Dang, I’m ashamed of myself for missing it. Mint was my gateway from windows too… I knew it was familiar.

Gnome, kde, and what’s the 3rd logo? I suddenly have fomo.

For personal use, Libre office does everything I need. For work, Excel is an absolute beast. It doesn’t necessarily scale, but for those one off data comparison, manipulation, or validation often I can do it faster and easier than I can in SQL. VLookup was kinda cool. Index match is definitely powerful.

I still generally avoid the vb macros though I’ve found solutions online occasionally where they’re useful. (Reviewing the code to confirm it’s not malicious first of course.).

I’m in agreement here and hopefully, I don’t completely miss the point, but does it matter what *-ism it is?

_________ people better than ________ people.

We’re entitled to / owed …….

There’s a more principle here that is what I believe to be more fundamentally identifying the issue. Somewhat of a Kant, “act only according to that maxim which you can at the same time will it to be universal law” but without the selection bias.

What approximate ratios do you use?
I’d guess something like below

1 cup whipping cream

2Tbsp confectioners sugar up to about 1/4 cup if you like really sweet

1 Tbsp flavored liquor or a few drops of extract.

Yes, I did. Everything I tried on copilot wanted me to upload corporate data to the cloud. (Yeah, NO). It told me it could help with my email…if I uploaded them individually. (Still bad practices here and breaking corp policy).

I expect LLMs should be really good pattern driven activity, but I’ve yet to figure out how to make this useful.

I tried to use a local LLM to summarize outline and discuss my *.md notes for annual review. It sucked at it if it didn’t completely crash the model. It couldn’t even provide a unique list of all tags in the files. (It took me about 30min manually). I thought that it would be good at that. I would have been better off spending to learn find | grep commands or spent time learning python.

I’m still searching, but maybe one day I’ll figure out a use for these.

If you do this use the neighbors address you don’t like for when it inevitably gets returned.

Survey shows as deactivated.

I’m with you here, mid-life, 3x payout per sneeze from here forward probably works out better.

Let’s try this one

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7695681/

I agree, and I cannot find a replacement for local buying/selling and marketplaces. So many local small businesses only exist online through their Facebook page.

Two crows

AI Summary

Title: Be Suspicious of HDMI

• HDMI technology is criticized for being a “money pool” for companies, despite the existence of better, royalty-free alternatives.

• Companies developing HDMI technology charge significant annual licensing fees and per-unit costs for using the HDMI name and logo.

• Additional features like HDCP require extra payments on top of existing licensing and unit costs.

• HDMI actively sponsors tech news articles to promote itself.

• DisplayPort is presented as a royalty-free alternative that offers similar or superior functionality to HDMI.

• DisplayPort supports more features, higher resolutions, and higher refresh rates compared to HDMI.

• The Steam Machine exemplifies the issues with HDMI, featuring a DisplayPort 1.4 connector capable of 4K 240 Hz.

• The HDMI connector on the Steam Machine is HDMI 2.1 capable but cannot be advertised as such.

• The HDMI organization does not license HDMI 2.1 for Linux devices, forcing Valve to label it as HDMI 2.0.

• There’s a call for the display industry to transition away from HDMI to less expensive and more open standards.

: “Trains that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing;
: Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;
: So on the tracks of life we pass and speak one another,
: Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and a silence.”

I don’t know who you are, but I feel like we should be friends.

OK, so if I’m on Apple hardware, for now, what’s the best alternative to “Apple Maps”?

There are insects that burrow into concrete type materials too. If you have drywall or wood trim or food in your house, there’s a critter that can come visit you. Nature gonna nature. We’re all worm food eventually.

Glad to hear you’ve got it in a good spot. Sorry you did have to learn that lesson the hard way.

I hope that’s a storage area and not the house. Word of caution don’t stack wood close to the house as it invites bugs to the home. (Termites and carpenter ants especially.)

You may have done it right, but I’d rather warn and help then just move on.

Mint was my gateway distro. Endeavouros was my next jump. I’m now on Arch. I do like that it has forced me to learn a lot about how and why things work. I’m still learning and starting to figure out what I’ve learned incorrectly. At the end of the day I think I got the “I have to change something and distro hop” bug.

I think I would love just about any rolling release. Yay!

I also found I wanted gnome. I’d rather use my keyboard for almost everything.

Cinnamon is a great transition from windows. Linux is great because you can choose from 900 flavors to get exactly what YOU want. *and it’s a curse…

I put the wife on mint first then Debian with gnome on 2 laptops and she seems to be pretty happy with it. (One is dedicated to running a laser cutter and the other her personal laptop) She still had to keep a windows machine, but it’s really only used to run a vinyl cutter.

All that said, I’d suggest trying Endeavour. I’ve got 2 kids using different laptops with intel chips and nvidia graphics. It’s been pretty smooth. They use KDE and barely flinched coming from windows.

Happy travels in your quest and may the learning be fun!