My parents would send me to school with peanut butter and Marmite sandwiches. Slightly annoying that just because there’s a ready-mixed version that people are now acting like it’s a new thing, but at least more people get to experience it.

All other pizzas are worse than pineapple on pizza.

Now I wonder if pineapple, beans, and sausage would work.

Honestly that sounds not much different to when I was at school, in the UK, 30 years ago, especially when it comes to supply teachers.

Best controllers ever, in my opinion.

No milk for me, I don’t think that’s covered by the chart.

Just Thunderbird is fine for me, has all the features I want and I already get my email there (but even if I didn’t I’d struggle to find an RSS reader with its features).

OpenSUSE, it’s what I’d be using if Fedora didn’t exist.

It was Red Hat Linux 8.0 (not to be confused with RHEL 8), I think, that I first dabbled in Linux, that was around early 2003, and then I moved on to Fedora Core 1. But I went exclusively-Linux with Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) in 2006.

I’ve moved around since then but for the last 5 years I’ve ended up back on Fedora, where I’ve been since version 28, now version 39.

“Square one” sounds good to me!

4.20 still feels like yesterday

It just adds another layer of abstraction when my file manager works just fine. I think it started back in the iPod days, and now you have a generation of people who don’t know how to manage files.

I think you’re right then, and honestly I can’t say I’ve noticed.

VLC because it works with everything and it doesn’t try to organise my music collection for me.

I’ve never heard of sugarcoating pills, is it a US thing maybe?

Beehaw is my favourite instance, if it left I would stay with it but and also use a different instance to use Lemmy.

I would worry that Beehaw couldn’t sustain itself outside of federation though, it needs to be either bigger or fill more of a niche and it doesn’t do either. I would give it some time to grow more first if it were up to me.

Because anything truly outside of our senses (or ability to measure) is non-falsifiable, so if it can’t impact us it’s essentially meaningless. If it can impact us then it can be measured and become science.

That didn’t exist when I tried TW, but that’s something I’ll at least try out on a second machine at some point.

One that might be controversial: OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. I still have a lot of respect for this distro and I really wanted to like it but it’s just not for me. It’s the fact that major updates could occur any day of the week, which could be time-consuming to install or they could change the features of the OS. It always presented a dilemma of whether to hold back updates which might include holding back critical updates.

So rolling distros aren’t for me, everyone expects to run in to some occasional issues with Arch, but TW puts a lot of emphasis on testing and reliability, so I thought it might be for me. But the reality is I much prefer the release cycle and philosophy of Fedora, I think that strikes the best balance.

It’s just occurred to me that that would be difficult to do on Lemmy, since not everyone’s federated to the same instances.

I really think that’s a separate issue, which needs to be discussed as a completely separated issue. I agree ads by their nature are manipulative, they serve the website and the advertiser not the user. I think that once ads are non user-tracking then we can have a discussion about advertising ethics and deceptive advertising (online ads have always been terrible even before they were privacy invading) but you can’t have that discussion when it’s mixed in with privacy issues. Only once you take away the privacy issues then we can have the conversation about ad-pollution versus website revenue.