• 0 Posts
  • 4 Comments
Joined 8 days ago
cake
Cake day: January 21st, 2026

help-circle
  • That’s TeX, not LaTeX.

    Don Knuth (who originally wrote TeX) had a real obsession with perfection. He even thought he could pay exponentially increasing awards to people who found errors in his books.

    He eventually stopped doing that because he wasn’t as perfect as he thought he was. Still way off the charts compared to the average person, though.



  • a large chunk of the replies were “well MY displays work just fine!”

    I just went to check the previous thread, and I think there’s miscommunication both ways here.

    They read your post as “I’m trying Linux, but it’s even hard to get monitors to work.” So, they responded, “I haven’t had a problem with monitors on Linux in decades.”

    There’s not much else they can say, as you weren’t really asking for advice, so you didn’t give any technical details, but you were still complaining about something that they like.

    Meanwhile, you read them as you said, “well MY displays work just fine!” So their replies seem utterly baffling, defensive, and unhelpful from your perspective.