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That’s why they call it the Silver Tongue!

One of the South American variants of Spanish, probably Argentinian. And I say that despite not speaking any Spanish.

The language itself is a contact language and heavily influenced by centuries of cohabitation with speakers of Arabic. That simplified a lot of the Indo-European complexities away.

The phonology - the sounds - of the language are clear and predictable and sufficiently different that a non-native speaker and their accent are not too troublesome in comprehension.

The language itself is already a world language, ranking 4th in number of native speakers.

I like the suggestion of Esperanto, which I do personally speak and which has all the advantages above, except already being a world language.

KDE has a very powerful key binding subsystem. It’s a little complicated, but it allows for great freedom.

Willful violations of the Constitution. Right now, elected officials can brazenly disregard the Constitution and the worst that happens is they are told not to do that again in the future, pretty please.

What? Doesn’t even mention custom keyboard shortcuts for everything? That’s by hundred miles my favorite feature of KDE.

I fully agree, although I do have to wonder how frequently these gratuitous attacks are astroturfed and paid for.

If you can get rid of a pesky open source competitor by paying off some troll to make unsubstantiated accusations and personal attacks, it’s a great investment. Especially if the rest of the open source world doesn’t come to the rescue and supports the open source developer vocally.

Installing a random .deb comes with enormous security implications. I am not sure that making the process more beginner friendly is a really good idea.

“Beginner friendly” should be limited to things from the main repositories, and for that there is the Software Center.

Completed task successfully! For future readers, the process seems to have slightly changed. Now you go to Okular preferences, Annotations, Add annotation, call it Signature, etc. You can even resize the signature, which is really useful when the resolution of the PDF varies.

OMG you are an absolute legend of a life saver! Thank you so much, I am going to try it out as soon as I get to a computer!

Okular is absolutely fantastic. The only thing I am missing is image import, to place my signature on PDF forms, and then it’s perfect.

Does anyone know if it has that feature and I’m just too dumb to find it?

The field separator is declared to be the colon, with -F:, so the fields end and start at colons.

It’s definitely a setback, but you learned two important things:

1. You can get an entry level job
2. You need a place where you can work

The ONLY reason it didn’t work out this first time is because 1. and 2. were not sufficiently close in time. I wouldn’t have known either (and now I do, so thanks for the learning experience!). I’d probably start looking for a similar position (maybe with a company that is less weird about infrastructure, although you only know after you get the job) AND an office-type place at the same time.

I would guess a lot of the less-than-five stars motels would be happy to give you a heavy discount if you only use your room during the day and don’t need to stay at night, ever. They are really selling the nights.

It must be incredibly frustrating to be in your current position, but I am really happy that you found a way to make it better. I think you got the right solution for you, it’s just a matter of iterating it until it sticks. I was in your shoes and I wish I had had as clear a plan as you have.

If you get within earshot of a Republican, chances are you’ll hear complaints about “damn taxes” within five minutes. So to a certain set of people, definitely everyone they talk to is constantly complaining about taxes.

When I was starting out and making little money, the taxes I paid were definitely cutting into my ability to live. I think instead of “standard deductions” we should have real minimum incomes. If you are under the minimum income for your location, you don’t pay taxes.

Now that I am at the end of my career, I think it’s stupid that my taxes are not higher. If I could have given young me some of the money I am keeping now, I would have had a much better life overall. I obviously can’t do that now, but I can give someone else the same breathing room.

I used to have a Canon Pixma, and the SANE drivers recognized it and scanned from it with no issues, down to the ADF feeder. It was really surprisingly simple, zero setup configuration.

I basically just used the preinstalled software, Skanlite, and it showed with the scanner pre-selected and ready to go.

Of course, YMMV.

Purdue Pharma and the entire Sackler family. I’ve witnessed so many horrible things done by Oxycontin-addicted people; knowing that history, I want to puke my guts out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid_epidemic_in_the_United_States#History