The motor runs only for a second or two each time. In the moment, it takes more current, but otherwise isn’t that active.

If I had to change the batteries once or twice a year, I could probably live with that. But every month or so? Bad engineering

No wonder. The hassle of changing the batteries so often is not worth it.

That is fucking dumb that you have to replace the battery every month.

We have low power mcu that can go down to a few uA and make battery last for years, but this company decided that it was beneath them.

Bad engineering overall.

What is causing that? Anything I can do to offset that when my children will be old enough for it to be a problem?

Spring where I live is worst.

Lots of snow, lots of rain so that means a lot of slush, and any outdoor activity makes a mess of whatever you are wearing.

With the climate changes, we also get wild spikes of hot/cold weather. So one day you are in t-shirt and the next day you have a to wear a snow suit.

You are right that the terminal is a really useful tool. But for the average user, the terminal is intimidating.

No other OS works like Linux in term of UX. You can use iOS or Windows without a command line all your life.

As this post describe, it is next to impossible with a Linux Distro.

For the people that want Linux to be mainstream, this is an important hurdle to go over.

I know that Windows sometimes shit the bed where you need to edit a register or use PowerShell, but for the vast majority of people, it won’t be needed ever in their life.

I am mostly gaming these days but a few months a year, there is a 3d printed project with some embedded components so I’d like the distro to be relatively easy to use in those cases.

Thanks for the explanation.

I don’t have a lot of time these days, so my PC is mostly used for gaming at the moment. So I am not too worried about the OS being immutable if the gaming is good out of the box.

I still keep a kubuntu os and dual boot the other os I want to try on another ssd.

How is Bazzite for other things than gaming? For me, mainly embedded dev and productivity.

Linux Mint would be an OS built on the Linux Kernel.

Some people have a hang-up on calling any Linux kernel based OS “Linux”, because unlike its competitor, there is a lot of OS flavors.

You have “main” OSes (Debian, Fedora, etc.) and derivative OSes based on these “main” OSes.

Linux Mint for example, is based on Ubuntu, which is based on Debian.

At this point, it is semantics.

I used bluestack to emulate android and us MS Auth when I had no choice.

It’s a waste of space, but it doesn’t go on your phone at least

I recently switched to KDE. What tweaks do you recommend (other than finding a theme you like)?

Were you around during the ps1 era when you could go to someone and change a chip to play copied discs? That’s the same thing here.

Someone has the know-how, he shares that info and that’s it. There is no knowledge involved, and the person installing the VPN doesn’t even need to know what it is called or what it does, as long as it allows them to watch tiktok.

Then that person tell their friends and it spreads. There is no technical knowledge.

Your initial point is that if someone is capable of installing a VPN, he is probably not a tiktok user.

But VPNs nowadays are extremely easy to setup. If for a tiktok user that means that they can access tiktok even though it is bannes in their country, they will follow a guide to set up a VPN, or a friend will show them.

There is literally no knowledge involved in that. So i’m not sure why you think VPN users are above that.

It worked for Netflix, it will work for tiktok.

You think too far. Some people have the knowhow to install a VPN on a phone and access tiktok. They share that info.

People that just want to access tiktok follow the info to install the VPN and have access to tiktok.

I don’t have the pc with me anymore, but I will try to find a screenshot that was circulating around with a ton of ads, which was my experience as well.

I just installed Win11 on a work computer last week, and there were at least 3 screens of the installer trying to push o365 or one drive.

Then you have the start menu where if you look for a software, 90% of the menu is an ad trying to push you a software. At the bottom, you have your search results.

And then there is the pop ups on the bottom right of the screen trying to sell you Candy Crush or another bullshit software.

That’s awful and I’m glad it wasn’t my computer

You’ll be sitting all day, might as well be comfortable.

I genuinely didn’t know all that. Thanks for bringing that up. I’ve been lazy and told myself countless times I should switch to LibreWolf. Now’s the time.

It usually means that their logical thing is pretty good because discrete math is pretty much all that.

You learn a concept, then you modify it to apply to different contexts for different applications.

The math competitions is a good training for that.