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  • LEGION GO Pre Order Is Live! Are You Going To Buy It?

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  • Not gonna lie, it looks cool as hell. But if I get a handheld it'll be a Steamdeck. I might be more tempted if it was Linux based, though.

  • Gnome is amazing sometimes

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  • I personally can't stand those neon icon themes, but this looks like a lot of care and work went into it! It's always fun to see stuff that makes fellow Gnomies happy.

  • Gnome is amazing sometimes

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  • Then go get it! It's still running strong, so why not?

  • Up yours Google

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  • I would be interested in a list of Truth's advertisers, if you find one. I can always add more shit to my "do not buy" list. Saves me money.

  • What sort of data does Google collect from Google Calender, Keep, Photos, Drive?

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  • Honestly, this is kind of a weird question. It's Google. They collect all of it. Every picture, every note, every keystroke. All of it.

    The answer to "what information does GOOGLE SERVICE collect is always all of it.

  • Ambient platform — build and deploy high-performance games powered by WASM, WebGPU and WebTransport

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  • Oh dear god it's hideous, at least on mobile. Yuck.

  • Looking for a good Linux to install on a slow 2019 machine. Relative beginner with Linux.

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  • Many of the major distros with graphical installers would work. Fedora, Ubuntu, Endeavor, OpenSuse… it's really the Desktop Environment and the default set of apps that's going to make the difference for you, since that's what determines how you interact with the computer on a day to day basis.

    A lot of folks feel more comfortable with an interface like their old OS and simple graphical tools. If that's what you're after, it's hard to beat Mint with its default Cinnamon desktop. It is very Windows-like in its workflow except just better. It's got great gui system tools, a good community, and it's super easy to install.

    If that's what you're after - easy to install and just daily drive to browse the web and use google docs - then stop reading now. Mint is my recommendation. If you're wanting to dive in and learn more about Linux along the way, keep reading!

    I don't agree with the "acts like my old desktop" philosophy, personally. I think it tends to make people expect the system to work like their old OS, and everything is different under the hood. It's like putting a car's dashboard and steering wheel into a tank. The vehicles are similar in a lot of ways, but they're fundamentally different.

    So, as a constant reminder that you're using something fundamentally different from Windows, a Desktop Environment like Gnome or KDE is a better choice.

    Gnome is very different from the Windows workflow. I'm told it takes people a bit to adjust to it, but I wouldn't know. For me, Gnome is the most intuitive DE I've ever used. I had the basics down in seconds. I recommend Fedora Workstation if you want to try it out. It's up to date, has a great set of default apps, and has a strong community. I use Fedora, and I'm very happy with it.

    KDE can work like Windows, if that's what you're after... but it can also work nearly any way you want it to because it's so amazingly flexible that it'll knock your socks off. The number of settings and things you can tweak, rearrange, and modify to your liking can be a bit overwhelming, but it can also be fun. I've spent literal hours having fun tweaking my desktop (although I always end up with something that imitates the Gnome workflow lol). It does a great job showing you how adaptable Linux can be, and how it's all about your choices as a user. I love it, even if it's not my DE of choice. If that sounds like your kind of fun, then KDE Neon or Fedora's KDE spin ate worth a look.>

  • Americans who believe in Socialism, if you were given the opportunity to immigrate to a country with socialist policies, would you?

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  • Yes.

    Next question.

  • What're your favourite food smells? This has to be top 3 for me!

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    • 2 cups oat flour
    • 2 teaspoons baking powder
    • 1 cup sweet potatoes, cooked peeled, and mashed
    • 1 egg
    • 1 tablespoon maple syrup (optional)

    1. In a bowl, combine oat flour and baking powder. Mix well.
    2. In a larger bowl, combine sweet potatoes, egg, and maple syrup. Mix well.
    3. Add oat mixture to sweet potato mixture and mix until it forms a dough. It should be similar to cookie (US)/biscuit (other places) dough in consistency. If it isn't, add more oat flour until you get it there. (Don't worry about overworking the dough; oat flour is gluten free.)
    4. Shape the dough into cylinders about 1.5 to 2 cm in diameter (about an inch). Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for an hour or overnight.
    5. Preheat oven to 350F or 175C
    6. Either cut the treats from the cylinder about 1/2cm (1/4in) thick. Arrange on a baking tray, leaving a little space between each.
    7. Bake until just starting to brown, about 8 to 10 minutes.
    8. Allow to cool completely on a cooling rack. Your chewy treats are done; store in the fridge, keeps for a couple weeks.
    9. Optionally, after they've cooled, you can put them back in the oven at 200F or 100C for about an hour. This will turn them into shelf stable, crunchy treats that will will keep for, like, a long time in an airtight container. It's basically hard tack.

