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Cake day: 2023年7月20日

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  • That’s exactly the route that I was going. Although I’m back at work today and noticed that even a usb-connected wired headset has some issues. I have to do some more testing, but the only way I’ve been able to make things work seamlessly is by logging out with my private user entirely while I’m working :/











  • Grammatical case. I can only really describe it in German. If you take the sentence “The boy gives the man the apple”, it’s “Der Junge gibt dem Mann den Apfel”. “Der” is masculine form of “the” in the Nominative case. “Den” is the masculine form of “the” in the Accusative case. “Dem” is the masculine form of “the” in the Dative case. It’s subject, indirect object, direct object, respectively, if you know verbs. There’s also the Genitive case, which I didn’t go into here.

    The reason it’s not sufficient to talk about subject, direct object, and indirect object though is because the grammatical case also goes beyond just a noun’s relationship to a verb, it’s also affected by prepositions. If you take the German sentence “I’m driving with the Man, but without the Apple” (I know, sort of a silly sentence), "ich fahre mit dem Mann, aber ohne den Apfel. The prepositions here, “mit” and “ohne”, dictate that the two masculine nouns in the sentence get the masculine form of “the” in the Dative case and Accusative case, respectively. The reason why some prepositions dictate certain cases isn’t clear to me. I just have the tables memorized :D









  • Guix

    Ah yeah, I’m in the same situation. My daily driver is arch, but at some point I came across guix and installed it on an old laptop for when I feel like computering in front of the tv or something. Somehow I’ve even gotten yubi keys to be recognized and usable, but I really feel like someone needs to write an intro to the system-level APIs. The official documentation often feels like it assumes a lot more understanding of this than I do, and I haven’t figured out a way to wrap my head around it.

    Since it’s not mission critical for me though, it’s been a fun experience!