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That makes this much more unfortunate.

Your first sentence needs work. This is what they are talking about. We get that English may not be your first language, and that’s OK, but that sentence is pretty bad and isn’t conveying a coherent message.

Maybe fb Zuck could follow in the path of the former Ron Artest.

My experience is very dated, but I bought a used windows Asus laptop in 2013 and put Ubuntu on it and experienced no problems. I had been using Linux for a long time, so maybe I remember this with rose glasses, but it was very straight forward. Also an integrated GPU, but of the 2013 era. I think the laptop was a 2012 model.

Config isn’t hard, it just takes time 🙂

Yup.

Ya 🫤 Jerry is still touring (I think). He was good live then, but the last time I saw him was like a month or two after Layne’s death. It’s been awhile. He’s older, but so am I, and presumably you 🙂 His solo stuff was great. We ended up getting a lot of AiC stiff at that '02 show. Very solid performance. Not really related, but I’ve heard the Sublime stuff is good, but I wasn’t ever that into them, just have a friend who has stuck with it.

Ya that was the one , i listened to it, also. The very beginning sounded very familiar but I’m not sure about the rest. But maybe it’s been 30 years and, well 🤷‍♂️ I never saw Candlebox live, guess I didn’t miss out. I really liked Alice in Chains but only got to see Cantrell tour while “waiting”

there was a band called Hum

Wow, what a memory trip! I listened to that song, I don’t think I have heard it before, but it is great! I’m pretty sure I heard a different song from them at the time, but they probably live in my mind from looking at BMG and CD warehouse catalogs at the time. Other artists have popped up over the years from there.

I’m glad I asked, and thanks for answering! Somehow that took me back to my Candlebox days.

Unrelated but is your username a play on benzene?

analog

Makes more sense now, I only picked up one the first 2/3 and thought of other things 😅

I’m not sure if AInik works, wouldn’t that mean they are a fan of AI? Also unsure of the synth- options as a friend of synthesizer musicians, but as a non musician maybe I should use that myself 🤔 I can’t interpret analogian without help…

But the others sound pretty great! Cogstainers is awesome because it can be reworked into different word types. Verbs, adjectives. Incredible.

I’m curious about the reliability of this port on a sweaty wrist exposed to dust and general labor environments. My phones, even back to the proprietary plug days, have had the charge port covered and my wrist watch would get wrecked.

Does the PD standard not regulate? I’ve used a PD power cord from a laptop to charge a mobile phone, but that isn’t exactly a small device. And maybe I shouldn’t have done that…

freegan

If they had come up with something original like that, it would have been better. But creating constructive neologisms takes work, I guess.

Thanks! Currently I am using Mint, and it looks like secure boot is disabled.

Thanks for your replies ❤️

Maybe, but what about units supplied by a Linux builder? My last computer was a windows machine I installed Linux on, but that was before this I think. It shipped with windows 7.

I definitely have UEFI, not sure about secure boot.

Not sure, I have a computer from a Linux builder but it still has UEFI. I am trying to figure out where I stand on this.

How would we know if this will affect us? I have been running Linux distros for 20 years and didn’t know Microsoft was involved at any level in firmware.

Interesting. I clicked on a link here a couple weeks ago and was presented with this and wasn’t really sure what it was. Thanks for sharing this! It seems like a good alternative.