Well it’s open-source now! Good for them. If you want more examples, you have a bunch of the self-hosted stuff (particularly Immich and Nextcloud, there’s plenty of great Jellyfin clients, loads of neat Navidrome/Subsonic clients, etc), LibreOffice/OnlyOffice (depending on whether you want separate office apps or integrated), you’ve got the Linux desktop environments (GNOME, KDE Plasma, Cinnamon, etc.), etc.

Fortunately, there are plenty of foss projects with nice and intuitive UIs! (Okular, the PDF reader, Lutris, Firefox and its derivatives, Thunderbird, all the various Material You Android apps like Breezy Weather and AntennaPod, all the various SwiftUI Apple apps that are open-source like mLem and NetNewsWire, the bazillion apps that use libadwaita, all the Qt-based apps that fit really well with KDE Plasma, but work well in other DEs, Prism Launcher is nice to use, super easy to install Fabric mods, i could go on…)

Plushies are indeed very huggable

Peggles maybe, birds are cool

TLDR: IKEA (the Swedish furniture company) sold a shark (blahaj) plushie that people compared to the trans flag (blue, pink, and white) and it kind of stuck. Pretty interesting.

I believe that the world would be better if more things were named after cute animals

Personally, I’m using Debian in my little laptop server thing and it runs pretty great. There’s a bunch of help, guides, tutorials, etc. online about Debian (and lots for Ubuntu, most of which will work on Debian) meaning it was really easy for me to get set up!

Ooh yeah that could be a thing. Like how the Switch 2 game card box is red

Huh, I never knew that. I never used Chrome on Android, only on desktop. And I always found the desktop version of Firefox to be a bit quicker than Chromium based alternatives. Interesting…

Besides FreeCAD and Blender, there’s also OpenSCAD (never used it myself, but it sounds pretty cool. Programming 3D models, I want to try it soon. Everyone says it has a high learning curve though)

Ideally you would want to get the hang of either Blender or FreeCAD, depending on what kind of models you’re trying to make.

These look pretty cool. I wish they tried experimenting with non-grey colours for the full shell, like the fun Nintendo Switch Lite and much of their previous consoles/handhelds (see GameCube, Game Boy and friends, etc.)

I hope they eventually do maybe a special edition with the full shell (Switch and Joy-Cons), similar to what they did with Mario, Zelda, and Animal Crossing for the Joy-Cons and dock. That would be pretty cool.

As others have said, full-colour Joy-Cons would also be quite nice. I think there should be an option between the “accent ring” colourways and the “full colour” ones, depending on whether you want to be boring or fun. Preferably the latter, but boring colours (and being boring in general) is “premium” nowadays unfortunately.

And a note, Chromium based browsers aren’t preferred as 1) They’re a monopoly 2) They run worse than Firefox based browsers in my experience and 3) The whole Manifest V2 extensions debacle

Of the Chromium-based browsers, there aren’t many good options in my opinion. Chrome and Edge are owned by Google (terrible when it comes to privacy) and Microsoft (terrible when it comes to privacy + would you like to use CoPilot and Bing?) respectively, Opera’s browsers are worse than big G and MS in terms of privacy, and Brave is leaning towards crypto and NFTs. Vivaldi have good intentions but is closed-source. Ungoogled Chromium seems to be good, if a bit barebones.

I personally use Fennec (F-droid build of Firefox), it lets you swipe to switch tabs (like in iOS’s Safari), and learning to press the tab overview button over swiping up wasn’t too difficult. Using a Firefox-based browser also lets you use the many extensions that support Firefox for Android!

On desktop, I use standard Firefox, but you can also use one of the many forks

LibreWolf has extra privacy and security features, Waterfox has a few enhancements, Zen Browser has vertical tabs and only vertical tabs, Floorp is super customisable, etc.

I would advise you not to touch Opera and its browsers with a (insert preferred unit) long pole, they’re even more shady than Google when it comes to privacy and data snorfing.

Ice is less dense then water due to extensive hydrogen bonding, lattice of hydrogen bonds form when water freezes. Chemistry!

I think you misunderstand. It looks like three questions (rather than three answers to one), “Do you support diplomatic solutions to achieve peace?”, “Do you support economic efforts to achieve peace?”, and “Do you support military efforts to achieve peace?”, with yes/no presumable for each.

Diplomatic solutions meaning talking it out, treaties, etc.

Economic efforts would mean investing in industry, possible stuff about economic sanctions, etc. I think

Military support meaning defending either from an invasion from the other presumably.

Prusa is the obvious recommendation and have really god quality printers. Another option would be Qidi, they have some great value options (I heard the Q1 Pro is decent?) or recently Elegoo with their Centauri Carbon.

However, I would advise that you don’t get a Bambu Lab printer, as someone who owns the Bambu A1. They print fine, but Bambu is locking down on their ecosystem by blocking third party software and hardware (e.g. PandaTouch display), and it won’t be long until they go full Apple/HP-like (they already have RFID tags on their filament, what’s stopping them from dropping an update that blocks non-Bambu filament like HP did with ink?)

For filaments, PLA is the simple choice that works for most things as long as they aren’t in the sun for too long (e.g. decorative models, phone stand) but aren’t the best for outdoor stuff (think garden signs and such). Some people also like PETG, which is another good general purpose filament.

ABS/ASA are tough and strong, good for mechanical parts and things that require strength, but remember to have good ventilation since they can produce nasty fumes that are not very nice to breathe in. You’ve also got TPU, which is flexible (so phone cases and stuff), but you need to make sure it stays dry.

I have personally only used PLA since I don’t print too many things that need the strength of ABS/ASA or the flexibility of TPU.

Super cool

I think a decent alternative would be to use yt-dlp to download the songs you listen/watch on loop most often, then use a basic video editor to cut out the start and end bits you don’t want. Plus, that means you can listen/watch to them offline using your preferred video player of choice! This, however, isn’t as good if you’re the kind of person who likes listening to new songs, and it won’t count how many times you’ve played each song.

My assumption (!) is that either a) Didn’t have the resources to properly enforce it everywhere efficiently. (particularly in rural area), don’t get me wrong, they did enforce it in the areas they could, or b) The death rate was also decreasing and life expectancy was improving due to economic growth, better availability of modern medicine, etc. so keeping the birth rate stable would still mean the population would grow.

Interesting tidbit, after 2015, the One Child Policy was replaced by the Two Child Policy, and in 2021, the Three Child Policy. Shortly after, the restriction was essentially gone and now aforementioned efforts to increase the birth rate are being made.

Will do that.