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Money for heating and cooling assistance for those in need is on the line. As part of the cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services, the Trump administration reportedly fired the staff that runs the Low-Income Home Energy Program. Congress already approved funds for the program but with the staff gone, the allocated money is frozen.

It's kind of ironic to me that Linux is all for free and open source, but still uses a proprietary platform, and a horrible one at that. Before the fediverse, I'd understand, but now, there is no excuse whatsoever.

I understand that we can't just get up and leave everything proprietary behind all at once, since we have iPhones and Android phones. We all use proprietary software of some form, but I am of the mindset of using the least amount of proprietary possible.

I will ALWAYS look for FOSS first. I also want to make it as hard as possible for any corporation to track me. They'll probably still be able to track me, but I'm not going without a fight.

I could say the same about the Linux kernel using GitHub, but I understand how massive of an undertaking it would be to move the whole kernel to another platform. I'm sure there are other factors, too. Anyway, I just wanted to start a discussion and hear people's thoughts.
Thank you

Italian gravy (tomato pasta sauce that is at least 20% pork fat) and leftover large elbow macaroni. Bread with homemade butter.

Traditionally I'd use pork neck bones to make the gravy but I live in an area with no Italians so they are hard to find so instead I use country pork ribs. And instead of cooking for six hours hours I can large batches of it using a cold pack method that allows me to be done in three hours. But this is my last jar. I'll have to restock at some point.

Cost is about $2 per person. If you find the ribs on sale and get a BOGO or better on canned tomato products it can be even less.

Hi, I'm a canadian woman. This community, well, caught my eye, when I was browsing the list of communities on lemmy.ca. Anyway, given how toxic lemmy is as a whole, I'm really impressed that this is a very nice space you've made here. You guys need to spread the detox around more.

Lemme know how I can be an ally I guess