Ephera

Recently had to edit the hosts-file on a remote host, and I don't know if using two proxy jumps to SSH into it broke it, but it just wouldn't let me select text with the mouse.
I had to duplicate seven lines and edit the IP addresses, and without being able to copy-paste, I already saw myself manually typing it out.

Then I remembered that in Vim, you can do d5↓ to delete 5 lines. Surely that would also work with copying/yanking. And yep, a y7↓ and a paste later and I had duplicated the lines.

Then use the multi-line cursor like I routinely do for changing all 7 IP addresses...
...and now I feel like I've crossed the line where people will think I'm just a wizard.

Never was terribly happy with the previous Tumbleweed wallpaper. It's background being so dark really clashed with the default light theme for KDE:

I guess, it looked better on GNOME:

But yeah, I'm hoping this rebranding means we'll see appropriately set light and dark default wallpapers...

I know of LibreTube and SkyTube.

I believe, both of those make use of components from NewPipe to interact with YouTube.
If you're looking for something that makes use of the official YouTube API, so that you can login with your user account, Google killed those before they released YouTube Red/Premium.

I mean, I don't know what shoes OP is wearing, but if you've got uncushioned shoes (leather shoes or fake leather or whatever), then you do want them to be basically skin-tight. Otherwise, they'll grind up and down your feet and give you blisters.

But yeah, of course, if they crush your feet, that's no good either. 🫠

No, what they're saying is that you plug in the USB cable, open the file manager and click on the drive in the sidebar. That's all the skill that should be involved.

Of course, there's going to be situations where this doesn't work for whatever reason, but I can't say I've ever seen it.

Finde das irgendwie maximal absurd. Primär, weil ich's schon irgendwie nachvollziehen kann, warum das die Kinder schützt, aber es eben eigentlich einfach nur eine Webseite sein will, auf der man mit Freunden quatscht.

Irgendwie sind wir in einer Realität gelandet, in der die Nutzung so einer Webseite Gefahr birgt.
Mir wäre es lieber, wir würden erfolgreich die Gefahr verbieten anstatt zu sagen, dass man sich erst ab 15 dieser Gefahr aussetzen darf.

Well, you do have a pretty big lever there. If your shoes are rather tight and you really gotta work your way in there, then you're gonna exert quite a bit of force...

There's metal shoehorns which are nearly indestructible.

You probably can't order from this shop wherever you're from, but my parents have this model: https://shop.wenko.de/Wohnen/Zubehoer/Schuhloeffel-Extra-Lang-58-5-cm-rostfreier-Edelstahl
And yeah, that very much feels like you could repurpose it as a makeshift katana in some fictional zombie outbreak...

I feel like the whole JVM stack is just kind of a lost cause. We've been throwing bigger hardware at it and optimizing it for decades, but the crappy iPhone my workplace gave me, still feels smoother in every way...

It does sound like you'd really enjoy the tinkering. When I switched (also to Linux Mint at the time), I spent the first few days figuring out how I could hide the window titlebars, because I realized I could set keyboard shortcuts for minimize/maximize/close.

That was kind of dumb, but no regrets. 🙃

I will give somewhat of an unusual recommendation for the distro, based on what you wrote: openSUSE with KDE

KDE is a desktop environment (basically the OS GUI), which has a ton of customization options, certainly more than the default desktop environment on Linux Mint.
KDE is probably going to be overwhelming at first, but on the other hand, hiding those window titlebars on KDE would've been a matter of minutes rather than days, because it's just a built-in feature, not something I need to achieve with weird workarounds.

And openSUSE, because it works well with KDE and because it comes with a system settings GUI, called "YaST", which covers a lot of the settings that you'd usually need to crack out the terminal for.
openSUSE isn't as mainstream as Linux Mint, and not often recommended to newcomers. There's certainly more guides and such for how to do things on Linux Mint. But yeah, I do think it's a fine choice for newbies nonetheless and you do get that extra GUI.

To conclude my autistic ramblings, one more point, you could totally throw Linux on there for now and if you don't like it, then buy the Windows license and go that route.

I would choose dying in the wilderness. A few solid years in freedom and then a potentially horrid death sounds like a much better deal to me than a few weeks/months in purgatory before a less horrid death.
I am writing "purgatory", because at this point, I do assume that mistreatment is involved.

Ultimately, I just find that simple rule ...simpler.
Is it a capitalistic thing with animals involved? Then the default assumption should be that the animals get mistreated, because treating animals well doesn't generally pay out.
I just don't care enough about honey to get into the gritty details of whether this doesn't involve animal mistreatment.

I would also bet a lot of money that it does involve questionable treatment at some point. For example, I've heard that beekeepers get live honeybees in the mail, and not in some fancy transport box.
But you've got other moral aspects, too, like honeybees killing local ecosystems by taking food away from better pollinators.

I could think about all that and try to work out the exact details of when eating honey is coolio, or I could just not bother.
I don't need a perfect moral framework, I just want to steer clear from immoral shit.