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.

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.

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

I hate that I can hear this as I’m reading.

Somebody make this into a free game on steam with some dumb achievements and being able to change the colour of the nub if you do it 100 times or something.

Protip; first time you use an acronym, parse it, and then you can continue referring to it with the abbreviation.

ROFL (rolling on the floor laughing) as an example could be used to denote something that was, to the receiver, funnier than LOL (laughing out loud)

Best suggestion I can give you (after having this battle a few years ago regarding a 55” tv and losing) is just don’t connect the damn thing to the internet during setup. (I had to connect online for a firmware update and my pihole was having a field day blocking like 15 different domains it was trying to reach to for ads and whatnot. )

Or just get a pc monitor, at 32” I think you’re still within parameters for that.

Wikipedia link to Home Assistant

official website for Home assistant

In short, open source platform to run your smart devices locally when possible.

Dumber tech that works without internet/network/bluetooth/account or stuff that I can connect to HA.

Micro transactions and pay to win: Not very much of but still there. (Who knows what it’ll look like down the line though)

As for the anticheat I saw people mentioning ACE, which, from what I saw, people really didn’t want.

While I agree people’s experiences vary wildly, there’s plenty recorded gameplay video that shows it happening.

That aside, they can take their invasive measures and shove it up their cloud where it can and should operate, not on my goddamn machine.

Secure boot. TPM2.0. And a kernel level anticheat on top.

Yet, still hackers in game.

I legitimately have a meal before going to my hygienist appointments, the more random small bits it has like seeds or tiny nori stripes and whatnot, the better.

Supposedly makes their job more interesting when they have something to dig for.

Their words, not mine.

Thank you for reminding me. I went ahead and tossed it out just now.

Not sure how recent we’re talking but within the last year or so my 2 biggest disappointments have been once human and nightingale. I can usually work around jank and weird creative decisions, but unfortunately neither of these two were worth any of the time I’ve spent playing em since they felt like they didn’t seem to want you to progress.

Played once human for about 3 days, nightingale for around 3 hours and then refunded.