Orion Ussner kidder

English prof at FDU Vancouver, specializing in composition and comics scholarship. Dad, nerd, writer of SF/F fiction (see me on writing.exchange).

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2025-08-15 04:32:41 UTC

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I hear ya. I would love avoid running Scrivener in Lutris. You have to decide what's a bigger pain in the ass: making things work in Linus or dealing with Windows. (And you have to decide what your values are, too.) Everyone's different.

2025-07-07 22:08:09 UTC

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Streisand Effect.

2024-11-22 15:50:43 UTC

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That's true. The text isn't there.

2024-09-02 18:33:58 UTC

Yearly reminder: #LabourDay was invented to distract from #InternationalWorkersDay, which lands on May 1 to commemorate the #HaymarketMassacre when police violently attacked labour rights activists who were demonstrating for the eight-hour workday we have today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haymarket_affair

2024-08-28 23:24:05 UTC

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IT's so maddening how many people don't bother to learn that BC "liberals" are just conservatives. It's not even debatable. They just are.
(Corollary: federal Liberals are pretty damn conservative, too.)

2024-08-26 19:58:12 UTC

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FWIW, I've decided, as a gentile, that it's strategically unwise for me to use it at all for exactly the reasons this thread makes clear. It's historically accurate. It's what a specific group of people call themselves, but it's also been used as an antisemitic slur, so if *I* use it, it makes it that much easier for someone to derail by accusing me of racism. So I'm not giving them that opening.

2024-06-29 05:56:38 UTC

So far, the mindblowingest thing about #linux is that it proves you never "needed" to turf your computer every four years. It's entirely possible (although I'm sure it's not *easy*) to make an OS that continues to work on fairly old hardware. #LinuxMint runs fine on a MacBook 2007. That's not a typo!
This treadmill we've been on for decades where the newest OS starts to chug after a few years--so you buy more ram, bigger hard drive, eventually a new computer--it was always a scam.

2024-06-01 06:44:01 UTC

I realized today that over the course of my life, I've switched OS's once every 15 years or so. Ha!
#DOS / #Windows, #OSX, #Linux

2024-05-25 06:07:57 UTC

I keep seeing ads for suped-up laptops for #Linux, and that's great and all--I know a lot of people are really into just how damn fast they can download an update--but I'm way more interested in, "I got my MacBook 2007 to be perfectly serviceable with #DebianLight or whatever." I want to breathe life into an old piece of shit, not acquire yet another piece of tech I'll have to recycle someday.