Unfortunately up here the Benjamins to beaver bucks conversion rate sucks. And then we have to pay 15% tax on top.

So anything that’s trying to follow that logic breaks apart real quick, even when there’s 10% off on launch, still comes out to more than the full price would be… :(

Gotta rely on old people and their bum knees to predict the weather.

I understand what you’re trying to say, but “most” people don’t actually have TikTok or Twitter or proper comprehension when it comes to stuff they’re not intimately familiar with.

Most people fail to account for all the injuries you sustained as a child and walked off. All the hits to the head, mouth, ears, every single wall you ran into while learning to walk as a compound force.

Think most people would have immediate brain hemorrhage and die purely from all of that, and if not then probably a broken spine, especially when you’re older and have lost a lot of the elasticity that allowed you to simply absorb the impact as a kid.

These headlines are ass.

It’s meant to evoke a sensationalist response in people who won’t bother clicking on these articles and only rely on metadata, comments and headlines.

The “Libs of TikTok” account is doxxing… would’ve made it hell of a lot clearer but nah, the confusion is the point.

One thing about the electricity check, get an outlet tester with a ground indicator and use that, some places don’t have grounded plugs, your UPS and some power bars might tell you this info as well, would be a tad late at that point though.

Also look for burn marks on the sockets while you’re testing, improperly set up outlets also sometimes spark a bit when things are plugged into them.

In this economy?

I’d swap the chromebook and mac at the end there. The ewaste that is a chromebook is at best a glorified netbook, the macs at least have some decent hardware options that can be leveraged.

They disable the cartridge, not the printer itself iirc. If all you have is the subscription cartridges, then it basically bricks your printer since none of them will print without a valid subscription regardless if they have ink or not.

GoG does have regional pricing in some countries. It’s very limited but saying they don’t have it at all is false.

Unless they have specific applications that require windows 11 to run, I’d recommend just putting them on Linux mint and putting the browser shortcuts and mail and whatever else on the taskbar so they don’t have to go “searching” for anything.

As for Dual booting, it causes issues on the same drive in my experience, I do not recommend this approach.

If you have 2 drives, that becomes more manageable but again, at that point, what’s the benefit? Especially if you plan/want them to boot into Linux by default so they grow acclimated to it.

PLA does not absorb moisture. You can submerge a roll in water overnight, dry it and print just fine after. It does become brittle eventually just being exposed to the elements though. Either vacuum seal your filament in bags with a desiccant and store in a dark place or use it within 3-6 months of opening a roll as a general rule of thumb. Shorter timespan if you keep it in the light and if your ambient room temperature fluctuates considerably.

PETG on the other hand will absorb moisture and will crackle like a bag of popcorn when it tries to print with wet filament as it gets superheated at the nozzle level.

Also cheap printers are absolutely asinine for proper workloads, but if you’re a tinkerer that learns “on the job” so to speak while troubleshooting the nonsense you’ll see your prints perform, then it’s usually a great starting point, otherwise yeah, quality and reliability costs extra.

Where’s the steam machine/steam frame/steam controller release event?

Hmm. Weird. For me it was the 3rd thing on DDG when I typed “Mario koopa bite the curb” and went to images.

This?

Thing is, even if you’re not patient and willing to learn, getting dumped into the deep end, struggling for 3 hours and then giving up and “downgrading” to something like mint or bazzite is still a whole lot better than trying to unfuck windows 11 into a workable state.

You know it’s fake because there’s no way the ICE clowns would know which country to send him back to.

Just make sure you don’t confuse which thermometer goes where.

The easiest way to become an atheist is to study religion.

Boiling it in a kettle or even a pot doesn’t have that weird metallic-ish taste that it gets if you microwave it.