I donate a bunch of things on Marketplace (mostly baby/kids' clothes and toys the kids outgrew). I also give to the local food banks and food drives whenever I can and think about it. If you're specifically asking about money, I give to, and last summer fundraised for, Muscular Dystrophy Canada.

Reality never decouples, it's just always relative but our usual point of views are similar enoug that we typically ignore the difference. Time will fly slightly faster for an astronaut on the ISS, but we're talking nanosecond differences over long periods.

From your POV, you fall into the black hole and that's it. From an external observer's POV, they see you falling slower and slower until you appear to stop at the event horizon then redshift to disappearance. The EH is just the description of the boundary where gravity becomes great enough that nothing can escape it.

I am! From Quebec.

Ah, yeah, that’s probably it. I eat patna rice pretty much exclusively, and multiple times a week lol. Some rice types (especially whole-grain, brown or wild rice varieties) have different water ratios and indeed kind of defeats the whole set-and-forget thing.

Honestly I’m just bad at it so I rarely finish a run regardless. But it’s fun at least, and I bought the expansions mostly to encourage the business model.

10F/-13C is a relatively comfy winter day up here haha! IMHO the biggest factor with how cold it feels is wind chill. -13F/-25C without wind is much more tolerable than 5F/-15C with wind bringing the feels-like temps to the former.

We’re up to 5 layoffs in the last decade in between my wife and I. I’m obviously extremely biased towards “job security” being a freaking joke lol

It’s the same model JetBrains has for their IDEs. You pay for a year, you get a perpetual fallback license. You pay again, get another year of updates.

JetBrains (accurately) still calls it a subscription though.

Funny, I don’t use splits, and I never full screen my web browser.

Limitations surrounding theming (no way to force a theme and flatpak basically just doing a best effort to use the right one, theme needs to be specifically repackaged for the platform, etc) has nothing to do with the packager and everything to do with Flatpak’s sandbox. Same for permissions: running something like an IDE or anything that integrates with other software over Flatpak is just a pain in the ass due to the sandboxed nature.

Looks neat, but again, 99% of those utils I've never ever thought "this shit too slow" or "UX sucks". Replacing for the sake of replacing I'm not too keen on.

1. Headless capitalistic entities don't love their users.
2. Native support or this are the best case scenarios.
3. Those workarounds would probably get flagged as cheating by those anti-cheat software, hell, some of these work as literal rootkits. I think Riot/LoL is a special case, they don't directly support it, but also don't treat it as a bannable offense, or something like that.