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  • cheaper per gram compared to what? If you’re comparing to recent “fake meat” alternatives then that’s probably true. But more traditional plant sources of protein should be significantly cheaper than meat - things like lentils and even soya mince/pieces. Both of these can be bought as dried produce, which not only means they’ll keep pretty much indefinitely in your cupboard but that commercial suppliers can store and transport them without refrigeration helping to reduce costs. Additionally dried produce takes up less space and weight which further reduces storage and transport costs.



  • Yes! My wife was going to leave me and run off with my conventionally attractive neighbour, but then I discovered Groove Life™! I immediately called their toll-free number and ordered a pair of Groove Life™ socks. My life has never been the same since! Once he saw me walking down the street with new-found confidence thanks to my Groove Life™ socks, my neighbour dumped my wife and moved in with me.


  • fraid I generated a tl;dr for this rather verbose article:

    “Home directories are a mess because too many apps ignore XDG spec and dump dotfiles everywhere. The problem isn’t just legacy software—new apps do it too, often out of ignorance or laziness. Windows has similar issues with profile folders. Fixing it requires devs to actually follow standards, but many resist due to inertia or ‘my way is better’ thinking. Users should push back and demand proper XDG compliance to keep $HOME clean.”








  • The other posters seem to have bad experiences, so I’ll chip in with my more positive report @Kraiden@kbin.earth. TBH I was expecting VR not to work all that well, but I was keen to try so I bought a second-hand HTC Vive, the very first model. Picked one up for €280 on ebay, which is a typical price or was two years ago.

    I was pleasantly surprised by how well most VR titles work. TBH I pretty much only play VR now. I always check ProtonDB before buying any game, which is a good idea in general but especially so for VR. The VR games I play most are Elite: Dangerous, Skyrim, Dirt Rally 2, Half Life 2 (a free VR mod is available on Steam), IL2 Sturmovik (a WWII flight sim) and Pistol Whip. VRChat works great as well. I’ve got a little way into HalfLife Alyx, but put it down because reloading guns in the dark is too much to handle whilst simultaneously being attacked by zombies with headcrabs. That’s not a Linux issue, just me struggling to remember the reload process under pressure. I have played a fair bit of No Man’s Sky, but performance is pretty awful. I’ll be trying it again after reading this news about improved support for it, but I’m not expecting much TBH as VR apparently has poor performance under Windows too. I’ve got about 5 or 6 other VR games which all work fine but just don’t grab me.

    I can’t think of any games that have issues - only thing I can think of is the free VR Labs “game” made by Valve, which has an “Item Shop” zone which has never worked. Every other part of it works perfectly though.

    Of course, the OG Vive is definitely showing its age, with a very noticeable screen-door effect - it’s like playing games in really low resolution. So I will probably upgrade soon - there have been rumours about a new headset from Valve - the Deckard - if that does make an appearance it might be my cue to reach for the wallet, because the other well-supported headset is the Valve Index, which is getting kinda old now (it’d still be a lot better than my Vive of course). Well, actually there is also the gen 1 Vive Pro.

    No other headsets have native support in Linux - you have to mess around with Monado or ALVR - this may well be why the other posters have had poor experiences. To reiterate, your best bets for VR on Linux are the OG HTC Vive, the gen 1 Vive Pro or the Valve Index.




  • My impression from when I’ve encountered this is that it is an attempt to repel bots.

    hmm bots don’t use keyboard or mouse copy & paste so I don’t see how that makes sense?

    my impression is this is just stupid product managers who don’t understand why it’s a bad idea to force all your users to manually type out their passwords or email addresses just because of the 0.1% of people who would copy and paste one with an error in.