Niche product, niche price, nice intentions, sure. But if they were going to go for a niche market, they really should have leaned into it.

Things like a headphone jack, removable battery, and not-gigantic display aren’t unrealistic beauty standards. They were perfected over a decade ago and still relevant among sub-300 phones from small-time manufacturers.

Also, the modem is the big unauditable black-box component that should have been the subject of the hardware kill switch.

Overall a solid app, good to have as a backup whenever Youtube introduces changes that break the NewPipe mechanism. Fine on larger screens like tablets, but the UI can get a bit busy for my taste on a phone. They say it’s merely source-available, but I won’t belabor it since I trust the developers’ intentions.

Spot on, I finally went around and found way too many degrading thermoplastics and rubberized surfaces causing this. The umbrella handle, office chair armrest padding, a pen grip, zipper grips, plasti-dipped tool handles (which then mixes with the smell of WD-40 and skin oil on metal). Ugh. At least it makes me mindful of how nasty plastics can get and how much crud sticks to unwashed hands.

Goodness gracious, it gives me an aneurysm every time I set up a new computer with the en_US locale or have to fill out forms with that date format.

I’ve travelled several times with multiple drives, never been stopped. I put them in USB drive enclosures, makes it look “normal” with the bonus of some mechanical protection.

Same. Immeasurably disappointed whenever the repo for a GUI program does not include any screenshots.

Hardly ever, but sometimes I find grammatical, syntactical, etc. elements of the other languages subtly bleeding through in my writing and speech. e.g. habitually writing “1.”, “2.”, and “3.” instead of “1st”, “2nd”, “3rd”, even for an English piece.

Maybe it stems from the way I acquired my languages. Code-switching tends to throw off my thought process, especially if I am the one doing it. I’ll have to finish a thought (or an entire chain of thoughts) in one language, and only then will I have an opportunity to switch the language.

A certain James Gilpin apparently did make it from his grandmother’s urine. And set up a tasting session for it.

Looks slick, sounds sweet. Maybe there’s deeper lore, but all I think of is the Librem 5 when I hear about hardware kill switches. Might consider it if it includes amenities like a decently replaceable battery, headphone jack, micro SD slot, and relockable bootloader.

Still, when im forced to use windows I see how bad its become, so im sticking with linux!

That’s the right attitude. A lot of the comfort of Windows comes down to habit and mere exposure. Every Windows user who dives beyond the surface also spends a lot of time learning, but with the added burden of having to sift through every forum post suggesting sFc /ScAnNoW. And if you keep the same hardware for a few years, the Linux experience ages like a fine wine as drivers improve and features get some subtle polish.

Sometimes I wonder if my health takes a toll each time I help someone set up Windows. I can literally feel my heart rate increase as I go through the privacy-related settings.

Learned to make use of this the hard way when transferring a directory over a FAT32 USB drive messed up the permissions.

Nice! Glad to hear it worked out for you

Several popular graphing calculators from Texas Instruments, including the TI-83 and TI-84, have a display resolution of 96*64, but only 95*63 pixels are used for graphing.

However, the earlier TI-81 did use all 96*64 pixels. The rationale for this change was to establish a central row and column for the axes and a central pixel for the origin. The cursor could only move pixel-by-pixel, and since the axes and origin would end up “between” pixels on the TI-81, they were inaccessible by the cursor.

Still rocking that tape deck. Great thing about cassette adapters is that they work as long as the read head is intact, doesn’t matter if anything else in the tape mechanism is rotted out.

Same in Germany, but thanks to roaming between EU states not incurring extra charges and Netherlands not asking for ID at the time, one could just cross the border to pay in cash, or order a Dutch LycaMobile SIM pseudonymously.

Active Desktop for Linux! But seriously, ever since I ditched desktop icons, I’ve thought about making the desktop useful by having it display a HTML dashboard of sorts. Now I can.

I think we can safely rule out anything on the hardware side since accessing any internal component of the Surface Go is tantamount to destroying it.

Assuming Microsoft’s UEFI implementation is somewhat standard, Grub2Win should set you on the right path. Have you inspected the underlying grub.cfg? Make sure the entry for the ISO doesn’t make any attempt to boot from network.

Ethernet on Surface requires a USB adapter

I was. Started out really shy until something clicked in the sixth grade and I became a lot outgoing. Might also have to do with being appointed to deliver the morning announcements for a year. At the end of each morning’s announcements, we’d call students up to the office if it was their birthday so I and the office staff could sing happy birthday to them and give a birthday gift (usually a pencil, sticker, or mini candy bar).

For some reason, I did maintain the popularity despite how little I socialized outside of school hours and official extracurriculars. Many students would greet me by name and it was awkward when I didn’t know their names. By the nature of taking AP classes, my usual friend group consisted mostly of well-off and somewhat nerdy students.

Writing this made me realize how much being socially connected brought to my morale and well-being. It was a privilege and I most certainly enjoyed it.

They’ve worked fine for me, unless the issue of file permissions starts to rear its ugly head.