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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm in Canada. I'd love to be able to say I can totally ditch Maxi or Super C and stop supporting Loblaws and the Weston family, or Metro or Sobeys, but that would mean choosing either buying shittier produce from one of the large discount alternatives (Walmart, Super C, or similar) meaning I'd be encouraging another of those large super vertically integrated grocery chains that are driving up cost regardless, or accepting to pay 1.5x the price for all of my groceries.

Fresh produce I can get for not too expensive from farmer's markets while in season, but for the rest, I have to choose between expensive local grocery, expensive grocery chain, or budget grocery chains that are owned by one of the expensive chains anyway.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I never "switched". I just started using the right tool for the job. I use Linux for productivity stuff. Windows for gaming and audio/music production, mostly. I don't own a Mac anymore but if I did, it'd probably be their laptops, and I'd probably take over some of the development and creative work while on the go. I'm admittedly not very "religious" when it comes to the software I use. Whatever works best for me. I'm not married to anything. Makes it easier to switch things out down the line.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I'd answer with a non answer: this is way too much thought put into how you use your towels. Just clean yourself properly before drying out your hands, wash your towels regularly, and you're good lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Most of the cost is labor (and the garage's cut).

[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

I don't understand the logic behind the idea that it makes you "less clean" to wipe yourself off of excess water literally seconds after cleaning yourself in the shower. Think about it: to legitimately spread germs around with the towel, you'd need either the towel, or the area you're wiping off, to be unclean in the first place.

My wife likes a separate towel for her hair, but it's because she has very long and thick hair that's hard to dry out. Not doing so would mean leaving a trail of water dripping on the ground.

For me that's just wasteful behavior - if you're that concerned about cleanliness, those towels need to be washed regularly, therefore 4x the water usage...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Copy pasting random stuff from askubuntu is how you break your install in the first place. Novices don't "have" to do that, they get told to do it by randoms on askubuntu that should not do that. Understanding an issue is key to fixing it, regardless of the problem's nature.

I've yet to hit anything that worked on Ubuntu that didn't on Mint. Hell, I find half of what I need on Arch Wiki even when not using Arch.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

I'm glad you found strategies that work for you. However, I had a couple thoughts:

I don't know if it's a bad choice of work from a non native speaker (as a non native speaker myself), but you don't "fix" ADHD as much as you work around it. It's a neurobiolobical condition, it's something you have, or you don't. A successful ADHD treatment is all about symptom management. You don't "cure" yourself from it. I also don't mean to rain on your parade, the "fixes" are more like Band-Aids. From experience, how one's ADHD expresses itself tends to shift with time, and along does the strategies that work or not.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I just doodle on paint or equivalent (in my case as I'm on Linux I use Drawing).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Zorin, Mint and Pop all are Ubuntu based distros that replace snaps with flatpak by default. I don't know what would make any of those any more difficult than straight up Ubuntu. I'd even argue that most mainstream distros aren't any harder to use than one another. Most of the differences between traditional distributions are behind the scenes: package manager, init system, default applications/configurations...

Even Arch, which has a reputation of being "hard", isn't particularly hard to use. It's the lack of an installer that makes people freak out. The rest is just Linux. Once you plop in a GUI for package management and a proper desktop environment, from an end user perspective, nothing of it is inherently harder.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It's basically the opposite. Fedora is the community based upstream, and some of it reaches RHEL, but Fedora isn't Red Hat.

What Red Hat did was limit who they distribute the source code to to paid customers, and add provisions to their TOS to give them the right to end their paid contract with you if you redistribute it. You aren't prevented from doing so, but choosing to do so prevents you from getting future versions, which you were only entitled to through said contract. They also still open-source to CentOS Stream, just upstream of RHEL.

Now, do I think it was a good move by RH, no. Was it legal, probably, yes, but IANAL, eventual courts will tell. Did it go against the "spirit" of the GPL, maybe, yes. But is RHEL closed-source? No, it's objectively not. Please, don't spread misinformation.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (5 children)

If one dislikes snaps, the even wiser choice is just skipping Ubuntu altogether.

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