I feel like you are suggesting they would decompress the file over USB from the computer after it is transferred, and not use the phone to decompress it after it is transferred… Once it is transferred to the phone, just use the phone to decompress it.

Funny, because I had the opposite problem with my laptop… Bazzite couldn’t seem to keep the nvidia gpu happy and working so I switched to Garuda and it hasn’t had a problem gaming since.

I love Linux, but hate the user-to-user inconsistency - it really makes answering the #1 question “which distro should I use” basically impossible to answer. Go download all of them that sound interesting and put them on flash drives and try them out in live environment - narrow down to the ones you like the look of the most, and then install them and try it out and see if you can do what you need or not. It’s not a difficult process but it is a process and there is no simple answer.

And here I thought everything in this comic was just sweating profusely, including the words on the laptop screen.

Sorta same, but my problems expand beyond just Mint… I had a lot of problems with Ubuntu several years back, so I was convinced to switch to Manjaro. That was an absolutely unabashed fucking nightmare. I thought I was either cursed or just too stupid for Linux for a while. I still don’t know if I just got very unlucky or if I was/am too stupid for the distros that everyone shouts praises from the rooftops for… I stumbled into Garuda Linux and it has been a dream come true.

We run Arch, BTW.™

Always a good idea to check the CO detectors, just in case.

Damn it, it’s been too long and I forgot the name of slow fall… I think that means you won the internet today.

Hope you’re quick on the levitate, cause we are going to summon you off a cliff.

Shit I miss Ventrilo… Setting up custom binds so I could talk shit about the raid leader directly to the other warlock in the group just by pressing a different “talk” button was amazing. And I can still here the push-to-talk notification sounds… When the guild moved to Discord, I died a little inside and didn’t even know it yet. Yea, we have a meme channel now, but at what cost??

Nobody gives a single salty fuck what chatgpt says.

I’m not a food doctor or whatever, so definitely check me… But it is my understanding that potato + dairy = basically everything you need to survive. So, my answer is potat soup.

I’m honestly shocked that energy drinks are as unregulated as they are. Like, they don’t have warnings on the cans or anything. Way back when I was in high school, a friend on the golf team would drink 3 or 4 red bulls during a round of golf. By sophomore year of college, he had to quit the team (that he had a full ride scholarship to play on) because of heart problems caused by the energy drinks.

Like, it’s obviously not better for you than just breathing air. But it is also by all evidence better than smoking. But there has been a massive PR push to making vaping the absolute devil and just not mentioning smoking at all. It is anecdotal at best, but I can say that giving up cigarettes for a vape has made my breathing feel significantly better day-to-day. I have people actively smoking cigarettes tell me I need to quit vaping because “it’s so bad for you”.

Do I think that people that have never smoked should start vaping - absolutely not. Do I think people smoking 3 packs of cigarettes a day would be generally healthier if they switched to vaping - absolutely yes.

Or, hear me out, the app is trying to give that field cleavage in your examples. Big ol’ grass titties of mother earth.

Just about every fridge sold (meant for residential use, in the US) in (at least) the last 10 years has a control board in it. The only exceptions are the really cheap and small top-mount fridges, and even then it is only the ones with physical knobs that might not have a control board. Anything with buttons or a display has a control board. Many appliances with knobs also have control boards (sorry to everyone buying laundry based on “it has knobs, I trust it more”).

As for why - because they can. What are you gonna do, not own a fridge? Keep paying someone to fix an old one (or learn to fix it yourself)? Very few people will do that. Most people will bend over and pay.

Most have a bypass option - some it is a cheap piece of plastic that is a dummy filter that goes in the filter slot, others have an automatic filter bypass when the filter is removed. Might look into that if you aren’t worried about the water being filtered (or prefer to filter it yourself before or after the fridge).

These are nowhere near the most expensive fridges. They are on the higher side of the average range.

In my experience, the people buying these fridges are low income, low tech knowledge people that got approved for (likely too much) credit.

I guarantee it’s trivial to rip all the smart bits out and still have a functioning fridge

Unfortunately, it is not. The “smart bits” are doing the job of a control board in a dumb fridge. If the tablet shits the bed, you won’t get cooling until you factory reset it and get the tablet working again.

They already have the key functions of their smart fridges tied to the tablet shoved in the door. I’ve seen multiple instances of Samsung Family Hub fridges stop cooling and the fix was a factory reset of the tablet as it was unresponsive. Absolutely fucking deplorable imo. But also means if you make an “aggressive alteration”, the fridge probably gets bricked and you are left with an expensive and smelly cabinet.

I got to the “draw a perfect circle”… 94% is wild.