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Cake day: December 31st, 2023

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  • There’s a really good YT channel called Midwest Magic Cleaning, who cleans hoarder houses for free. He talks a lot about the “potential” of an item vs it’s current value.

    Hoarders will keep an item because it has potential, but the item will never “actualize” that potential. Thus the current “value” of the item is just taking up space

    He also talks a lot about the emotional attachment, as well as the actual panic disorders that can be triggered by someone attempting a cleanup.

    The comic is funny, but it’s not really a good representation









  • The kernel does stuff like

    • process and CPU task management
    • hardware abstraction
    • memory management (at the process level),
    • file system managment
    • and resource isolation (such as randomized memory addresses (ASLR))

    The rest of the OS provides the actual software that users interact with, like

    • file managers
    • desktop rendering and window management
    • settings menus
    • sound mixing between applications
    • graphics rendering