This is a big part of it. Back when ai was first becoming big, my manager said they needed to run all my kb articles through an ai to generate link clouds or some such.

I was like umm… that’s a service this platform has always offered…? Like just because you don’t know what the kb tools do, or what our rock bottom subscription gets us, doesn’t mean I haven’t looked into it… but that also isn’t worth doing because now we only have a handful of articles in any given category because I’m good at my job…

Interesting. That’s very promising for a new user. I don’t need to customize because… well I kinda grew out of tweaking everything when I stopped using windows… you need to make tons of changes with that but I don’t feel much need on Linux because all that extra shit isn’t there… so I kinda just do the distro raw. 🤷🏻‍♀️ (except antixlinux, because it was missing a lot of stuff I needed)

So if it can roll back as a default feature, any idea why the other person recommended a separate backup tool? I’m just picking your brain here and don’t expect you to necessarily have insight :)

Also is that more of an automated feature or manual, like set it up similar to scheduled backups, or more like… I guess my old bios had its own backup files and would revert and reflash the main bios automatically if an update state or the main was non-functional…? (maybe that’s normal now idk, it seems like it should be)

And flatpacks, I’m not really super used to because most of what I’ve done has been directly adding the software repository to my… whatever, update list. Those are containerized right? I’ve avoided learning about docker; do I need to learn docker?

My ideal weapon is a big fuckoff staff, a book of spells, and some magic, thank you.

I tried the whole melee thing with wrestling back in the day, but being in shape is exhausting. And I wasn’t that good at it because I’m small. 100% clothie.

I don’t speak the language but I’m pretty sure the biggest one is to measure a horse dick since it says “good for a mare” or some such.

That’s gotta be accurate, right? With that kind of benchmark?

Here I always figured your skin falls off and you get infections, or your bones melt out by turning to jelly. Or your bones start growing again in random ways, that’s a pretty horrible option…

I mean I know your guts would probably turn to soup because soft tissue and all, but would your muscles have the coherence to pass anything or are we talking random spasm? Also that one dude with super acute radiation poisoning, that wasn’t mentioned… are we talking sort of long term exposure stuff here?

You 100% should because like your phone a new mattress is going to set you back a substantial amount, and while it will eventually need to be replaced, the longer you can get out of it the less waste you create :)

My logic with protection is if the thing can last a long time, and the protection thing itself is only a small fraction of the total to replace the thing (exactly like screen protectors and cases) it is financially sound to invest in the protection thing.

In the case of a mattress protector, I’ve had the same one for probs 15 yrs on different mattresses (I upgraded a few years ago, so proud of myself!), they don’t need to be replaced very often unless they get cut, melted, or don’t fit the new mattress. So very worth it for minimal spend and you can delay a new $1,500+ purchase for a few more years. I also have pillow protectors for the same reason; sweat and oils and stuff are just bad for the pillow, washing is bad for them, they last longer if you use a waterproof layer, the layer lasts forever, and tech has come a long way, other than it poofing up when you first lay on it (if you get the full zip variety rather than the fold over variety), you’d never know. They have gotten a ton quieter. (Hotels all use them, you mostly don’t notice unless they really cheaped out)

They make them for futons as well as kids size beds, too.

Thank you that’s very helpful!

I didn’t even think about apt commands not working but yeah that makes sense.

Is atomic different than just, umm… vanilla fedora? (I hope you know what I mean even tho idk the right words)

I don’t know what rebase means. When you say install media, do you mean like a live USB? I legit don’t even remember how I made the Ubuntu one, now that I think of it…

I really appreciate those links! That will be super helpful, I’m sure!

My games are unofficial, as I had them on steam and lost access to the account (ex changed all the data and locked me out) but can’t afford to buy them again so…

Is heroic the same sort of thing as lutris? Like it has all the interfaces for installing and stuff?

I mostly use the install from exe and the totally manual options because I no longer have a steam account (ex locked me out and I can’t recover it, and I refuse to repurchase games), nor do I have an account with any of the other platforms.

So I know part of the problem is that they aren’t official, and it really mucks up the process, but it’s a total crapshoot which ones will work and which won’t. Like I got rimworld pretty easily, but plucky squire doesn’t work after installing as an exe. Same method. Hogwarts legacy and Indiana jones won’t even go through the install without crashing, tho I suppose that could be the potato I’m trying to install them on as much as the files and runner and stuff… because even the gog games I have are… difficult.

Idk I sort of gave up after I got rimworld installed because that was enough. That was the 12th game I tried to install and the first I could get to run (not just install but actually run). Then I swapped back to my windows laptop for a while but that crashes far too often… so time to try again.

Idk I’m not tech savvy enough for this tbh. But I’m doing it anyway! That’s how we learn! ;)

I appreciate the info, I’m hoping this will be a good… umm… experience and be… a good enough fit that learning what to do is actually worth it.

