A conman has been posing as a psychic and swindling tons of money from people at the fairground. The police showed up, but being short in stature, he managed to evade notice and escape.

The next day, newspaper headlines read: SMALL MEDIUM AT LARGE

Speaking of radio, yesterday I was wondering why music was coming out of my printer.

Turns out, there was a paper jam.

I hate shoelaces.  Either they come off at the most inconvenient time when I'm in a hurry, and I have to waste time re-tying them, or they are too long and get caught in my bicycle pedal or gears, landing me in near-accidents.

One day I decided it's high time to sit down and have a good talk with my shoelaces.  I said, can you please not get untied at the most inconvenient times, and can you please not get caught when I'm riding a bike?

My shoelaces replied, I'm a frayed knot.

Student: Teacher, would you punish me for something I didn't do?
Teacher: Of course not.
Student: Good, because I didn't do my homework.

I've always used pure ALSA. The newer wannabe replacements / layers on top just add needless complication of little value to my use case.  So I just don't bother.  ALSA works well enough for what I need to use it for.

Hmm, just found this online: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Rxvt-u … ansparency

Now that's what I call cool. No need for compositors, the software does the work without hairy dependencies.

I avoid gnome like the plague, my system has the absolute minimum gtk shims it takes to run software that unfortunately sometimes require some gtk libs. Most software that have fat gnome dependencies also tend to have sucky (read: non-keyboard ) interfaces, so I avoid those too.

But yeah, it's absolutely stupid how the simplest of tasks requires megabytes of config files and code where in the old days just a couple of lines in the right config file would have solved everything.  The people pushing for this kind of crap are essentially pushing for the windowsification of linux, which is the diametrically opposite direction of why I left the Windows world in the 90's and never looked back.  Gimme back my simple config files and keyboard interface dammit.  I don't care for fat eye candy that add little value and needlessly consumes disproportionate amounts of resources for nothing.

I avoid anything the depends on Wayland like a plague. So anything that needs a compositor is not in my books. I run my terminals on rxvt-unicode in an X11 server just fine. No need for compositors, or pseudo transparency, whatever that is, rxvt-unicode uses X resources like a well-behaved terminal emulator should and is quite customizable. Supports 256 colors. No heavy-duty dependencies on resource hogs like gnome or Qt.  The way things should be.

I use an Android phone without a Gmail address. Not seeing any severe limitations, other than features I do not wish to use like automatically "backup" my files to Google's servers.

What's the definition of parity?

- A parrot's favorite drink.

Why did the bartender refuse to give the parrot a drink?

- Because he was parrot-no-id.

What geometric figure most resembles a parrot?

- A polygon.

Why did the mathematician's parrot starve?

- He couldn't solve the polly-no-meals!

As they say, the difference between "male factor" and "malefactor" is just a single space...

@The-Amnesiac-Philosopher: I'm glad you didn't include maps or text containing the word "part" in your post, because otherwise, it'd be a spam trap.

On another note, last night I dreamed about my pet rabbits all lined up like in a parade, and hopping backwards.

Then I woke up, and realized that it was my receding hare line!

Which means that the other leg is the right one?

This would be the first time a leg that's left is the right one.  I guess when you only have one leg it's no longer important whether it's the left leg or the right leg?