Probably staggered, or something dumb like by subreddit.

For it once day before yesterday, then next visit no prompt. Same browser, computer, different subreddit. Same subreddit yesterday and no prompt.

Blah blah blah.

Suck it up, butterrump.

We’re old like dirt.

Or beans. Old like beans.

Used to buy succulent seeds online, and sadly there were a fair number of scammers selling seeds for what appeared to be gorgeous, but non-existent photoshopped succulents.

Scammers gotta scam, and AI makes it easy.

Very effective for cold climate/weather, not so mach for heat.

I did this for the windows on an old 1920’s cabin in BC, the walls and roof cavity had been retrofitted with insulation, leaving the windows as the big heat loss spot during winter. Didn’t fix how cold it go inside during winter completely, but it did bring the unheated temp up a degree or two, which made heating and keeping a temp easier.

Summer, OTOH, it created a heat pocket that radiated more heat inside, so I did a covering for outside with light coloured heavy fabric (curtain fabric) for the outside.

Maybe you and I can go splits. You can have my share of the stone if I can have the pain relief part.

For real. Everyone already has their friend group, their clique, whatever. They often say they are open and welcoming, and sometimes are for a while. They don’t try to get to know the newcomer, regale then with stories of their already set in stone group, and make promises they have no intention of keeping. Newcomer leaves, and they don’t even notice or care to reach out, and if they do, it’s purely performative and there’s no follow through because they already have their group.

Australia: I don’t get it either.

So far, so good. Thanks much for this!

Mint. I’ve gotten the popping/crackling to a minimum, but it’s still happening occasionally. (Oddly it happens most often with games that have sound disabled both by OS and via in game)

I put off the switch for ages due to similar reasons, tried once that failed horribly. Later had a motherboard failure and Microsoft showed their whole arse. Reactivated the dual boot, channeled my inner old woman energy, solved the video issue and have been happily tinkering with the smaller issues as they come up. Still playing whack a mole, but now I’m getting things the way I want them, instead of disabling things I’m being told I want by some corporate nutcase.

And hilariously, I am spending less time maintaining Linux than I did for Windows.

Thanks! Still having some problems with sound popping, but had that under Windows. >.<

Not surprised in the least. It’s all about maintaining incoming cash flow.

They cancelled my Win11 (from purchased Win10 eligible upgrade) key earlier this year when I replaced a failed motherboard.

Happy to be free of their ecosystem. Should have jumped free long ago.

It’s wild that one can experiment on a populace and get them to pay for the ‘priveledge’ do it to themselves or their loved ones.

Asha was absolutely put in place to be glass cliffed.

Not sure Xbox will be gone any time soon, but once Asha has taken all the blame they’ll get back to the same old BS.

Same for wax (candles).

Had a tealight that I thought I’d put out the night before. It smouldered overnight, caught fire and my 5 year old woke me saying she could smell smoke. Half asleep, I poured tea on it.

Fireball to the face and a screaming child was a really unfun way to finish waking up. She was safely out of the blast, and luckily I had only minor burns.