its linux

just a play on the common linux refrain(/running joke, depending on who’s telling it), that “<CURRENT YEAR> will be the Year of the Linux Desktop” (ie the year that mass adoption of linux for home computers takes off in the mainstream) because of some improvement in user experience or some microsoft debacle

also yeah tvp rocks I think its just basically soy protein (edit: can be any legume/pulse that is made into oil basically, uses the leftover protein) made into craggly crumbles that you can rehydrate. I made decent tvp “bacon” bits once too but then realized I rarely have a use for bacon bits and eventually ate most of them plain lol.

it probably isn’t the healthiest or most ecologically perfect food but I like it. and its not like its the star of the show, its just adding protein or soaking up flavor mainly

ah gotcha, yeah meat alternatives may not be on the list there then

what? no way. that sucks, its pretty widely available near me.

its shelf stable and light/not bulky though so I bet ordering it online is fine. looking online it appears the brand they sell near me you can get 4 bags (3lbs total) for sub $30 which I’m pretty sure is cheaper than in-store lol

There’s a few recipes from when I was a kid that really take well to it but I just like having a shelf stable protein too because meat and even tofu are kind of annoying when you are cooking for one and have a bad habit of going weeks without cooking a proper meal

TVP tacos are up there. I love how shelf stable tvp is, great for most things that need a seasoned and ground protein.

I havent made it in a few months but okonomiyaki is also really fun and delicious though it usually makes a disaster of my kitchen lmao

This week I went to the store and bought groceries and have been eating mostly homemade meals instead of relying heavily on fast food.

next week I hope to keep it up, go out to eat even less, and make sure to eat all the perishable foods that I bought, and pick up more fresh food late in the week.

also doing better on cleaning/household chores, but not quite there yet. I may need some more spring and summer appropriate clothes but I want to sort through more of my mess before I commit to buying anything new. maybe thrift some shirts

or french! but maybe they actually stick with it? idk

the main difference is that the mobo size is standardized and the manufacturer is actually promoting those sorts of diy reuse projects, they were always possible with many laptops but basically nobody did them (pessimistically: there’s a good chance this will still be the case for the vast majority of old frameworks). Its a good step in the right direction for sure, and I’m thinking of buying one for an org I’m involved with, but its not quite as revolutionary as their marketing makes it out to be

Still generates ewaste (whole mobo gets tossed or at best resold, every x years) but, you know, less of it for sure, major step in the right direction

Ah very good point. Luckily you can’t buy one anyhow. I just happened to have experience using one that was mostly positive

The HP Dev One was pretty reasonable at $1000 and hardware support built out with help from system76. So of course they killed it after like 9 months.

The pinebook pro just doesn’t have the guts for most people to be happy with it (rk3399 so 6 core BIGlittle architecture. not horrible but struggles to run modern massive webapps). But if you want a little ARM-book that is as FOSS as possible it’s okayish at $200 or less. I found the screen and keyboard and overall feel to be pretty good. Speakers and power management chip both pretty bad.

but like yeah point taken, the landscape is pretty poor still, requires a lot of research to see what has good compatibility, or splurge on something like you listed, or accept major tradeoffs

piracy stays winning

I’ve never even delved into suse or fedora on a desktop lol. only on servers, and only a little bit (do not get me started on dnf in EL9. Impossible to use on a resource constrained system with any large repos like EPEL installed). They seem cool but I just don’t have the time and energy to learn new distros very often anymore lol

wow, I haven’t thought about synaptic in years! throwback! I did always find it a nice, functional option. If I hadn’t made this shit a career and spent probably years of my life at a terminal, I might still be using it. It’s literally better in almost every way than its successors, and its lightweight to boot… I guess that’s what you get if you try to build an apt GUI, rather than try to make a flashy clone of the app store and just happen to use apt as the backend lol.

The problem I guess is that people need to learn how to use it. What even is a package? a repository? why does it say Amateur Radio? etc… But I don’t think that’s really a huge problem. Better to have functional stuff with a learning curve than intuitive stuff that’s always broken and not very powerful.

yeah exactly like, these widely used, major apps have significant breakage that requires manual tweaking by the end user. It’s frustrating and makes me very reticent to recommend flatpak across the board. If anything little apps that use flathub as their primary distribution channel are more likely to maintain their package well and use its features effectively lol, big orgs/companies don’t put in the effort/take it seriously, or don’t provide a flatpak at all resulting in unofficial ones which vary in quality.

Which sucks because I actually do like flatpak mostly. it’s pretty much essential for my phone setup

I like the AUR for that sort of thing but I guess that’s not that much better than a PPA. Plus Arch are being massive dickbags and saying “we’re x86 only” and deleting arm packages from the AUR so that kinda ruined it for me.

my experience running it is mostly pop os and an arch variant on the pinephone so I’m probably not getting the best possible flatpak experience lol. I’m also not much of gamer so no recent experience with or opinions on steam…

My experience has been that most things will work fine but little annoyances will accumulate. I can’t drag and drop files into Signal, have to use the popup file picker from inside of it, electron apps are almost always configured for X11 and require manual tweaking settings to get crisp text on wayland, some apps are literally useless without filesystem access and yet dont come with it by default and dont use the proper file picker that would let them load in files from outside their little jail.

better OS settings integration would help a lot

the fact that I can’t drag and drop files into signal to send them? awful. I have to use a file picker, like a neanderthal

I do use the clipboard a lot for images though, at least that works

flatseal

having to install and fiddle with a whole other program just to get permissions right for an app is so annoying lol. I like flatpaks for some stuff but really I prefer the distro version unless there’s a compelling reason (package not available or woefully out of date in the repo, etc)

yeah pop shop is pretty trash at it, the ubuntu one was workable but not great last I checked (and ewww snaps), the options on arch are mostly pretty rough too…

I love the CLI but having a basic, reliable gui app for one of the most fundamental functions of the OS is worthwhile thing

snaps are annoying and semi-proprietary bs. Flatpaks are neat and useful, but the permissions model really needs work. Little shit often breaks with it it seems and flatpaks rarely receive the sort of attention a distro package maintainer would provide, even though it should require less work than maintaining a traditional package. I run so many apps that are predominantly distributed as flatpak, and yet the devs don’t take flatpak packaging issues and little quality of life annoyances seriously (presumably because they run the software built from source in their dev environment and so never experience the flatpak)