Outside of a zoo, maybe American Avocet or Painted Bunting

Inoreader

Same model here. Love it!

Aves Libre is a great gallery app, and Amaze is a good file manager

It’s common business practice for the first big companies in a new market/industry to create “barriers to entry”. The calls for regulation are exactly that. They don’t care about safety–just money.

“More useful than Cortana” is the lowest of bars.

I don’t know what I would do without RSS. I started with Google Reader back in 06 or so. Then went to Feedly, now Inoreader. Between that and podcasts, I have about 200 RSS subscriptions divided into categories: world news, local news, sports, science, entertainment, philosophy, etc. I don’t read every article of course, but I do have highlighted keywords to make sure I don’t miss important stuff when scanning.

For anyone curious, here’s a link to all the different downloadable versions of wikipedia: https://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Content_in_all_languages

The English “all maxi” version is just over 100 GB, updated Aug 2023

Great list! I’d add:

SciShow

Steve Mould

SixtySymbols

Periodic Videos

Cody’s Lab

Real Engineering

• Firefox: best web browser out there
• Bitwarden: password manager
• ShareX: screenshot utility. Greenshot is also good, but I prefer ShareX
• WinDirStat: disk usage utility
• KDE Connect: connect Android phone to PC
• Image Glass: image viewer
• OBS: video & audio capture
• Blender: 3D modeling, animation, video editing
• Handbrake: video conversion
• VLC: video/audio playback
• Audacity: audio editing
• SpeedCrunch: calculator
• Notepad++: text editor
• Spyder (via Anaconda): Python IDE

Yes, countries like Germany are turning to coal as a direct result of nuclear-phobia.

The US, with all its green initiatives and solar/wind incentives, is pumping more oil than Saudi Arabia. The US has been the top oil producer on whole the planet for the last 5-6 years. The problem is getting worse.

“Rice is great if you’re really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something”