I try to eat better when I have the time, but when I need something filling that takes five minutes and doesn't cost much, I open a bag of instant ramen, boil it in water with the spice pouch it comes with, two handfuls of frozen vegetables and some soy chunks or beans.

Not sure if it is the same exact phone you are mentioning, but there is something with a similar name in the list of supported devices. https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/

I'm not an expert on what it uses under the hood so to speak, but gnome-calls and Chatty do not sound familiar to me, so maybe not.

I saw a huge jump in battery life when the upgrade to 24.04 came. Might not be the case for all the phone models supported, but there is some progress.

My Fairphone 5, because it has allowed me to break free from Google and other big tech companies by letting me install whatever I want on it.

And my good old Thinkpad.

A sort of hunger bar. It would be useful in so many situations.

I'm currently reading "Les plus jeunes années du monde" by Marie-Lorna Vaconsin, which seems really promising and worth the wait for a translation if you don't read French. Trees around the world suddenly start glowing red due to a new form of photo synthesis, and the people close to the events make sure every page is interesting and surprising.

I've recently read:

• Dungeon Crawler Carl 8. I was entertained by yet another wave of chaos.

• "Heureux comme jamais" by Guillaume Chamanadjian, an easy to read satire about a space ship full of rich and entitled people not really caring whether or not they are the last people in the universe.

• "Automatic Noodle" by Annalee Newitz, about a kitchen crew of robots. Very cozy and easy read.

• "There is no antimemetics division" by qntm. Short, scary and thrilling. I would go into it without reading too much about it. It is so well thought out, and I don't want to spoil anything for anyone about this gem of a book.

• "Murder by memory" by Olivia Waite. A cozy murder mystery set on a generational ship. This is a sweet book if all you want is a break for your brain, a bit like "Automatic Noodle".

• "A Cantlicle For Leibowitz" by Walter Miller. This is a classic that is still worth reading. The monks of a monastery preserves knowledge while the rest of the world struggles after a devastating event. So beautifully written, and surprisingly funny as well.

I daily drive Ubuntu Touch on a Fairphone 5. It's not without quirks, but I like the experience. Many practical and nice native apps, Android app support through Waydroid, banking and things that would require Google Play verification I solve through the browser. Fairly good battery life, VoLTE is solved for the FP5 and some other models (which has been an issue with many Linux phones) and the community is very active solving issues and helping each other day and night.

I hear these two guys while listening to the curling matches during the olympics. Yup yup yup!

I daily drive Ubuntu touch and like it very much, but I can see how that would be hard in certain situations. Keep doing some research, and pick one that seems to fit your needs to try it out! Only you can decide if it is good enough for your particular circumstances.

The porting of devices is done by volunteers owning the devices and not being afraid to brick them, which leads to a pretty weird list of supported devices.

400g of firm tofu and a 5m XLR cable.

• Blogs/sites like Pitchfork for internationally hyped releases
• Smaller sites for more local content
• I check local calendars for release parties or concerts
• I talk with my colleagues.
• I go directly to labels that I trust and check out all of their new releases
• I stop by my local record stores and ask the staff for a couple of album recs
• I use the search functions of Bandcamp and follow a bunch of bands there
• Ditto for Soundcloud, where the reposts of independent artists are especially useful for discovering other bands and musicians.
• Recommendations from Qobuz or Spotify
• I have a couple of radio stations that I spend a few hours with each week, like fip.fr, local student radio, local insert political leanings radio

How does this indicate that they are working on a new name? Like, are they leaving "Fairphone" behind?

I grew up with my brother throwing used computer parts on my bed whenever he upgraded something, in case I wanted to reuse them. He also gave me a copy of Windows 98, and later XP that I reused every time I did a major hw upgrade. But one day the XP CD-rom was just too old, but I was too young to start working and had no money, and so Linux came into my life.

I would love to have smart glasses for subtitles when I'm travelling, measuring stuff, plant identification and other handy stuff, but I don't trust any of the companies making them, and I don't trust most people to not abuse them.

I'm on an FP5, but there seems to be a lot of FP4 users in the Ubuntu touch community. It has decent support, and it will receive the big 24.04 2.0 upgrade this summer. If you install it, I would consider running either the beta for 2.0 or wait for the stable 2.0 release, as that will give a much better experience with the built in browser and some other really nice upgrades.

I would love to find a good series for the summer! Dune is a great escape.

Try to focus not on what others do, but on what YOU do. YOU have an actual impact on non human animals, and by not treating them as though they are worthless or consumable, you are causing less harm. You are not contributing to the ice cold panic they feel when they realize they are the next in line to get butchered, or any other short or long term suffering they go through. That is worth a lot, to the individuals spared from the suffering.

Don't compare yourself to evil people, or uninformed people. Focus on yourself and the good/neutral you keep doing every day. You are kind, thoughtful, compassionate. What you do matters, even if the impact seems small compared to all the suffering.

Some people use it proudly about themselves, but if somebody who doesn't love and respect you use it about you, it can be an insult.

Aha! Nothing very drastic then.