I used excel daily in a corporate environment for the last 10 years of my working life lots of VBA etc. I was the person people came to for excel help. I'm now retired and treasurer for a small non-profit and I use LibreOffice. It's good, but not as good. My needs are pretty basic now, so I'm not pushing the capabilities, but my main gripe for now is formatting pivot tables.

I think there are some hobbies which can both > bring joy to one's life and not cause any harm

I was thinking more of the other stuff we put in our bodies - processed food, the polluted air in most cities etc.

I enjoy good beer. I have one almost every day - I don't believe it's the effect alcohol has on my brain, but the taste. I found a non-alcoholic beer that I liked and drank it for months. Then the store ran out so I got some of my old favourites as a treat and from the very first sip it was just - better. So I'm back to drinking alcohol - one beer a day and a small Jägermeister once or twice a month.

I understand that it's poison, but I feel like unless you're living a totally subsistence lifestyle in the middle of nowhere then everything you do is a potential poison to some extent and our bodies will deal with it or not - we're all playing Russian Roulette with everything we ingest, breath and touch.

My brother in-law was a vet and he used to say human doctors have it easy - they only have to learn one animal.

This is one of the things that frustrate me about Debian based systems. I know most distributions ship with lots of different tools to do the same job and you pick the one you like. But with something as fundamental as system timers it just feels wrong to me - when I want to change the timing of something I first need to figure out is the cron job real, or just a stub referring to the systemd timer, or visa versa.

So for a while I had removed cron from all my systems and fully committed to timers. Now I've decided I don't like systemd and gone fully the other way.

I know it's not that bad, but that's the way my brain works - and I can remember getting really screwed up with some early Ubuntu systems.

The North American pole of inaccessiblity being in South Dakota (maybe an hour drive from major highways) and not somewhere in northern Canada says to me that the name does accurately reflect what these points are.

Exactly - I've got a really shitty memory. I'd take a photo so that in 5 years time I'll get a reminder from my photos app - hey, on this day 5 years ago you were in The Louvre.

Or:

shampoo -> /bin/busybox

conditioner -> /bin/busybox

I find it funny that systemd gets so much hate for trying to be all the things, but haven't seen the same criticism directed at busybox

I get the joke, but it's weird for me that my highest ratio is for a Debian 13.3 ISO - 767MB down, 13.85GB up

That makes sense - thanks