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-<H3>updated 2022-05-20</H3>
+<H3>updated 2022-05-26</H3>
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+<H2>Foreword</H2>
+<P>
+Due to the majority of designers having typical ability, use of computers may be significantly more challenging for users with disabilities, especially affecting sight and reading.
+Change in this regard for those that simply lack the facilities to read but have the patience to do so is inevitable but slow, with current measures being proprietary (designed first to make money and second for function) or sorely lacking in actual useability.
+Helping users with a deeper inability to read extensively is a tougher problem to which the solution may not yet be known even vaguely.
+The only advice I can offer is that everyone should, until the point at which it harms others, see to the removal of obstacles to their ability, without hesitation or apology.
+If you give up on computing, so be it.
+There are more valuable things to explore in life.
+</P>
+<P>
+Computers encase lightning within sand with the purpose of creating a lifelike inanimate robot that can consider particularly boring thought.
+Measures should be taken to avoid attachment, whether mental, emotional, or physical, to computers.
+Caution can accompany admiration.
+Ultimately, the humans were the ones that produced the computers, and computers amplify human flaws as well as human feats.
+Try to be kind to everyone but don't take anything too seriously.
+</P>
+
 <H2>ACPI client</H2>
 <P>
 An ACPI client is a program that displays computer ACPI information, typically power and thermal statuses.
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 <LI><A HREF="https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2020/08/27/using-the-linux-kernel-case-insensitive-feature-in-ext4/">Using the Linux kernel's Case-insensitive feature in Ext4</A></LI>
 </UL>
 
+<H3>Culture</H3>
+<H4>Pronunciation</H4>
+<UL>
+<LI><A HREF="https://www.linux.org/threads/common-pronunciations-of-linux-directories-commands-etc.4445/">Common pronunciations of Linux directories, commands, etc</A></LI>
+</UL>
+
+<H4>Xenia</H4>
+<UL>
+<LI><A HREF="http://yerf.metafur.org/date/1996-07-14">A hacker fox!</A></LI>
+</UL>
+<P>
+Xenia was an entry for the Linux logo competition which Tux eventually won.
+</P>
+
 <H2 ID="login_manager">Login manager</H2>
 <P>Use <CODE>elogind</CODE>.</P>
 
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 <H4>ALSA</H4>
 <UL>
 <LI><A HREF="https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Main_Page/Adding_sound">Adding sound</A> (Alpine Linux Wiki)</LI>
+<LI><A HREF="https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=256857">ALSA lib conf Evaluate error</A></LI>
 <LI><A HREF="https://dev.to/setevoy/linux-alsa-lib-pcmdmixc1108sndpcmdmixopen-unable-to-open-slave-38on">ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1108:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave</A></LI>
 </UL>
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 <CODE>mpv(1)</CODE> and <CODE>vlc(1)</CODE> are good options.
 </P>
 
+<H3>Window Management</H3>
+<P>
+It's possible to make X exec a window manager at the end of initialization to ease the creation, deletion, and manipulation of windows.
+Contrary to what is now popular belief, window managers are not necessary (thought they're extremely convenient compared to the lack of them).
+</P>
+<H4>ctwm</H4>
+<UL>
+<LI><A HREF="https://datagubbe.se/twm/">Configurations for ctwm (and twm)</A></LI>
+</UL>
+
 <H3>Web Browsing</H3>
 <H4>TOR Browser</H4>
 <P>