Not OP, but KDE has always seemed super fidgety to me. Like, I just can't leave it alone, and get overwhelmed by all the fine grained tuning. I'm also not a fan of the plasticky design language.
The argument is, gun control treats the symptom and not the cause. Personally, I'm mixed on it. I definitely think we should be severely limiting access to automatic weapons, and others along those lines. But too much control over legitimate hunting weapons is an attack on a lifestyle, and I absolutely see the need for handguns now that I live in an area with very large predators.
Instead, I feel we'd be much better off attacking the social injustice that leads people to feel so helpless and lost.
Yeah, my big corporation won't let us use 3rd party big corporations for translations, only our own tool. I assume we know the kind of shit we use the data for, and assume others are just as bad.
Oh trust me, I've been called plenty of things, and have hurt for a great deal of my life as a result. I've also said awful things, and hurt even more for that.
I just think that separating people from parts of their language is more akin to a cultural lobotomy than anything else. Taking aspects of language from someone who does not truly understand why, will surely be jarring, and lead to negative reactions more often than not. I don't think this is going to have a long term positive effect, unless we take the slow road of working to understand each other, and truly embrace all diversity. If we condemn those who hurt us, it only acts to drive more of a wedge through our society.
Telling someone that their actions which are fundamental to their being are hurtful to you, and they need to change, is in fact hurtful to them. It's not their fault how they were raised, and how their experiences have shaped them, no matter how horrible someone might be. But if we embrace the diversity they add to society, and support them where we can, they just might come to see it for themselves, and strive to be better.
Only the individual can decide to change themself for the better. And even then, it's a life long journey, and often only minimal changes are possible. So, we should be celebrating the efforts they put forth, not condemning them for the things they don't have the capacity to change.
I don't really know, to be honest. But the way culture and language are intertwined, and how unnerving it is for people to be asked to adjust their lexicon, it concerns the heck out of me. Not book banning and burning levels of concerned, but in the same direction.
My major problem is that our culture and history are interwoven with language. An attack on offensive language could very well, maybe unintentionally, disconnect us further from our culture and history. Not all of that history and culture is great, but even then, we need to stay connected so that we can continue to learn from it for as many generations as possible.
We live in a world where we've been trading in culture for convenience. Now we have some burning books and attacking change. On the other side, we have others who are attacking anything remotely offensive to them, attempting to banish it. The casualty of this war will be the little we have left of our cultural traditions.
I think it actually goes to the Pre, then Nexus S, and finally the Moto X. The Pre had it's problems, largely the longevity of the slider mechanism and the side buttons (ignoring Sprint exclusivity and Palm dying). Mine died with the volume up button getting stuck on, constantly notifying me that the volume was at max. But it was essentially a fidget toy, I couldn't stop spinning and flipping that thing. I think a big part of it was the thickness, around 16mm thick while the Nexus S and Moto X were around 10mm thick. Combined with the smaller size, it really was shaped like a river stone, while the other two just borrowed the sculpting to force into a different form factor.
So, we ended up with the Nexus S being a little bigger, and a little less sculpted. And then the Moto X was much more in the direction of modern phones, with just enough sculpting to make it nice to hold. Still tiny by today's standards, and honestly, my ideal is probably somewhere between the Moto X and Nexus 5, with modern screen coverage ratios.
I agree completely. Technology has been making us more efficient for all of human history, and at an absolutely absurd pace since the transistor. We don't see the benefit, we see more work for less, and live a degrading quality of life in favor of increasingly empty convenience.
They're rounding it in the wrong plane. They should make it thicker, with a rounded back that flattens enough to sit without rocking. The Palm Pre, and the Nexus S and original Moto X were spiritual successors in my mind, was designed after how a river stone is pleasant in your hand.
Obviously the phone would have to be smaller, for that to work. But it would also allow a larger battery and flush camera.
I'm sorry, but once you blend it up with over 50% other stuff, it's no longer cheese. For example, we call some better concoctions made with cheese "cheese spread". American cheese itself has a lot of varying quality, some is largely cheese mixed with other dairy products and emulsifiers. Others, like Kraft Singles, are largely artificial.
We should absolutely limit naming in order to protect proper, traditional processes like those used in cheese making. Processes which produce healthier products, that don't rely on approximations of nutrient content, while missing out on lesser nutrients that we might not understand yet. Unfortunately, ultraprocessed foods have become so normalized, that most people seem to read right through the labels and ignore the fact that they're eating largely artificial foods.
I can see the benefit of a more lightly processed American cheese in melting applications. I prefer using melty cheeses like Muenster or Danish Fontina on things like burgers, or a richer cheese combined with a touch of sodium citrate to aid melting in others like soups. But some folks will even use a slice or two of American cheese along with a better cheese, in place of sodium citrate.
It's funny, printers used to be a huge pain in the ass on Linux, and some probably still are. But I got a low end Brother about a year ago. Had been using MacOS because I was trying to move away from Android, and buy into the whole ecosystem. Now that that experiment is thankfully over, I installed Fedora on a new laptop. Wouldn't you know it, it automatically found my printer on the network without me even asking it to, and selected the correct drivers straight away.
But printing can be a pain on every OS, it's very dependent on the printer.
I have my oven on at least a few times a week to bake, often every day. And much of the year, it simply means my furnace will run less. OP is baking semi-commercially, they'll have plenty of preheating time to borrow.
I would rather try to eradicate it before the composting, so I don't risk someone eating a tomato fresh from the sun, or something not getting washed sufficiently before it goes in a salad. But baking the egg shells not only kills salmonella and other bacterium, but it also makes the calcium and other nutrients more readily break down into the compost.
It's really not a hassle, for me. I make a lot of frittatas, and also bake bread. So I'll either throw the frittata egg shells on some foil as I preheat the oven and cook the frittata on a higher rack, or reserve a few days worth.
At some point I'll have my own chickens, and I plan to vaccinate them. But I'll still bake the egg shells, so that the minerals are more available in the compost.
I suspect it's going to take a lot more egg shells than that to have too many, but maybe someone else knows for a fact. Just make sure you throw them in a hot oven before you compost them. You want to hold them to at least 160F to kill salmonella. Some places recommend 250F for an hour. I generally have them around 350F for 30-40 minutes.
This accomplishes a few things:
It kills the salmonella
It makes them easier to break into small pieces
It allows them to break down and extract the minerals far more easily in the compost
With how many you're going to be composting, you may want to find a method to really grind them finely, towards a powder. I'd imagine that will allow you to compost more, without reaching some possible negative points like too much aeration to the soil. Though you might lose some benefits, like the pest deterrence, or maybe not since some people just sprinkle egg shell powder on top of the soil and leaves. If you're going to limit how many you compost, you might reserve some powdered egg shells for this purpose.
If you're worried about attracting animals to your compost, rinse the shells before baking.
Same shit Microsoft does. I try to use the notification center to keep track of Teams and Outlook at work, so I don't have to have them visible or switch to them so much. But if you read an email or thread in the app, it doesn't clear that notification in notification center. At least the badge clears, though.
Does anyone actually do this right, in a desktop OS? I think Mac OS might, if I could stand it.
Not OP, but KDE has always seemed super fidgety to me. Like, I just can't leave it alone, and get overwhelmed by all the fine grained tuning. I'm also not a fan of the plasticky design language.