Oh no this is a modpack with “War Crimes Expanded”, “War Crimes Expanded 2”, and “Geneva Checklist” for rimworld, isn’t it?

I use a $13 mattress protector to save the memory of my mattress. Works like a charm. I envision it like a sensory deprivation chamber for my bed.

It doesn’t remember all the times the cats threw up on it. It doesn’t remember me sweating out all the liquid in my body every night for an entire summer. It doesn’t remember all the… activities… and it doesn’t remember that time I spilled spaghetti nor the time I spilled soup.

My bed remains blissfully unaware. It treats me right and I do the same.

(Also a $13 protector extends the functional life of a mattress by literally years, bodies are fucking gross and all that soaks right in and ruins the structure.)

I’ve never used Dropbox so that’s ok :)

I have a friend who is 6’7, and he has on more than one occasion dated women shorter than I am, at 5’2. His last gf before the current one, who is 5’9, was 5’0

If I kneel on a bar stool, such that the bar stool replaces my lower legs for standing height, I can look him in the eye. It’s unnervingly open that high up for someone with a permanent tit-level view.

I can’t even imagine the back pains, but yeah some people are into that.

If you shred them you can use the shredded cardboard to grow oyster mushrooms. Shiitake too but they don’t do nearly as well.

Maybe that’s why she’s saving them. Have you even asked??

I got the biggest case available when I bought this one, specifically so I could replace stuff down the line. I just didn’t bank on that being such a… big task. :)

Thanks for this info! I appreciate it! I’m sort of at a loss when it comes to hardware or how this shit even works, so including the build for me was super helpful!

Since I still have a GPU from a few years ago (certainly a bargain model but a standalone card nonetheless) I’m gunna try your suggestions, and just get a different video card if needed. Even a $200-300 gpu would only bring me back up to the 6-700 range so.

I stepped down to the 7600, but with everything and thermal paste, $460 for new, which is very doable (I couldn’t find the stuff used but that’s mostly because I couldn’t tell if the thing was the same as what I was looking for…). It’s all an upgrade from where I’m at now, so that works for me. And I still have the 256gb ssd installed in that old beast so I… feel like that’s probably everything that I can’t just reuse from the existing situation (like the bays and stuff). I also swapped over to this because it’s available tomorrow where the other wasn’t until mid September, and it was actually less expensive, despite apparently being better in nearly every way… hopefully that’s not a mistake.

That’s far far far better than I was planning. I’m really glad I came on here and asked, you lot have been super helpful.

Vibing is the way to live and we should all be doing it now that we have more than enough skills and knowledge and resources.

Instead we spend them all enriching like a handful of people and that’s just weird?

Why do we think that’s fine? That’s so weird to me. Like this is the best we can have because someone else said so? What? Dumb.

Like we’ll always have people who want to know things and make things better and that won’t change, but everyone else can just vibe and not give a shit about that like they do now but also not work shitty jobs and we’d all be better off.

That’s super fair and I’m glad she has you looking out for her! It seems to be caused by a lot of things and you just do your best to handle it.

I did something similar with my cats, but I basically found a whole box of saucers (like for under a coffee/tea cup) my mom bought back in the day, an “unbreakable” resteraunt variety, where buying the whole box was cheaper than buying a set of 12, because nobody wants them (why I didn’t sell them)

So I have a stack that lasts about a week and a half of 4 plates daily (two cats each get 8am and 8pm). I just throw them in the dishwasher rather than daily washing. I’m very lazy. But I also live alone so it gets me to run my dishwasher before I’m entirely out of dishes.

One of the few reasons I’m glad I don’t have living parents.

I think my mom would have understood tho. She also never wanted kids and had 2 and sucked at it (she didn’t have my sister intentionally, and should have stopped, but then had me on purpose, and I got all her autism and all my dads adhd! So I was fun to raise!) and is why I got my tubes tied before ever being pregnant.

But in fairness all of the dudes I’ve dated… their moms have been like yeah I wouldn’t want to raise kids with my kid either, don’t blame you.

Thanks that’s very helpful!

I looked up parts on pc part picker that were compatible with a gigabyte b650m which meets the am5 standard and was the first cheap one I found (old pc was also gigabyte mobo, and I was happy with it overall). For the things I know I need to replace (cpu, gpu, mobo, ram, and a new cooling system just in case) in the sort of cheapest I could find category, came to $720 with a 3060 and 2x16 ddr5. I can swing that. My max budget was $1,200 or so, but I’d have been upset with myself the whole time for it. That’s a sizeable chuck of my money. Still, I do this stuff instead of going out and spending, so it’s worth investing in.

That’s ofc looking at new parts. Used would probably be better priced, but as a rough estimate sort of thing that’s workable.