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I buy them in bulk by the can at a pretty good price already, but I’ll look into that, thanks!

I mean, I like it lol, but I love chickpeas, I would almost eat them raw from the can.

My brother and I used to eat raw spaghetti from the box as kids. Idk why, we just liked the crunch and the taste lol.

Pan-fried canned chick peas with black pepper, butter, oregano, basil, and sometimes paprika, chili powder, and hot sauce if I want some kick.

I cook it when I’m in a rush or tired, it’s done in 10-15 minutes, fills me up, and is packed with good protein.

But I would never feed it to anybody else, it’s lazy bro/fitness food lol.

Early this year, I switched my parents from Windows 10 to Linux Mint.

Very old, low power desktop, it was already running super slowly with Windows.

It’s been great, the computer is much more responsive now, everything works just fine. Browser is the same, Spotify app from the store is great, printer/scanner, icons on the desktop, their ultrawide monitor, it all #justworks.

I also don’t have to worry now about my dad clicking every weird and sketchy email link and ad.

Automatic updates are set up, and Timeshift snapshots are too, in case something breaks and needs rollback.

They get as much information from you as they possibly can. Age, sex, gender, weight, phone numbers, addresses, work history, purchase history, income, tax records, net worth, family and friends, hobbies, kinks, criminal records, food preferences, medical history, etc.

All of it is worth money, because the more data they have about you, the better they can predict what you will be interested in buying. They want to target ads towards you that have the highest chance of getting you to watch/click them.

Even if you think you aren’t influenced by advertisements and marketing, you are. And remember, it isn’t just you, they will use your data to target your friends and family. So even if you don’t care about all your personal data being mined for targeted ads, you should care about your friends and family.

Also, they more data these government agencies and corporations have on you, then worse it is when (not if) they get hacked. So even if you have no issue with these companies and government agencies storing your data, you wouldn’t want hackers and scammers to get that info and use it to hack your accounts and the accounts potentially of your family and friends too.

It’s about having control over your information and keeping yourself safe and protected. If you truly had nothing to hide, you would walk around naked, leave your door unlocked with your valuables inside, hand random strangers your credit card number, and leave the bathroom stall open while pooping. But most likely, you don’t do any of those things when you’re out and about, and the same should be true for your digital life.

It’s my IDE of choice, I love it!

Lol, I wouldn’t even use MS Office on Windows, Libre Office all the way.

Matrix is great, but yeah, you’re gunna struggle to find really active communities depending on what you are focused on.

I can get a few of my close friends on Matrix, but the real issue is most of the FOSS and tech communities I’m a part of are on Discord.

It’s rapidly enshitifying though, so might not be long before I leave it for good.

He’s an old time Linux guy who went off the deep end and became a conspiracy theorist. He’s one of those people who cries about things “becoming political” just because people decide to make a statement about being inclusive of LGBT folks in their code of conduct.

He’s also been caught just straight up lying about things in his various “investigations.”

Here’s a long video on some of it if you are interested: Video on Lunduke

I know right! It feels like one of those rare true win-win scenarios where all parties involved are better off by the change.

This has always confused me for years since this “debate” became part of public dialog.

Why don’t we just have all non-gender bathrooms? A friend of mine used to live in an apartment building where the common area had 4 non-gendered bathrooms.

Each had a fold-out changing table, a single toilet, and a sink, so everybody was accommodated. Men, women, non-binary, trans folks, a parent with their baby or young child, and disabled people because the door was wide enough for a wheelchair and the toilets had support bars next to them.

Fully inclusive to everybody, and nicer than the typical restrooms because they were totally private.

Jellyfin for only music streaming would probably be fine, if it’s just you using it. PiHole would be good, you could probably get a low impact distro on there to run Docker containers, but only pretty light services on it.

About to build my first really nice homelab NAS for Jellyfin, archiving, etc. targeting between 30-40TB if all goes well :)

lol, fixed it now :P

All the times where we narrowly avoided nuclear war.

For me, Mint offers everything good about Ubuntu without any of the bad.

That being said, I don’t hate it, but I also don’t recommend it ever to people. The pitfalls that can come up from Snaps, plus the default layout of Gnome, are reasons why a brand new Linux user might struggle with it unless they are already somewhat of a techie.

For ex-windows users like my parents who aren’t tech savvy, I just install Mint, set up their shortcuts and desktop icons, and away they go, happy little penguins.

You could confiscate 99.9% of the wealth of the top 100 richest people in the world, and they would all still be wealthier than 99% of the world’s population.

Awesome