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     - -> [[agora chapter]]
   - [[paramita]]
     - finally made [[mako]] work! the notifications popping up in the context I was writing in was *very* disruptive, but somehow I had normalized it.
+    - it made it hard to focus whenever notifications kept coming in -- and it turned out mako had never worked essentially, IIUC I was just getting the default notifications you get with firefox/chromium + wayland if you don't have a notification manager.
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+- a [[tool]].
+  - #fix https://github.com/emersion/mako/issues/257