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  • Guess it’s lost in translation.

    Conservation land is a protected wild area. Sometimes it’s what we refer to as “the woods,” and not properly marked from a local standpoint.

    In my region, there are many county and state (vs federal in US) parks, with recreational areas and rules about how to interact with the wildlife. Greatparks.org.

    There are also private nature preserves, and those appear to us as hiking trails. https://www.cardinallandconservancy.org/ is an example.

    There are also smaller conversation areas. I know of a little bog about the size of a football field with a little sign saying it is maintained by the local college.


  • I used Ubuntu for a while until about 7-10 years ago when they started bogging down the interface. I moved to Mint because it was easy to not have to learn new stuff. Here is a list of some of the grievances:

    Advertiements for Canonical in the OS.

    The telemetry is consentual and optional, but it still gives Linux users a weird itch.

    Snaps are the default packages, which is not completely FOSS. I use Fedora now, and flatpack is a similar tool, but it is less bloated, FOSS, decentralized, sandboxed by default, and asks you too update packages instead of automatically doing so. Snaps seem to be easier for maintainers and supposedly has better security. https://itsfoss.com/flatpak-vs-snap/

    People were irritated with the Unity interface when it came out.

    Also, it’s corporate and that bugs people.

    Debian is upstream of Ubuntu and a bit more simple. Mint is downstream and includes many of the QOL fixes in Ubuntu without the above grievances.