Its more than that; companies also continuously propagate the message of “shortage of workers” while continuing to raise the requirements for entry level positions more and more. It reaches a point where “entry level” is not attainable for most fresh grads to get experience, and keeps their starting wages (and continuing wages) very well depressed due to the high supply.

Its a very targeted campaign to make sure educated workers are oversupplied, tied down with student debt, and don’t get too many ideas of independence in their heads.

Absolutely not. It is a fairly insecure encryption layer on top of an openly broadcast wireless layer. Its only benefit is being decentralized for local communications and as such cannot be remotely disabled.

If it counts, One of my friends in college had a bedslinger mish mash of like 4 different printers cobbled together to make a sort of bastard child prusa i3 equivalent. It actually made decent quality prints although it was pretty slow. That’s about as open source as you can get.

Ahh, the zero timeout. Forgot some distros set that (I use Debian and it sets timeout to 5 seconds).

Glad it works, congrats on joining the dual boot world!

Yep. Boot grub (linux) first and it can do windoes when you choose.

It does not matter that the OS’es are on different physical drives, GRUB can index them just fine. Bootloader on one drive that can boot from multiple other drives is very common and I’ve set it up multiple times, as it is nice to have physical separation between OS’es and not have to deal with having 8 partitions of hell on one poor abused drive. The only issue that may arise is if you add or remove other physical drives or move the locations of existing drives as sometimes that can change how grub indexes them and it breaks. But that’s fairly easy to avoid if you pay attention and try not to touch bootable drives.

What linux distro did you use?

Most all common Linux distros by default will install GRUB (GRand Unified Bootloader) alongside themselves, and recognize any other OS’es previously installed on the system when they do so. GRUB is a multi-bootloader that can select any bootable drive or partition that it detects when initially installed, or be reprogrammed with additional OS’es if you’re more advanced.
When you use your F11 menu to boot to Linux, do you see this screen show up for a couple seconds?:

If so, you’re already good for picking OS.

All you may need to do is switch your default boot order in the BIOS to boot from the Crucial drive with Linux Mint installed, rather than default to the Windows drive as I believe it is doing right now.
Hit F2 (i think for MSI?) on startup to get into your BIOS settings and look for the boot options menu, should look like this:
You just need to re-order the devices so the Linux hard drive is above the Windows drive, then your BIOS will try to boot from it first and hopefully give you GRUB.

If that doesn’t work, e.g you don’t have GRUB, that’s more complex and will take some effort. May be worth just re-installing the distro or a different distro that will set up GRUB for you as manually adding bootloaders is above my skill set. And has a risk of leaving you with a non-bootable desktop.

They will wear faster being on (accumulating capacitor and electron gun power-on hours) than they do turning on and off. They are not like a hard drive where there are mechanical components that wear faster during start and warmup, they are primarily solid state electronics that care only about power on hours.

Yes always turn off CRT’s when idle. They (typically) have no sleep mode like a LCD does, when they are on the tube is firing and all the capacitors are charged regardless of display input.

Yeah tbh. And it aligns better with the concept of sexuality/gender being more of a spectrum than rigidly designated buckets.

I can see a couple cases:

Scientific/hobbyist applications where you want to direct connect a lot of data collection sensors.

Or

Developers working with embedded devices who want to have many connected at a time.

Sometimes with speciality hardware hubs can give you issues, or if you need higher overall bandwidth per device they need a connection to the actual controller.

None of these touch the normal consumer though.

But in desktops, everyone seems to complain about Nvidia pricing, yet no one is touching Battlemage or the 9000 series? Why?

Its always been this way: they want AMD and Intel to compete so Nvidia gets cheaper, not that they will ever buy AMD or Intel. Gamers seem to be the laziest, most easily influenced consumer sector ever.

In defense of distros, the Nvidia nonfree drivers being absolute hell to install is not really the distro’s fault. It has ALWAYS been a hellfest on every single distro I’ve ever touched. The only one it even remotely installs smoothly on is Ubuntu, and even then, not that well.

That’s just a Prusa pricing problem though. Check out snapmaker U1. It’s a 4 toolhead system coming in under the x1c price point.

I think the best thing to help her-because I have a friend who is strongly on the AuDHD spectrum and is helped a lot by his incredible girlfriend, is converse with her in a series of questions that creates external structure.

Not everyone’s brain is the same of course, but the communication issue is that her brain is running faster than her memory can keep track of and her mouth hole can finish thoughts coherently. The information is there, its always been there, she struggles to parse it in a neurotypical way. What you have to do is take away the ADHD “decision matrix hell” that our brains get trapped inside and create a single track with limited offshoots so we do not get immediately overwhelmed and derailed.

Try sitting her down and simply ask a series of questions about whatever topic at hand. Who? What? Where? Why? Don’t ask how because that can trigger a tornado of thought train processes. But get her to work inside of a structure that’s simple. Each of those questions should boil down to an answer less than 10 words for most things. It might help to start this on paper too, leave her one to two lines for each statement.

This could help in professional communication too if she can start to practice answering everything in the four-W format, it will be a lot easier to keep things clear.

Lost bud?

I 3d printed a hair comb that’s been my daily use comb for like 8 months now.

I’ve also 3d printed a gauge pod for my car (that I modeled) to hold a trans temp gauge. And since I drive every day that probably tops the list of useful prints.

Try a $48-64k job and get some experience.

Boomer out of touch take.

Damn. That’d be crazy if anyone was actually hiring anybody with no experience.

I know multiple group chats of people who graduated fresh from college, not even 20% of them have jobs a year after grad. And this is spread across comp sci, cybersecurity, and mech eng.

The entry level job is dead. Every company thinks they can replace the menial shit that entry level workers do to learn with AI slop.

And of course I know why Linus does that. Rage bait gets clicks and engagement online. Tale as old as time. But it definitely makes for terrible content for people like us who actually value the technical accuracy.

No offense to Jay, but he seems to be a bit bone headed more often than not with things he’s not familiar with and refuses to research or get outside help when he needs it.

He can make great hardware/watercooled builds and overclock really well, but any video outside that skill set is just… Painful.

Actually I think I meant to write “arent worth shit” but had a tired brain fart