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maggotbrainon All problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone (2014)

If you are commenting here, you haven't really quit "social media".

maggotbrainon Red Hat Expecting X.org to “Go into Hard Maintenance Mode Fairly Quickly”

The Xfce port to GTK 3 is almost complete. Xfce 4.14 should be released sometime in August this year if all goes well.

https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/4.14/roadmap#roadmapplanned_fea...

maggotbrainon My New Favorite Tool for Reviewing PDFs: Okular

I had the same reaction. I started pulling my hair out at: "There are also tons inefficient ways"...

maggotbrainon My New Favorite Tool for Reviewing PDFs: Okular

This is a terribly written article. Needs some serious editing.

"You have so many rounds of back and forth on collateral that it’s clear you don’t have strategic alignment and it’s spilling over into stifling execution. Hate to say it, but the tools aren’t the problem here."

What does this even mean???

maggotbrainon Herman Hesse: Outside Man

Seems like being raised in, and rejecting, a pietist environment can result in some fantastic literature and philosophy. Hesse was raised in a pietist household and smoked cigarettes to protest. Kant was brought up the same and wrote "Critique of Pure Reason".

I don't necessarily regard Hesse's work as necessarily being directed towards a 'coming of age' readership; but, I discovered him at a time when I was struggling with my own "private battles of adolescence" and am grateful in finding his work.

maggotbrainon The rise of the pointless job

A great example would be the author of this article.

maggotbrainon How I learned to code in my 30s

Reading that makes me glad to be a network engineer. Ethernet, BGP, and OSPF don't change all that much. I am all for learning the latest Python, NetMiko, NAPALM stuff for network automation. This article reads like masochism.

maggotbrainon Mozilla Acquires Pocket

It seems that they have. I just started using Thunderbird again after a number of years and the setup to connect to my gmail account has been simplified to confirming the settings on one page with three auto-filled fields.