I’ve been using yay and cachy-update, which seem to handle basic package management well for me so far. Do you have a favorite?

That’s excellent - I’ll be using this to help bridge my gap over to FreeCAD

I’ve tried it briefly, I found a lot of friction with trying to adjust to its UI. Maybe it was the order I did things in but when attempting a parametric design - following the same steps as my F360 timeline - FreeCAD just threw errors.

I still need to give it another try and learn the quirks and layout a little better. I haven’t needed to design things lately but when I do I’ll spend some more time with it.

I wonder why the numbers have plateaued for Texas and New Mexico

Notepad on windows, I think around the XP and earlier versions, had a similar bug. If you typed this app can break and saved it, the file would be corrupted. Something to do with the number and placement of characters.

For learning about economic & financial concepts and how they impact the world check out the NPR podcast Planet Money. It’s free, episodes aren’t too long, and they cover some really interesting stories that involve businesses, supply chains, government policy, etc. a fun episode is #862: Big Government Cheese

Willing to bet a lot of companies will be considering that now lol. Will it actually happen though? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

With power query, Excel can perform more database-like functions, I use it all the time! It comes with it’s own quirks however

99pi did an episode on this a long time ago, very interesting story! https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/h-day/

Ohhh a cow bunny!!

Woah, I have not! I will definitely be checking that out. Thank you!

Same here, for some reason my covid hobby was learning a new keyboard layout and while I now prefer using Dvorak, my attempts at remapping key bindings like cut/copy/paste on linux has has been unreliable at best, and then switching between Dvorak and QWERTY for games that don’t support layout-agnostic controls usually doesn’t even register (at least on the steam deck it doesn’t seem to)

If you wait till the last minute… then it only takes a minute.

Have the same problem with PBS and NFS. Have to turn off the PBS container, delete the .lock file in the NFS directory, then boot up PBS. Thinking I’m just going to use a local directory instead of NFS

The hackaday feed is pretty interesting if you’re into that space

That should work for media files at least, but I believe they’ll also need Plex pass to be able to download anything.

Absolutely, that is definitely preferred when possible!

Line drying makes your clothes last longer too. I do that with all my jeans, towels, hoodies, etc. Basically only use the dryer for cotton socks, underwear, and tshirts.