LXTerminal.

I don’t know if increasing the font size counts as customization. I’ve got old, tired eyes.

Transparency is also turned on, which I think I did with compton. It was a long time ago and seems to persist through Debian’s dist upgrades.

It’s worth adding that the entire LXDE suite is great software. It just works. I hope I don’t have to give it up any time soon.

There’s always BSD!

Fair. :)

You seriously haven’t had to provide tech support to relatives with MacOS. Windows is brilliant in comparison.

I would love to see this on my ATM!

A lot of people deride security by obscurity, but I like using Linux simply because the Linux desktop is secure and isn’t as big a target as Windows or MacOS. These “year of the Linux desktop” articles have been coming out for years and I’ve always thought, “I sure hope not!”

This is why we still need Richard Stallman. That guy never gives up on explaining why manipulative, proprietary software is against our interests.

Use free software – and when you can’t, use ad-blockers, privacy badger, noscript, etc.

I’ve been using LibreOffice at home for years.

My employer’s recent wholesale shift to Office365/Teams/OneDrive convinced me to switch to LibreOffice at work. It’s a good thing that there’s a portable version, because that’s the only way I can use it on their locked-down laptop.

Trout slapping is still a thing! There’s a Hexchat extension for that!

I found out because it was on TV. He must have been in Ontario by then, because the early part of the run didn’t get a lot of attention. I was 10. So if I knew, everyone probably knew.

He died on a Sunday. We were at church and the priest said something about it. It felt like everyone there was crushed by the news.

Me too. The problem is that I’m not much of a Firefox evangelist outside of my household. I guess it’s time to change that.

Costco would cover some of that. I live in a small place and try to buy local, then Costco, Best Buy, Staples, etc., before Amazon as a last resort.

Early in the pandemic, I got funny looks when I started referring to it as Captain Trips.

It’s been a while, but I recall enjoying A Madman’s Diary and The True Story of Ah Q.

Brezhnev by Susanne Schattenberg

If I was in a department with graduate programs, I would speak and vote against setting limits on that basis. Students should have the freedom to make an informed decision.

As a graduate student, I was advised that there were no jobs and that there wouldn’t be any for the foreseeable future. That turned out to be incorrect.

I would support limits based on departmental finances and capacities, which make a lot of sense. But that’s a different issue.

In Canada, it seems that a lot of departments in my field are purposefully limiting the number of PhD spots available, since there are so few positions for graduates. I wonder if that’s the case elsewhere?

Fellowships provide a livable existence in Canada. I don’t know about the U.S.

There are various routes as a professor here. Some are more difficult than others.

You don’t have to know the solution to see the problem.

It’s only a choice if other options that pay a living wage are available to you.