Random Dent

I too have been Graphene’d up for years. I’m slowly working on ditching the last few bits of Google, just about the only thing left is an old gmail that’s tied to a bunch of accounts, which I might keep around as a forwarding thing for a little while yet.

Not related in the slightest but this one always gets me: https://youtu.be/L1WAOByxzYA

I know, it really stands out on that list lol

I’m not 100% sure, there might be a bit of overlap between them but I’ve never personally had any trouble running them side-by-side.

And yeah I love wobbly windows. I’m so used to them now that if I have to use Windows or something with non-wobbly windows it feels wrong now lol.

Oh yeah, another one I’ve recently discovered that looks interesting is Quickshell. I haven’t used it much yet though, I made a semi-functional panel with it and that’s as far as I got. But it looks like you can do a lot with it once you get the hang of it.

I have a bunch in my KDE:

• Karousel for arranging windows

• Klassy for window decorations/general theming

• Panel Colorizer for customizing the panel/dock

• Kvantum for general theming

• And then a few general things like Wobbly Windows etc.

Last time I checked it seemed like it wasn’t quite there yet in terms of features, but admittedly that was a few years ago so I’ll have to give it another look. Thanks for the reminder!

An open source 2D animation suite that can compete with Toon Boom Harmony. I bought an (expensive) perpetual license for Toon Boom Harmony years ago, and then they moved to a ridiculously overpriced monthly subscription model and deactivated my license, essentially ripping me off for hundreds of dollars. So ever since then I’ve wanted something to come along and put them out of business.

I like using qemu with quickget personally for quickly setting up VMs. You can literally just be like quickget ubuntu 24.04 or whatever and it’ll do all the setup for you.

It can do Mac and Windows VMs too, but they take a little bit of fiddling.

I think if it was me I wouldn’t worry about it. As you say, it’s his money and you’ll presumably outlive him, so then your options are: a) just leave it and then your eventual funeral stuff is mostly sorted, saving your loved ones a bunch of money and stress one day or b) you can just disregard it and do whatever you want.

What the Lindsey Graham ladybugs thing means. Once known it can never be dis-known.

I try to live by a sort of chill flow chart:

A PROBLEM HAPPENS! CAN I DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT?

        |           |
       YES          NO
        |           |
        |           |
   DO THE THING     |
        |           |
        |           |
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    DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT

We don’t do the slippers thing but here in Canada we don’t wear shoes indoors either. I shake my head when I see people in American TV shows laying on a bed with their shoes on lol.

And not a small donation either. He contributed 72% of their entire funding in 2025.

Yup. As in, referring to immigrants as ‘parasites’ level racism.

Sweden belongs to the Swedes. We have to make sure that we take care of our own damn people and we must deport these damn parasites who sit and live at our expense.

• Markus Allard

I’m an introverted person who finds people exhausting, and I’m around people all day long. I hit some kind of point of extreme burnout about three years ago and things never let up, so I’m functional pretty much all the time but if I get any peace and quiet for more than about 30 seconds I just pass out indefinitely until someone wakes me up again lol.

I kind of do that too, only I don’t start from the start each time. Mine’s just an ongoing thing that’s been going for years now.

I like the Wombats version too.

It’s also the scale of the donation for me. He didn’t just make a donation the way you or I probably would - his donation accounted for 72% of the party’s entire income for 2025. So the money that Mullvad makes is now tied to the continued existence of the party, albeit indirectly.

I have about 50 days left on my Mullvad subscription, so I figured I’d wait it out and see how they handled it. Going by this latest Mullvad response, I think I’ll probably have an IVPN account soon too.

Oh and Heart’s cover of Stairway to Heaven (not 80s or 90s but still a banger)