I always recommend Pop_OS! for beginners. It’s IMHO a lot closer to what Ubuntu used to be, uses apt and/or flatpaks (and no snaps), has sane defaults, a good installer, a decent company behind it, nvidia drivers included and their upcoming Cosmic desktop environment looks sick.

Also, I feel like this is a better Fedora-based distro for beginners since it’s harder to break:

https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/silverblue/

Doin God’s work here

That’s so highly disappointing, but unfortunately not surprising to me given how often doctors have been arrogantly wrong about my issues.

I’m sorry, my dude. I wish it would have worked out better for you. Maybe it still will with more time, but I know that’s cold comfort right now.

I just wanted to say good luck, we are all counting on you.

Let’s hope that’s this week. I’ll settle for being done with this nightmare.

I consider myself a progressive, and I want that fight. I want the Democrats to show some spine.

Well I think we agree. It’s not about changing minds but getting people fired up enough to go vote. Democrats win when voters show up in large numbers. Those not paying attention need to be given reasons to do so.

The Democrats need to get a whole hell of a lot tougher on messaging. Biden needs to stand in front of crowds and cameras and call Trump exactly what he is: a traitor, a criminal and a dangerous Russian asset. Fuck statesmanship at this point. Trump should have never, ever been able to get this close to the presidency again, yet here we are.

It’s not enough to just be quietly polite when your opponent wants to destroy the rule of law and order. I’m so entirely sick of watching as the Democrats blow opportunity after opportunity to win big.

If you value your time more than you like to tinker with your printer, then the cost makes sense.

If you like to do more maintenance and prefer to save the money up front, then the budget printers make sense.

She’s far too good a businesswoman to do a pants-crapping insane thing like that

Nobody wants to work anymore!

They lie plenty, knowingly and with intent.

https://www.politifact.com/article/2015/feb/26/50-fox-news-lies-6-seconds-daily-show/

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/21/fox-news-audience-lies-dominion-trial-donald-trump

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/28/1159819849/fox-news-dominion-voting-rupert-murdoch-2020-election-fraud

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/fox-news-dominion-lawsuit-trump/673132/

Imagine how different this world would be if only the USA had laws requiring news channels to report factual information. Instead they’re classified as entertainment and being allowed to destroy our democracy one lie, one “spin” at a time.

The Sound of His Squeal

That’s the title of the article though.

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20% should be perfectly fine. I can’t get mine less than that without extreme effort, and it doesn’t perform better at that percentage anyway.

I dry mine in a food dehydrator and print with it in one of the filament dryers to keep it dry during long prints. I live in a swamp though, so it’s necessary for me to do this before almost every print.

It’s called Greed

It’s worth discussing at least. I used to be a big fan of flashing custom software, kernels, recoveries, etc.

At some point though, it started becoming more and more of a hassle to get a phone with an unlockable bootloader to work with my mobile network operator. Limited choices of I even had one.

Then all the banking and p2p apps stopped being easy to use while rooted, so we had to hide root from those apps. Then that got harder and harder.

Meanwhile the custom features that I used to want became mostly standard within Android.

At this point, I don’t really bother with rooting anymore because there’s little that I need it for but lots of hassle involved in having it. Now Google is blocking RCS messages from being delivered to rooted phones.

So if Android is now basically iOS with how much it’s locked down from modification, why not just get an iPhone with better features I care about (their cameras and photo software) and better long-term updates? What is it that Google is even aiming for with Android now? If they’re going to be hostile to users owning their own hardware, then maybe the OS should see more than a single line item change for a major version (android 14). I don’t feel like Google has made any meaningful additions to the OS in a decade+ now.

You’ll want to tow it outside the environment for repairs.