If the plants could just tell me what they want that would be great

Well… that, and one nucleus splitting in half wouldn‘t start a chain reaction in a cucumber, and therefore not release a macroscopically noticeable amount of energy.

Three searches later and I understand that ship here does not refer to a transport vessel

WHAT „IN ALL CAPS“? I CA’NT HEAR YOU!!1

ANYWAYS, I KNOW MFER‘S FROM THE PACK USE CAPS TO BE BETTER UNDERSTOOD, AS SOME MEMBERS ARE HARD OF HEARING!

Haha, a reference to Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy!

In the (anarchist) union I‘m in, we have neighborly get-togethers every month, where we talk about our life & work & just eat some food together. But it‘s really nice, there are people of different ages & different professions, so a lot of different perspectives.

But we want not just a piece of the cake, but the whole damn bakery!

There‘s a reasonable proposal for „en“, so you can just use that

The german language is not bound by the laws of some institute, you can just use whatever you like!*

* Not applicable in schools in saxony, bavaria, schleswig-holstein, and saxony-anhalt.

It is good to find some joy in troubling times. But let‘s not do 100% escapism. With the right peers, we could fight climate change and enjoy furry art at the same time!

This sounds great, heard about it in a documentary previously. Although people are not building sustainably now, even though there are sustainable ways of building available. I guess the political will is missing… And I fear Myocrete will not become economically viable in the time frame that we have for tackling the climate crisis.

I’ve also been distro-hopping, but settled on NixOS. I find it very clean, you know exactly where your (system-level) configuration files are (…and could even manage user-level config files using home-manager). There is a stable branch, which is, well, stable. And even if it wasn’t, you can rollback the system at any point, which is trivial (just select a different generation during boot).

One of the biggest advantages for me is universal reproducible working environments. Using Nix+direnv, I can lock all tools (make, gcc, JupyterLab, Python, Julia) that I’m using in a project to specific versions (and upgrade/rollback). I can install programs/libraries in a nix shell and they will be removed on the next garbage collection. Upgrades are extremely safe: I once had a problem with RAM that corrupted a lot of my files during an upgrade. Nix can detect and repair this.

Downside is that Nix doesn’t follow FHS, so some programs need a little help, for example by Nix’ steam-run.

On my NixOS, nix sets the environment variables XDG_DATA_DIRS, XDG_CONFIG_DIRS, etc. Maybe these contain what you‘re looking for? Do you have a path ~/.nix-profile/share/applications?