Right, something like that would be great.

Fuck ai, see here.

I think there has to be a happy medium, but I guess it depends on personal preference. It’s not like brevity can’t be achieved through things like aliases anyway. I just want text-based computer stuff to look a little more like something Inform 7.

Friend, I have studied my fair share of programming, I get it. I’m not saying there should be any significant difference to the way information is processed, or what kind of processing occurs. Just that the syntax itself trades off a little of it’s brevity for a little more readability, like something along the lines of the Inform 7 but still within the boundaries of how the programs and cli normally operate under the hood.

I like both, but I think I would like cli better if the syntax were more expressive, and more akin to natural human language.

You can probably find plenty of similar results for every alternative by making a search like that.

This is a little bit of a myth, but also a little bit true. Virtually all plant-sources of protein have all essential amino acids. It’s just that legumes have a slightly lower amount of one amino acid compared to what’s in our muscles, and grains have a slightly lower amount of another. So while they do complement each other and ensure plenty of all amino acids, it’s also actually not that hard to get all necessary protein from one or the other just by eating a bit more of it.

In other words, if you go a day or even a few days only having grains or only having legumes, it’s probably not going to hurt you, so there’s no need to be overly concerned about protein combining. But in any case there are other reasons why it is better to eat a variety of foods, so getting grains and legumes is still better.

There’s often a confusion between people who go “whole-food plant-based” for personal health reasons, and people who go vegan which is about animal’s rights. Of course a person can want both too.

In any case, people who adopt more plant-centric diets do often see a reduction is bodyweight, but it’s not guaranteed. As the pic up top shows, it can still be very easy to have an unhealthy lifestyle even if it is plant-based.

Pretty much. Recently got a device for Meshtastic, need to get around to playing with it. If I recall, SearX is an open-source search engine yeah? We should mod it to explicitly block the corpoweb as a whole and strictly favor results from foss and federated sources.

I always go back to Debian. It’s the spiral. Even bought a t-shirt.

My problem isn’t with open-source online services existing. Of course some things are inherently net-based. My problem is with the way everything is being done as a server even when it’s completely unnecessary. Syncthing alone - which is not server-based btw - is more than enough to take care of cloud needs for everything from calendars, to photos, recipes, text files, password databases, and more.

Hell, it’d actually be pretty interesting if someone did come up with a way to make a e2e chat client that works through Syncthing.

My point is I just want to download an app, have that app convert a recipe webpage into its own standard format, and then save that file on my own device. I do not want to deal with the hassle of getting Docker installed and working, nor to have it gobble up tons of computer resources just to do that one simple thing.

Synthing does not use a server based architecture.

Those same routers that still have problems with security updates, and are frequently the targets of cyber attacks? So how is it in any way a good idea to run entire server stacks, and databases (which throw a wrench in data portability compared to standard file formats), creating so much bloat and unnecessary attack surface, and then making all of these apps network-facing - opening them up to attacks?

How about instead I just use a standard text editor to save my recipe as a markdown file, and if I need to move it I can either get a usb cord or use Syncthing? Sorry but this whole self host movement is pretty insane.

On the one hand I do support the existence of open-source self-hostable alternatives to surveillance-capitalist offerings. But at the same time it has been driving me crazy how many things are being shifted toward this server-based architecture. For one example, I want an open-source app that will allow me to import recipes from any text or website automatically. But I want those recipes to save in files, be offline, and I do not want to maintain a whole damn server just to manage my fucking recipes.

Not everything needs to be web connected by default, and most people have no interest in running any kind of server.

I hate programming. But I love when I try to do programming and I get to see a program thing come to life and do stuff. I have all these cute little pets that bark, “Hello, World!”

I have a popcorn popping machine like what they have in theaters. I was going to sell it because it takes up way too much space and I need the money, but then I tested it out and it is one of my favorite things. When I have cravings, I flood it full of perfectly cooked, salted, and oiled popcorn within minutes, and fill an 8 qt Instant Pot pot because cylinder shapes hold more popcorn than bowl shapes can.

Sometimes the adult thing to do is have popcorn for dinner.

Torvalds had this kind of energy throughout the entire video.

Have you ever looked into the details of their shelters?

If I could photosynthesize and fix my own atmospheric nitrogen, I happily would.

They do, in their own way.