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I can totally understand that. In case you still want to give it a chance, I can highly recommend EndeavorOS. It's basically pre-styled, pure Arch. But it has a welcome dialog, where you have a warning banner at the top if you need to be careful regarding an update. This directly links you to their Gitlab and forum with the steps you'd need to take to not break anything. This saved me multiple times already and I never broke my system, despite not even reading the Arch RSS feed or changelogs.

Besides the EndeavorOS forum is waaaay friendlier compared to the Arch one.

Take your meds if you have them. And like others said, write yourself a protocol. I personally hate doing that but it's the only way I can stay focused in a meeting. In addition to that, everything I don't immediately write down, I'll forget in the next few minutes. Everyone's always amazed by how well I can recall details of past meetings, when it's actually the opposite lol

You probably won't gain much right now, but as the development on Organic Maps has stalled, you might encounter bugs not being fixed, no new features etc. If it stays like that, you'd probably want to switch at some point.

Sorry for my late reply. Yes we've talked about that but the result is essentially that I either have to get it together and deal with having kids in the future, or she'll leave. From her side it's not an option to not have kids—currently at least.

According to my wife, I do indeed have a decent amount of rope on my person. Though I don't know how that has anything to do with entering the US, I'll take the safe route and stay home.

First there is a fork of Organic Maps, which is called CoMaps. If I understood it correctly, the development on Organic Maps nearly halted for some reason regarding the company that owns it. CoMaps now wants to pick it up again.

Also for navigation I use Magic Earth. It uses OSM data but is not FOSS itself, which is unfortunate. But it offers traffic data which is crucial for good arrival time estimation or avoiding traffic jams.

I also have ADHD and am in a similar struggle. I'm male and my wife really wants to have kids. I wanted that too in the past, but I'm very afraid of not being able to handle the constant stress. Eventhough I'm medicated, I still have days frequently, where everything's just too much. Throwing a child into the mix and I feel like I would probably have to put myself into a closed psychiatric.

So I can not help you there I'm afraid. But what caught my eye is, that you say your relationship is / was hanging by a thread. That's absolutely not a good base for getting children. Broken or weak relationships won't get stronger with a child. They'll break sooner or later and then the kid has to cope with divorced parents. I know you said that you both feel better now, but please keep that in mind and be sure, that you are strong together before getting a child, because it will get stressful and will test you and your relationship.

I wish you all the best though and what ever your final decision will be, it will be the correct one.

IANAL so please don't take my word for it. But if I understood it correctly, this is indeed legal. You don't have to offer your stuff for free. And as long as you let the user decide if they want to pay with money or with data, it's legal. The important part is, that the user needs to give consent, which is the case here. Not talking about the morality of it though.

Every car I owned so far was a manual and only rentals were sometimes automatic. But that's purely due to cost. I dive out of necessity, not for fun and an automatic is so much more relaxing in stop-and-go rush hour traffic than a manual stick shift.

I need to look it up again, but I read about a study that showed that the results improve if you tell the AI that your job depends on it or similar drastic things. It's kinda weird.

Thank you again for this great post!

I'm a little skeptical about Manjaro on the ZOTAC. I used it for quite some time on a PC but it was always just a matter of time until it broke due to version conflicts. Developers for AUR packagages assume that you're using the main Arch repo. So when you use the Manjaro repo, which is always a few weeks behind the official Arch one, the AUR updates break pretty regularly. Though you probably don't want to use the AUR on a handheld anyway.

I'd hope so too, but as there are so few platforms offering proper support for hardware keys, I wouldn't hold my breath for it.

What you call "much smaller mini edition" is still more extensive and thorough than 99% of posts on this platform :D and I really enjoy and appreciate it!

Thank you again for this high quality post! It's always a pleasure to read.

I'm happy that GOG finally added proper F2A, though I'm a little sad that they didn't implement FIDO U2F. It's not only way more convenient to just use a hardware token as a second factor, but if my knowledge is correct, it's also more secure.

It can also be just a randomly chosen limit. I work as a software engineer on a custom management software for a big client. For whatever reason until recently, the limit for email addresses in the master data was 50 character. Why? No clue but someone had decided that randomly in the past. Now it was increased to 100. Why again? According to RFC 5321 a limit of 254 would be the most sensible one. But the people who come up with those requirements just don't care. They decided it to be 100 from now on for no apparent reason.

Then we have many input fields, that have a limit of 255 character. Why not 256? Why such a weird number in general? The people who use this software in production are most likely not the ones who usually think in powers of two. So why not make it 250 or 300 oder whatever?

Sometimes those limits are just arbitrary with no technical or logical reason to back them up. Which doesn't make it less stupid mind you.

And if you need it in a browser, there is Collabora, which exists as a paid business version with support or a free non-support version, that can easily be deployed with Nextcloud. Another alternative would be CryptPad.

If you also need your mails in your browser, there are multiple providers like mailbox.org that offer mail encryption even through the online mail interface.

Thank you for your amazing posts! I really enjoy them!

You mean Wind🤮ws?

I grew up with trackballs because my dad preferred them to the old mice with a ball underneath. So for office work I still use one too. But it's still just a pointing device so I'd say it would be similar to learn using a split keyboard or a dvorak layout or something. You'd still press one key after antother.

The CharaChorder is so different in the way your "typing" multiple keys at once. I feel like it has such a steep learning curve because you have to not only learn another button layout but the whole way your thinking about typing and writing in general. I'm afraid I'd just get frustrated and never use it, even though I thinks it's extremely cool.

The magic key for me is to tell no one about my project, until it's in a workable state. Just telling someone what I want to do, including the details of my plans, is sometimes enough for me to never actually start with it. But keeping it quiet—which is very hard mind you—leads to me actually acting on my plans.

Do you mean the CharaChorder? I thought about getting one in the past bit it looks like a super steep learn curve and I'm not sure if I'm willing to subject myself to it.