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I remember reading an article about how we're already able to simulate basic tastes, like sweetness and sourness, digitally. So just you wait, we might have lickable HTML elements in the future

Sorry to ask, I'm not really familiar with Linux desktop nowadays: I've seen Flatpak and Flathub talked about a lot lately and it seems to be kinda a controversial topic. Anyone wanna fill me in what's all the noice about? It's some kind of cross-distro "app store" thingy?

I think it would be useful with updates when setting up a new phone or after a factory reset when basically every app needs an update

Cool, thanks for the explanation.

a single application that gets bundled with all necessary dependencies including versioning

Does that mean that if I were to install Application A and Application B that both have dependency to package C version 1.2.3 I then would have package C (and all of its possible sub dependencies) twice on my disk? I don't know how much external dependencies applications on Linux usually have but doesn't that have the potential to waste huge amounts of disk space?

Telegram has a builtin support for proxies and the authorities probably won't be able to block all of them

The quest log tends to remind me of my ticket backlog at work.

Yes, absolutely this. New quests/tickets just keep coming faster than you can complete them..

Google Tasks. Does not have all the features of other apps but does everything I need and was preinstalled

IIRC this feature used to only be available in English locale and needed a registry hack to enable it on other locales. That might not be the case anymore

Good luck, because last time they tried to replace the Start menu with a new UI went so well..

Lots of great recommendations in this thread. One I use and didn't see mentioned yet is StreetPass. It automatically saves any Mastodon rel="me" verification links you come across while browsing. I've found it very useful for finding interesting accounts to follow

Empire of the Ants by Bernard Werber

This was the book that got me to stop hating books.

I didn't like reading as a child or teenager until I was forced to read this one for a mandatory book report in high school and really, really liked it. I don't know why, I don't even remember that much about the book, but it got me interested in science fiction and reading in general.

I use Megalodon. It's a fork of the official Android app but with the missing features (like hashtag following) added.

But as others have mentioned, the official web app is great too and works as PWA

I don't remember the exact article I was reading but doing a quick google search yields this one for example. And here's the actual research paper: https://www.miyashita.com/researches/1hFnR7TlUO4OXNpQFeuN30

I was going to give the example of the Carnival cruise ship that sank in the 2010s (I think) largely due to the captain’s incompetence[...]

That's Costa Concordia. It received extra media attention and is mostly known due to the awful behavior of the captain who first directly caused the accident and then fled the ship before most of his passengers.

A robot vacuum. Just a cheap no-brand one and it's by no means perfect but does actually help with day-to-day cleaning. Meaning I can get away manually vacuuming way less often.

So nice to be able to play more Portal after all these years

Well, just by looking at responses in this thread, the controversy most definitely still exists. Some seem to like it and others hate it fiercely.

Nokia E71 with the full QWERTY keyboard. Loved it, even though the keys were too small to comfortable use. I guess technically speaking that's still a smartphone so before that I had some Samsung flip phone, can't remember the exact model

They recently added it as a experimental feature and it has been working fairly well, at least for Java. As far as I recall, each user needs to activate it themselves via settings. Far from optimal but better than nothing.