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  • The flip side of this is charter schools aren’t required to take special needs kids, either. Oh, your kid has Down Syndrome or is Autistic and needs additional staff or effort? Sorry, they’re not welcome here. They have to go to the public school. The public school doesn’t have enough funding to afford Special Ed teachers because it’s all been vouchered away to charter schools? Tough titty.

    Public schools work because the money pays for things like Special Education and Gifted and Talented programs. Charter schools can’t afford either, so they don’t provide either. Even ignoring the possible pitfalls of for-profit motives, you’re going to end up with a weakened education system because without collective funding, all education must be geared towards the statistical average.




  • This amuses me, since I literally went from Gentoo to Arch because it felt like the same bleeding edge distro without having to wait for the compile time for half of the packages.

    That said, I generally don’t recommend Arch (or Gentoo) to newbies. It’s great when it works, but the number of times I’ve had to troubleshoot some random dependency issue because I took more than a week to update my system would scare any newbie away. It’s a bit like the parable of the cobbler’s kids having the worst shoes, or the mechanic always driving a project car - when you have the skills to fix something, you’re willing to put up with a lot of bullshit that a normal person wouldn’t.



  • I bought a second PTS back in the day, and kept my original as a backup. I just recently had to switch back to it because the daily driver couldn’t hold a charge anymore.

    I tried looking for a replacement smart watch that could do the things I need it to do, and there’s still not one on the market at any price point that can do

    • Always-on color display
    • 7+ days between charging
    • Notifications with full messages on the watch
    • Ability to respond to messages from the watch via both canned responses and voice dictation
    • Smart alarms (activate up to 30m before alarm time, if watch detects you’re no longer in deep sleep)
    • Customizable watch faces
    • Ability to develop custom watch apps

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    9 months ago

    I have a small script to toggle the visibility of a window when I press a hotkey. Press once, it launches the app if it’s not running, or unhides and raises the window if it is. Press again, it hides the window.

    My distro recently switched KDE to Plasma 6 on Wayland, and of course the script stopped working. Researched how to make a Wayland equivalent. You can’t. It’s literally impossible to hide (or even minimize) windows from the command line.