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  • paholg@lemm.eeto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneLet them eat cereal rule
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    7 months ago

    Thanks for assuming a ton there, asshole.

    I have been there. I have scraped together coins I could find to buy a single pound of dry pasta, to eat it plain. Repeatedly.

    Money is not such an issue for me these days, but depression is. I know how hard it can be to do the minimal steps to make food.

    I understand how precious time, money, and energy can be. I have eaten cereal and the like for plenty of meals I shouldn’t have, and have always regretted it.

    There are better options.

    A $20 rice cooker is the same as like 5 boxes of cereal. If you are too money pressed, but have some time, one can likely be found nearly free at a thrift store or yard sale, or you can cook rice or pasta in a pot instead.

    If you don’t have access to a cooking surface, we’re getting to houselessness territory, which is a huge problem and is affecting far too many people, but is beyond just being poor or not having time.

    Edit: And if all that is too much, you can eat cold beans from a can. I have done this as well. It’s not great, but it’s a better option than cereal still.



  • paholg@lemm.eeto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneLet them eat cereal rule
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    7 months ago

    You can get a rice cooker for $20. Then, you can make rice and beans (with beans from a can) with virtually no effort.

    You can also go from there if you have more time/money. Add cheese, hot sauce, salsa, avocado, make tacos, etc.

    But I’ve survived many a meal with just rice from a rice cooker and a can of beans, and it’s far more nutritious and has left me feeling far better than eating cereal would.



  • Why isn’t there a way for Linux users to automatically install every missing dependency for a program?

    There is; actually there are several. Every^* distribution has a package manager, that’s what it does. But you have to make a package for the program, similar to what the tegaki folks have done for Mac and Windows.

    Another option is to statically link everything.

    One issue is the fragmentation; because there are so many Linux distributions, it’s hard to support packages for all of them. This is one thing that flatpack aims to solve.

    I would expect this to be an issue for old closed-source software, but not for old free software. Usually there’s someone to maintain packages for it.

    Some cursory searching shows no tegaki package on flathub or in nix (either of these can be used on any distro; the nix one is surprising to me; it hosts soooo many packages).

    But I do see it in Debian: https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=default&section=all&arch=any&searchon=names&keywords=tegaki



  • paholg@lemm.eeto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneindustrule revolution
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    9 months ago

    My washer and dryer both support internet-connected “smart” features, which I find pretty silly.

    However, some water got into the dryer’s interface (touch screen buttons), and we were unable to start it. Connecting it to the internet and using the app to start it was a workaround. Fortunately, the water dried and now the button works again.

    So that’s one niche use-case I can think of. I’d just prefer physical buttons that are more reliable, though.