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My political opinions
updated 2021-01-12
Please do not put any stock into what I believe, as most of it is autocontradictory and the rest contradicts itself.
- Cereal
- The milk goes after the cereal into the bowl.
- Cereal with coffee instead of milk is pretty good.
- Soggy cereal beats out freshly poured cereal most of the time. Exceptions are maybe Cocoa Pebbles and Cheerios. Life cereal is especially good soggy.
- The last powdery bits of the cereal are much better than the initial big bits. A lot of that powder is sugar and it sweetens the milk.
- Bag cereal is just as good as box cereal. Taste-wise they're identical and they're about the same effort to pour because the boxes have bags in them too. The only con to bagged is that a greater amount of cereals are boxed (e.g. there are no off-brand Wheaties where I am) and boxes have cool puzzles on the back (though now that I'm not a wee lass I do have a cellphone on which I play Konami Picross instead).
- Computers
- Document editor: Wordpad on Windows, Libreoffice elsewhere.
- Jargon
- /bin - pronounced bin
Why? "bine", as in binary, sounds stupid. I think of it as a bin in which to place binaries.
- /etc - pronounced etsy
Why? It's easier to say than ee tee see or et cetera, and the literal meaning of the phrase is less important when it comes to describing file paths.
- /lib - pronounced lib (like in "liberty")
Why? See "bin", except I have no word imagery for its use.
- /mnt - pronounced em en tee
Why? It doesn't seem standard on Linux and a user with which I'm speaking may already have a "/mount" - I did when I was young and thought /mnt was reserved.
- /opt - pronounced opt (like in "opt-in")
Why? The user is opting in to optional software.
- /proc - pronounced prock
Why? Seems easier to say than "pross" like in processes.
- /selinux - pronounced ess ee linux
Why? That's what seems intuitive to me. My system doesn't have it.
- sudo - pronounced soo doo
Why? It stands for superuser do.
- /sys - pronounced sis
Why? It's easy to say and short for system.
- /tmp - pronounced temp
Why? It's where temporary files go.
- vi - pronounced vee eye
Why? That seems to be what everybody says. Personally sometimes I say "vee" instead.
- Operating system: Anything POSIX or UNIX-like, nearly always Linux. Windows is unuseable for me.
- Text editor: ne or vim (or vi). Notepad on Windows.
- Standardization
- Date format: YYYY-MM-DD. Anything else is a hate crime against people with brains.
- Time format: THH:MM.