Agree on the Hard Bites! Got them because I was trying gluten free-ness, can’t go back to other chips anymore.

I recently tried Green Beaver Castile Soap, and it’s the first soap that doesn’t cause my skin to itch after showering.

I will see if Carina can be bought here in Alberta.

This is why 98 kinda sucked, and why Shin and Minus One kicked all the butts ever.

My theory: as we age, our cells get worse and worse at dividing, and we get more scar tissue and stuff. This affects taste.Old cow isn’t as tasty as calf. Lamb is tastier than mutton. I figure “virgin” is just vampire shorthand for “still young and tasty”.

Isn’t Humanist Vampire Seeks Consenting Suicidal Person Canadian? That movie was great! The Wrong Guy made me laugh my ass off, back in the day, but I don’t know if it’ll hold up.

Cantook used to be called Aldiko, and it was literally the first ebook Reader I ever got for Android. I don’t know if it’s the best, but it opens epubs and lets me set dark mode and use the volume buttons as page turn, and doesn’t gum up e-ink with animations, so it’s ideal for the Hisense. I don’t know why it only has 2/5.

Climbed a tree, tried to jump to the next tree. Failed. Fortunately, I snagged a wasp nest on the way down. Nothing broken, anaphylaxis. Not breathing sucks. (I lived.)

I always wanted to try catfish, and there was a restaurant I really like that does everything else really well, so I tried it and… Nah. Tasted like fishy dirt meat. I’ve had bad duck, too.

I have a Hisense A5 that’s a crap phone, but Cantook side loaded and it’s the best e-reader I’ve ever owned, bar none. I can use it for podcasts too, although I usually just use my regular phone for that these days.

Good to know! Legal, non-DRM? Do they have popular artists?

I literally got a tech support call last week asking, “How do I legally get MP3s to put on this new MP3 player I just got?” I was kinda stumped. “Umm… Rip a CD?”

Good for you! Blood transfusions saved my mother’s life. I tried to donate until I was ordered to stop. If even a quarter of the people who could donate did regularly, there would never be a deficit. So, a heartfelt thanks from a random internet stranger!

I just pulled the trigger on this one. I will report back if it’s any good.

Huh. Today I learned. I avoided snaps because Firefox snap took so dang long to load, and Firefox flatpak just launched…

Have you seen Godzilla Minus One?

Flatpaks: NOT Ubuntu’s containerized deliverable. They use snaps. Flatpaks are more Fedora’s thing. I know Mint uses flatpaks, and Silver blue relies heavily on them. Snaps v Flatpaks are like Coke v Pepsi. It’s all just sugar water, but people care, for reasons.

Tailscale: a VPN -esque service that lets you connect networks together in fun and interesting ways. For instance: I can use tailscale to access my home network from my phone!

I test drove a Smart Car once, and was telling the sales guy that I didn’t feel safe, and he was all like, “Oh no, these things sit high and catch the eye…” Just as a truck did it’s level best to kill us both. I got a Honda instead. Been driving it since 2010.

So that was your wife I met while watching you drive my wife around the block on your scooter?

Yup! Mint is, like, 90% Ubuntu, so almost every instruction that works on Ubuntu works on Mint. The only thing that’s different is that Mint “likes” flatpaks over snaps. These are two different ways to install apps, but honestly, you may never need to use either, and you can use either, both, or neither and not worry about it. Linux has a lot of “I like A over B for X reason.”, cue whining and moaning. You can mostly ignore it, or you can troll us Linux types over their particular A by saying “But I heard B was better…” None of it really matters. Gnome/KDE, apt/dnf, flatpaks/snaps, it’s all just a couple different ways of accomplishing the same thing, which is getting it done without paying some megacorp way too much money and giving up your data.

I met my wife by driving her around the block on my scooter…