Yeah …
Strategies against this include cooking for several people (well, that ain’t happening), doing meal prep several days in advance / cooking larger portions that you can eat over a couple of days, and buying frozen ingredients (still better than buying entire frozen meals). Some non-frozen ingredients keep for a long time, too, e.g. dried rice or noodles, onions, pickled vegetables.
Could have been SO much worse.
I wouldn’t call “throw some stuff in the oven and add salt” cooking. And either way it’s vastly easier than working with pots and pans - you don’t have to watch for pots boiling over or things turning black in the frying pan, and the clean-up is rather minimal, as well. Plus, pans tend to not do that well with meat or veggies directly from the freezer (it’s possible but harder, which is not great for the post’s premise), which isn’t even an issue when you use the oven instead.
Also, there’s something about baking that makes food taste pretty consistently good, I’ve never managed that consistency on a stovetop. It’s incredibly demoralizing when you put in the work to cook properly and it turns out shit.
Oven has been a life saver for me. I’ve eaten a ton of meals that consisted of baked fries, some kind of meat or fish and vegetables, and it’s as simple as putting a bunch of stuff on a tray, adding salt and baking it for 15-20 minutes. Easily beats most comparable microwave meals in terms of taste, texture and probably nutritional value, too.
Since when are sci-fi and fantasy nerds fucking?
I don’t think sci-fi and fantasy are that clear-cut. A lot of fantasy is quite hopeful (the bad guys pretty much always lose at the end of the story), and it’s kind of 50:50 whether it depicts the past as better or worse than it was. e.g. the shire in Lord of the Rings is practically a utopia, despite not being completely unrealistic for a pre-industrial society (it probably looks a lot more utopian than it is because most of the hobbit characters we know are aristocrats).
Literature is, generally, definitely not about happy feelings, though.
Hell yeah! The Ubuntu mono is really easy to read, and there aren’t that many sans-serif fonts that differentiate l and I well.
The power of insomnia!
Which distro are you using? AMD has been completely plug-and-play for me.
Damn, what’s the power draw on that thing?
Yeah. Someone has to put in the work for packaging an application if you want it as a .deb/.rpm etc. package and deal with any bugs that might come up, and it’s not going to be me (speaking as a user, not a developer).
That said, I also painted myself into a corner when it comes to harddrive space. LUKS can be complicated, man …
Your emergency meal sounds healthier than most of my regular meals, lol! It’s usually just fries, zucchini and some kind of frozen meat or fish (all baked). Fresh zucchini probably doesn’t last long enough for OP’s needs, but it does last really long for fresh produce. Though part of it is that I kind of follow FODMAP so onions and legumes are out for me.