I am extremely lucky to live in a place with a long growing season and no frost most years. I live in an apartment, and most of my 5ft by 10ft balcony is occupied by garden plants.

In the spring and fall, i can almost completely feed myself and my partner off what i grow. in the summer and winter i lose lots of crops, probably mostly from inexperience.

We still need the grocery store year-round, but it’s very nice when we get to skip a visit because we’ve been harvesting from the balcony. Turns out if you pick the right crops and get good, you can do a lot with very little

For one it’s nice to have a way of managing/installing the sofware.

Try installing an older Linux native game from GOG, it’s a huge pain in the ass: ancient dependencies you have to install by hand, cryptic error messages, debugging controller support for every game separately. And good luck uninstalling.

Compare to Steam: you click “install”, wait a bit, click “play” and you are playing. uninstalling is also trivially easy

i’d buy way more games if they had a Linux version of their Galaxy client. I already spend way too much on Steam

So to clarify this is a custom PCB in a custom case? The end result is very impressive, and looks totally manufactured. I’m a big fan of media keys on the left, and you never can have too many F keys

https://main.un.org/securitycouncil/en/s/res/2397-(2017)

I was curious so i looked it up. Doesn’t exactly say that

laser is the way to go. inkjets are cheaply made with expensive, wasteful, and sometimes proprietary ink cartridges.

laser printers use toner, which prints way way more pages per cartridge than ink. More than 10x. Cost is about the same or sometimes less than ink

The only thing laser isn’t great for is photos. I go to a print shop when i need those, but if you print a ton of photos at home than maybe inkjet makes sense

I would suggest responding to what they wrote, rather than what they didn’t write or what you imagine they may have written, but that’s just me.

Another good option is to not respond at all.

Inventing a strawman then arguing with it is pointless

the implication that they only tried it once is childish

Perhaps it would be helpful if people who weren’t interested in discussing in good faith would refrain from posting

It’s going to alienate some religious minorities in my country. There are certain groups of Amish and Mennonite that currently do not participate in the Social Security System. They are citizens, but do not have SSNs.

A system where digital IDs are assigned from birth wont apply to them (if they have any say), but will significantly disadvantage them in the workplace.

Also, the technical implementation will either be very poor if set up by lawmakers, or give undue and unfair influence to specific tech companies if the Industry is allowed to figure out implementation. Numbers must be verified by Google, Apple, and Microsoft for example, and God help anyone who tries to exist outside that space

And for what? What benefit does society reap from digital IDs? I cant see anything.

Yes, though the future of GrapheneOS on Pixels after 10 is currently in question

Long term everything they make is for the landfill. Soldered RAM and SSDs on most M-series made it clear Apple doesnt expect the devices to last very long.

A 5-7 year lifespan is enough if your customers generally upgrade every 2-4 years.

For those that don’t click:

These are recommendations for other FOSS podcast apps by the developers of AntennaPod, since they only have the time and resources to develop their app for Android

The url made me think AntennaPod was available on other platforms, it is not

too much to eat before it goes bad. i max out at pizza twice a day personally. if i have more than a two pies worth i need to start freezing

i find it still palateable after 24 hours out, but i never go past that, usually overnight at the most. my partner will let it sit for longer if i dont intervene

the flavor and texture degrade quite a bit even just overnight. if you put it in the fridge right away (in something airtight) flavor and texture stay much more intact. For me i will give it up to 5 days in the fridge before throwing it out.

if i have way too much pizza i freeze slices in airtight bags. a bit of a hassle to reheat, but it comes out almost as good as fresh

my wife has a Kobo reader and it’s a great alternative, from Canada. The reader works great with Calibre on desktop for books you already own, and the Kobo store is more or less equivalent to the Kindle store.

I have no suggestion for getting files off an iPhone, but presumably an app exists to arbitrarily send files to desktop, and from there Calibre works.

Kobo build quality is better than other e-readers, and it supports color and markups. Overall it’s pretty good for PDFs/textbooks and novels, but manga/comics can be a little goofy.

I cant speak on the syncing since she has only the one device.

Good luck!

Edit: seems like you edited (or i misunderstood) the OP. Kobo (the device) works great with US library lending, but ymmv if you are in another country. If you use the kobo app on your phone it will sync your position with the device, but the app is pretty flawed on mobile and doesnt have a desktop version i’m aware of.

I wouldnt mind using the app to read fiction, but it’s not great for reference material. I use a standalone pdf reader for that kind of thing on my phone, which obviously doesnt sync.

If i had no access to a CRT i’d either get an upscaler or a monitor like this:

https://checkmate1500plus.com/IntroductionDisplays.aspx

I would never consider a smartwatch that is locked to one ecosystem, so Pixel watches have no appeal

Fair, but cartridges cost real money to produce. Disks cost pennies. Publishers used to do much cheaper “collection edition” when a popular game was reprinted after the initial run, but that doesn’t seem to be a thing anymore.

Digital distribution is free, but there are frequent sales at least (except Nintendo)

this Phaser? https://segaretro.org/Light_Phaser

Probably has a lot to do with access to healthcare. My parents were kind of hypochondriacs when i was young, so i was diagnosed as a toddler.

Lots of parents don’t know what to make of a kid wheezing, especially if it’s infrequent and mainly associated with illness. If you aren’t familiar with asthma you’d probably not suspect anything.