What some people do is put the home directory on a different partition of the drive. Then you can change or update the OS without affecting home. It may take a bit more drive space and take longer to mount a separate partition when you boot.
This evident in the way European immigrant to the US have historically not been considered “white” until their original culture is entirely lost
As seen in a lot of settler colonialism, a manufactured “new” identity is created to promote a form of nationalism and shared ideology. This grew and evolved into a white identity that spread BACK to Europe creating the racial hierarchy that Western countries embrace so much.
e.g. “Europe is a garden” and the dirty jungle is trying to encroach. There’s similar sentiments in America, Canada, Australia etc towards their neighbors who aren’t considered “white”. It’s what Sakai refers to as a “Garrison Community” in Settlers (https://readsettlers.org/ch13.html#2). It’s the basis of the Great Replacement Theory that the far right love.
First they promote the racial categories of white and non-white, then they claim they (whites) are being genocided: no stats necessary - no evidence they’ve lost anything etc.
I think Mint has LibreOffice included already.
If not, you have the Software Center app on Ubuntu and Mint. It’s like the Windows Microsoft Store: a GUI to browse for installable software.
3rd option is to install it from the command line
While I see comments about cranking up protein intake, could I suggest a more moderate approach?
If you want to grow at a realistic rate, you don’t need that much excess food and only increasing protein won’t gain you much unless you have a big protein deficiency. Your metabolism can’t change so quickly to use extra without chemical enhancement.
You still need to moderately increase carbs and fats in a balance. You use carbs and fats to fuel your workouts which should be higher load to stimulate muscle growth. A lot of calisthenics is endurance-based which is not that suitable.
As you stated, you were overweight from overeating in the past. You only want to bump up your daily calorie intake slightly now rather than going crazy.
I.e. A 10% increase is 150 extra calories per day which is one small snack with a balance of macros. E.g. since you’re vegan maybe some humus on a slice of bread or similar.
Once you have that calorie excess, then you want to tune your workouts and your recovery time to stimulate growth.
Check out this article for a less protein heavy approach: https://physicalculturestudy.com/2020/03/13/mike-mentzer-the-essential-nutrients-heavy-duty-nutrition-1993-11-14-2/
I am a crocheting and knitting guy also. Great de-stress activity that produces something tangible when you’re finished.
People living with disabilities use their phone to help them find and access services which they need. Paying bills, getting cash at the bank, etc all previously required physically queuing up.
Yes - not all modernization and tech “advancement” has improved people’s lives. Postmodernism is a side effect of a capitalist system. Communication has become a commodity to be consumed.
Unfortunately we haven’t yet created a Linux-like philosophy that applies to mobile phones. With Unix, you use files or file handles to interface between command line tools. You incorporate the tools together in scripts to create more complex applications. How that philosophy can be transformed into a mobile device? I’m not sure.
Tech needs creative people to build things that help others live better rather than screw their life up.