• Deconceptualist@leminal.space
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    I got to feed endangered African penguins once at an aviary! They just swallow whole fish (whether in the water or tossed to them though the air), no need for prep or plating.

    Fun fact, they secrete all that fish oil right onto their feathers (it helps them glide though the water), but that makes them little stink monsters! Seriously, penguins smell rather terrible haha.

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      12 hours ago

      That must have been really fun! The Toronto zoo has an awards plaque for “Nice Penguin of the Month” and “Naughty Penguin of the Month” which leads me to believe that they must be characters

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        Oh most definitely, this species at least was full of personality. They were very well cared-for so they were little divas and had all kinds of interesting relationships with one another (the caretaker told it like a soap opera).

        They would also ignore the fish we tossed that they didn’t prefer and wait for their favorite. So the caretaker had to go around and pick up the extra fish when food time was over lol

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      23 hours ago

      Added fun facts: they have teeth in their throats to haul the fish down, and the fish oil secretions are stored in a gland near their tails!

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      Weird that they keep flightless birds in aviary, but penguins are my spirit animal so I’m jealous.

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      Biology? Idk some of the memes posted here are a bit of a stretch to fit the theme.

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    Nothing wrong with Ubuntu if you just wanna get stuff done and don’t have a genuine interest in (or time to spend on) tweaking your OS.

    I use Ubuntu btw.

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      I’m forced to use it so it’s easy to hate it because of that, every little thing that I know isn’t a problem or as hard to do on other distros just makes me long for those.

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        Oh yeah I forgot about those, I think I actually disabled the snap service, or maybe I have a couple of things via snap but only small gui utilities. I use apt and dpkg for everything else, but it was annoying that they made Firefox snap only since 22.04 unless you add the extra apt repository. Easy enough to work around it and move on though.

        Fuck snaps.

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      There is lots wrong with Canonical imho, but this isn’t the place for it.

      Debian here. IMO “btw” is reserved for a particular distribution and you know which one it is.

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        you know which one it is.

        As of the latest dumpster fires over there, they’re wanting to hide it nowadays!

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          Dumpster fires? Do you mean the untrusted repository of user-submitted build scripts getting malicious user-submitted content? :P

          Keep your official packages and AUR separate, if nothing else at least don’t pull from both sources with the same command

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            I don’t know how Arch works as a Minter here. That’s good that there’s a separation line… Not sure if Mint’s Software Mgr has that…

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        When I have even the smallest bit of time and headspace to dedicate to it, I will switch back to Debian as it was always my favourite but really can’t deal with it at the moment.

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          Linux Mint Debian Edition is just great for that case. If I were not so much into fedora’s rpm-ostree I would be using that, or MX Linux.

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            If I were not so much into fedora’s rpm-ostree

            Dude, right? I’ve thought about switching to cachy or something, but every time I just can’t bring myself to give up ostree.

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              Silverblue manages to be exciting yet boring.

              As in, it is great for everyday work yet still uses newfangled tech under the hood.

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          I like Debian, it is boring in the best way.

          I really did not like the process of upgrading from one stable version of Debian to the next. It went OK, but i remember being anxious the whole time, compared to Ubuntu’s gui workflow, and failing that, the one-command cli version that i always have to look up

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      I use Ubuntu at work. I don’t even care, it’s legit 500% faster than my work Windows laptop, despite being objectively lower-speccd.

      I use nobara at home. Windows free in my personal life for like a decade at least now. I wanted something solid out of the box, not atomic (I like the idea I just think it’s overkill for a home workstation. The sheepdog is a pet, not part of flock), fedora based with good brtfs support.

      But Ubuntu is good enough. Not as if “better than windows” is a particularly high bar, though.