Yeah pretending you’re going to reach out to hug them does sometimes work. Gotta make sure I don’t actually touch them though.

This summary seemed pretty good though.

Doing the lord’s work, thank you.

That’s me, except the anxiety is about not wanting the cat to come to me. But somehow that kind of anxiety attracts them.

Theory: animals can sense your allergies.

Yeah, I realise a comment like this is mostly unhelpful (switching distros is a pain, of course - even just the hassle of moving over your data), but it does remind me how glad I am that I did it at some point. Painless upgrades are amazing.

(That said, it’s not entirely risk-free; although I never got an unworkable system, at some point upgrades were blocked until I did some manual work. Universal Blue had similar issues.)

StreetComplete, definitely. OrganicMaps is better for navigating. But you can also just try them both out :)

I think “the Fediverse” is generally understood to refer to ActivityPub-based projects, or even more narrowly, “things that can be seen from Mastodon”. At least I understood it as such, even if that’s not technically correct.

Especially if it’s just another alpha release. They could have 20 more of those, for all I know.

Yes: https://chat.mozilla.org

I think you might be overestimating how much code is contributed by unpaid volunteers…