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Came here to say this. I was dealing with constant required .deb downloads and switched to flatpak. All the noise stopped.

I just went through this. LMDE: Linux Mint Debian Edition. It’s Mint without Ubuntu and it’s pretty great.

One of our vehicles is a full-size pickup truck and in certain parking lots I have to find a spot on the outer edge and back in so it doesn’t stick out too much. It keeps inattentive drivers from gouging their cars on the trailer hitch. And if there’s anything interesting loaded in the back, it keeps it out of sight of curious persons with hand-wavy concepts of personal property.

Our other car is a little hatchback, and its reverse camera gets a good 180 degree view, far better than any driver pulling forward out of the space. I never park it backwards because I’m not silly.

“We”. Not sure why. I guess it’s me and the person I’m talking to (who is also me)

We have six new chickens that were all born on Valentine’s Day, and they just recently moved into the main coop with the other seven girls. Also added a cream legbar we named “Cheddar Gorgeous” who is a couple of weeks younger than the rest. We had to keep her separated because all the other young ones were bullying her, but now she gets along fine. She has a really great personality, runs up to say hello and loves to be picked up. The only one with as much personality as her is RuPaul, one of our ameraucanas, who shrieks and runs up to say hello too.

Wednesday, another ameraucana, got broody yesterday but we did the tough-love thing and stuck her in a dog crate most of the day. She’s ok now.

We’re trying to name the other new hens but we’re not great at telling some of them apart because there are two or three of each type.

I used Ubuntu for years and snaps have driven me crazy. Recently I switched to LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) and I really like it.

I just got finished fixing some weird oozing problems. All the settings I tweaked, the best I could get still had stringing and blobbing at the end of every layer.

Turned out my hotend had fragments of bowden tube clogging it. I don’t know how, but assume I had the heat cranked too high at some point. There’s no real cleaning that out, and I ended up replacing the entire hotend.

I also had a clog or damage or something causing heavy resistance in the pull-tube going from my spool to the extruder. Replaced that too and everything is printing beautifully again.

The purpose of life is not served by fretting about what its purpose is.

It’s a bit like sitting on a roller coaster rubbing your chin and wondering how to monetize the experience. Just put your hands up and scream. It’s nice.

I mean that’s what “Generation X” means. We were forgotten from the beginning, forced into the long shadow of the Baby Boomers.

Gen X checking in here. I’m actually happy to be left out of the memes. Carry on.

Tankies hate this one weird trick

Never one penny to Rowling. Not one.