Honestly, "shopping lists, calendars, the weather" can be (much better) done by an e-ink tablet stuck on the door of the fridge with a magnet. There could be other interesting info only the fridge itself knows (electricity consumption, temperatures in the fridge and freezer, humidity, etc) but then all that info could also be shared via a bluetooth API or something.
I think if you have some use-case that Wayland doesn't fulfill, it's totally fine to just pin some version of Plasma and stick with it. Maybe even switch to Trinity. Chances are it will keep working for like a decade or more.
I still use kdenlive 18.08, because I know how to use that version, and it does what I need it to do perfectly well. They broke something I needed in 19.whatever (I don't remember what it was anymore), so I just pinned it and kept using it ever since. Maybe one day I'll try to figure out the latest version, but there's no real incentive for me to do so.
Laundry (with a washing machine) is significantly easier than cooking (healthy/tasty food) tho. It takes me like 2 minutes combined to load up the machine, start up the cycle, and hang it out to dry; and an hour or so to cook a good meal for two.
Nah, social division of labour is almost as old as civilization itself. It's not possible to do everything by yourself, if you're lucky enough not to die of hunger in a few weeks, you'll die of a preventable disease within a few years.
Capitalist exploitation of it (combined with faux individualism) is the issue.
Translating to this scenario, there would be no issue if we had community kitchens with cheap/free food and well-paid workers. The issue is the capitalists extracting surplus value
from a basic necessity, partly by convincing everyone to hate their neighbours and eat alone.
Nah, I mean that what they're doing isn't charity (so they are doing the debt trap thing on some level), but it's also beneficial for populations of countries they invest in, and better than whatever the fuck IMF is doing.
China has successfully withstood US intervention and helped communist forces prevail in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. They also semi-successfully done the same in Korea.
They don't fear US intervention much, it's just that their modern foreign policy is targeted at stability and growth rather than immediate overthrow of capitalism.
I tried this a couple times already: once when initially moving most of my stuff to XDG, the second a couple years ago. Both times most apps followed it, but there were some that didn't (don't remember the details - maybe it was GTK related). I didn't bother to investigate more, since it seemed like a chore. I guess I'll try again when I get some free time.
That's still confusing to me. My parents had the water heater tank in the bathroom, between the shower/bath and the sink. The kitchen sink had a separate small water heater.
hot water circulation systems should be more common
That just sounds like a waste of energy. Why not have the water heater right next to your shower, so that there's no wait? It's how it was set up in my parents home. Really enjoyed that setup, never had to wait for hot water.
Heck yes!! One of three remaining dotfiles in my ~ (the other ones are .ssh and .XCompose, I suspect I can get rid of the latter nowadays too). Can't wait for this to land in librewolf.
these aren’t traffic cops pulling people over because they’re driving while black, these aren’t people shooting your family dog or sprinkling crack on your corpse.
Yeah, they are worse. They are the guys infiltrating and destroying socialist and communist parties, propping up union-busting corpos, and defending big capitalists' property.
Do countries need national/federal police? Yes. But FBI is doing so much heinous shit (as does every other policing institution in the US) that everyone working for them is a class traitor even if by willful association.
Honestly, "shopping lists, calendars, the weather" can be (much better) done by an e-ink tablet stuck on the door of the fridge with a magnet. There could be other interesting info only the fridge itself knows (electricity consumption, temperatures in the fridge and freezer, humidity, etc) but then all that info could also be shared via a bluetooth API or something.