There could well be a kernel of valid criticism in it but this article is so exaggerated and strident, that I can’t take it seriously. It’s like people who scream GOVERNMENT WASTE about every budget line item that is not obviously important to someone who has only the most simple and ignorant understanding of it.

“If it’s January, it’s cold” doesn’t imply it can’t be cold in other months.

I have a number of answers to give you and will write more as I have time, but a start with some of the shorter ones.

“The map is not the terrain” is a very important concept in general but especially so wrt the self. Your idea of your self is such a map, and as such is necessarily flawed and incomplete. A person is very complex, probably to complex to fully understand even if you had access to it. But you don’t fully have access to it, even about your self.

The complexities going into why you like a thing, why you react a certain way, sometimes why you do a thing, are not all inspectable to you. We have am enormous bias in modern culture to think of everything in terms of the conscious mind. This is usually incorrect. Most often we do things unconsciously and rationalize why we did it afterwards. Now these rationalizations may often be correct, and trivial. But the reality is that they are not observations about the workings of our mind but after the fact theories. In many non trivial cases they can be quite incorrect. (I can give examples, but this is getting long winded already.)

Sometimes, with phenomena we have limited ability to know, it is helpful to let go, accept that they are what they are, and just see what they do without getting too committed to expectations. Like with the weather.

Did your mother have any children that lived?

Egg salad and deviled eggs are very adjacent. Anything that works in one, can work in the other.

Green olives are excellent in egg salad. To my taste, egg salad needs something to keep it from being bland: Dijon mustard, hot sauce, olives, salami are all options that work well.

I am from the US but have no reason to think any of them are common here. Olives and salami are ideas I got from The Charlie Brown Lunchbag Cookbook that I picked up from the bookmobile as a kid. It had a ton of surprisingly adventurous sandwich recipes.

All you people saying “no way” should try it. Unless you are barbarians with no taste for olives.

I think their point, in the first part at least before going off on ideology, is that appimage makes things a lot harder for developers. At least I think that’s their point, the rantiness makes it hard to distinguish technical points from the idealogical…

They think of it like a game. Its just like some dickhead on reddit posting endless bullshit on reddit to amass internet points, except that billionaire points affect the well-being of the real world, which neither the reddit dickhead nor the billionaire really live in or care about.

Ah right, caraway, I spelled it wrong! It’s a common rye bread spice in some countries.

Sirloin for flavor over tenderness and richness (fat). If you prepare it correctly and it’s a good quality peice of meat, toughness or dryness shouldn’t be a problem.

Does Finnish ryebread typically include carroway? I often add carroway when I make pea soup, it is a good combination.

This is just a premise. It’s all in the execution. No premise is stupid or great in itself. Any premise can be made great or stupid by its execution.

This doesn’t seem exhaustive enough to be titled “the state of Linux music players.”

No you hold the bag over your face and shake a few into your mouth so you don’t have to touch them with your hands.

KDE dolphin. I have no idea what you are describing in half your items, but it certainly has preview panels, and lots of things you don’t mention: open terminal here, synchronized terminal panel, split windows, support for browsing over SFTP, keeping folder tree as you browser down or not, zoom, etc.

Probably no one’s thought of this yet, but i’m going to say black electrical tape. If you put it over your eyes it takes care of all your devices at once.

If you compare it to “have a good day”, it’s longer and awkwarder, and the extra words are to avoid…the scenario of someone complaining that part of the day has already passed and can no longer be nice?

In the same vein of unnecessary specificity: I hate when waiters ask “how is everything tasting?” I have to resist replying that it tastes great but it’s cold and the texture makes me want to gag.

Only irfanview.

If things taking up space is a concern, marbles seem like they have an advantage over most things.

I think Hazel is between green and brown, not blue and grey.