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posts/aug23.md

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+title: "Scrollable Window Managers"
+description: "hey"
+author: "maggie"
+---
+
+# Hi!
+Today I want to tell you about something new, something not very popular yet, I'd say.
+
+## What are scrollable window managers?
+They are essentially tiling window managers, but infinitely scrolling to the right. Unlike a regular tiling WM, your windows do not resize when a new one is opened.
+
+## How could one use this?
+From my testing, I've found that it's quite handy to have one "primary" program in the center, then a file manager + terminal on the right side, then something like a music player on the left side. I really do recommend you try it.
+
+## Which one do I get?
+The interesting part is that most scrolling window managers are based on top of other, already existing desktop environments/window managers, such as:
+- [PaperWM](https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM) - Arguably the most polished one, has been developed for the longest time, but is built on top of GNOME. Uses the mouse as well.
+- [Karousel](https://github.com/peterfajdiga/karousel) - KDE version of PaperWM, needs quite a bit of tinkering to get animations working. Mouse does not work with it, but it's still pretty good.
+- [PaperSway](https://spwhitton.name/tech/code/papersway/) - Sway implementation. Have not tried yet.
+- [Hyprscroller](https://github.com/dawsers/hyprscroller) - Hyprland (bleh) implementation.
+There is also an outlier among the rest, a scrollable WM that is not based off of any other preexisting environment.
+- [Niri](https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri) - Is in development, blazing fast, is Wayland only, but does not support XWayland.
+
+## How does one of these look like
+Here is a picture of Niri from their GitHub
+
+![a picture of Niri](/media/niri2.jpg)
+
+## Why have you been away for so long?
+It's been.... very long since the last post, right? There's been a ton of real life things going bad in the last two months. But now, everything is going great again! I am now a cat owner, and it's nothing like how I expected it to be, but it's beautiful. From now on, I will most likely continue to write posts in a more timely fashion. Thank you for understanding! This is also the first post I have written entirely in neovim, along with my website + blog design update which will come pretty soon... sooo bye bye nya!
+
+

posts/may21.md

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+title: "My hackintosh"
+description: "how i scammed apple into thinking i paid for their stuff"
+author: "maggie"
+---
+# maggie, what the fuck are you talking about? what even IS a hackintosh?
+a hackintosh is a consumer PC (traditionally made to run Windows.... ew.) hacked to run macOS, this used to paradoxically be the best way to run macOS in general, but this is no longer the case, since Apple is soon discontinuing x86 support in favor of their ARM chips.
+# how do you even do this, are there any obstacles?
+actually, yes. you obviously can't use grub to just boot macOS, you need a special bootloader (nowadays you use Opencore, a fork of rEFInd, but Clover and Chameleon were used in the past).
+## and.... is that it?
+no. you obviously need to install kexts (kernel extensions) for your hardware, you also need somewhat specific hardware, like an AMD GPU, ideally an Intel CPU (though AMD is very possible, it just comes with a lot of issues and tears). you also need to edit a ***huuuuuge*** config file with all sorts of system specific information, it's a lot of work, took me about two days or so, but i feel it was worth it
+# are there any limits to what you can do with a hackintosh compared to the real thing?
+well, it depends on if you're on AMD or Intel, if you're on AMD, you can't use the hypervisor (for example), since that depends on the Intel instructions. if you have an Intel CPU, you're pretty much good, everything should work provided your hardware is compatible.
+# sounds cool and all, but why would you even put so much energy into this?
+there's a couple of things that made me want to do it
+- curiosity
+- i wanted to use the apple office tools
+- better music production
+- certain exclusive programs
+![screenshot of my macOS desktop](/media/nyaos.png)

posts/nov13.md

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+---
+title: "I set my system language to japanese"
+description: "i am afraid"
+author: "maggie"
+---
+# Hi! It's me again!
+I decided as a definitely skilled Japanese speaker that I'll set my language to Japanese. Here's what happened...
+
+## It's..... not that bad?
+A lot of things all across the system are just written in katakana, which is (among other uses) used for writing loan words
+
+This means that there are tons of app names and option that are pretty much untranslated, but that doesn't make using a system in Japanese particularly easy.
+
+## It is that bad.
+There's also naturally a lot of kanji. If you don't know what kanji is, they're characters imported from Chinese. Those are, just like the loanwords, all over the system. Examples of those are:
+入力 (input), 出力 (output), 管理者 (administrator) and so on.
+
+This is GOOD!!! Slowing down my work apart, I'm able to learn various computer related words I probably wouldn't have come across.
+
+## How do I learn them?
+I put them in a program called Anki, you make your own flashcards and then through spaced repetition you learn the words. I take a screenshot of the words I don't know, run them through OCR, verify they're correct, look their definition up and then add an Anki card.
+
+## Will I keep at it? 
+Who knows? I just had a tough time setting a program up but I did do it after all so maybe I'll keep at it. I'll try to do it for a week at minimum nya. you'll most likely be updated.
+
+## WHERE IS THE FUCKING WEBSITE MAGGIE
+its coming i promise

posts/nov4.md

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+title: "Why the FUCK does Windows require different types of controllers for different games"
+description: "disclaimer I am not a genius with how windows or Linux treats controllers but I think I know whats going on"
+author: "maggie"
+---
+
+## hi im back fuckers and theres a rant for me to write
+so, today i wanted to play some gta online but those rockstar dickheads decided to kill it. that's partially why i'm even on windows to begin with at this point.
+
+after finishing said gta online session i decided to hop off and play celeste and because im a lazy ass bum i decided not to reboot and play with my usual bootleg PlayStation Two controller.
+turns out, from what i know, windows divides controllers into two groups, directinput (old) and xinput (new). if your controller does directinput only, good luck with playing any modern game in 2024.
+
+on the other hand, if you have an xinput only controller you're pretty much left out of playing any old games.
+# WHY??
+Linux does this perfectly like you have a controller and it just WORKS you don't have to think about useless bullshit like this.
+why cant it just work, i swear for every one thing windows does right there are 200 other things that it fucks up on a ridiculous level
+
+## There is a tool.
+yes, i got the tool, but now it uses 50mb of ram in the background at all times and that fucking sucks why do i have to rely on extra software to get my games running?????
+
+bye chat meow

posts/sep8.md

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+title: "Maggie, where the FUCK is everything?"
+description: "why YOU should make backups for unfortunate situations out of your control"
+author: "maggie"
+---
+# this is a short one
+nothing happened i just didnt back my post images up and the posts werent quite it without the images lol so to upkeep my professionality i just deleted the blogs that i felt were shitty. goodbye hex editor post that one is gone like completely im pretty sure