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Cake day: March 30th, 2024

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  • There’s a lot of info in these comments and a ton of it is good.

    I will say that the best advice is to boot from a USB and try out a system for a bit. You can easily swap around that way without a commitment.

    I will also say that my opinion is to start with Mint. It’s similar enough to windows in layout/workflow to feel familiar and is “boring” in a stable, easy to use way.

    Use it and learn Linux. I say learn, because it doesn’t matter what the OS looks like as much as how it works, and Linux (any flavor) works differently than windows. Learn those idiosyncrasies and then of you decide you want to try something else then you’re up to speed to move on and judge a different system with a baseline.



  • I don’t think anybody is critiquing the production quality or the right to get paid. I’ve seen nothing but complaints about the content quality (sensationalism) in the comments.

    For me, I don’t hate the guy or the channel. But I found I stopped watching his videos. I just felt like they were too long and could get to the point faster. I didn’t really see it as sensationalism myself, but understand that view. He’s essentially building it up to say why this is a big deal and you should continue watching the video.

    I just see it as an hour long video can still be made very well if it were half that. There’s a time commitment involved so when I see fluff that could have been cut it makes me not want to watch. The fluff doesn’t add value, not even entertainment wise.







  • I’m in NA and I’ve never been asked to leave a restaurant in my life.

    The closest has ever been being in a busy restaurant at peak time and seeing a line of people waiting to be seated and I’m well and done just chatting it up.

    Still not asked to leave, but I noticed glances from staff and such so I left earlier than I would have, but on my own accord because I want to be helpful.


  • Most banking works fine. There was a time it had more problems but I don’t even need to use a secondary profile with Google Play Services running any longer.

    NFC works, but that is app specific. So no, wallet won’t work because google wallet wants Google services to work. But in the EU some banks have their own contactless payments that work fine. In the US none do to my knowledge. For bus pass etc that would be down to your app and if they require google services or not. There’s always the option for secondary profiles.

    To me, I was amazed at his many apps use google services for notifications. So many apps work, but don’t give me notifications unless I open the app… Which I’m okay with because 99% of them I would turn off anyways.






  • I’m confused at your point and the camp you refer to.

    There was an outbreak in the US in multiple states, mostly TX where there was at least 1 death and hundreds hospitalized.

    Then a boy from mexico travelled to TX to visit family, contracted the disease (but may not have shown symptoms yet), then returned home. That introduced the virus to a village of unvaccinated people, which created another outbreak and deaths occurred.

    Its tragic. And the article points in many ways that vaccination / herd immunity would have prevented this. But that’s not always the world we live in.