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The Steelcase Leap and Herman Miller Aeron are known for being the most durable and high quality. They're extremely expensive new, but you can often find them used on Craigslist for a steal. Alternatively, Crandall Office Furniture sells refurbished Steelcase chairs, though even those can be pretty expensive (around $400 for a Steel case leap V1, and I think $500 for a leap V2 with upgraded seat cushion, which is actually far superior to the original)

For a more affordable new option, I was really impressed with the Colamy Neza chair, which I picked up for my mother a few months ago after many hours of research. It seems to have surprisingly solid build quality, and a particularly good quality seat foam that doesn't flatten out, while not being hard feeling.

It's main purpose is to demonstrate how Linux could function with a less unix-like file structure, in an effort to make it more intuitive to use, and to make it possible to have multiple versions of a library/package without conflict.

I personally really love what they attempted, but it's unfortunately not been adopted anywhere else, making it unpractical to use as a daily driver.

But it serves as a very successful experiment that hopefully someday inspires change or a new way of thinking about the Linux file structure for other distros.

I popped in there to encourage some having trouble. One seemed pretty grumpy about not remembering an old account as a roadblock for some reason, but hopefully someday they head over here regardless.

Absolutely deserves it, it's a masterpiece of animation and storytelling.

For those concerned about climate change enough to radically change your diet, which is no small feat, I'd highly recommend giving some of the meat substitutes a try if you haven't already.

While some can have an off flavor, there are some types that are genuinely indistinguishable from the real thing. In my experience, Impossible Meat and Quorn brand beef, chicken, and sausage substitutes are literally as good as real meat, and can be used without modification in any recipe that calls for them.

Impossible meat is somewhat expensive, but you can stock up when it goes on sale, or when you see it at costco. Quorn on the other hand is quite affordable and widely available in the freezer section of most grocery stores (and as an added bonus is made in Ireland, so you can buy an EU product at the same time!).

An even cheaper option is Seitan, which can also be indistinguishable from real meat, and can be created in a few different ways.

You can stretch out these meat alternatives in things that use ground meat by adding in some lentils to bulk out a meal without taking away from the meaty-ness of it, or even use lentils themselves as a meat substitute, though that won't taste the same and will be its own thing (but very economical!).

I was a pretty heavy meat eater most of my life, but the horrible conditions of factory farms combined with the climate crisis finally pushed me into trying these alternatives, and I'm quite happy to report that I can still make all of the meat-filled recipes I grew up with thanks to these alternatives, allowing me (and my family) to cut real meat out of our diet.

I seriously recommend giving it a try, I think you'll be really impressed with how far meat substitutes have come.

There's very good reasons that app developers focus on flatpaks, which mostly revolves around how incredibly terrible the experience is creating native packages for each distro and each release version of those various distros.

Flatpak used to be problematic, but even a loud hater of Flatpak, Richard Brown of openSUSE, now lauds Flatpak as an excellent solution after his criticisms were addressed.

Unions are helpful in teaching people how they can have power collectively, and how to wield it and organize.

Admittedly many unions now are corporate captured (teamsters as an example), but more revolutionary unions like the IWW are much more useful in regards to actually getting people to become class conscious, and more apt to prefiguraton.

An example in practice is how the FNT and CAI unions in Spain were able to organize their communities when the government institutions crumbled during the Spanish civil war, resulting in a well functioning anarchist society in Catalonia.

For me on voyager, the link directs to a comment below on that post left by Rubisco, which links to an article about restricting communication to encourage people to purchase things, which I assume the OP considered worthy of posting here.

Update: further investigation into this topic has revealed that the information in my previous comment is out of date. Trans fats in margarine have been effectively outlawed in most countries (starting properly in the US in 2021). The solution from the companies making margarine was instead of partially hydrogenating oils, they fully hydrogenated them, turning them into a fully saturated fat similar to coconut oil or avocado oil.

However, to achieve the same result as the partially hydrogenated form, they are now using fat interesterification, which hasn't really been researched enough to know the full health implications, but the studies that have been done so far seem to indicate it's not healthy.

There are currently no laws or regulations forcing companies to reveal the use of interesterified fats in a product, but they are likely used wherever the older trans-fat containing margarine was previously used.

Apologies for spreading outdated information!

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