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Cake day: August 9th, 2023

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  • Digitally sign a PDF with a couple of clicks.

    So far, I have spent about 6 hours (sporadically over the past 3 years) trying to set up a way to do this, yet ultimately it didn’t ever work at all. And every time I end up using some online third party service just to get it over with.

    I did it on Windows once and the setup was a simple 5 step wizard. After which digitally signing a document just works with a couple of clicks.

    Bonus round:

    • on Linux there is only one PDF viewer that implements tripple click for selecting a whole line AND can invert the colors of the document (which helps some partially blind users). That viewer is Atril and it has no way of even attempting to digitally sign a PDF. As soon as you want to do the signing, you lose those one of the two features and people with impairments can’t do their work properly.

    • the screen readers have voices from the 90s and setting up anything modern with them is above my skill grade - as again, I fucked with it for days and didn’t manage to get a natural sounding voice to work. On Windows it is way simpler, including working well for mixed language documents - for example German text with technical terms in english or latin.



  • My point is not about seperation, but about conscent.

    If you come to me at work and ask “Can I tell you something work unrelated, that might interest you?” then I have the option to choose.

    Maybe at the moment I am stressed, or doing some heavy mental lifting and don’t want any distractions - then I can decline and not be force educated on some topic.

    Maybe on another day I have a free mind and not much to do - then I can accept and listen to it and potentially find it interesting and worthwhile to try out.

    An email leaves no such choise and thus the message could be not only unwanted but also anniying.

    I’d say in general, suggestions only work, when the other party is receptive to it and may do the opposite if they are unwillingly shoved down the recipients brain.


  • I am the last person to have anything against libre software, but if I’d see that preachy line in a work email I’d roll my eyes and groan.

    I don’t mean to be rude or shut down your idea, but I think recommendations like these need to be appropriate to the situation for them to have any effect - instead of being blasted per email at the “wrong time”.

    I feel like a generic work email, especially if the topic is not even related to software, is the “wrong time”, because I’d hate spending my work attention on somebody’s oppinion (even if I agree with the opinion) and I can’t see that it is not work related until I have read it and understood the meaning. Which would be quite an anniying situation for me personally.

    Cheers!







  • Now actually use it for a couple of years. Then you’ll see whats special about it.

    For me personally, Ubuntu was breaking on every dist upgrade, the software was always out of date or not available in the repos. Been running arch for 5 years, same install, even transplanted it over to newer computers without issues. When some package is missing, I can throw together a PKGBUILD with chatgpt and put it on the AUR for others to use. It fucking rocks and is extremely sturdy while allowing me to do with it whatever I want.

    But yeah, besides that, it’s just a linux. The individual things it does well are not even exclusive to arch. Ideally, you should not think about your OS at all and it should be out of your way, while you do something on it.


  • I’ve been using a njalla domain for my personal website and selfhosted stuff like git, gist etc. and it just works so far.

    They have a pretty clear stance publically afaik - if you do something illegal, they kick you out without explanations. I have no opinion on that. But it seems that lots of people who tried to host something illegal there play innocent on social media and cry about how njalla took their domain. So as a result the service seems unreliable.


  • I feel like you are overthinking this.

    Option 1 is what I would do. Seems very straight forward. And additionally:

    Moving files around or deleting files is a very quick operation, because the filesystem will only edit the “metadata” and not have to copy the whole file bit by bit to a different disk.

    Maybe delete the OS files first (everything except /home). So it’s not cluttered from the start. Then copy stuff from /home/user/stuff to /

    Take special attention to the /boot partition. I don’t know which drive the bootloader for your nobora os is installed. It may have been automatically put together with your Ubuntu to your HDD.