But apparently they remotely used a laptop located in the US, so from there it should’ve been fine, no? Unless it was simply used as a proxy.

Counter-counterpoint: The battery saving features on my past 2 phones (Poco X3 Pro and Ulefone Armor 24) have been absolute shit. I am talking about randomly killing the music player, and even alarm.

And it’s also been unstable as fuck. I avoid updates once I learn all the bugs… and learn problems from others. I’ve had the X3 Pro motherboard fail 3 times, lasting 9 months on average. And after repair, instead of EEA version, I received a Chinese motherboard, with different software, and different set of bugs I had to learn to work around. And I heard MIUI 13 made everything even worse. Plus I lost the option to opt-out from tracking, because after the repair I was no longer on EU version of the software.
And what I can do is limited.
Arch isn’t exactly a stable experience. Every update seems to bring some random bugs. But it’s typically the same thing for everyone, you can probably search around, and somebody has experienced it, and you can change things in your OS on your computer, because for the most part, it is YOUR computer. Can’t do that with a phone.

When I was unlocking my Motorola, I had to agree to a license agreement stating that I will not resell or otherwise transfer my phone to a different person, and that I will be held liable for any damages or bodily injury including death caused by the device.
Please corporation, have mercy, let me use the device I paid for.

Also if the phone fails, I just lost everything at once.

Plus I have to replace it a little too often. There’s a lot of old electronics that only gets unusable because the plastics have already started decomposing, and either it’s extremely brittle and falling apart, or a sticky mess (fixable with IPA in the sticky case).

Motorola maps volume buttons so that a long press skips instead of adjusting volume when screen is off. I really miss that one.

Unfortunately, go home.

I am currently on a dorm, and I absolutely hate being with people. I just feel uncomfortable 24/7 being around others, especially random people. Thankfully my roommate doesn’t seem particularly social either - I didn’t actually talk with him yet, and I’ve been here since the start of September.

Now the unfortunate part, he left for Christmas. That means I am alone. Hell, even others from the next room in our cell (2 rooms per bathroom) left. And instead of enjoying that break from others, no, I’ll have to be with family. With my parents, at home, no own room, constantly on watch.

Unfortunately, I have no way to really stay here anyway, I can’t wash my clothes here. There are washing machines, which sounds convenient, until you realize they only take contactless payment cards which is something I don’t use (blocked) (only chip + PIN or cash). I literally have… let me check - 19x EUR 2 coins for vending machines. They could’ve had some of those.

Anyway, so, uh…, misery is what I am planning.

Problem is, Linux Mint installer says nothing about that as far as I recall, and just offers a convenient slider to allocate space between Windows and Linux.

And that was my first computer. Yeah, I am relatively new to computers.

But hey, I only lasted with Windows for 2 days. In Windows 10 I couldn’t even wrap my head around when to use Control Panel and when settings, because look, mature OS, we have Settings 1 and Settings 2.
In comparison, Linux Mint 20 MATE was far simpler, so having really used neither, I went with the easier one. However, that doesn’t mean I had any idea what I was doing. I didn’t even understand the concept of partitions.
Just imagine a total newbie.
“Where is the file stored?”
“On… the computer…?”

Sounds like timed coffee machines, but for food. Even better.

Just boot partition?

I once installed Linux Mint by shrinking Windows 10 partition in Linux against the recommendations. On first Windows boot it seemed fine, except that C: was still showing the old size.
On next Windows reboot it got annihilated with “Repairing drive C:”.

XcQ
don’t click you!

So ~50 minutes by foot.

That’s why I say “for future people”.

Wouldn’t that actually be a problem because it absorbs water?

I mean, I don’t know how it works when it’s in food. But psyllium husk is a bit interesting. Diarrhea? It absorbs water. Constipation? It absorbs water, and is something soft.
Now take too much or don’t drink enough water and you’re absolutely screwed.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6197948/

21-year-old man presented to the Emergency Department complaining of a lower abdominal pain and constipation for 5 days. […] The patient was diagnosed to have a constipation and was discharged home on Psyllium (ispaghula husk) sachets 7 g twice daily as a laxative. […] Repeated abdominal X-ray showed a huge fecal loading filling the whole colon with no gas fluid levels

During his stay in the hospital, the patient admitted that prior to the onset of the constipation he had ingested psyllium husks as herbal medicine for the purpose of weight control and health promotion. He ingested the husks without adequate amount of fluids because he was fasting in Ramadan (during fasting hours, no eating or drinking fluids are allowed). While in the hospital, the patient received repeated enemas. He passed a huge amount of fecal matter and the intestinal obstruction was relieved.

For the future people, who will be curious what is actually under that number: https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall/issues/4269

Years longer than its days

That sounds oddly familiar

Aisha (after the Fennec fox that I couldn’t pet at a contact zoo when I was 10 because it was still too young)

Can I think about it, or am I at gunpoint?

Most shops around me use eInk. Those tags probably cannot be used that way. They take a good minute to fully refresh.
Sometimes you’ll just see them flickering opposite colors.

And there’s also the problem of applying this correctly at the checkout. Though perhaps you can get away with a lot of “mistakes”. The price tags in nearby BILLA in the pastry section are like… 5% accurate if you actually check the price tags. That is, if any are there in the first place.
Last time I went by the price tags by position I ended up checking out pistachio croissants as nougat ones. Screw it, that’s the price that was indicated. Then I just stopped taking items that didn’t match the text (pastry)/EAN (regular goods) on price tags (which I thought I wouldn’t need to check - like in every other shop where they are correctly placed), and would you look at that, barely anything is eligible.

But I mostly stopped going there now. Random price tags, outdated price tags, price tags with actual price in ~2mm font that barely renders on the display sometimes with the member price in big bold, rotting and moldy fruit.

Life is terminal? Where can I type commands?

Would you just send a range of potential options

0.0.0.0/0
::/0

Something in that range.

None when they run things.

Nah, I talk the most when I am alone.