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Depending on where you live, this may be the start of your plastic-free/no-waste journey. (You'd obviously need a place where you can shop plastic-free somewhere near you )

Yes. If you copy /home to a completely different drive, do make sure to be intentional about access rights (i.e. in your new install, you want your files to belong to you again and you want scripts to still be executable; sorting this out after the fact is possible but can be time-consuming) and make sure to copy hidden files/directories (i.e. .dotfiles, which is where user preferences for your apps are stored; if you want e.g. your Firefox bookmarks and tabs to remain with you, keep these files).

Upgrades/downgrades can always cause issues, but more often than not you're totally fine, especially during upgrades. I tend to declutter my home a little too. E.g. I keep the configurations for Firefox and Thunderbird but delete their cache, for Inkscape I may keep my custom palettes only. For a lot of Gnome tools, I just delete all the configuration, especially for stuff that I only use once a month. However, the major issue during that process for me is that accidents happen occasionally.

switches for each power socket – immensely convenient.

Admittedly, that's pretty awesome. I don't understand why these sockets with power switches are not common elsewhere.

i can imagine this would speed up distrohopping by 10x

I am confusion. It seems like this wouldn't help much with distro-hopping at all. At least not the way I learned to reinstall OSes, i.e. keep /home and make sure to back up important config files you edited.

For example, when you step on them, the plugs hurt a lot more than a Lego brick.

On an unforgettable hospital visit?

I think that's coming (or is it implemented already!?)?

Let's be needlessly toxic 🚀🤩

In any case, welcome to my block list.

Your server has updated to Lemmy 0.19.0. Voyager is not yet compatible with that version of Lemmy.

The Eternity client (0.1.2) works better for the moment, but is not flawless either.

CalyxOS runs on a similar set of devices, is free, and does include a firewall app too. I still run Netguard, but that's mostly for ad-blocking.

Oh shit. I googled that.

How do ads work on it?

Antennapod is essentially an MP3 player app for Android which downloads the MP3 files it finds in podcast feeds. If the MP3 file contains ads, those will be played (but you can skip them). If there are no ads in the file, there are no ads.

Does it work well connecting to car Bluetooth?

I think it supports Android Auto.

My wife signed up for duo Spotify, so I'm wondering if there's any reason to switch since we're already paying for that either way.

Spotify does not really have podcasts, in the technical sense. Spotify simply decided to usurp the word, but use it for "internet on-demand streaming radio show gated with accounts and DRM" rather than "downloadable audio file discovered via RSS feed file".

In any case, Antennapod is free, as is almost the entire regular podcast universe.

Pretty sure Kramer wouldn't have made it up.

Is there a way to remove yourself from this?

Sure: There is a third box "no confession" next to "Catholic" and "Protestant" on the form. You can check that and those 9% remain with the state instead.

German secularism has a few more peculiarities. Many charitable organizations e.g. running hospitals or institutions caring for the homeless, elderly, and disabled are in fact religious (Diakonie, Johanniter, Caritas, Stadtmission, ...). This has some unfortunate effects: They often hire people of Christian faith only, meaning atheists or adherents of other religions are mostly excluded at these organizations. There have also been cases of a doctor at a Christian-run hospital denying the abortion because of their faith -- despite abortion being legal here. However, much of the money these organizations receive is in fact public money, supposedly spent on serving the public. Another wrinkle is that Religious Law is used when it comes to e.g. prosecuting rape cases involving priests etc. Somehow, this separate system of law that doesn't really seem to work particularly well is accepted by the German state.

You're right. When I grew up, I was told to brush three times as well, more I brush twice only. Not sure when or why that recommendation changed.

Could be worse, I guess. I live in a "secular" democracy that essentially collects members fees for the Catholic and Lutheran churches (and only those two!) via the federal income tax.

In a sense, I guess op is right though — I recently read that ~70% of people in a study were brushing ineffectively, no matter how long they were told to brush. Their brushing only improved after being told to make sure to brush every every "sector" of their teeth.

It ships a file called snark.py which is apparently used to name colors. Examples:

(0, 85, 85, 'liquid Nyquil'),

(85, 170, 170, 'smurf blood'),

(255, 170, 170, '"nude" tights that only match Beckys skin'),

Electric brushes usually help with that. Do go for a brand like Braun or Philips though, otherwise it's easy to end up with a toothbrush with non-existent or low-quality replacement heads. You don't need an expensive model from those brands. Those work about as well as the cheaper models and only include more frills, and their replacement heads are often more expensive too. The only feature I actually find helpful is the 30-second/2-minute timer which most models have nowadays.