A Linux phone won’t help with the problem side loading stopping problem.

Last time I used side loading was on a driving trip in Italy, I wanted the ZTA app so I could see where I wasn’t able to drive and plan routes that avoided ZTAs. A Linux phone wouldn’t have helped as no one would publish such an app for Linux unless the user population was in the tens of percentage

ZTAs are the no cars allowed areas, usually the middle of towns

I stopped using my old cases when we went from AT to ATX

Though I still have a 286 that still works, my expectation for the first thing to go on it is the mouse

You’re referring to quantum effects? Don’t worry about whether you’re not watching, the universe is watching. If one photon is emitted from the thing in a quantum state and hits anything, that’s the observation

That’s medicine. Science just sees it as a problem to be sorted by good study design and statistics

Most people believe red painkillers work better than other colours. Because of that when painkillers are tested, red ones work better (and red placebos also). You might find the placebo effect of red painkillers effective

IPA usually means “fruity flavour” now. IPAs haven’t been bitter in the last few years, much to my disappointment; I really like old style IPA.

Old style IPA also is good but it’s nothing like what IPA means now

IPA used to (and still does in some places and to some people) high alcohol (6 to 8%), low malt flavour, very bitter, no hop flavour

It was made for export to India (hence the name) in the age of sail, they believed the hop bitters and alcohol would make it last long enough for the 3 month trip plus however long it took to be sold.

Wheat was the first farmed plant, about 10k years ago, at least the first we can see in the archaeological record. I shouldn’t have said “bread” as that was at least hundreds of years later

I’m not sure whether the Nile region invented bread before they exported farming

Thanks for the long reply, it’s been an enjoyable conversation, even if we didn’t convince each other :)

Some mouses have scroll wheels that click too easily. So when you scroll, you paste. In my collection of mouses the Logitech ones are fine, gaming mouses are the worst, and the one Microsoft mouse has no way to do a middle click

It was great before we had scroll wheels. Now it’s too easy to middle click while scrolling a document

People in the thread say the proposal is to change the default and add a toggle to switch it to the mouse settings

I’m going to continue using gnome

We didn’t have scroll wheels back when I first used middle button paste. Scroll wheels make it less good, as too many are too easy to click while scrolling

The question though is who gets their preference as the default, and who has to reconfigure stuff

In this case they’re giving the default to new users and letting X fans reconfigure which seems right to me.

Embedded Linux is fine, just make it so if the owner wanted to they could hire any programmer to modify or update it

When I last set up LFS it took a week, but I read everything. I was doing it to better understand how Linuxes work

…that was a full week, it would have taken much longer had I had other things to do

When humanity discovered bread it made their heads and brains smaller. We all need dental work because of bread - our heads are too small for our teeth.

Wouldn’t they do it like birds?

Be aware that it’s not always true that seasons are opposite between northern and southern hemispheres, Australian seasons start 1 December (summer), 1 March (autumn), 1 June (winter), 1 September (Spring); Europe and America change on the solstice or equinox 20 or 21 days later

1 seems to be a population comment.

If 2 is correct, how are the permaculture farms I get meat from increasing the carbon stored in their soil? Does your fod come from permaculture farms?

3 isn’t true unless the animals were raised in the same area, which they often are not.

4 I’m in a meat eating community which was often trolled by people. The vegan studies they shared were not convincing, they were predominately based on for frequency questionnaires, that’s why I’m not convinced. Do you know of any RCTs or even just well controlled studies? They’re unfortunately not common enough for diet - they have trouble randomly assigning someone to a diet for long enough to make a difference

Googling for Sydney diet heart study gives you an at-first-glance correct AI summary of that test. It was suppressed in the '70s when the data was collected, but accidentally found and republished using modern statistic techniques in 2013. You haven’t heard of it because it says margarine is more dangerous than butter

This is the paper if the summary isn’t enough: https://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.e8707

Would you expect a carnivore dieter to be most at risk from heart disease? The sporty carnivores have cholesterol 5x the upper edge of the guidance. This worried one enough to raise money, start a research foundation, and fund some research. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2772963X2400303X the AI summary isn’t good on this, it didn’t get the 2024 update.

5. Meat is expensive compared to plants and fungus kilo for kilo, you ought to be happy.

If you get night blindness, urgently start supplementing retinol (vitamin A) people who previously ate meat have about a 5 year supply stored in their fat, I guess obese people have much more, but I doubt there are many obese vegans; I don’t think there are obese carnivores either, except those who have only just started it in order to lose weight

I don’t think your choice is significantly worse than mine for someone who can afford supplementation. I’m sure just like in carnivore people talk about all the health problems that are caused by the current terrible common food but are fixed by the diet change.