<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> Shriram! Look what the vandals have done to our beautiful boy! Culture is dead.</p>

<p>I found out last night that our house helper doesn&#39;t know how to read and write. (Middle class in the Philippines can hire helpers). I&#39;ve been texting her for months but I didn&#39;t receive a reply because she actually doesn&#39;t know how to read. Illiteracy really concerns me. 😔 Now I have to teach her.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> Lots of stuff has changed since a few years ago, so it might be worth trying Wayland, but don’t feel like you have to.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@dalias" class="u-url mention">@<span>dalias</span></a></span> i currently have a </p><p>xinput set-button-map &quot;DLL075B:01 06CB:76AF Touchpad&quot; 1 1 3 4 5</p><p>in my .xsessionrc (why is this not the same thing as .xsession? mystery)</p><p>so presumably i&#39;ve encountered the same problem and couldn&#39;t fix it otherwise at some point in the map</p><p>that said i don&#39;t think it needs .xsession, it can just as well live in an autostart script that KDE provides</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@dalias" class="u-url mention">@<span>dalias</span></a></span> KDE has a very detailed keyboard configurator (it exposes basically all of setxkbmap, with a much less suffering-inducing syntax), but not that much for mouse and touchpad</p><p>i would tell you what&#39;s the status of touchpad but due to an infuriating hardware bug related to the I2C controller in this laptop it&#39;s currently offline and i&#39;d have to hard-reboot to fix it</p>

<p>imagine shipping a major version upgrade so good that someone has to fix their setup _and yet chooses to give you money anyway_</p><p>every vendor should aspire to this</p>

<p>i gave KDE e.V. a hundred euro per year</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@tef" class="u-url mention">@<span>tef</span></a></span> this aligns with my strategy</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> it&#39;s worth noting that kde used qt/c++ despite being non-free originally, because they felt it would make a better environment</p>