Day: February 9, 2025

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I still 💙 XFCE

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I am oddly very proud that I use the XFCE 4 desktop environment on my computer. I love it, so old fashioned but fast.

It has not changed much since 2003, and even back then it was released as a throw back to the late 1990s for those who wanted a fast window manager and hated the gloss and new ways of doing things of Mac OS X, Windows 2003, and most notably GNOME 3. I just remember to 2003, how awful I thought GNOME 3 was and how refreshing of a throw back XFCE was. 

Maybe that’s the great things about Linux in general. You don’t have to change as old reliable programs keep working with small features added over time but generally keep running the way they’ve always run.

AWK is the classic example – it’s turning 50 next year – a half century old – but it keeps working as it always has and still gets small useful new features like adding native CSV parsing. While Python can do much of what AWK does, nothing beats AWK for simple data processing.

Big Mac Bridge

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The Mackinac Bridge is a suspension bridge that connects the Upper and Lower peninsulas of the U.S. state of Michigan. It spans the Straits of Mackinac, a body of water connecting Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, two of the Great Lakes

 

Average High is 35 Today

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Even with the unusually cold weather we’ve been having, it’s clear that things are getting warmer as the sun angle increases! The sun angle is much stronger at 32.8° compared to less then 24° only a few weeks back in December. It was noticable and helped melt away much of snow we got last night, along with the warmer temperatures. Dusk isn’t until 5:48 PM which on a clear day means much more light in the evening. Spring is coming!

Obstacle Course

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It should be entertaining to see when I get home to see where my neighbor puts his trash cans, now that he signed up for trash service. My old neighbor always put his trash and recycling cans on opposite sides of the driveway, which made it like threading a needle with my big jacked up truck. He was trying to get the landlord to put it on the rent bill, but I was like no, I’m quite happy hauling my cans to transfer station myself and saving the papers and other burnables for starting fires up at camp.