take matters into your own hands, to some degree. And that is some work. You have to learn concepts and gain a certain amount of literacy. The other option is to give up parts of your autonomy.
I mean the other other option would be to take care of each other and struggle collectively. I do not really think we get freedom one by one. I believe that to be in alignment with FLOSS.
Philosophically it's kind of regressive to say that lost autonomy is deserved by people who fail to learn to the standards you think are reasonable in the areas you think they should know about. There is way too many things in the world we can't all know about all of them.
a bit much
agreed