Being quite a different generation and not an American either, I am actually surprised I know almost each of the artists referenced.

Those are not raccoons.

It’s there in place of a fig leaf.

Poor tree. It had so much life in it.

Stop hitching with the monster man /

it was a bad plan but I had to get to town

Hm, I guess I could try a different SD card. The card is new but I figured it’d be fine and didn’t check speed much.

I will also check what Node Red is. Thanks!

Someone read Kafka the night before.

HAOS installed sucessfully. But it does seems slow, even with basically nothing running on it but HACS, the SSH addon, and the file editor. And yeah, I think it’s a 3B+ here too. From what I’ve seen in terms of recommendations, you should use at least use a RPi 4 or a NUC though.

As to containerization: Afaiu, all versions of Home Assistant are containerized which automatically makes them heavier than they’d need to be. The difference between HAOS and container Home Assistant is that HAOS is a full Linux distro with multiple Docker containers preinstalled on it, whereas with the containerized Home Assistant you set up your own OS and then run those same Docker containers on it (or perhaps it’s just one Docker container, haven’t tried that).

As to the integrations, both devices have Modbus and there are (plugins? integrations?) for them, so I am hopeful there, although I haven’t figured it all out yet.

Also called a “gripe”. Example usage: “I have a gripe with your comment.” You know, I am literally drinking from a gray pipe while reading this.

I feel like I am missing something, like a shuttle named Noah’s Ark.

If it’s any consolation, I knew none of the previous ones.

Egg piercer?

So there’s a bespectacled overweight devil named Edgar, presumably in an administrative function? Completely bonkers somehow.

Kubuntu is no longer primarily developed by Canonical. That might be a reason why it’s different from regular Gnome Ubuntu.

Ubuntu uses the Ubuntu font. It’s their barnding font and they’ll probably stick to it.

💔😖

Figured it was Strayans but apparently the rescue center is South African.

While we’re on the subject, those neck pains are killing me. Anyone care to hook me up with a massage therapist?

Cute.

Rhythmbox was never a core application

Rhythmbox was originally a GNOME 2 app that never fully made it into the GNOME 3 era. Otoh, “core apps” is a concept introduced some time after GNOME 3.0. That timeline can’t match up.

The original GNOME 3/4 core music player was/is GNOME Music. Except GNOME Music was so reduced as to be barely useful, especially at the beginning. Creating an opening for e.g. Lollypop.

Also the first impression is the distro’s concern not GNOME’s.

Before core apps were introduced thereight be distros that would randomly ship GNOME with VLC, FileZilla, and xterm. I.e. apps that don’t integrate well with GNOME and are not regularly used by average users.

The idea behind core apps was trying to influence app selection on such distros. To make sure that all distros would ship with a default selection of useful, well-integrated apps. Iow, first impression is a major reason why core apps are even a thing.

For example, I should be able to use whatever file manager without worrying about the whole DE bloat

I don’t think I worried about “DE bloat” any time in the past ten years. Might be different if I was using Raspi desktop. :)