A Super Market Store Does an Awesome Thing

We generally shop at Giant Foods because we like the selection. Ever since the pandemic we started ordering our groceries online through the Giant Foods app. This process has stuck with us because it saves us so much time. Normally a grocery shopping trip for a family of four takes us roughly 2 hours from start to finish. This includes driving, shopping, paying, loading, and finally unloading. Using the app it takes us minutes and then time to unload when the delivery arrives. The time we save we put, financially, towards the tip for the driver.

We could never tell if we were doing worse or better with the plastic bag situation. In some cases we ended up getting more bags which was frustrating. The online delivery would give us a single bag for an onion, as an example. Recently though the deliveries started showing up with compost-able bags! At first I assumed them to be the "industrial compost" only bags which means they go into our recycling and probably get thrown out. However these bags were different, they had stated they were compost friendly for home composts!

I have taken these bags and mixed them with my compost pile and will continue to track the efforts here to see how well they do.

Manjaro Day 4

I've been really excited about using Arch Linux's Manjaro and things have been going well. No Man's Sky installed easier and runs better with Steam's tool set.

The challenge now that I'm trying to resolve is the mouse. My mouse is a Logitech G300s and it just feels...off. I can't place what exactly is happening but I find that its harder to actually click on small or exact locations. It feels like the mouse is over-sensitive which may be the case with the default interface loaded with Manjaro. I have not found another form of drivers or even logitech specific drivers for my corded mouse.

My hunt will continue into the xinput library and see if there's a way to treat the read bit rate and lower it so the mouse is not as sensitive.

First Night With Manjaro

I intended to try installing a Steam game sooner but was interrupted by a snake sneaking into our house. Fortunately for us a sticky trap caught before it could get to where it wanted to go. After some olive oil and patience, its unstuck, inside a plastic bin, where it will hang out until I release it far from our house tomorrow.

Tonight I wanted to test No Man's Sky on Steam in Manjaro. I had to enable the Steam Play feature in Steam before it would allow me to install the game. This is found under the Steam menu button at the top -> Settings -> Steam Play and "enabling Steam Play for all other titles." After a quick restart of steam, I was able to then install No Man's Sky.

The installation is proceeding like it would in a Windows environment, I'm typing this up as it downloads all the necessary files....Maybe I'll go check on the snake while I wait.

The installation went off without a single issue. I didn't even have to deal with those annoying additional dot.net installation requirements! The game loaded with the same speed as my Windows installation and runs just as well, if not a tad bit better frame rate.

Tonight It Starts

I played around with Arch Linux and I liked it enough that I'm going to go with Manjaro Linux. There's just a snappiness and crispness to Arch based distros that I really appreciate. There is solid NVidia driver support as well as straight forward ways to install Steam. I'm backing up my data now to prepare for full flat wipe and re-install.  I am installing the Gnome 21.1.4 release because I know Gnome the best.

Dear Windows,

It's been fun but, you're just not who you used to be though! We've both changed but I feel I've changed for the better and you're just, well, still the same with regards to lack of concern for user experience and security.