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Why don't you run for office? (self.politics)

submitted 4 days ago by absGeekNZ to c/politics

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I'm making the bold assumption, that most people here are not running, in either local body or national elections.

Everyone loves the complain about what "public servants" do. So why not step up and do something about it?

No accusation intended or implied. Just curious.

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[–] TagMeInSkipIGotThis 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm Pakeha*, middle-class, male and (getting) old(er). I'm already over-represented.

Also, there's a difference between moaning about the public servants that are employed to do the will of the government, versus elected representatives who try to impose their will. I think its fine to complain about the latter if they're doing stuff you disagree with. Though the majority of complaints about local government are horrendously uninformed and wrong. But that's the world we live in.

*can anybody point me to how to access special characters in gnome?

[–] absGeekNZ 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

You could try enabling the compose key

I stopped using Gnome a few years ago, I'm running on Cinnamon now.

For me it is ralt, then hold ralt and hit e twice = ə; a twice = å; c twice = č, s twice = ß; ralt then 1 then 4 = ¼…there are alot; and ā = ralt then a then minus

[–] Dave 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I also have right alt. I can do āēīōū by holding right alt and pressing the letter. Just checking settings, I seem to have the compose key disabled but the alternate character key enabled. I have Māori as the input language.

screen shot of Gnome settings showing the keyboard menu item and then the settings with Māori as the input language and the alternate character key set to right alt

[–] TagMeInSkipIGotThis 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

right-alt as the alternative character key must be the default as I had it too, but at least replying here (in Zen) it doesn't seem to do anything. So I added another input source to have English & Maori, but still doesn't seem to do anything, nor does toggling the compose key.

I guess there's a chance Zen just doesn't respect those settings / implement them.

[–] Dave 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I tested in Zen and it works fine for me 🤷

I don't have English as an input, only Māori. It doesn't prevent you using letters not in Māori, in fact it seems to work the same as English but allow the macrons. I noticed the same thing in Windows as well.

[–] TagMeInSkipIGotThis 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ah! That's what it was, as soon as I took English out, I can right-alt and do the ā.

[–] Dave 1 points 2 days ago

Too easy! I suspect it can't use more than one input source at once, and you're supposed to switch between them using the Super+Space combo. So it was probably still set to English.