Also, https://nekoweb.org/.

I love and use the Unsolved Mysteries intro song for calls, and a generic one from my phone for alarms.

I have a refrigerator from around 1988 or 1989 that still works perfectly. Around 1999, it stopped working, so we bought a new one. We didn’t throw away the old fridge because we used it to store plates and cutlery, but we were sure that it was completely broken. Then, last year, a technician saw it and told us that only a component needed to be replaced for it to work again. Lo and behold, the damn thing was revived, and after a two-decade slumber it worked again as if no time had passed.

I have this one from Mexico and Argentina, from 2006.

LEEEEEEEROOOOOOOOOOOOOYYYY JEEEEEEEENKIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNSSSSSSSSSSS!

I’m well past the age where distrohopping is “cool” (and I don’t have the time for it anymore). So I take a pragmatic approach to choosing which distro to install on my systems.

• Fedora Workstation on my main laptop because it’s the distro that works better on it, it has reasonably up-to-date software without the hassle and problems sometimes present with rolling releases, and I really like the native GNOME workflow.
• Linux Mint XFCE on my spare laptop because it only has 6GB of RAM (I plan to upgrade it, but it’s not a priority right now) and sometimes I lend it to my mother and nephew, and XFCE is a very easy to use DE. Also, LM is stable and does not cause unnecessary problems, and has support for the laptop’s touchscreen right out of the box.
• Debian 12 LXQt on a netbook which I use occasionally, mainly when I’m feeling like just browsing Gopher and Gemini.
• Debian 12 32-bit headless on my home server, which is just an old netbook I got for free. I have my music collection on it, which I listen to via MPD. It also serves as the main node of my Syncthing setup.

I’ve used many others in the past (Arch, Endeavour, openSuse, Slackware, Slax, etc.), but right now I think that the Fedora-Debian-Mint combo is the best for my needs.

From central Mexico, my favorite is huaxmole (or guaxmole, “mole de huaje”): pork with a sauce made of guaje (Leucaena leucocephala) seeds, green chiles and, sometimes, husk tomatoes. Other recipes use goat meat, red chiles and can be more like a soup.

Yes, everyone has different views about that. Personally, it’s precisely because we have limited time that I want to experience a variety of things without limiting myself to a subset of all of the literature. Many people like to read, say, mainly Sci-fi and that’s good: they know exactly what they like. Me? I tend to get bored of a particular genre or theme pretty easily, and that’s why I like to be chaotic. One more thing: I really, really dislike other people or machines telling me what to read, so whenever someone gives me a book recommendation, that book goes to the bottom of my priority list 😅.

Only if you’re what I call a “methodic reader”, that is, someone who knows exactly what you want to read and don’t want to derange from your preferred list of genres, themes and/or authors.

In my case, I like to experiment reading from authors or genres that I don’t know, in different languages, many times using only the cover and title as a guide. I’ve discovered that things like recommendations, book clubs and social networks are not my thing. I apply the same criteria for things like manga, mahwas, webtoons and so on. So far, I can say that I’ve liked ~80% of what I’ve read.

Some years ago I downloaded from the high seas some torrents accounting for more than 34,000 ebooks. I loaded them in Calibre. Now, when I want to read something new, I just mindlessly scroll through the collection with my eyes closed and pick a book at random. So far, I’ve discovered good titles with this method ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

Now, if you’re talking about physical books, I tend to just wander around the bookstores or book fairs until I have my bags full and I’m too tired to walk anymore 😅.

This, and the fact that no matter how good the headphones/earbuds are, their batteries will, inevitably, die after some time. Even if the drivers and mics are ok, you will not be able to use them anymore unless you can replace said batteries (which I don’t know if it is possible, particularly with earbuds). And if not, they transform in e-waste that cannot be recycled easily.

On the other end, I still have pairs of wired headphones and earbuds that I bought many years ago (some of them from the late 90s), that still sound as good as the first day.

MusicBee for music management. Especially since I ditched Spotify and came back to local music. See, there are two things that I want from a music manager software: good playlists management and the ability to transfer such playlists to a phone or portable music player. Sadly, none of the Linux apps come close to MusicBee (and I think that I’ve tried almost all of them).

Some, like Strawberry, have decent playlist capabilities, but fail when I try to send my music to my phone: either it doesn’t detect it (I’m talking about using the USB cable and MTP) or throws an error when transferring the files. And there are certain bugs that haven’t been solved. Others, like Pragha or Gapless, cannot transfer music. Lollypop is the most acceptable one, but its playlist UX is awful, and is slow AF when syncing with my phone. So, for me, MusicBee is the only software that I truly miss from Windows.

And no, I don’t want to just copy the music using the file explorer. As I’ve said, I rely heavily on playlists, and this method doesn’t work fine for that. For the same reason I don’t use Syncthing.

I don’t know if I’m doing something wrong, but I have a secondary SSD in my laptop that I mount on /mnt/elyssa and in every DE and distro I tried it appeared as a removable drive with the “eject” button. Right now I use Fedora with Gnome and if I install this extension or enable the removable drives option in Dash to Dock, it shows me that drive. Maybe some mount option in Gnome Disks, but since it’s not that big of a problem, I haven’t looked too much into it.

I mean, I mentioned that my experience with Pixelfed has not been the best, since it lacks content and discoverability. I wouldn’t sign up again to Instagram (I deleted my accounts years ago), but it’s obvious that it has orders of magnitude more content, and maybe the recommendation algorithm can be useful sometimes.

Personally, even if I don’t want to, I have to use WhatsApp since everyone in my country uses it, even government offices.

Yes, that’s exactly it: the discoverability. I joined a small to medium server, and I thought that Pixelfed’s search would be like the one in Mastodon: search for a hashtag and get results from all of the other federated servers, but no. The search function doesn’t seem to work with hashtags, so subscribing to one is a pain.

And the available apps are not very good. And the official one hasn’t been released yet.

Besides Lemmy, I have a Mastodon account. I’m not very active, though. I’m also on BlueSky, but because most of the post where uninteresting to me I uninstalled the app months ago and hadn’t logged in since. And I’m exploring Pixelfed, but my experience hasn’t been so good.

Something like this Firefox theme, but with some violet mixed in.