I would massage all of his scalp wrinkles.

Southern tune

*minstrel tune

As much as I’m for properly assigning credit to the South that it’s managed to outright shirk in the last half century, minstrelsy’s impact and the degree to which it was popular culture (and continued to influence popular culture well after) cannot be understated.

The original lyrics were written in a “negro dialect” and it’s an example on a “plantation song”, songs which were sung by someone portraying a slave missing both the south and the plantation where they were enslaved. These songs helped bolster the narrative that slavery was a positive for the enslaved, providing a sort of parental guidance that the eternally child-like (in intelligence) slave supposedly desperately needed.

…can’t say I’ve ever run into that and I’m a Midwesterner; where are you getting pickles on your pizza‽

If you want, “Such is life” is Sa se lavi, in Haitian Creole; won’t stand out as much except for discerning listeners, when spoken, but you can sub. that any moment you’d normally use C’est la vie.

When I use an editor, I don’t want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!! Not a “viitor”. Not a “emacsitor”. Those aren’t even WORDS!!! ED! ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!!

I have – were I more artistically talented – often wanted to create graphics and stickers for Emacs utilizing the noble octopus.

Don’t forget Wayfire; my windows are like my legs after trying Linux for the first time: wobbly.

https://youtubetrimmer.com/view/?v=NeHVWfKV7Qc&start=150&end=163&loop=0

Yeah? Would you say everything’s pretty fluid?

but i’d stopped suggesting framework to people long before we found out they’re a bunch of assholes.

Yeah…; I was Hell-bent on a Framework being one of my next laptops and telling everyone about them and then that shit dropped. Massively disappointing.

—me encouraging our locksmith after we’ve accidentally triggered the prison alarm

💯💯💯

I do; 'been my daily driver for 2 years (maybe 3?), now.

My experience has, generally, been great. You get the same minimal instability you’d get from any rolling distro but the stability you get from it being declarative and reproducible is fantastic; I, also, like being able to use my favorite programming language for my config. (and pretty much everywhere).

It isn’t terribly difficult. I’m in the same camp as you (in my case, there was no way I was going to run Linux Libre over the standard kernel).

Guix uses what it calls channels to distribute package definitions and the NonGuix channel is an often used one for non-free packages (https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix). With that, i can use the standard Linux kernel (and other things, such as Steam).

In terms of Cuda, I found some definitions for it at this repo.: https://codeberg.org/guix-science/guix-science-nonfree/src/branch/master/guix-science-nonfree/packages/cuda.scm

Theoretically, I’d expect so? As you can load a Wisp file with Guile, I’d expect you could get Guix to read a Wisp config., though it might be somewhat round-about in method. Something like this, maybe: https://www.reddit.com/r/GUIX/comments/1g6ft9h/comment/lsoa1e7/.

Personally, I love LISP for the parentheses but I love seeing just how much we can get away with (and choice), too.

To be fair, you seem to be using the original UI that mirrored Word 2003’s UI (which, when I first switched over to Linux back in 2012, I was positively thrilled about Writer having as it was basically a drop-in replacement for Word, then).

I dunno if I just occasionally used Word too many times since then but I find the old UI impenetrable now, as well; but LibreOffice has support for the Ribbon UI (and 2–3 similar ones, I think), as well. Maybe you might find it easier?

I almost never switch the orientation of Writer so I genuinely was pretty much finding how to do it for the first time.

Layout > Orientation > Landscape (I presume you meant that since the default orientation is Portrait)

Took me about 3 seconds.

This was exactly my thought; feels similar to people’s response to PSAs regarding forest fires: “you had to be told to put out camp fires or check they’re fully put out?”

Clearly, history indicates that concepts don’t stick unless drilled into “common cultural sense”.