Yep!

So bizarre; foods like this already exist everywhere. In india they’re called far far, in UK chinese restaurants they call them prawn crackers, in Mexico they’re chicharrones de harina or duritos, and if you don’t have access to any of these options where you live, you can literally just fry rice noodles or spring roll wraps and they’ll puff up. So why the toothpicks?!

Wow, that sounds cool!

Invidious. It’s to be expected for something like that though.

To be fair, the ternary operator can get messy.

Why not try simple scripts at first? You could write a little script in Bash, JS, or Ruby to create folders or text files. Besides the very basic stuff I did on the high school robotics team, my first programming project was when I worked as a print broker and we invested in a digital press. I needed a program to calculate the cost of a print job, so I learned a little BASIC and wrote a program on my TI-98 to do it for me. It would ask a series of questions (eg - paper cost, single / double sided, color / black and white, how many imposed on an SRA3 sheet, etc) and spit out the cost of the job.

As for how you use the code, say you write a ruby script; to run it, you’d navigate to the script directory in the terminal and type ./scriptName.rb to run it. If you’re using a compiled language, you’d compile it (your lessons would cover how to do this) and then you’d run the resulting binary the same way.

There are lots of older KDE apps that could use some TLC.

Same energy

There is nothing like a poke of chips. Somehow, something so simple truly has no analog in the US. I really don’t know what they do so differently.

I don’t think it was that - the way they wrap it is very quick and professional looking. The texture was nice in particular - a warm parcel of newspaper. Idk.

Tidal-dl ftw

I have a bad habit of sticking wooden things in the dishwasher. I might do the same with my fish spatulas haha.

In all likelihood, it’s rated for direct food contact on both sides, like the stickers on fresh fruit; you’re meant to be able to safely eat them (although you may not want to).

I remember when anything from a chippy came wrapped in newspaper. I don’t know why, but I really appreciated that as a kid.

Those chopsticks look like they could use being sanded + a touch of mineral oil.

OMG spoilers!

I think that often, people use the word respect in a different way when it comes to magical thinking. Religious people often use the word to mean exempt from examination, or beyond reproach. While it’s undoubtedly disrespectful to subject a person to an assault on their beliefs for no good reason, when those beliefs begin to play a role in decisions that will affect others, they can and should be challenged; people oughtn’t be shocked to learn that if they bring their beliefs into the public discourse around a policy decision, they’ll be subject to the same level of scrutiny as any other way of thinking or approaching a problem.

Can confirm

Also, the community around a distro makes a difference. I don’t think that the EndeavourOS community has quite the lofty expectations of its users that Arch users do, so getting help might be a bit more pleasant.

Rooibos, mint, and chamomile for sure.