Out of curiosity - what laptop maker is installing Sway by default?

I pay for the Softmaker Office suite, it’s pretty good and has Linux native versions.

I had a few false starts before, but MS force-updating me to the objectively worse and user-hostile Windows 8 triggered my latest (and successful) switch.

I too use Kagi but it’s worth noting that Kagi gets most of its results by paying and using other search engines including Google and Bing, so it’s not 100% independent or immune from say Bing’s outage. Still the best option by far though.

I’ve had an elective sinus surgery, a second (emergency) sinus surgery, an overnight hospital stay, a blood transfusion, an ambulance ride, different scans, a cast, crutches, a bunch of specialist follow-ups, physiotherapy, family doctor appoitments, and some drug prescriptions. Wow that sounds like a lot but it was just two separate incidents (I’ll let you guess).

I did have to buy the crutches at $24, and while I’m still waiting for the ambulance bill I’ll only be charged $40. Drug prescriptions aren’t free for everyone, but my province has a program where they cover a portion depending on your income (free if you’re low income or hit a drug-expense maximum for that year) which I benefited from when I was unemployed. Physiotherapy also isn’t free, but I’m getting that covered through my workplace benefits. Other than those minor costs there’s been nothing, which is crazy for me. I’m so thankful I’m not being buried under a mountain of debt, especially as one of the incidents happened when I was unemployed.

Not to mention how annoying it was to even buy games - if a popular game was released you might have wait for the store to open to buy it before it went out of stock, and if it was more niche you might have to mail an order form in and wait for them to ship it to you.

Barely. I typically can’t remember more than a few words and the text is different once I go back. Dreams where I need to read something are among my most frustrating.

In my terrible diet I eat the chocolate bar and then cut out something like breakfast…

There’s a lot of bro-science in here (“Your body metabolizes sugar to basically fat”, no, it doesn’t, sugar is just a simple, easily metabolized carbohydrate, and as long as you aren’t exceeding your caloric intake regularly, it’s fine).

+1 to this. I have a pretty terrible diet (I make ice cream fairly often) but I’ve been able to control my weight by cutting calories elsewhere.

For gaming and desktop use, I’ve had a flawless experience using AMD cards and a decent time with NVIDIA. The only reason I’m with NVIDIA now is for the AI capabilities (don’t bother trying to run stuff using AMD’s ROCm - it’s near impossible to install).

I’ll buy Windows games at full price only if the developer has made efforts to better support Linux users (say by fixing a bug that only affects Linux users).

In addition there can also be serious legal implications for a company if they have workers working in another country. Is the company now subject to the tax laws of that country because the employee visited? How about labour laws? Do their products now need to be translated into another language because the employee worked while in that jurisdiction? Etc.

There was some TV show in the 2000s that was a workplace drama / comedy set in a warehouse (or like a Costco?) and I remember something about two characters making like a hide-out at the top of some shelves. Does anyone remember the name of that show?

Not really, no. I used Ubuntu Touch for about a year a few years ago and the method for running Android apps is essentially to run an emulator layer on the phone (anBox), which in practice is nearly unusable. It may have improved somewhat since then but I suspect you’re still going to need a relatively beefy phone at minimum to run whatever solutions there are at a decent speed.

I like it but it’s missing the low-quality ‘non-fiction’ relationship post porn I loved to binge on.

It’s purely psychological and only of note to those that regularly convert between the ruble and USD. That doesn’t mean it isn’t unimportant though - many Russians may now change their behavior (like buying foreign currency ASAP, which can further weaken their currency).

Haha good point, eyebrows are okay.

I greatly despise all facial hair.