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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Had dualboot for years but gaming on Linux finally got good enough to just… never boot Windows again. I need to delete it, it’s sitting there for a year now without booting. Switched from Endeavour to Cachy and I’m very happy with it. Everything just worked without configuring anything (and I have nvidia!). Didn’t switch on my notebook yet, which I mostly use for browser and chat on the sofa, mainly because I have quite a history with touchpad issues (also, it’s a M1 Mac, might need to give Asahi a bit more time).


  • Touchpad: No matter what I did, the touchpad is always so bad on Linux (tried on different devices, different hardware, different distros). Two finger scrolling is not consistent, movement doesn’t feel right, gestures are not precise enough. Tried to get the “two finger swipe back” on the browser on my old Intel Macbook Air and it was just horrible. Could only get three finger swipe to work and recognition of that was just not very consistent. At the moment I have a old notebook sitting here to set up for one of my family members and could only get somewhat smooth scrolling to work on Mint by using some arcane workaround… but only in Firefox, scrolling anywhere else still sucks. Apparently touchpads on Linux are still my nemesis.

    I would love to use Linux on my notebook too, but I also don’t want to fight with my main input all the time. :( Will try Asahi linux on the M1 Macbook as soon the battery issue improves, but I have a feeling that the touchpad problems will drive me back to Mac OS again (which sucks, because they keep locking Mac OS down more every year…).


















  • Ladybugs rescued my plants this summer! I actually ordered 20 of them to get rid of aphids (and the ants which came with them). They took a week, then everything alive was eaten. They actually took up a fight with the ants. There were some casualties, but apparently the ladybugs won.

    Felt a bit silly to order bugs in the mail, but collecting them took ages and one looks ridiculous hunting for ladybugs in the park.