In completely unrelated news, German carnival season started last week.

Friends episodes are very self-contained anyway. There is very little context that can actually be missed if you skip forward. You can pretty much watch whatever amount of Friends episodes starting from whatever episode you want.

Not really. For most series, you miss important characterization, backstory and story elements if you skip ahead that much. For Parks & Recs, the first season doesn’t matter at all.

“it gets better after 35 episodes” for story-heavy series generally implies that you have to actually sit through those episodes, or at least read summaries of them.

You can pretty safely ignore that first season, though.

Big fan of controllers that get all their power from cables. Fuck Batteries! Though I can see how that’s quite inconvenient when you’re playing on a couch instead of in front of a desk like me.

Strictly speaking, German names aren’t supposed to have articles at all! Though it is absolutely a thing in colloquial/dialect usage to say things like “Ich bin der Bart” (I am the Bart).

There is “der Bart” as in “the beard”. Which would be an interesting choice for someone beardless.

The issue is that the conversation usually falls falt if the only thing you offer is that kind of empty response. And I’m pretty bad at finding a middle ground between responses that are too negative (my life tends to be kinda shit compared to most people’s) or too deep and responses that are too meaningless even for small talk (like talking about the weather).

The one thing a desert has that plants need and that’s in short supply in most homes is sunlight. We’re basically living in caves and desert plants are definitely not well-adapted for low-light-conditions (in contrast to forest plants).

I see the value in it, I just suck at it.

Same here. Pretty great, summer is so overrated!

Pretty much, yes. It also used to be lighter in resource use than GNOME, though IDK if that’s still true. XFCE and LXQt are definitely lighter than both Gnome and Plasma, they are a lot more stable in the sense that they don’t change that much from release to release, and they play nice with third party window managers (e.g. tiling WMs).

They wither eventually if you never water them, too.

Neat! But I doubt that most people who overwater houseplants will be able to keep up with a plant that needs daily watering …

Is hard water something that many houseplants struggle with? I always lived in places with pretty hard water, I wonder if that contributes to the low houseplant survival rate in my home.

My home is a place of natural selection for house plants. Occasionally someone gifts me a plant, most of them die within months. So far, spider plants are by far the best-adapted to the conditions in my home, they thrive.

I assume the big issue is that it’s too dark, or that I don’t water regularly enough. Apparently spider plants are particularly resistant to draught due to thick, water-retaining roots, grow relatively fast and easily grow offshoots.

Cacti would probably do well, too, but I don’t want plants in my home that you can injure yourself with. It’s also why I don’t like roses.

I’d have to change desktop environments, because my current one only has “experimental” support in the latest version, and my distro is years behind, anyway. Your choices are pretty much KDE, Gnome or building your own desktop with a standalone window manager, and I don’t like any of those options.

I just don’t want to switch out my window manager and all the helper programs that make it work as a full desktop. Currently I just use LXQt+i3wm, and LXQt will take quite a while until it’s anywhere near feature parity with Wayland, and AFAIK i3wm doesn’t even have plans for a Wayland port (though I know that there’s decently similar tiling WMs for Wayland). I don’t think any of the oldschool low-resource-intensity desktop environments I’d consider using have a decently feature-complete Wayland port right now.

It’s possible that it’s not actually that much work to cobble together a new configuration with a Wayland-compatible tiling WM and a bunch of separate applications for screenshots, clipboard management etc., but I currently don’t care to find out.

Oh yeah. It sucks trying to search for tips, solutions etc. when you only know the localized terms, and it’s rare that help resources in different languages are even somewhat useful and up-to-date.

Also, localized voice acting tends to be lame. For one reason or another they’re rarely as good as the original ones. Conversely, I found that German voice acting for games that were originally written in German can be quite good - it seems that localization just doesn’t have the same energy as the original.

I suppose I’m relatively spoiled as a German.

FAAMG or whatever they call themselves now) are now laying off massive amounts of workers to replace them with poorly implemented AI.

I do remember setting my webbrowser to English to avoid YouTube’s absurd automatic title translations, and that was before the LLM hype …

Other countries pass laws that require big majorities all the time. Why are 40+% of senators against it in the first place?

Trying to identify the one issue that prevents sensible laws seems like a fool’s errand to me.