🤔 That is awfully expensive. I’m very eager to get rid of InDesign, since I’m on Linux and I have to run it on a Windows VM, which isn’t too bad, but can be kind of a pain. What features (that are important to you) do you not get if you’re only using the free version?

Yes. Need to quickly scan book barcodes and generate list of books

👍Thanks for the tip, will definitely look into.

Exactly. Maybe I can disable it altogether…?

Unfortunately I think the app data for spices is kept in the home folder which isn’t affected by snapshots, but thanks for your answer!

Sorry to hear. On the off chance that this might be helpful instead:

Didn’t know about ThiftBooks, thanks for mentioning.👍 And, possibly stupid question, how is bookshop.org supposed to work exactly? Was never quite clear on that.

Unfortunately, yes. Sometimes buying from them is unavoidable, since they seem to have more books listed than anywhere else. I recommend alibris, not as big, but not owned by amazon. Sometimes if I find a book on Abe, I’ll check and see if the same seller is on alibris, which they often will be. Alibris also actually lets you rate the seller unlike abe!

Besides Goodreads, Amazon also, unfortunately, owns or has stakes in Book Depository, Abebooks, & LibraryThing.

Owned by Amazon!

EDIT: thanks to all who replied. Maybe I should have written “what’s the easiest way to verify an apk file on an android phone?” Unfortunately, I guess I’m not smart enough to understand your answers 🙁

Otherlands & Skeptic’s Guide both “win,” although at least in part because those are the only two our local B&N had! Even so all of these sound interesting and will be added to my list. Thanks to all who responded.

I’m really afraid that the current efforts at decarbonization, or whatever you want to call it, will end up being too little too late. I thankfully will never have children, but even so, leaving a dying planet behind me doesn’t make me happy.

Newer generation nuclear plants have been designed to be safer and cooled by other means than water, but whether those will ever get built still seems up in the air.

GrapheneOS on a Pixel 5a5g 👍

For anyone who would like to read a sci-fi series about what terraforming Mars might look like, there’s The Martian Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson

🤔wish I could code…

Can’t the powers that be at reddit just flip a switch somewhere and remove the mods’ ability to make subreddits private? Presumably if they could they would have done so by now (but if not, 🤫!!!)

Sorry, couldn’t resist

Right, I didn’t necessarily see it as an either/or type thing–I think we can and should do both!–however, if it does come down to one or the other, it’s got to be earth first.