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What I was missing on KDE was a way to switch between programs without going through a bazillion windows. At one point I had five Firefox windows open, plus four file managers, and getting to GIMP ended up requiring a lot of keypresses: Firefox -> Firefox -> File manager -> Firefox -> File manager -> GIMP. I would have much preferred just Firefox -> File Manager -> GIMP. Is there a way to switch directly between programs and not between individual windows until I happen to land upon a window belonging to the program I actually need and can then Alt+Tilde to the correct program?

(Also, I think “Tilde” here does not really mean “AltGr+^ followed by space”, but instead some other button; probably the one overneath Tab?)

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It is absolutely clear form the demeanor of these three that those experiences should be associated with these three. If they weren’t, these three would be speaking of some completely different subjects altogether. Plus, they would not be in the Russia.

There are non-genocidal Russians, but these three have still been pro-genocide at least a month ago. Let’s hope they’ve changed their position recently, but that doesn’t really excuse their earlier evils.

I mean that if I have four Firefox windows open, three file manager windows open, GIMP open and Steam open and press alt+tab, I get cycled through four things: Firefox, File manager, Gimp and Steam. If I want a specific Firefox window, I first Alt+Tab to Firefox and then use Meta+Tab to cycle between the different windows of Firefox. That is incredibly convenient!

On my other computer I’m currently trying OpenSUSE, and its version of Gnome does not have the option for enabling this in the keyboard shortcuts. Not really sure if my Ubuntu really uses Unity or something else, but anyway it’s something that has a feature that makes the workflow much better.

I’m talking about the experiences of a couple hundred people I’ve talked about this war in the last 12 years. I’m a fucking talkative person :)

Like you say, those three do not make the connections. And that does tell a lot! And even if they now do, and even if they now are against the war, they were not against the war just a month ago. If they had been, they would not see any sense in complaining about this. Instead, they’d be loooong gone from the Russia.

At least from 2014 to February 2026, these three people have been supporting the war against Ukraine. They’ve wanted their nation to FA, now they are FO.

And yet, the regime has stronger support in the Russia than it has abroad. As absurd as that is.

Just ask any Russian who lives outside the Russia and have visited their relatives in the Russia since 2022.

They made some very clever polls about this in 2023. What they did was first interview a large number of people with four claims such as “homosexuality is an abomination.” The only thing the people had to tell was the number of claims they agree with. They could answer “0”, “1”, “2”, “3” or “4”. Nothing else.

Then they took a large number of other people, and did the same again, but this time with a fifth question: “I support the war in Ukraine”. They did not know about there having been that other poll with one question less. And again, the only kind of answer they could give was a number between zero and five.

By comparing the results of the two polls, they found out that 70 % of the people had chosen the “I support the war in Ukraine”, even though nobody answered anything else than one single digit. At the same time, Levada had made a more traditional type of poll, resulting in 80 % saying they support the war. So, for Levada 20 out of 100 people told truthfully that they are against the war, 10 out of 100 lied that they support it, and the remaining 70 out of 100 told truthfully that they support the war.

…and then, I’ve met those anti-war Russians and asked the question “if that would end the war, should the Russia completely leave all parts of Ukraine, including Crimea”, and they basically exclusively say that it should not. So, they are anti-war, but with the condition that the war should end in a Russian victory of at least some sort. If there wouldn’t be any victory at all, then the war should not be ended. My experience is that less than one out of twenty “anti-war” Russians think that the Russia should end the war even without gaining any sort of victory.

Most of Russian culture is “borrowed” from other cultures. If you visit Ukraine, Georgia and Kazakhstan, you’ll catch all that you fear you might be missing by not visiting the authoritarian hellhole.

Same with me. I had lived 2 months in Ukraine in 2015 when I hitchhiked several thousand kilometres in the Russia. And every driver I talked anything about Ukraine was telling me how the roads are full of bandits now and how I was lucky to make it out of Ukraine alive. And then all these same stories about Russian-speakers being in danger there. I told them that I ws living together with a Russian-speaking Ukrainian, that in the capital 70 % of people speak Russian as their main everyday language, that almost all of my friends in Ukraine speak Russian as their mother tongue, and that none of my friends had never encountered what I was now being told about.

