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Cake day: September 12th, 2023

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  • Plastic recycling is mostly a scam pushed through by petrochemical companies. Their goal was to keep making more plastic, so they pushed responsibility out to the public through a massive marketing campaign.

    The recycling symbols on plastic, with numbers in them? They don’t actually mean the plastic is recyclable. That’s an indicator of what type of plastic it’s made of. They say the information is to help recyclers, but there’s no way anyone can go through so much plastic and hand sort everything.

    Most plastic waste still ends up in the junkyard, incinerated, or in the junkyard and then incinerated.

    A lot of “recycled” plastic is recovered through corporate or industrial channels, when there are large volumes of the same type of material available.



  • MX is my distro of choice.

    For most common tasks, I can easily pop open either a command line or a GUI, depending on my mood.

    It’s like the REM of Linux distros: it can appeal to all different kinds of users, and of all different skill levels. Plus, it’s not a resource hog.

    I have one antiX laptop - an old Chromebook with limited storage and low power. My gaming PC in the living room runs Bazzite. And I test plenty of other distros.

    But for my general purpose computers, I keep going back to MX with either Plasma or XFCE.

    Plus, I love hitting F4 for the drop-down console.