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La subraț, în și pe supat, în sunas
Am hotărât să scriu această postare în ciuda silei pe care o am față de problema apărută din neant a unui „supat”. Viralizarea discuției este tipică imbecilizării contemporane, iar gogoașa…
Someone is using Claude to kill software development
A couple of days ago, I nearly fell off my chair when I read Joey Sneddon’s report. Then, Futurism mentioned the news. I expected global hysteria, yet no such thing…
ComicStripBrowser 3.1.1: Know when and why GoComics flips you off!
The release of ComicStripBrowser 3 left a few situations uncovered, and GoComics’ increasingly strict limitations likely frustrated some users who didn’t know why the app started showing them errors on…
Of Mice and Men: Redragon, Mon Amour?
When I wrote in 2021 about mice and keyboards, I left the topic without a clear message. At the time, I praised the simple but reliable Logitech M180 (the successor,…
The democratic setup that will never be
While I was exasperated by the Sisyphean effort of forming a new government in a certain country, an old thought of mine resurfaced, and it has to do with the…
Quick Luddite Notes at 70 notes!
On Aug. 27, I started an experiment called Quick Luddite Notes, using the Bear Blog platform. I announced it, and I added a link to it in the top header…
✍️ LanguageTool alternatives: season finale
I ended my previous post in this series, ✍️ Is there any LanguageTool alternative worth the money?, with a half-hearted epilogue that included the discovery of the fact that LanguageTool…
ComicStripBrowser 3 is here!
ComicStripBrowser 3.0.0 is out on GitHub, with packages and binaries on SourceForge, too! The changelog for v3.0.0 from GitHub: Major release with substantial changes under the hood. Despite being a…
✍️ Is there any LanguageTool alternative worth the money?
I started this post about ten days ago and posted an initial version on August 16. Meanwhile, I explored a few other solutions and tested the ones I initially considered…
From Win11 IoT 24H2 to Win10 IoT 21H2 + KB5099539: Mais quelle horreur !
Downgrading from Win11 to Win10 is not something people do, unless they do that between IoT LTSC editions of Windows, and they use UpDownTool_LTSC_v3.iso. My history with the abominable Win11…
Camomile for your Windows laptop (if you really must)
Remember when I wrote Stop drinking Kool-Aid regarding battery life in Linux? Well, how about battery life and laptop's temperature in Windows? Despite using the Balanced power plan, there's no…
250 years of hypocrisy and lies
The United States celebrates, in a jingoistic and bombastic style, an independence obtained as a rebellion against unfair taxation following the Sugar Act (1764), the Stamp Act (1765), the Townshend…
Stop drinking Kool-Aid regarding battery life in Linux
There is an open secret that a laptop’s battery life in Linux is worse than in Windows. At least, this was true for Win7-Win10, because Win11, I'm told, is worse,…
În care discut cu Gemini ciudățeniile conjunctivului în franceză și italiană
Nu voiam să discut gramatică în acest moment, dar o mică îndoială cu privire la alegerea unui verb m-a făcut să discut cu Gemini aspecte ale conjunctivului în câteva limbi…
Furious German YouTuber Packs His Bags: to Japan! ● Updated!
RadicalLiving, a YouTuber with 780 videos over 13 years, is a libertarian-leaning entrepreneur who hit his limit with Germany's rigid, high-tax bureaucracy and its failure to adapt to modern challenges:…
A cursory look at WPS Office
Years ago, I quite liked Kingsoft Office. I remember I have used it under Win7 and Android. Since the suite became WPS Office (from Writer, Presentation, Spreadsheets, not from “Wonderfully…
An Armchair Theory of Bodily Modesty
This is an essay meant to complement my controversial take on Fjord’s Palme d'Or and my other politically incorrect opinions that are scattered throughout the blog. I used WPS Office…
Palme d’Or for Mungiu’s Fjord: Cannes conned by a wily movie!
At first, I thought Cristian Mungiu had produced and directed the wrong movie. After a summary analysis, I decided that his choice was a deliberate trick and that they have…
What if I boycotted all Chinese LLMs? ● Ludditus investigates!
This idea might come as a shock to those who noticed that I was quite a heavy user of Kimi lately. I mostly used it for answers that involved distilling…
Small polish touches to Debian 13 installed via Xebian
Since the home page of Xebian insists that this Debian blend (not derivative!), “with only a thin layer for artwork and configuration that differs from Debian,” is “based on Debian Unstable/sid,” I…