And their reaction: “They only showed you in Ukraine what they wanted you to see”. No amount of “hey, I’ve been walking the streets completely alone, going to various parts of the city. Plus, my girlfriend would have no reason to lie to me about something like this.”
The reply was always some form of “still, they clearly did not show you everything.” And then to my “How did they manage to hide that stuff from me?” they said “I don’t know.”

Again, zero percent of drivers I talked with said anything deviating from the above. I soon learned to avoid talking about Ukraine, and instead made haste to get the hell out of the Russia, as there was nothing I could do to help those people, and speaking up agitated them in a manner that did not feel very safe as a hitchhiker. Kazakhstan was much better.

Year 2022 got me very disappointed. I live in Finland, but can still do something less than 2% of people here can do: I can speak passable Russian. And I’ve had to change my view on people from that country because of that.

Just go and ask her: “If that would end the war, should the Russia leave all of Ukraine’s territory, including Crimea?”
Her answer will be either “No, it should not” or “It’s complicated”. The “It’s complicated” then turns out in further conversation to be a form of “No.”

Even those who are “against” the war demand that the Russia must be allowed to have at least some sort of victory. If the Russia returns back where it came from, then these 12 years of war would have been in vain. And the people there do not want for it to have been in vain.

I have met Russian citizens who really are against the war. But those people now also absolutely refuse to speak Russian. No matter how bad their Finnish, or even just English, they will refuse to speak a word of Russian. Because, by their experience, their country is so thoroughly seeped in propaganda, and has been that way for centuries, that they cannot find a way to be against the war and still feel like Russians.

Those Russians who are really against the war are extremely rare, and they would not complain the way this person does. They would be fully aware of why all this is happening.

The person in the video was too young to vote when a vote could have made a change, but she is absolutely in support of the war continuing until the Russia gainst victory of some sort.
Before year 2022 I would have been againt this kind of view that I am expressing here, but I have had conversations with so many tens of Russians since then that the case is absolutely clear. There are people who have grown as Russians who are not genocidal, but their number is extremely low. And they consider it insulting calling them Russians. It’s something akin to calling someone with their deadname if you do.

The person in the video is in support of genociding Ukrainians. And she is in support of abducting Ukrainian children. Putin has incredibly thoroughly destroyed the nation in his country with the propaganda he started around 2003 or 2004 or so.

She wanted this shit, and she still wants it. She would just not want to have all the bad sides it comes with. She is against how the Russia is invading Ukraine, not against the Russia invading Ukraine. And does not want the Russia to retreat from there, so in the end the how is within limits of acceptable to her as well.

I haven’t really found a DE that I like more than Unity. Basic Gnome gets close, but the ability to separate switch between programs and their windows is a big thing for me.

But, because of snap packages being annoying, I would really like to migrate away from Ubuntu. Meh.

It is, in some places and to some extent.

Until year 2009, the Berlin transportation’s rules said “Disturbing use of alcohol is prohibited in public transportation.” …meaning that non-diaturbing use was allowed. The new rule dropped the word “Disturbing”, meaning that the procedure is now no longer allowed.

But, the last time I was in Berlin, a few years ago, I was relieved to see that the tradition still lives on. I bet there are cities where it’s still outright allowed to this day! But even where it isn’t, it’s still being done.

Plus, people do drink their Feierabendbier in parks and benches. And often simply first thing after coming home. But Feierabendbier, the concept of drinking a bottle of beer ASAP after the end of your working day, is still alive and kicking indeed!

Feierabendbier!

That’s what happens en-masse in Germany in the early havening.

Everyone goes to a corner shop to buy a bottle of cold beer, enters the metro train, opens the beer bottle and drinks it in the metro on the way home.