Scots shares many words with English, and many words that look like they are English words spelled differently are indeed distinct Scots words, like gie, wi, aheid, heid / heed, oot, pairt, whit, et cetera. Scots also has a ton of regional dialects, and is spelled phonetically, so spellings can vary widely. There is also literary Scots vs spoken Scots. The Scots on Wikipedia for example is not the sort of Scots you’d usually hear someone speaking, or not at least that I’ve ever heard. Scots vs English as used today is often more of a spectrum than a clear distinction for these reasons. Like, sure, you can write in such a way that 99% of the words are not recognizeable to someone who doesn’t know Scots, but a sentence could also contain words that work in either language and still be considered Scots because those words are shared. There is also writer intention: a writer may use the English spelling of a word, whereas they’d use the Scots version in speech. Likely a result of the fact that for years, Scots speakers have been punished for speaking and writing Scots in schools, as a part of an intentional attempt at erasure of the language. This is where we get features like the “apologetic apostrophe,” which further muddies the waters, making it as though Scots writers are writing ‘English with an accent.’

IMO, I’d definitely call the language in this post Scots.

I just smack the tube on the counter

In much the same way that sneezing can be ascribed to a cold, it depends on frequency and severity.

Lol no, you don’t typically need life support to sleep.

For me, the machine was on a table beside the bed at least.

Yea, I did one of those too, but it didn’t pick anything up, so I had to go in.

You have to speak to the camera looming above your head, then they’ll come and unplug you.

Yea, sleep studies suck. You’re in stuffy room tethered to a machine by a million wires everywhere from your knees up and covered in smelly glue and sticky pads. After a night of that, if you’re lucky, you’ll get to stay for the entire next day and try to force yourself to take naps every couple of hours.

I use RSS Guard

Seconding Navidrome. I stream from my Navidrome server to my phone, and then via DLNA from my phone to my HiFiBerry / stereo system. It’s very nice.

Maybe not - I’ve heard those things can get really hot inside like a greenhouse

Tried updating your bios?

Before the last word.

I’m very content. Stopped distro-hopping a few years ago and settled on EndeavourOS.

Forgive me.

KDE’s KOrganizer supports journal entries

Generally, I’ll do RAW editing in something like Darktable, and then do actual retouching work in Krita.

Yea, it really is very good. I’m not sure what you mean by gamut tools, but there are out of gamut warnings, gamut masks, histograms, etc.

Krita has CMYK, and very good non-destructive editing these days. It’s my preferred photo editor, including for the occasional magazine ad work I do. It also has great support for PS files, including smart layers, etc, plus it has layer effects, masking, filter layers, GPU accelerated canvas, and G’MIC support covers a lot of the fancier pbotoshop stuff like content-aware fill. IMO, for the workflow and interface alone, it’s leagues ahead of G***.

I use Krita as an image editor and I prefer it.