Oh it’s worse than that. The rainy season just ended and for a long while I could hear water sloshing around in the undercarriage by braking too hard. It’s not something than can be easily fixed with some dessicant at this point. I sprayed the shit out of the cabin with room deodorant and left the windows open for a while. It helps a little but it’s like coating shit with sugar.

My '10 Versa’s having the same humidity problems from so many rear end collisions. The cabin smells so moldy and nothing seems to work. It’s a shame really because that thing can drive for another 100k miles easily.

Definitely need to install LMDE on my T460 one of these days. Thanks for the reminder.

CachyOS based on Arch (btw). I’m somewhat of a noob power user and want the newest software because shiny. I’m not afraid to fuck up the install and start from scratch all over again because I’ve fucked up a dozen times already.

They’ve been conditioned to not care or even desire it. Smartphones had Siri and Google Assistant as a selling point, which led to ever more intrusive tech that was marketed as a convenience. Facebook took it a step further and had you label people in pictures uploaded to them and you sign away your privacy in their terms and conditions. Advanced marketing techniques were irresistible to social media companies and so consumer profiles of everyone they could get became a thing.

Jokes about seeing ads that smartphones can overhear made the intrusive spying all the more accepted as just a part of life. Android marks your calendar and reminds you of appointments made using your Gmail account when you never asked it to. Ring doorbell cameras quietly sell their video feeds to the highest bidder, often to law enforcement as a convenient means to circumvent the 4th amendment. And now the latest trend is to have your car do everything your phone already does but take it a step further by monitoring your driving habits so insurance companies can justify raising your premiums.

The average person isn’t tech savvy enough to understand they’re being sold as a product even after paying for their own surveillance gear. They just want modern conveniences without thinking the price they pay beyond the original sale.

Fedora: requires some rework of Nvidia drivers to wake the screen back up from sleep. Updating GPU drivers does nothing to improve game rendering so frame rates for games of yesteryear on a RTX3080 were single digit. Required some changes to h264 drivers just so I could see videos on YouTube or Dailymotion while simultaneously messing with my VLC install. My VPN blocks off my subnet whenever it’s on so I can’t access my NAS.

CachyOS (Arch fork): drivers for my printer aren’t available without compiling them myself which did not go well. My preferred 3d printer slicer is difficult to install but that’s because I’m a total noob when it comes to installing anything from GitHub. My VPN blocks off my subnet whenever it’s on I can’t access my NAS.

So far ChachyOS has given me the best experience out of a few other distros like Mint or Bazzite.

There’s no right answer to that question. The only winning move is not to play.

At this point I’d take an employer that pays a little less but is remote.

Kettle owner here. They’re extremely efficient at heating water, often boiling a full load in under 8 minutes. Some models can be set to heat water at specific temperatures as well, making them a necessity for brewing different kinds of tea at their optimal conditions. Green tea for instance works best around 180F while black tea at 212F.

Who said it won’t eventually?

I’m living this right now. The lead programmers are long gone for a setup that uses Python, C++, and Linux. The only other guy who knows it is pulled to three other projects and I only have a C++ class taken over 15 years ago under my belt. I’m somehow expected to decipher this shit and explain the function of a few dozen variables and it’s going as well as one might expect.

Huh. I’ll be damned. Reviews of it say it’s pretty mid with it being a little too sweet. Guess I’ll stick to vanilla CR highballs.

Come to think of it, I wonder why Crown Royal hasn’t released a maple syrup whiskey yet.

Catholics are like the nerdy collectors of religion. Some of my family members collect Virgin Marys like I collect Gundams.

Communist centrally planned economies suck. That’s how you end up with panicking factory and farm managers exaggerating their production to the state to not end up in the gulag. A better alternative could be petitioning the government for money to start a worker-owned co-op that produce things at quantities that people would actually want. Do that and keep the government democratic composed of different parties with socialist mindsets at their heart and things should be better for all without the baggage of authoritarianism.

I’d much prefer to see Bean Bean instead.

Depends on what job you’re in. If it’s highly technical and niche you’ll have an easier time finding a better job. A competitor recently tried to poach me for a 50% raise but I turned them down since they didn’t have hybrid work available. Sometimes it’s better to stick with a job that offers things you value more than money.

I once went to a free lunch event hosted by a local church. The guy in there trying to convert me was using the story of how Moses (the “let my people go” guy) built an Ark that somehow proved God loved mankind.

All this is great if you’re working remote. At least you can be far away from a cubicle or even worse - an open office while doing all this nonsense.

To be paranoid nowadays is just being aware you’re under constant government and corporate surveillance for their profit/political gain.