See, what you need is a second, smaller Roomba to clean your main one.

Animal Welfare League

(that’s the joke)

How can it taste bad if it’s unflavored?

Fair.

It does what I need, I’m satisfied with it, and I’m fine because it’s still an open source notepad and e-reader.

But if that’s a deal breaker for you, it’s totally valid.

I went with a Supernote.

It’s supposed to get Linux support at some point, and it has replaceable batteries. Plus, it works great as a e-ink notebook right now.

I’m also a long time Synology user. Been using their NASes since around 2009.

Buy something else. You don’t want their current-gen hardware. As others have said, they’ve been removing features and hamstringing their own hardware. In a few years, when mine are no longer supported, I plan to buy or build something else.

Yeah, Black Flag’s seafaring was fun. It was enjoyable to guide your ship around, explore the random tiny unnamed islets, dive into the ocean and hear the crew laugh about the captain jumping overboard.

Yes, collecting every last thing was a grind. But it was a fun grind. It felt like I was choosing to do all that, even though the game was psychologically goading me into it.

(Insert philosophical discussion about free will related to a video game about genetic memory and following predicted behavior.)

Add to that how 3’s protagonist was so unlikable that Ubisoft made fun of themselves for it in AC: Rogue.

AC3 is the only AC game I never got to 100%. It just… wasn’t fun.

In every other AC game, even the parts that weren’t as enjoyable didn’t feel like such a grind.

Sadly, the only totally-safe way to use ANY computer - windows, mac, linux, anything - is to never connect it to a network in the first place.

Everything else is complicated.

I have one Brilliant Schemer and one Beautiful Idiot, and I wouldn’t trade either of them ♥️

If you are in the United States, ISPs are largely unregulated and charge whatever the fuck they want. They make ridiculous profits.

Many other developed countries have dramatically cheaper internet access with significantly higher speeds.

Jerry?

One thing to keep in mind about the terminal:

In Linux, many GUI tools are simply pretty interfaces for the terminal. That’s why folks tell you that you’ll need the terminal occasionally, no matter what: you might need to type in commands that don’t already have a friendly GUI.

The terminal isn’t that scary, though! Every big distro has a support community. And if you need to do something in the terminal? Someone else has definitely needed to do the same thing, so you won’t need to figure it out on your own.

I mostly use Bazzite in front of a big TV. When I first set up the computer, I needed to use the terminal to configure a couple of things related to network shares. Later, I used it to help specific devices wake up the computer from sleep. It’s been months since then, and I’m not sure I’ve needed the terminal for anything else.

Use it as an opportunity to learn how your computer works. It’s really satisfying to understand how things happen.

Final Fantasy

I do

Give me a drill with a really fine bit.

I havet’t Englished much at all.

Yeah, and the word starts with the letter ghee.

You didn’t specify a biological nipple.

I can make any kind of milk pass through some type of nipple.