Job well done

Right? It just shows they will be a threat to Canada later. Time to protect Canada by less reliance on US crap

Can see it now; Honey A. Mad Hatter says we need an ultrasonic cleaner… :)

Well technically that is phonics, you see a new word, as a learner, you know how to sound it out. Compared to the Whole Word learning method where somebody has to teach you what a word says. English is a nasty mess of both.

Lol.

It actually was. It snowed here in the Vancouver area, which is rare, so was watching the snow fall and wiping and sorting. Very chill afternoon.

Awesome. Because you never know when you need your sockets :)

We had left over 75% alcohol wipes from COVID times. They degrease well and easy to scrunch into a socket. Bucket might have been easier.

Makes sense

The GE heater would fail on these and catch the whole house on fire.

Yeah my wife uses Market Place, but for me their privacy policies and data gleaning steered me away. Craigslist is still big and busy where we are in the Vancouver area. Either way it good to connect locally.

We bought 6 Eggnog oat/ soy milk on sale from grocery store. Odd taste compared to other brands, rather than return my wife put it for free on Market Place, and some family came and got it. They were so happy since it was their favourite kind.

We found a 7 foot tree for free, a retired dude was having to leave his apartment to go into longterm care. We offered him cash for it, but he wouldn’t take it. My wife took a cutting and propegated it for a while, then we dropped it off at his care home with a watering can so he can continue growing his tree. They keep in touch once in a while.

I think these moments got lost for a while with the technology boom, and people staying home being constantly entertained.

Craigslist also has a free section, we have given and received on there.

As a teen we went through the collapse in the 80s when (in Canada) mortgage rates hit 21%. So Get your mortgage rate locked in now and don’t have a renewel pending in the next 2 years.

For my family in the 80s it meant most income was going to the mortgage and we had to be very frugal. We ate a lot of potatoes and beans, no restaurants ever, and no extras. My dad also hunted, left over meats went into soups.

We are currently living frugally for reasons. We buy bulk dried chick peas, kidney beans, lentils (various kinds), frozen peas, rice. We stock up on potatoes , carrots, onions and canned tomatoes. With a large selection of spices and occasionally other ingredient we can make a wide variety of dishes. Weekly grocery shop is around $35-50.

I expect for those in the USA the luxury of lavish meals will need to become more like my frugal diet.

Drop extra services…do you really need more than one streaming service, could you go without and scour the thrift store for BlueRay / DVDs , the libraries have free rentals of new releases.

Carpool. Barter between neighbours to exchange services.

Have you ever tried baking them in the oven on cast iron?

We have a cast iron cookie sheet, when everyone wanted eggs in the morning it was easier to crack a tray full and bake them. Takes above 8 minutes at 350 , but ovens vary.

They turn out with whites almost like they were poached, but over cooking can make them a bit too firm.

A good relationship is when you communicate a want / need to your partner and then it is in their court to say if they can fulfil that. Sometimes people have hangups and good partners respect those quirks.

Does Mint have Apparmor installed?

It is default on OpenSUSE. When you add a new application you start apparmor, run your application through its normal use, it “learns” how the system is used by the app, you then apply this as an enforce option or warn option. If the app deviates it gets blocked or warning generated.

Also OpenSUSE has a hardening GUI that looks at your system and configs and lists out all the areas that pass, fail or need attention. It is a great visual tool, and gives explanations/suggestions. Maybe there is Mint package that emulates this. Yast Security Center (see image)

https://documentation.suse.com/sles/15-SP4/html/SLES-all/cha-security-yast-security.html

If you don’t know the zypper commands just go into the GUI Yast Software tool, click on the various heading drop downs.

Under Options drop-down you can check the option “Cleanup when deleting packages”

Under View filter you can select Uneeded Packages, click to uncheck the boxes of what shows up and Apply.

Also these are handy sheets.

https://en.opensuse.org/images/1/17/Zypper-cheat-sheet-1.pdf

https://en.opensuse.org/images/3/30/Zypper-cheat-sheet-2.pdf

Gnome keyring should remember your partitions that have password encryption, there is a setting to unlock gnome keys with login. If you mean before login then cryptab and fstab can be set to password unlock. Unless I am misunderstanding the usecase you want.

The irony is Facebook contributes to opensource linux, heavily for btrfs which they use for certain data storage.

Security threat to the US Fascist Government maybe. Maybe coinicdence that it was near Jan 20th. Maybe I am looking to deep but looks like USA is trying to be North Korea or China . Use Windows face recognition and telemetry to to track users, censor alternative OSs from public knowledge.