King of the Hill. I love the characters so much, especially the dynamic between Hank and Bobby.

That’s a lot of nuts!

If I search for comments, I’ll see stuff from whenever, but it works as it should when searching for posts.

I like Fluent Reader, it looks nice, can fetch full articles, and IIRC caches them locally for offline viewing, don’t quote me on that last one though.

Oops, I didn’t see that part of the question, my bad! I sure hope rice stays affordable, that and tofu represent like half my diet :P

Lentils and potatoes for sure, but we don’t really grow rice in Canada. There are some [examples] (https://chathamdailynews.ca/news/local-news/chatham-kent-home-to-canadas-first-commercial-rice-crop), but we get our rice from the US, Thailand, and India, as well as many other countries. I eat rice very regularly and I have no doubt I’ve never eaten rice grown on Canadian soil.

Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick. I’ve always loved this song, it has a mix of different styles, from flute-forward chill sections to more classic rock sounding parts.

Oh and it’s over 43 minutes long. Before anyone says “oh but there’s part 1 and part 2”, this was a limitation of vinyl and not the artistic intent behind the piece. It’s one song, fight me.

Sticks were maybe the first human technology and we’ve yet to top it to this day.

Damn, either you were a really smart 13 year old, or you must have been super desperate and then amazed that that actually worked.

I think this might actually be the dumbest. My fear of electricity is one of the main reasons I focus my tech shenanigans on the software side of things rather than the hardware.

This kind of hacky dumb workaround is exactly what I wanted to read when I posted this thread, haha. It’s kind of genius but also I’m horrified to imagine how things got to that point.

I can’t say I’ve never been confused by keystrokes from objects laying on my keyboard, but I do usually figure it out within a couple of seconds at most.

I just spent the better part of the day trying to get a “music archival tool” to work, but I wasn’t able to get my Spotify account to connect.

The eventual solution I ended up with was to spin up a Windows VM, get the tool connected to my Spotify account there and copy over the config file from the Windows installation to my (Linux BTW) actual computer.

Of course, I’ve never really dabbled in emulation past old video game consoles, so getting a Windows VM up and running involved its own troubleshooting… The whole thing felt absurd, especially since there are so many easy ways to download music, but this was one of those times where I didn’t want to let the computer best me.

I don’t have traditional TV service so I’m unfamiliar with what “shit” Google is pushing through the TV app. However, if it’s what I suspect (ads), a possible option would be using a local DNS server (like pi-hole or Unbound) to block Google domains on your TV.

Francophones are not prioritized for employment or political opportunities. Do you know which linguistic group is prioritized for such roles?

Bilinguals.

Do you think a unilingual French speaker would have more opportunities in Canada than a unilingual English speaker?

Of course, people whose first language is French have much higher rates of bilingualism than people whose first language is English, for a myriad of reasons. But I find it illuminating that for all the whining I see from (some) Anglophones about “lack of opportunities because they don’t speak French”, their proposed solutions always focus on stripping Francophones of their rights instead of encouraging French language education for Anglophones. Many countries around the world have huge percentages of their population being able to speak two (or more!) languages, why shouldn’t we strive for that? I see no downsides to increased bilingualism.

I live in New Brunswick, the only officially bilingual province in the Canada, where our unilingual Anglophone premier repeats the same talking points you do about how difficult it is for unilingual Anglophones to advance themselves in our province. All while holding the highest elected title in the province without speaking a lick of French.

QKSMS hasn’t been updated in almost three years, QUIK is an actively maintained fork. For contacts, I use ConnectYou (which also has integrated SMS, I just ignore that feature though)

I’d personally avoid apps that aren’t distributed through F-Droid or available through Github. Part of the appeal of FOSS on Android is de-Googling, which is incompatible with being exclusive to the play store.

Treeplanting might be up your alley. Doing the actual job is pretty solitary, you’ll see your tree-runner a few times a day, you might have a planting buddy, and the boss might come around once or twice to check your trees.

But outside of the work day, it’s very much the camp environment you describe.

Just a sidenote, the Simple Mobile Apps suite was sold off to a company called ZipoApps which buys apps and stuffs them with ads and trackers. The versions currently on F-Droid should still be fine, but I’ve started using Koler and QUIK for call and text.

A used Pixel with GrapheneOS is a great option. The install is very barebones, and it’s basically the most privacy you’ll get with a modern smartphone without restricting its ability to be a smartphone.

100% just slipped that in there for SEO purposes due to the current trendiness of “AI”.