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@unabomber

Excellent. Anything about DWM that might convince a i3 user like me to migrate?

@strawberryfieldsforever

@strawberryfieldsforever lol yes it supports graphical windows just fine. The reason it shows text stuff is because we are nerds and think text stuff is cooler :)

@unabomber

I even run i3-gaps on my phone with very minimal screen real estate

@strawberryfieldsforever

@unabomber

I never used DWM but I've heard of it. Looks good. In my book any tiling WM can be made to look pretty, the choice in minimalistic WM is more like a choice in programming languages, it really just determines what your "code" or "config" looks like and if you enjoy working with it.

I found QTile is a bit nicer for deep customization, but i3, being more popular, was a little easier to get working well out of the box.

No idea where DWM falls in all that, i3, being the most popular choice, wound up meeting my needs so I didnt explore much beyond that.

@strawberryfieldsforever

@strawberryfieldsforever I wouldnt say that, plenty of people use it at normal resolution. I just love high-resolution displays and have always used them on any WM I use. Smaller resolution just means youll fit fewer windows on a single workspace, no biggie, there are plenty of workspaces.

@strawberryfieldsforever Yes, but one of the nicest looking minimal WM IMO. But more importantly than the customization itself is that it is a tiling WM, which is a class of WM you probably arent used to. They let you use your keyboard to navigate more easily (though you can still use a mouse) and generally organize your windows for you so you never need to have windows minimized (though you can still minimize them). Generally it means you dont even need window decorations.

Attached are three pictures of tiling WM.. the one with the screen full is QTile and shows what a WM normally looks like when you like it tile naturally. The other two pictures show how you can also resize and place windows manually. The other 2 are i3-gaps. All three pictures are of desktops I configured.

@strawberryfieldsforever If i had to pick between the two biggest WM gnome and plasma id pick gnome as well.. that said I havent been on a mainstream WM in a while. Of the ones listed XFCE would be my top choice, budgie is a good traditional WM too... but yea i3-gaps all the way in practice.

@strawberryfieldsforever I rarely use monjaro but if i do I install my own WM and dont rely on it being setup for me. Usually i3-gaps these days

@bonifartius

Well said, I agree with everything you said. I myself have been skeptical of the new vaccines since they were rushed and using new tech, nothing wrong with being cautious of them. But as you say, being cautious doesnt mean you blast every anti-vax statement without research.

My biggest gripe with swiley's content is just that it isnt researched and seems to sell an agenda rather than trying to find the truth. Most of it are things a few seconds of googling could easily debunk.

Keep in mind I've been just as critical of some pro-vaxxers who follow similar patterns sometimes.

@swiley

@DonGamerGuy

I wouldnt say it doesnt work, but you are right to say it works far less than we had originally hoped due to the rise of variants (it is effective against the original).

If all you do is get the first shot and nothing else you are significantly safer than doing nothing at all, at least according to the current data (we can never rule out some future complication given its new tech, but that seems unlikely at this point).

That said, while its probably still a good idea to get the initial vaccine I do agree that a 3 - 6 month booster will not be practical and overall wont completely solve the problem, even if it does reduce the risks. The only way to solve the problem would be to create a better vaccine that includes the new variants and try to roll it out to herd immunity point very very quickly, which may be impractical if people dont cooperate (and they probably wont if they arent forced, and forcing people has its own issues).

So yea while your concerns are valid, probably still a good idea at a minimum to get an initial vaccination even if you wont be getting the boosters.

@colonelj @fiction

Very interesting study suggesting that Stradivarius violins may be special due to the way the wood was treated:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/09/study-confirms-superior-sound-of-a-stradivari-is-due-to-the-varnish/

@DonGamerGuy

Nothing wrong with vaccine hesitancy. Plenty of good reasons to wait or be hesitant about the new vaccine, not the least of all the emergency status by the FDA of all but the pfizer, or the new and experimental nature.

The issue is when people go full on nut case conspiracy and make up shit that a child could easily disprove, for example the common lie about the vaccine having killed thousands of people in the USA, which is not even close to true, or the lie that VARES records deaths from the vaccine directly, which can easily be disproved with just a few moments of research.

Its not their hesitancy to take the vaccine that makes them bat shit crazy, its the bullshit they spew when they try to explain why.

@colonelj @fiction

@colonelj You might try using actual facts you didnt pull out of your ass next time then, it helps with them.

@herag Happy to help :)

@herag lawl, fair :)

@b6hydra Happy to. I dont have much tolerance for willful ignorance. Most of the anti-vaxers are smart enough to know how to do research and debunk most of the nonsense they spout. If they arent then they would at least change their tune once informed of the misinformation. But they dont, so I have little tolerance for it.

Now people who misunderstand topics they truly dont understand and cant, that I have a lot more sympathy for.

@lucash_dev Where are you that restaurants are asking for VAX? No one here is doing that that I know of.

@s8n

Then learn to read. or accept your too stupid to understand when people explain something to your clearly.

I'll make it simple since you seem to struggle with that:

No the preliminary death numbers were not used to initiate the lockdowns, ICU capacity was.

@skells