Yeah, at this point, it’s polite to arrange a call, especially if it’s probably more than a minute or two. And as you’ve noted, it’s also more successful than a cold call.

My wife has ADHD. I feel you, fam.

Bootloader stuff is less important if you’re not dual booting. Windows has a tendency to attempt to rewrite the bootloader when it updates.

But if you’re interested, it never hurts to learn about your BL!

Being “up for” something is the same as being “down with” something.

“You’re shit” and “you ain’t shit” mean the same thing.

“Giving in” and “giving out” sometimes mean the same thing.

English is a delightful mess of redundancy and contradictions.

Shortly after getting a cell phone, I made a personal policy that most people don’t get a free pass to interrupt my life whenever they want (there are a handful of people on the short list, of course). I’ve had friends and family comment that I’m hard to contact by phone, and I’ve always pleasantly agreed (and explained politely if they seem interested). Even texts or other messages can wait until I’m at a good place to respond.

For me, having my phone on silent most of the time is a mental health thing. I know people that have their attention diverted every few minutes, and I have no idea how they survive.

If you still need both, it’s an okay option, though it can be a little challenging to set up and maintain if you’re not as tech savvy. But in that case, to address the original question: learning how to restore your bootloader would be helpful.

But if running Windows in a VM works for what you need, that’s an option too (that’s what I do).

Or if you want to play around with Linux before committing, running it from a USB drive is also fine.

I was mainly curious as to whether this was mostly a fun exercise, or if there were a practical advantage to having the calendar printed in 3D. Cool either way.

This looks great! I love OpenSCAD, and this is a pretty feature-rich usage.

Are you planning to print it for regular use as a calendar, or is there another use case you had in mind?

Yeah, but by putting up the “we don’t support this” banner, they won’t have to deal with the complaints in the first place.

It’s also possible they want people to use Chromium for telemetry or other data-collection reasons, not sure.

Sort of. I imagine the idea is they only need to test on Chromium-based browsers.

“Yeah, but my PC doesn’t handle it well. If my PC were upgraded, it could really gen some AI.”

700cm

Absolutely. Making sure I have a huge life insurance policy, but getting it far ahead enough to avoid questions of fraud would be worth it.

I’ll throw Alpine Linux into the mix. Not sure how well it supports older hardware, but it’s really small.

Yeah, the base repositories are the same (along with Debian). In addition, Ubuntu gives access to the snap store, while Mint uses a flatpak repo. It won’t mean a lot to everyone–the main distinction between the distros is the default DE.

Mint uses flatpaks instead of snaps.

There was a monastery adjacent to a property owned by Hugh Jackman. To help the poor village nearby, the monks would sell flowers at a stand near the road, at quite a reasonable price.

This upset the local florist, who was accustomed to overcharging his clients. On doing some research, the florist found that the monks were not legally allowed to sell anything from their property. He took his complaint to the village authorities, but they explained to him that the monks were actually using Mr. Jackman’s land for their flower stand.

They told the shop owner: only Hugh can prevent florist friars.

I wish I could, but cameras are restricted :/

My office has two ping pong tables. They’re literally roped off with caution tape, and nobody is allowed to use them. I wish I were kidding.

I have a sneaking suspicion that neither of these two factors is the cause. Maybe a third thing. Or a fourth or fifth or…