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How can I improve my handwriting?
  • The mechanical action, not the content, is what's important. So you want something you'll be able to stay focused on (and not be bored by), but other than that it's not a huge deal.

    Actually this could be a good opportunity. If there's something you want to learn really well—potentially even memorize parts of—writing it over and over is a good chance to do so.

  • How can I improve my handwriting?
  • Depending on where you're going, you may not need to worry about it much. When I was in postsecondary education, there wasn't much handwriting required. And I graduated 13 years ago; certainly things have gone more online since then. You might want to check with a current student in your field of study at your university and see what the handwriting requirements are. Make sure to ask whether cursive is a dealbreaker.

    If it is something you're going to need to work on, there's really no getting around it: you're going to need to practice. Cursive or print, you're going to need to practice it. Get a big notebook, and something to write (hopefully something you're actually interested in), and just start writing. Transcribe a TV show as you're watching it. Copy a book line-for-line. You get good at the things you do a lot, and so you're going to have to write a lot.

    Also, I would recommend slowing down. My handwriting is great when I'm writing slowly but can be terrible when I speed up if I don't pay attention. Slow down to start; if it's still not legible, slow down even more. Make sure you aren't practicing your existing bad habits. Then, as you practice, be deliberate: focus on each individual letterform, and as you become more comfortable writing legible letters, try to pick up the pace.

    There are other things that you might find help you out: try practicing on wide-ruled paper, rather than college-ruled, for instance. Try a pencil or pen which moves more roughly across the page, for more tactile response. Make sure your pen or pencil is making strong, clear marks so that it's obvious what legibility issues are your hand (and not just a bad implement).

    You can change your writing style; I have, on a couple of occasions. It just takes practice.

  • How can I fix this rotation issue?
  • I'm not moving any goalposts at all. I'm expressing how inexperience and bad assumptions can make one's searching unfruitful through no fault of their own. That's all I've ever been saying.

  • How can I fix this rotation issue?
  • Ah, you made an edit. Yeah, "kde login rotation" does, but "EndeavourOS login rotation" gives you no results mentioning SDDM. Giving people the benefit of the doubt costs you nothing over assuming that they're lazy, and the added bonus is that you don't sound like a jerk.

  • How can I fix this rotation issue?
  • Yes. I would assume that the problem is in X11 or Wayland before thinking it could be SDDM, frankly. But even then, googling "Linux login screen" doesn't immediately reveal SDDM to be the point of concern.

  • How can I fix this rotation issue?
  • Well, there was zero effort documented in the post.

    You're not their teacher. It's not your job to decide how much effort they've put forth, or to grade whether or not that is sufficient.

    Take a look at Ubuntu trying to teach newcomers how to ask a question.

    And if they documented their research process, you'd say "tldr just ask the question." Stop trying to be paternalistic and gatekeepy. Just answer or don't.

  • How can I fix this rotation issue?
  • I don't know about other people, but it's way easier to google something than to ask a question and then wait for the answer. I'm not OP, but if I've asked a question, it's only because I've exhausted my ability to find the answer on its own.

  • How can I fix this rotation issue?
  • How do you think the OP is supposed to know that "SDDM" is the issue to look up? You don't get to enforce another person's effort. If all you want to provide is "you're looking for 'SDDM,' that would provide help and empower them without sounding like you're biting the newbie for not knowing everything.

  • Google and Apple are hosting an app dedicated to TheDonald and other far-right forums that were banned from Reddit.
  • Prove...anything, honestly. Prove that I called anyone bad (I didn't, in any comment). Prove that there are mainstream leftists currently advocating for mass murder. Prove that you're not just making up everything you're saying based on "feels." Grow up? I'm not the one pretending that my opinions are more important than the facts.

  • 2FA after recent update

    I had 2FA enabled for lemmy.world before the big update this past weekend, and when I logged out/in this morning I discovered that 2FA had been turned off for my account. I've got it turned back on and I think it's working now, but just a heads up that if you had 2FA enabled you might need to re-enable it.

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    Messages for Android Beta scheduled send broken

    In the latest Messages for Android Beta, scheduled send is broken due to a date validation bug. It won't let you schedule messages after today's date number in any month. So, for instance, today's date is 29 November, 2023; it won't allow any messages to be scheduled in December unless they're scheduled on the 29th, 30th, or 31st. Also, it won't allow any messages to be scheduled in 2024, for what I assume are similar reasons.

    Reverting to the latest stable version fixes it and allows messages to be scheduled for any future date.

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