Gross!!! Let me taste it.

I’ll play them eventually. I will. Stop harassing me!

I’m fairly certain this is an old Quake map.

Toes or the slide?

Literally the only people who I hear say negative things about Torx / star bits are people who don’t own a good Torx driver set. They don’t strip easily (using the correct size) and they don’t slip.

Fixed it

Android can be great. It’s Google that’s the problem.

Agreed. No Firefox means no monthly payment from me.

As long as those friends have strong and inflexible opinions about chat apps then yes.

The problem is the residual holy water would kill them.

I second this. Anyone who says “You get what you pay for” is either trying to sell you something OR they themself are a sucker. Sure, sometimes** you get what you pay for but plenty of other times you’re getting straight up ripped off because the seller realizes you’ll mistake price with quality. Don’t be anyones sucker.

I’m split on this concept. Assuming we can’t get away from tracking I would prefer a company like Google over a company like Meta. Google doesn’t sell your data, they just serve ads based on what data they have. Meta and other data brokers will sell your data to whoever ponies up the cash. I’m not happy about being tracked either way. I just recognize one system is considerably worse than the other. Also, if (and this is a big if) Google honors your request to delete your data then I believe it would be even less of a concern. Right now I have my Google data set to auto delete after three months. Ideally that would be enough data to help with traffic suggestions etc while serving up relevant ads but not enough to build an invasive profile. Realisticly we need more laws outlining how our data can be used and ensuring that it’s not retained in ANY form after a set period of time or when it’s deletion is requested.

I was going to suggest epoxy resin.

A schooner IS a sailboat.

I had no idea what this was until I read your comment. Apparently Lemmy does skew old enough to get this reference.

Fedora with Gnome especially on newer hardware. Fedora has far fewer issues in my humble personal experience when it comes to hardware less than five years old. Gnome because trying to use something that looks like something you’ve used before but isn’t just adds extra confusion. No need for Pantheon or Cinnamon.

Do not buy BS internet connected devices period. There was a time when internet connected devices did exactly they were supposed to do and nothing more. There is literally no reason why most of these devices can’t act as their own server and keep your data local and private. Corporations have become far too greedy to trust their cloud won’t sell you out in every way it can. The ONLY two reasons a manufacturer adds internet connectivity are:

1. To monitor and collect as much data as possible and/or:

2. To implement a subscription service for something that normally wouldn’t require monthly payments.

Corporate closed clouds have proven time and time again that they can’t be trusted.

Me as well