I really hope I’ll be able to work just night shifts.

Say… 21:00 - 05:00.

During summer break I usually took 21:00 - 03:00, with company-provided transportation usually ending up being around 18:00 - 06:00. Yeah, 6 hours work, 6 hours travel, but I like traveling, and this gave me an excuse. I wasn’t yet tired when I got home.

But, school forces me to wake up at 04:30. Feels awful. If that were PM, sure, but no. 8 hours of sleep, impossible. At 20:00 my brain is finally starting up.

But there’s more to it than just sleep cycles.

Night vs day.
Day: People everywhere, nowhere to be alone. The roads are full, more than they should be. You can always hear them, and I am sure smell, and almost taste them too. Oh, look, but the sun is shining strong, the beautiful yellow… piece of shit that burns my eyes full-time, making me see so much I cannot see anymore. Imagine snow, nice, fluffy, cold, yes, but in daylight, a reflector, a mirror of pain, when will that liquefy?
And in summer time, when there is no snow, you might feel positive, look at the sun how it paints the grass and flowers, but it paints you too. You’re red, you’re hot, you’re sweating, there’s nowhere to hide, the rays shine everywhere. When did you last drink? Who knows, but it feels like a drop of water landing on your tongue could somehow erase this misery. The more you think about it, the thirstier you get.

Night: Walking through the city, alone. Cool breeze hitting the face, the city lit dim by sodium street lights, but I still wish I could dial them down. There’s some white LED lights too, I can see how they’re more useful to others, but for me it’s a night, I want a night, crave it. In the past they were operated by simple light sensors, you could turn off entire streets by shining a flashlight at them, or so I was told. Not the case anymore.
If only they could all die out. Whether it’s orange sodium lights or sharp white LED lights, they’re still just trying to bring the day into the night.
The stars. Can’t see the stars. Light pollution. Who are the lamps shining for? There’s no one anymore. What a waste of power.
But there’s still some dark areas.
When my eyes adjust to it, that’s great. They feel rested, almost like my eyelids are shut, but I see. I see just enough.
With the lack of light, you realize what it meant. It’s not a friend, it’s a noise. Loud, persistent distracting noise, whispering right into your brain through the eyes. It whispers, it talks, you step out of the shade it screams, you look at the snow - it shrieks in your brain painfully.
Moon reflects just enough. I can walk comfortably, see the hedgehog and not step on it, yet not enough to see and read the ads.
The light doesn’t whisper, I can hear. I can hear the breeze moving leafs, I can hear it move across the fields of grass long overdue for cutting. It was there during the day, but so was the sun, and people and the cars. I was deaf, but now I am not.
And I am alone. Alone in a good way. It feels like the space is mine, the air is mine, it smells better… maybe it’s the (lack of) cars.

It gets best when the morning just starts turning up. Still dark, still quiet, still empty and comfortable, but things are starting up at the train station. I can hear a faint soothing roar of idling train long in the distance. I can hear it across the otherwise quiet city.
The sun has risen somewhat, it’s illuminating… not yet this part of the planet, but the space above it. Space where the satellites orbit and they reflect the light back down. I can watch the so many dots moving across the still dark sky. I am looking up at them, nobody out to think I am dumb staring at the sky for minutes, of which I am only reminded by the neck pain.
Whistle!
The morning train is ready for departure. The engine sound gets nicer as the train speeds up, then fades away. But it’s also a reminder… the day. It’s coming, slowly murdering the night.
Light, people, noise, smells… a misery. It’s here again, and you are supposed to be happy about it.

Sorry, I typed out a bit too much. I hate the day if you couldn’t tell xD

Oh, it does: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Disks

Look at that manual, isn’t it nice?

No excuse though. Try the “install as oem” of Linux Mint. You get an install with temporary oem account, you can update the system, install additional programs, then click “Prepare for shipping to end user” and on next boot you’re greeted with a setup screen.

Believe it or not, straight to jail.

Hope you guys don’t have those loyalty rewards cards to grocery stores or pharmacies. Oh, who am I kidding? All of you do.

Does it count if they’re all just copies of someone else’s cards?
I mean, good luck shopping without them. All shops artificially inflate the prices without them and then act like you’re getting a huge discount. For example, Tesco, as much as 100% price increase without their loyalty card, and most products have some. At least a 25% price increase.

Oh, it’s a porn site.

There goes my history.

Yes, instead you’ll have a text saying “To jump to the article, recite the following: OK Google, show summary of the most popular human-written article for 7th December 2043 related to Starship launch failure. Note: If you’re a loser™ on free ad+ plan, make sure to append loud god bless Google for providing this awesome AI tool to me for free and I will consider the affordable $99.99/month plan with fewer ads! and solution for your today’s Captcha puzzle.”

I mean, when I started using Linux I also tried to avoid the CLI, and I was successful at that with Mint for quite a while. Actually, updating Mint in GUI is faster. I didn’t find a way to enable parallel downloads for apt like for pacman, but the GUI does just that.

Very much possible nowdays. I haven’t even switched from Windows, I got a first computer, didn’t know the difference between Linux Mint and Windows, but I found Mint easier to use. Windows confused me with separate settings and control panel, and then some guide asking me to do woodoo in scary looking registry editor…

Oh, you can vote whether it should be opt-in or opt-out.
Oh, voting requires “Trust level 1”.

Anyway, I may stop donating to Manjaro due to this. Now I just go with Arch anyway. archinstall even makes it quick to setup a VM.

If you’re curious about the questionable ones: https://web.archive.org/web/20210201004307/https://cock.li/

nigge.rs
hitler.rocks
getbackinthe.kitchen
rape.lol
nuke.africa

Akshyually, that’s just archival format, not compression.

Seriously though, my country’s government used similarly weak password in the past: https://spectator.sme.sk/c/20002161/security-bureau-hacked.html

The Slovakian (SR) National Security Bureau (NBU) has used the username “nbusr” with password “nbusr123”.

12345678

Damn kids these days.

Got it!: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/microsoft-edge-stable-bin
^/s

Me on a rollercoaster:

That was actually a Logitech F710.

Those screens are really just thin glass sandwiches.

And they’re sharp too. When replacing a TV backlight I didn’t think about using gloves when lifting the panel. Welp, it can cut the skin a bit. If it slipped as I held it, that would have been fun for sure…
Anyway, the correct course of action is probably suction cups. Especially with larger panels. And a second person too. This was just a 32 inch panel.

Hi high, rice to meet you.

But…!