I think my knowledge of first aid and basic anatomy would be of some use in any pre-modern time period. I know enough to make a positive difference at least (wash that cut, dont drink water from downstream of your encampment, give the sick plenty of fluids, etc)

Beyond that, i’d be behind everyone else. I can fish, forage, garden, cook, start fires, and build shelter, but so could everyone for most of human history. I could probaby keep up with a hunter-gatherer society, but i’d be the least capable among them.

Optimal would be in-season local vegetables, in-season local fruit, and remaining calories from a variety of grains (and legumes) and occasional varied inexpensive meats.

You could make it cheaper with frozen vegetables, but you’d lose some nutrition (and taste if you did care), and by skipping fruit (losing some nutrition) and meat (again losing some nutrition)

Nutritionally, dried fruit is pretty ok if it’s not sweetened. Canned fruit is pretty worthless, and juice is worthless.

Canned vegetables are fine if cheap, but lose some nutrition over fresh. Fermenting in-season vegetables can preserve most nutrition to tide you over for when nothing is affordable.

Most calories would be from grains and legumes: lentils, peas, rice (brown has more nutrition, white is usually cheaper), beans, corn, etc. Whole grain breads are nutritionally great if they aren’t full of preservatives. If you dont have a local baker just skip bread altogether.

Avoid coffee, beer, wine (probably), cider, liquor, smoking, and drugs. Tea might be fine but it has no nutrition so it might also be avoided.

If you can afford it (and enjoy it), meat is very nutritious and calorie-dense in moderation, so a small reduction in starch for a proportionally small increase in meat can be beneficial for some lifestyles. Obviously you dont want to reduce fruit or vegetables since they have the most nutrition per calorie in general, but a diet exclusively of fruit and vegetables is expensive and unreliable (and possibly not nutritionally optimal). The type of meat depends on where you live: shrimp, anchovies, chicken, goat, beef, whatever is cheap and available.

Some spices, oil, and salt would make it all a lot better tasting, and wouldn’t add much to the cost. This is pretty much the diet of working people all over the world, just with different specifics.

Thanks! there are a couple more wayland compositors that do have this feature, but other Plasma features are often lacking.

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Fair. i conflated two separate complaints about two different operating systems

I agree, however Windows and macOS are even worse IMO. Everything is just totally inconsistent (Windows) and the window management features are very barebones (both). Using either one feels like going back 10 years or more.

The CSD trend might have some upsides but i find it mainly just makes apps ugly and any added functionality is almost always redundant.

Kvantum really helps make Plasma more consistent, not sure if there is a similar addon for GNOME

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Yeah that was the case right before it got removed, but in P5 and for the first couple point releases of P6 KDE apps were working with it

My blocker is the Window Shade button on Plasma.

It worked fine in Wayland under Plasma 5, but somewhere early in the 6 transition support was removed.

For anyone not aware it minimizes the window to its own titlebar. I find it faster and more intuitive than minimizing to a dock, and it’s easier to keep track of things when you can actually read the whole titlebar.

Wooden needles are supported, but are not mentioned in the main install guide for ethical reasons. There is a HOWTO:/Wooden_needles guide on the wiki if you need it

https://main.un.org/securitycouncil/en/s/res/2397-(2017)

I was curious so i looked it up. Doesn’t exactly say that

laser is the way to go. inkjets are cheaply made with expensive, wasteful, and sometimes proprietary ink cartridges.

laser printers use toner, which prints way way more pages per cartridge than ink. More than 10x. Cost is about the same or sometimes less than ink

The only thing laser isn’t great for is photos. I go to a print shop when i need those, but if you print a ton of photos at home than maybe inkjet makes sense

too much to eat before it goes bad. i max out at pizza twice a day personally. if i have more than a two pies worth i need to start freezing

i find it still palateable after 24 hours out, but i never go past that, usually overnight at the most. my partner will let it sit for longer if i dont intervene

the flavor and texture degrade quite a bit even just overnight. if you put it in the fridge right away (in something airtight) flavor and texture stay much more intact. For me i will give it up to 5 days in the fridge before throwing it out.

if i have way too much pizza i freeze slices in airtight bags. a bit of a hassle to reheat, but it comes out almost as good as fresh

Probably has a lot to do with access to healthcare. My parents were kind of hypochondriacs when i was young, so i was diagnosed as a toddler.

Lots of parents don’t know what to make of a kid wheezing, especially if it’s infrequent and mainly associated with illness. If you aren’t familiar with asthma you’d probably not suspect anything.

I think the “Quenta Silmarillion” from the Silmarillion would work well as an animated series.

I want to see Fëanor get stomped on by Gothmog under the starlight

Grammatically, I like “DDG for X” rather than “DDG X”. It sounds more natural and also more silly to me

It’s stupid but so is using “Google” for “search”

I had some friends that used to hit the albuterol after the bowl.

I do not think it had any effect on coughing during the session. Perhaps coughing afterward was reduced, but not noticeably.

I really liked when they were “Washington Football Team” for a season. Now that’s a name i can root for

I’d grow food. Good food, and way more than I or my family could possibly eat. I’d also grow beautiful, ecosystem-supporting native plants. I’d offer to do the same for my neighbors who dont enjoy such things, or who just want a beautiful and functional yard.

With my leftover time i’d go hiking a couple times a week, and I’d read scientific literature when the sun goes down.