    You can swap out the sweet potato with peanut butter, cooked squash, or cooked pumpkin and it still works.

    ETA: you can also use whole wheat flour as long as you don't overwork the dough. If you do, you can drop the egg; it's only there as a binder, and gluten gets the job done fine.

    Most dogs (including mine) can digest gluten just fine. It can, however, interfere with digesting zinc. Huskies and a few other breeds sometimes have difficulty absorbing zinc. Hence this recipe, made for my adorable husky mix.

    As a side note, if you throw in another tablespoon of maple syrup and 1/4 teaspoon of salt, these make pretty tasty people treats, too.

  • What're your favourite food smells? This has to be top 3 for me!

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  • Your friends are nuts. That's delicious.

  • Deciding for ourselves: 98% of people want a browser choice screen, Mozilla study finds

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  • Really? Huh.

    Yeah, that kinda tracks. Thanks!

  • “The World's Finest Assassin Gets Reincarnated in Another World as an Aristocrat” Season 2 Announced

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  • I can't effing believe it took me until now to get this. I knew you were doing the game, and I kept coming back and re-reading it over and over…

    And finally. Today. It clicked. Holy crap I'm slow lol.

  • What're your favourite food smells? This has to be top 3 for me!

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  • I recently made homemade treats for my dog using sweet potatoes and oat flour. My whole house smelled like roasted sweet potatoes for hours afterwards, and it was like being in heaven's kitchen.

  • Europol Sought Unlimited Data Access in Online Child Sexual Abuse Regulation

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  • The Greater Good.

  • You can have any B-tier superpower you like. What do you choose?

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  • Alright, then I can be "I can afford experimental treatment to regrow my teeth-man!"

  • Peppermint Introduces PepMini: Minimal OS with Debian

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  • I used to love Peppermint back when all I had was a shitty old laptop. Great, lightweight system by default without a bunch of extra crap you don't need.

  • Let them eat burgers! Austrian chancellor says low-income families should eat at McDonald’s

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  • Did they go looking doe the most smug, I'm-an-asshole expression possible for that guy, or does he just look like that?

  • You can have any B-tier superpower you like. What do you choose?

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  • Having recently undergone a full extraction of my remaining teeth and gotten dentures, I'll take "has a healthy set of teeth"- or "can afford dental implants"-man

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  • I'm extremely wary of Manjaro in general. I don't personally care for their approach to package management (delaying the Arch core repository but still relying heavily on AUR seems like a recipe for instability to me), and the Manjaro team have shown themselves to be less than reliable.

    All that said, if you're mostly happy with Manjaro, then Arch or Endeavor might be the way to go. They use the AUR (Arch of course is where the AUR started, and Endeavor is based on Arch, but doesn't delay or muck with the Arch repositories the way Manjaro does).

    Endeavor is super easy to install. Cinnamon is one of the available DEs on the installer image, and their system tools are good. They also have an active community and haven't (to my knowledge) accidentally DDoSed the AUR with an update, so they seem more competent than the Manjaro team.

    Arch, of course, is the forerunner to Manjaro. It's slightly more difficult to install than Endeavor, using either the archinstall script or the Arch Method, but kind of worth it for the level of control it gives you over your system. Since you make your own post install scripts, I don't think you'd have much issue here. Cinnamon is (of course) available, and the community is extremely knowledgeable, although they do expect you to be able to RTFM and perform basic troubleshooting on your own. As an added bonus, you get to say "I use Arch BTW" with a sense of either irony or smug superiority. Both are good.

    I use Fedora, BTW. It has Rawhide for bleeding edge, Copr for expanded packages, and a Cinnamon spin. I don't think it's a good match fr what you're looking for, but it might be worth looking at.

    An up side to all three of these is that you usually don't need to reinstall your whole system multiple times a year to keep it clean and running smooth. That was my experience with Manjaro back in 2016 or so, though, so I can see why you do it.